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Understanding Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Measurement

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This four-part series addresses why tracking and measuring the activity of your entrepreneurial ecosystem is crucial to its long-term sustainability and the economic success of your community.

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3 Real-World Startup Lessons from Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We first met at Harvard Business School as young students in 1989. We both went on to have successful careers as consultants and entrepreneurs, and had a passion for working with and investing in younger entrepreneurs. We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  When we decided to invest in a startup, it was because we saw a unique combination of a strong idea with a solid team.

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Dispatches from the Road: Q3 2023

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We spent the good part of the past three months doing our favorite part of the job: meeting the startups we seed (and the communities that rally around them) on their home turf. We’ve read plenty of articles on the movement of tech talent and the surge of American entrepreneurship , but seeing that momentum in person is a different kind of invigorating.

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Strong Foundations: Venture Capital Legal and Accounting - Approaches, Tools and Software [Part I]

The Seraf Compass

If you make a simple mistake while driving, like hitting some black ice you didn’t see, and you skid off the road into a ravine and total your car, assuming no injuries, that’s a bummer and a major inconvenience for you. But if you borrow your friend’s car and do the same thing, sorting out the legalities can be significantly more complicated. Those same dynamics apply to fund investing.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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The SEC’s broadening of investment adviser obligations comes with hidden costs

TechCrunch

Investment advisers who seek to innovate will need to tread carefully in this space to avoid missteps, which could have significant consequences for their viability. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business

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The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. From the importance of emphasizing resilience and empathy to the necessity of having realistic expectations and focusing on improvement, these insights offer a wealth of knowledge for anyone embarking on their entrepreneurial journey.

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Greenville Startup, Advanced Power & Energy, Receives Game-Changing $500,000 Investment to Pave the Way for Safer EV Charging Stations

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

A groundbreaking advancement in electric vehicle (EV) charging technology is set to transform the industry as Greenville-based startup, Advanced Power & Energy, secures a significant investment of $500,000 from the Mercer County Innovation Fund, in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern Pennsylvania. This investment will support the development of innovative, safer EV charging stations.

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AIOX Unveils New Fund with Focus on Deeptech and Web3, Joins Forces with X-PITCH 2023

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register AIOX Apex Angel Fund (AIOX) has introduced a new venture fund with a dedicated focus on deeptech and web3. The new initiative includes a strategic partnership with the highly anticipated X-PITCH 2023, a global deeptech startup competition aimed at catalyzing the widespread adoption of cutting-edge technology across diverse industries.

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AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B

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With a massive $2 billion reported investment from Google, Anthropic joins OpenAI in reaping the benefits of leadership in the artificial intelligence space, receiving immense sums from the tech giants that couldn’t move fast enough themselves. A byword for the age: Those who can, build; those who can’t, invest. The funding deal, according to sources […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

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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How to Find Your Why

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And succeed against all odds Image credit: Cat Coquillette After I sold my social media agency in 2021, people wanted to know how I did it. They wanted to replicate my method to sell theirs. They wanted to find out the shortcuts and avoid the hard way and the long way. Who can blame them? Success of the most fulfilling kind comes from doing cool stuff and teaching other people how to do that same cool stuff.

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AI Reaccelerating Cloud Growth

Tomasz Tunguz

Yesterday, both Google and Microsoft announced their earnings for their cloud businesses. I’ve been tracking the growth rates of these companies and product lines for the last 18 months to develop a broad gauge of enterprise buying patterns after the downturn. In the chart, it’s immediately evident that Mongo has seen dramatic increase in growth rate last quarter.

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Decoding ambiguity into opportunity: An interview with iLife Founder Nelson Lee

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. insurance industry — in terms of life insurance premiums, 95% are sold by insurance agents and brokers, showing how critical these frontline workers are to this mammoth industry.

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AI is finally resulting in real growth for Big Tech

TechCrunch

Generative AI technologies are being suffused into a host of applications, and the financial results of all that investment are starting to show up. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

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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Entrepreneurs Have to Be Hungry

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And how we can engineer motivation Image Credit: Pexels Nataliya Vaitkevich I once launched a card game on Kickstarter. A group of friends and I had a blast pulling the content together and writing the rules. We were excited to share it with the world. However, commercializing a card game is not cheap. Despite overwhelming support, we didn’t reach our goal.

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How Profitable Are Coworking Spaces After the Pandemic?

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Which coworking spaces have been profitable in recent months? In this article, you will learn more about profitability, its drivers, and the margins of coworking spaces.

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Mosti Teams Up with Bursa Malaysia to Identify Startups and Boost Innovation in Malaysia

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Mosti) is set to collaborate with Bursa Malaysia to push the growth of startups and promote innovation within the country. In an announcement at Dewan Rakyat, Minister Chang Lih Kang unveiled this initiative, which aims to strengthen the support for local startups along their funding journey.

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As Databricks touts demand for AI services, all eyes are on Microsoft’s and Alphabet’s Q3 results

TechCrunch

We can't wait to find out if these companies will report a material improvement from their investments in AI-related computing tasks and products. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Environmental solutions firm RiKarbon chooses to continue growing in Newark, Delaware

American Entrepreneurship

Expansion of early-stage business focusing on carbon capture and utilization includes quadrupling lab space and creating 12 new full-time Delaware jobs WILMINGTON, Del. ( October 23, 2023 ) – RiKarbon Inc. , an early-stage company specializing in developing innovative technologies for carbon capture and utilization, has chosen to continue growing in its hometown of Newark, Delaware, with an expansion from its Delaware Technology Park incubator space to nearby Delaware Industrial Park.

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Gas Gas Revolution

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2021, Amazon announced they had reduced prices on Amazon Web Services 107 times since launch. This drop in prices has grown AWS into a $90b revenue business in 17 years. As storage & compute became less expensive, the economic viability of new use cases became increasingly apparent & developers built software on the cloud. The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized.

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The Science of Success: Creative Venture’s Alex Luce’s Unconventional Path of Impact

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The intersection of science and venture capital can do wonders and uncover a champion in a city like Silicon Valley. In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures.

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France wants to boost angel investment by copying UK’s investment schemes

TechCrunch

As part of France’s budget for 2024, which was passed last week by the French government without a vote, France plans to create a new tax relief system for angel investments in tech startups. In many ways, France is drawing inspiration from the British tech ecosystem for this change. If you’re an angel investor in […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

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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31 Tech Hubs designated by EDA in Biden-Harris Administration

American Entrepreneurship

Each identified regional centers are primed for technological innovation and job creation The Biden-Harris administration has put great focus on U.S. competitiveness as seen through the bipartisan passed CHIPS and Science Act. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a major implementation of that legislation with the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country—that will receive direct investments to make them into globally competi

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Cash Is King: Morgan Housel’s Surprising Financial Strategy

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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify Today we’re talking with journalist and author Morgan Housel, his book The Psychology of Money is one of my all-time favorites. His message is straightforward, preparation beats trying to predict the market every time. Morgan Housel is an award-winning writer and partner at The Collaborative Fund and a former Wall Street Journal columnist.

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Singapore’s Triple-A Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding for Crypto Payment Gateway Expansion

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore’s Triple-A , a crypto payment gateway, has successfully concluded a Series A funding round of $10 million. Leading this funding round were Peak XV Partners and Shorooq Partners , both of whom had previously invested in Triple-A.

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Signos raises $20M to sprinkle AI fairy dust on the weight-loss industry

TechCrunch

Signos, a metabolic health platform that utilizes a unique AI-engine with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to offer real-time data and recommendations for healthy weight management, has announced a successful $20 million Series B funding round. The round was led by Cheyenne Ventures and GV (Google Ventures), with additional investments from Dexcom Ventures and Samsung. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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The Startup Funding Gap

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?