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Why Challenging Times Can Help us Learn, Grow and Find our ‘Flow’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Marc Stöckli, Global Chair, Entrepreneurs’ Organization. This may be a contrarian point of view, but whether we are confronting a looming recession or adapting to difficulties in business as a result of a historic pandemic, I believe it is precisely life’s challenges—and how we rise to meet them — that create personal satisfaction. When we work hard by choice, when we strive to learn and overcome difficulties, these are the sources of pride, joy and fulfilment, which ultimately shape us into

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Craft a Lean Business Plan to Serve as Your Venture’s Roadmap

Gust

Mention the term “business plan” and the image that likely comes to mind is a thick document generated by a business consultant for you to give to a banker or investor and then forget about. But since these days everyone worships at the altar of the lean startup, it’s common knowledge that a business plan is “old school” and completely useless. All you need is a slide deck and a great team, right?

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Putting numbers on the global venture slowdown

TechCrunch

“Tell me something I don’t know,” was my first reaction when reports on venture capital in 2022 hit my inbox this month. It is pretty clear by now that there was a slowdown, so what’s the point of harping on about it as we enter a new year? The point, as often with data, is that we can now confirm what was merely intuition until Q4 actually closed: 2022 saw fewer exits and venture deals than 2021.

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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

StartupNation

The following is an excerpt from “Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution“ copyright © 2023… The post Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution appeared first on StartupNation.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Reflections on the Origin Story of EO Global Leadership Academy (GLA)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams As a member of EO for 25 years, I have had the immense privilege of partaking in countless initiatives that transformed my own experience along the way.

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So much fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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National League of Cities Webinar Features Entrepreneur Focused Economic Development Solutions

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Exciting conversations are happening in the economic development world! Thanks to the National League of Cities’ (NLC) Center for City Solutions, supporters and visionaries can come together to explore groundbreaking ways of assessing citywide economic development in a webinar series. Through these webinars, thought leaders and dynamic guest speakers share innovative approaches they use to […] The post National League of Cities Webinar Features Entrepreneur Focused Economic Development Sol

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Indonesia’s Xendit enters Malaysian market to offer hyperlocal payment solutions

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian fintech firm Xendit has officially made its debut in the Malaysian market to offer a diverse range of hyperlocal payment solutions to businesses in the country. Its focus include small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, and giant corporations, among others.

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Investing in PLAI Labs

Andreessen Horowitz

Within every era of technology, the most talented entrepreneurs have taken unsolved problems and open questions and turned them into businesses. In the early 2000s, the biggest open questions were social: how do you take a read-only interface and allow … The post Investing in PLAI Labs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire digital forensics firm Magnet Forensics for over $1B

TechCrunch

Thoma Bravo, the private equity and growth capital firm, today announced that it would spend $1.8 billion CAD (~$1.34 billion) to acquire Magnet Forensics, a Waterloo-based company making software used by defense forces and businesses to investigate cybersecurity threats. Magnet Forensics will be purchased by a newly created corporation controlled by Thoma Bravo, Morpheus Purchaser Inc., which will pay Magnet Forensics shareholders a 15% premium over Thursday’s closing price on the Toronto

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18 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Business from Scratch

Startup Blogpost

From keeping your mental game strong to getting a mentor to help make decisions, here are 18 responses to the question “What is one thing you wish someone told you about starting a business from scratch?” Keep Your Mental Game Strong Be Prepared For a Long Term Commitment Think of the Cash! Research Social Branding Before Purchasing URL The People You Connect With Are What Really Counts Everything Takes Time Have a Good Marketing Plan You Can Not Be Everything for Everybody Your Star

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Protico raises pre-seed investment & launches Web3 Lobby tool for enterprises

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Protico, a market leader in the Web3 Chat space, successfully raised its pre-seed round last month and is excited to unveil its new product, the Web3 Lobby developer tool for business owners. This innovative chat widget allows enterprises and business owners to seamlessly integrate a Web3 social layer into their apps and websites within seconds.

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From Military Service to Tech Investing: The Journey of Ethan Tan, Harvard Student and Web3…

Jason Malki

From Military Service to Tech Investing: The Journey of Ethan Tan, Harvard Student and Web3 Investor I had the pleasure of interviewing Ethan Tan, a Harvard student and Web3 investor. Ethan is currently a Venture Partner with Contrary Capital and founder of a stealth startup. He previously did sourcing work for Susa Ventures and Sequoia, and was a Venture Analyst at the ventures arm of QCP Capital, a Singapore-based full-suite crypto trading firm.

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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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4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups

TechCrunch

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the government are moving into alignment. In fact, some investors feel that 2023 will be the year when alternative seafood companies and products make notable strides. More than $178 million was pumped into alternative seafood in the first half of 2022, and the market’s value is poised to reach $1.6 billion over the next 10

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What can we learn from the non-profit world?

Berkonomics

In the non–profit world, the term, “time, talent and treasure” has been used so often it is almost at the edge of being trite. It’s used in that arena to describe a volunteer’s sacrifice in support of the non–profit enterprise. Bending the meaning for use in business… I was surprised to discover that the term seems undiscovered in the business world.

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Hong Kong-based logistics platform for e-commerce merchants Jumppoint raises $6.5m in series A

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Jumppoint , a Hong Kong-based digital integrated logistics startup , has successfully completed Series A of its funding round with $6.5 million in investments added to its coffers. The funding round was led by MindWorks Capital and was also joined by Headline Asia, Chinachem Group, Philip Kuai (Founder of Dada Nexus), and the Innovation and Technology Venture Fund of Hong Kong SAR

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Can OpenAI Live Up To The ‘Open’ Brand Promise?

Hunter Walk

Is Their Company Name a Core Value Or Marketing Spin You learn a lot when buying a first home. I learned that there are principal agent issues with your realtor exacerbated by the transactional incentive model. I learned that disclosure statements can be worded in a very specific manner that doesn’t truly describe what happens to your basement during rainy season.

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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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Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform

TechCrunch

Alice Delahunt believes the future of fashion is in web3 and created Syky (pronounced “psy-key”) to put the wheels in motion. She launched the company in November after a career in marketing at luxury fashion houses, serving in roles including chief digital and content officer at Ralph Lauren and digital and social marketing director at Burberry. In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital w

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You Could Win $50,000 for your BIG IDEA!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

In partnership with the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, Ben Franklin Technology Partners is looking for innovators with BIG IDEAS located in Cameron, Elk, Forest, McKean, or Warren County, PA. We’re looking for entrepreneurs who are developing or crafting a product, process, or innovation related to the maker economy, outdoors and recreation, forest products, manufacturing, and technology.

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Komunal secures $8.5m to strengthen Indonesia’s neo-rural bank ecosystem

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Komunal has announced that it secured new investments amounting to $8.5 million to fund its mission to accelerate financial inclusion and strengthen the neo-rural bank ecosystem in Indonesia, especially outside the Greater Jakarta area. The fintech company, which was the first to digitize BPR in accelerating the financial inclusion in Indonesia’s tier 2 and tier 3 cities, said that the

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Amazon v Google v China: Quantum Computing Will Blow Your Mind.

Hunter Walk

When Private Companies Take On Nation States. The eggs wouldn’t stay in my mouth. Reading this New Yorker article over breakfast left me gasping so often that whatever I was chewing needed to find another home. So what *is* quantum computing? a tornado made up of lightning bolts, digital art [DALL-E]. Classical computers speak in the language of bits, which take values of zero and one.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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A peek into the future as Sam Altman sees it

TechCrunch

Late last week, in a rare sit-down before a small audience , this editor spent an hour with Sam Altman, the former president of Y Combinator and, since 2019, the CEO of OpenAI , the company he famously co-founded with Elon Musk and numerous others in 2015 to develop artificial intelligence for the “benefit of humanity.” The crowd wanted to learn more about his plans for OpenAI, which has taken the world by storm in the last six weeks owing to the public release of its ChatGPT languag

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GCUC Podcast Recap: Bill Bennett

GCUC

GCUC Podcast Recap: Bill Bennett Running 3.8M square feet in 34 cities and 45 locations successfully through a global pandemic has its own unique challenges. Join Bill Bennett, Founder.

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Imajin closes seed funding round participated by Init-6

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Imajin , a manufacturing hub platform based in Indonesia , has announced that it already closed its seed funding round that was participated by Init-6. The firm was founded by Bukalapak co-founder Achmad Zaky. In a statement, Imajin said the funding round was also participated by a number of investors, led by East Ventures and backed by 500 Southeast Asia (Fund III), Kao Kele Pte.

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LeadLab Media is Transforming Agencies into Digital Marketers

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sara Johnson, owner and founder of LeadLab Media – a digital media consultancy that specializes in paid search, paid social, programmatic ads, and anything that uses ad dollars to get more revenue and customers for your business. She started the business 8 years ago, after working at some of the largest agencies in Chicago managing the paid search campaigns of some of the top advertisers, such as Allstate and P&G.

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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.