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How Employers Can Support Workplace Mental Health

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Bethany Seton. Our mental health clearly affects all aspects of our daily life—including the way we do business and conduct ourselves in the workplace. However, due to the nature of conditions such as anxiety, addiction, depression and the like, problems can go undetected for lengthy periods of time, even as they damage relationships with family and coworkers.

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Convertible Notes: Good or Evil?

The Seraf Compass

One of the most controversial topics in the startup community relates to the issue of investing through convertible notes vs. investing through preferred stock. Much has been written about this topic for the past decade, and the debate continues to rage in the blogosphere even today. Even though this topic has been covered by others, we felt it was important to give our perspective.

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Has VC Become So Big It Must Be Disrupted?

Tomasz Tunguz

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? in the New Yorker. It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. The key question he poses is: has the industry become so large that it needs to be disrupted? It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove.

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Five Reasons Why We Need a More Progressive Economy for Growth

This is going to be BIG.

Every election cycle, you hear the same thing—Republicans are good for the economy and electing a liberal will tank it. This is especially the case this time around as we’re in the middle of the longest running expansion this country has ever seen—and no one wants the other shoe to drop. There’s a lot of fear that making the wrong choice will mess things up.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Breaking boundaries together in Ecuador

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Elise Kemp. Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. The results of this woman’s hard work and innovation are cutting-edge technology solutions to the biggest problems in Ecuador. Tamara is a chemical engineer by profession, but her heart is also dedicated to children’s rights, and she, alongside four friends, started a business to combine these two passions.

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In the News: What’s next after Israel’s biggest diplomatic event in its history?

OurCrowd

Israel hosted its biggest diplomatic event in its history last week: delegations from 49 countries, including 41 heads of state, gathered in Jerusalem for The Fifth World Holocaust Forum. We are looking forward to welcoming thousands more tech and investment leaders from around the globe this February 13th for the 2020 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit to share, celebrate and invest in Israeli and global tech.

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Justworks

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I just posted about USV’s investment in Justworks on the USV blog. I have known Isaac Oates for over a decade and he’s a terrific entrepreneur and has built a great company which offers a fantastic HR solution to small and mid sized companies. If you don’t love the payroll and benefits solution your company uses, go here and find out how Justworks can change that for you and your employees.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tomasz Tunguz

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. I’m starting to see that archiecture more and more, but with a twist. The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. The SaaS company writes, updates, and maintains the code. And the customer manages the data.

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Investments of time and money are critical for startups’ success

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. Mentoring is one of the most valuable venture services i2E provides to Oklahoma’s innovators and entrepreneurs. Our mentoring covers a wide range of topics and situations based on the leadership team’s experience, the stage of the startup, and the market the company is working to serve. We are focused when we mentor. We talk about the what, why, and how of execution—especially the why.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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[BOL Pharma in Israel21c] Israel opens one-of-a-kind medical cannabis tech incubator

OurCrowd

CanNegev will be operated for the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), an agency of the Economy and Industry Ministry, by a consortium made up of global investment platform OurCrowd; Perrigo, the world’s largest non-prescription drug company; and Israeli medical cannabis company BOL Pharma, an OurCrowd portfolio company. Read more here. The post [BOL Pharma in Israel21c] Israel opens one-of-a-kind medical cannabis tech incubator appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Delivering healthy and beautiful smiles throughout Haiti

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

By Ana Gonzalez. Through the Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic , 2018 YLAI Fellow Valesca Saint Cyr is able to deliver quality and affordable dental care to underserved communities in Haiti. The clinic travels to different areas for two or three days at a time and treats over 100 people each day. To celebrate women’s entrepreneurship in the field of science, the YLAI Network shares Valesca’s inspiring efforts and successes in Haiti.

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how technology transfer offices can close the gender engagement gap

Venture Well

As more technology transfer offices work to close the gender engagement gap, we outline some best practices to help administrators enhance their efforts. The post how technology transfer offices can close the gender engagement gap appeared first on VentureWell.

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Nick Dancer’s Advice to Biz Owners: “Just Show Up”

Smart Hustle Magazine

Nicholas Dancer is the owner and operator of Dancer Concrete Design and he chats with Ramon Ray about concrete, entrepreneurship, leadership, and his new book, Day In, Day Out: The Secret Power in Showing Up and Doing the Work. The Beginning of a Business. Nick runs Dancer Concrete Design out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. They don’t actually pour concrete, but they refinish existing concrete by polishing concrete floors and applying epoxy floor coatings.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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2020 Top Coworking Industry Events

Deskmag

São Paulo, Bali, Seattle, Erfurt or Vienna. those are the locations of the next large coworking gatherings. Mark the dates in your calendar!

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Let’s Go See the Northern Lights… Together

GCUC

My father is sick. Very sick. He has two progressive, fatal lung diseases and he can no longer do the things he used to. Watching him become very ill has taught me a lot of hard lessons, and also some smart lessons that are forcing me to change my life. The first is that my health is a priority. I finally got real about working out a minimum of twice a week.

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reducing grid reliance: q&a with Doris Marie Candelaria from e-team, INSU Health Design

Venture Well

Doris Marie Candelaria of E-Team, INSU Health Design, has learned to be open to feedback and understand different perspectives on the team's innovation. The post reducing grid reliance: q&a with Doris Marie Candelaria from e-team, INSU Health Design appeared first on VentureWell.

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[Hailo in FierceElectronics] How AI chips will explode 3x by 2025 with startups like Hailo, Syntiant and Groq

OurCrowd

Hailo-8 was also selected as a CES 2020 Innovations Awards Honoree in the Embedded Technologies product category, and Hailo engineers presented at CES earlier in January. “CES was fantastic and a great opportunity,” Danon said, noting that Hailo was exposed to a crowd at CES estimated at 170,000. Read more here. The post [Hailo in FierceElectronics] How AI chips will explode 3x by 2025 with startups like Hailo, Syntiant and Groq appeared first on OurCrowd.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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2020 Top Coworking Industry Events

Deskmag

São Paulo, Bali, Seattle, Erfurt, Basel, London or Vienna. those were the locations where the next large coworking gatherings would have taken place before the Corona virus changed almost everything. This article is contiously updated including postponed conferences, starting with the next event. Cancelled and past events can be found at the article's end.

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How to Avoid Losing When Your Enterprise Grows

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs comes when their enterprise grows from being a small shop of 10 people to a midsized company of 100 or more. Entrepreneurial decision-making must change to account for this growth, but it often doesn’t due to our desire to avoid losses. To illustrate why, let me tell you a story.

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You Can’t Fire Your Investor

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. It is great that the capital markets serving founders have become hyperefficient.

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[NanoLock in No Camels] US-Israel Foundation to Invest $8M in 9 new Join Initiatives

OurCrowd

Israel’s Nanolock Security and Micron Technology in Boise, ID will together develop a cybersecurity solution to prevent and monitor persistent attacks on connected media devices. Read more here. The post [NanoLock in No Camels] US-Israel Foundation to Invest $8M in 9 new Join Initiatives appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Market Research for Startups: 3 Steps to Success

500

Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by SEMrush. All views and opinions represented in this post are the views and opinions of SEMrush and do not represent those of 500 Startups or any of its staff or affiliates. When you’re researching a market for the first time, it’s essential to find out what companies operate in your niche. And it’s no less important to understand how these businesses made it to the list of top industry players and what marketing strategies they follow.

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Translation or Localization: Best Practices for Growing Globally

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Ofer Tirosh, founder and CEO of Tomedes , As entrepreneurs, we tend to be focused on our products, services and regional growth. We don’t often pay enough attention to the business potential of secondary, foreign markets. But the fact is that foreign markets may end up being a substantial or even majority source of growth and revenue.

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InBIA Partners with Fluent and SourceLink® to Pilot The Fluency Score

INBIA

The post InBIA Partners with Fluent and SourceLink® to Pilot The Fluency Score appeared first on InBIA.

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[OurCrowd in Israel21c] Israel opens one-of-a-kind medical cannabis tech incubator

OurCrowd

CanNegev, the world’s first government-sponsored medical cannabis technology incubator, will open in the southern Israeli city of Yeruham. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Israel21c] Israel opens one-of-a-kind medical cannabis tech incubator appeared first on OurCrowd.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!