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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I find level setting to be one of the most difficult things to do around any task or skill. Just how good is good? What are the best people accomplishing? How do you measure it? It comes up a lot with my coaching clients who aspire to be top VCs and are trying to figure out how to self-assess and goal set. I figured the best way to go about answering would be to ask the best of the best.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

What if a little bit of investment, a splash of mentoring and practical support, a slew of introductions, and a whole lot of belief could be used to help artists with their careers? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When it comes to online communities, I’ve seen a lot. 3413, to be exact Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash When it comes to online communities, I’ve seen a lot. 3413, to be exact. That’s how many are in the spreadsheet I’ve been manually curating for the past three years. Weird hobby? Maybe. But it sure has been an interesting ride. By now, the spreadsheet has a fancy frontend, and you can browse it at the Hive Index , my directory site.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“During this recession, a third of your businesses will die, a third will barely survive, and a third will thrive.” I heard this in an Entrepreneurs’ Organization Portland chapter monthly learning event with keynote speaker Mark Moses of Make Big Happen in 2008 at the beginning of the Great Recession. The room was laser-focused on what he had to say and let out a collective gasp as the reality of the statement hit the 60 business owners in the room.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When I started this work almost 20 years ago, very few entrepreneurship-led economic development, much less ecosystem building, resources or institutions existed for early practitioners to be able to tap […]

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register At the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) on November 16, 2023. MYbank, a leading internet bank in China and an associate of Ant Group , showcased digital solutions with the goal of improving accessibility to financial services for small and micro-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the agricultural sector.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Contributed to EO by Eden Gillott, an EO Los Angeles member who is president of Gillott Communications , a strategic communications and crisis PR firm. She’s the author of A Business Owner’s Guide to Crisis PR: Protecting You & Your Business’ Reputation , and serves the EO Los Angeles chapter as MarComm co-chair. We asked Eden how to protect your company from being cancelled.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We are firmly in the century of biology. The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment. Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

20 Tips for Pitching New Business Ideas to Potential Investors To provide you with the best advice on pitching new business ideas to investors, we asked twenty CEOs, Founders, and other professionals for their top tips. From highlighting potential returns and problems to starting your pitch with the customer’s story, these leaders shared their insights on how to effectively present your business ideas to potential investors.

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Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Japan has opened a new base for Japanese startups in Palo Alto, California. The Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry held an opening ceremony on the 12th. It is its first base in Silicon Valley, a pivotal hub for the global information technology industry.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Anu Hariharan, who led YC Continuity before the storied accelerator scrapped the program, has partnered with two of her former colleagues and former Brex executive Lucas Fox to launch a new fund that is targeting raising about $350 million and operating a program that some peg as “YC for growth,” four sources familiar with the […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Sales wants more features. Product gets bogged down with one-off requests. Progress and growth grinds to a halt. It’s a familiar story. In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B acquisition.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Josh Kiernan, CEO of Mosh JD. Josh is an entrepreneurial visionary with over a decade of experience in technology sales, HR service delivery, and consulting. At Mosh JD, Josh and his team are on a mission to address a longstanding challenge often overlooked in the HR tech space —  job description management. They are committed to eliminating the chaos surrounding job descriptions and streamlining processes vital for effective talent management, compensation pla

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Speaker: P. Andrew Sjogren, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Very Good Security, Matt Doka, Co-Founder and CTO of Fivestars, and Steve Andrews, President & CEO of the Western Bankers Association 

PCI compliance can feel challenging and sometimes the result feels like you are optimizing more for security and compliance than you are for business outcomes. The key is to take the right strategy to PCI compliance that gets you both. In this webinar, we have a great set of panelists who will take you through how Zero Data strategies can be used as part of a well-rounded compliance and security approach, and get you to market much sooner by also allowing for payment optimization.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register In a strategic move to elevate its support for emerging entrepreneurs, South Korea’s Asan Nanum Foundation has introduced the groundbreaking “Asan Voyager” program. Founded in 2011 to commemorate the legacy of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung (Asan), the foundation has been a driving force in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in South Korea.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the name of transparency and accessibility, Twitch launched its new Privacy Center to educate users, after conducting “extensive research” and finding that many of its users had no idea how their personal data is collected and used. The Privacy Center, which launched on Thursday, is designed to provide “clear, actionable information” about privacy rights, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

AI trailblazer Suchi Saria, PhD, in conversation with Vijay Pande, sheds light on the winding path that led her to launch Bayesian Health, a bold effort to infuse intelligence into clinical workflows. With infectious optimism, Suchi describes her vision to create “clinical copilots” that augment human capabilities and unburden care teams.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly outpacing scientific research due to the latter’s inherent limitations. Addressing this issue is crucial to seize significant opportunities. Failure to do so may result in the United States falling behind scientists from other countries. America’s scientists and researchers must harness the power of AI.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Hailing from Singapore, Jeshua Soh is a young and dynamic angel investor who has woven a narrative that curves through unconventional education, accidental entrepreneurship, and a globetrotting escapade to over 55 countries across five continents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Menlo Ventures has raised $1.35 billion in new capital that it plans to use in part “to support the forthcoming generation of AI startups,” the venture firm announced today. Notably and unsurprisingly, the firm is today quite bullish on the future of artificial intelligence, noting that it has already backed the likes of Abnormal, Anthropic, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode. In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spr

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sanzhar Kettebekov, co-founder and CEO of Liquient. He has 25 years’ experience in AI and related technologies, and over 10 years at the C-level of driving large projects in various areas for economic development. Sanzhar and a team of highly experienced co-founders with tenure in global management consulting launched a new venture to tackle the foremost issue in the food supply chain.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Pangyo Techno Valley , Korea’s most extensive R&D nexus, is rapidly ascending as a pivotal center for biotechnology. Nestled within this multifaceted R&D stronghold encompassing IT, BT, CT, and NT sectors, Pangyo Techno Valley hosts an array of startups, SMEs, and large corporations dedicated to biotech innovation, gaining international recognition for their groundbreakin

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Ballistic Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to funding and incubating cybersecurity startups, is looking to raise as much as $300 million for a new fund, according to a regulatory filing. The San Francisco-based VC firm Wednesday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $300 million for its second fund — over […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Edi Bianco , Chief Design Officer, Amplifi Labs As designers living in this fast-paced world of technology where innovation reigns supreme and information overload has saturated our receptors and shortened people’s attention span to a few seconds, we may get stuck focusing on the functionalities of a product, thinking it’s the best we can do. However, beyond the rigid rules, cold codes and even the smartest algorithms lies a fundamental truth: the emotional connection between a product and it

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fei-Fei Li, PhD, Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, joins Bio + Health founding partner Vijay Pande. In this candid conversation, Li unfolds her transformation from a young immigrant to an influential figure in AI. The conversation explores the birth of ImageNet, a pivotal step that bridged the gap between visual intelligence and accessible AI technology.

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This resource discusses the gap between early funding from friends/family and the more substantial rounds from angel groups and VCs. Why does this gap exist and what can be done about it?

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