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These Are the 3 Essential Steps to Take Before Contacting Venture Capitalists

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn to do them and you’ll be a much more efficient fundraiser Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Demand Response

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

At USV, our climate thesis is about both mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis. One way we can adapt to the climate crisis is by building a more resilient energy supply system. Demand Response is one of many approaches that will be necessary to do that. Demand Response is when consumers of energy voluntarily cut back on energy consumption in reaction to peak demand situations.

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Cutting Bait: When To Walk Away

The Seraf Compass

If one of the trickiest parts of due diligence is knowing when to press ahead in the face of mounting concerns, surely the other tricky part is knowing when to suspend your efforts. The former is a challenge of overcoming inertia and uncertainty, and the latter is a challenge of overcoming momentum.

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The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream

Revolution

A Glimpse Inside The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream Today, my second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , was released by Simon & Schuster?โ€”?but its message has been more than a decade in the making. If youโ€™ve followed my journey as an investor and advocate, itโ€™s likely one you know well: Great companies can start and scale anywhere.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™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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Sarah Says: What Customer Discovery Approach Is Right for You?

Venture Well

Sarah Wharmby defines the different types of customer discovery interviews early-stage innovators can use. The post Sarah Says: What Customer Discovery Approach Is Right for You? appeared first on VentureWell.

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Getting Ready to Move Upmarket

Andreessen Horowitz

Get the move upmarket right and you can unlock new users, use cases, and revenue streams. But get it wrong, and you risk losing focus, increasing burn, and stifling product innovation. So how do you prepare? Understand the unique value-add … The post Getting Ready to Move Upmarket appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. โ€œ For Startups, a Bleak Year for IPOs and Acquisitions โ€โ€Š โ€”โ€ŠFast Company โ€œ Venture capital investing plunged in 2009 โ€โ€Š โ€”โ€ŠThe Washington Business Journal โ€œ Venture investments fall 61 percent in Q1 โ€โ€Š โ€”โ€ŠAssociated Press Though these alarming headlines seem all too familiar today, each originally ran from 2007โ€“2010: The Great Recession dramatically slowed venture capital fundraising for many companies, just as rece

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The Reason My Company Can Break Marketing Rules and Yours Canโ€™t

Entrepreneur's Handbook

3-question rule-breaker test to determine whether or not your business can profitably break the rules of marketing and win. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Eviationโ€™s all-electric Alice aircraft makes its maiden flight

TechCrunch

Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft took off for the first time yesterday , teasing a future in which regional flights of hundreds of miles will be done with zero emissions and a lot less noise. It’s still a ways off, but today’s demonstration shows it’s at least just a matter of time and money. The Alice is a prototype of what will eventually be a passenger plane capable of carrying around 2,500 pounds total, which equates to 9 people and their luggage (just don’t p

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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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First Five Launches with Whatnot

Y Combinator

Today Whatnot ( W20 ) is a lively platform where collectors can buy, sell, go live, and geek out with other like-minded people across a wide variety of product categories. But, like every startup, the founders of Whatnot began with only an idea. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Whatnot Grant LaFontaine to discuss their first five launches.

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Traveloka secures $300m in BlackRock-led funding round

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Traveloka , Southeast Asiaโ€™s leading travel and lifestyle platform, has announced raising $300 million in a funding round led by a private credit fund managed by BlackRock. A consortium of global institutional investors also participated in the funding round that will finance the expansion of Travelokaโ€™s platform and strengthen the companyโ€™s capabilities as the world opens up.

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Would you celebrate your mistakes?

Berkonomics

Leading by example. How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and donโ€™t repeat them? By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. โ€œIf the CEO can do this, he gives permission for anyone to confess as well,โ€ he states.

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Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech

TechCrunch

In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town. This lack of access to transportation is in stark contrast to other upward metrics on the African continent, like its growing access to equitable education and healthcare.

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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 โ€” and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, theyโ€™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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Iโ€™m Not a Visionary. And Thatโ€™s a Good Thing.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Startups need both a builder and a visionary to create a rocketship that won’t explode Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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YAS seeks to insure Web3 economy after raising $4.5m funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Insurance on-blockchain pioneer YAS MicroInsurance seeks to further expand and insure the Web3 economy after raising $4.5 million pre-Series A funding round co-anchored by Noria Capital, ZEMU VC, and JKL Capital. 500 Startups also participated in the funding round, according to the announcement.

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7 Questions to Ask When Facing a Cash Crunch

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Brooke Lively, an EO Fort Worth member who is founder and president of Cathedral Capital , which provides strategic financial advice to drive profit. By creating customized teams of financial professionals to analyze data trends and guide entrepreneurs through their numbers, CathCap serves as support to predictably scale and grow businesses.

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8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022

TechCrunch

Insurtech companies have been among the biggest victims of the public market selloff, especially those that went public in 2021. Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. All this M&A activity and repricing in the public insurtech cohort left us wondering about their private peers: Are the same trends at play, and to what extent?

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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 canโ€™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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The A-Word That Will Enable You to Make Money in Any Industry

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you want to engineer a profitable business, arbitrage is the universal key Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Healthtech startup Lissun bags $1m to expand operations in 25 Indian cities

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Healthcare startup Lissun has announced raising about $1 million in pre-Seed funding led by IvyCapt Ventures and backed by We Founder Circle and Supermorpheus. The funding round, which will help finance the companyโ€™s plans to expand its operations in 25 cities in India and 5 new therapeutic areas, was also supported by marquee angel investors, including Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Harsh

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GCUC Podcast Recap: Caleb Parker

GCUC

Colleagues, friends, and industry OGs Caleb Parker, Founder at Bold, and Liz Elam, Founder at GCUC, take us on an in-depth tour of the. The post GCUC Podcast Recap: Caleb Parker appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Studioโ€™s private group camcorder app lets friends create โ€˜episodesโ€™ by combining 10-second videos

TechCrunch

As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio , launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. These albums, or “studios” as they’re called, are available to everyone in the group as a way to record and share everyday memories or vlogs in a more creative format than seen in your standa

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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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This 7-Part Storytelling Framework Might Be The Most Powerful Persuasion Tool Ever Created

Entrepreneur's Handbook

(Used by Apple) Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Carro expands into Japan through SoftBank JV

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Southeast Asiaโ€™s used car marketplace giant Carro is expanding into the Japanese market through a joint venture with SoftBank Corporation, according to an announcement. The JV will be named Carro Japan Co Ltd and will introduce a full suite of services, such as subscription-based services and car leasing.

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The 6 Proven Video Marketing Strategies

Feedough

If I ask you when was the last time you. Read more. The post The 6 Proven Video Marketing Strategies appeared first on Feedough.

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Yeah, funding for creator-focused startups is drying up

TechCrunch

Services that help folks make, share and profit from creative works — Maven to Bounty to Substack to Patreon to Canva — have proliferated and grown in recent years. The rise of creator-focused startups was not an accident; instead, a secular trend of more accessible software for more diverse areas of creative work was met with a COVID-induced economic reshuffling and a gain in the amount of time the average person spent consuming in the ensuing quarters.

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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 Associationย 

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.