Dream It
MAY 4, 2021
The "What’s your valuation?" question is a common component of investor Q/A. You need to be aware of and ready for this tough question from investors. Seasoned founders have a particular way of framing their answer to this question. In this Dreamit Dose, Managing Director Adam Dakin reveals the right approach on how to answer the valuation question when pitching VCs.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 5, 2021
Contributed to EO by B. Jeffrey Madoff. When the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the US in January of 2020, the situation demanded a rapid response. A new, highly contagious virus posed an imminent threat to the world. This situation kicked off a chain reaction of events, including: Scientists began experimenting to create vaccines to combat the virus.
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This is going to be BIG.
MAY 4, 2021
In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. Below is a link to the pitch video. I look forward to hearing back from you and hopefully scheduling a meeting here in the city.” I don’t have the original video, but from what I remember it was just an animation of what looked like a flying bus.
Source Link
MAY 5, 2021
During our March Quarterly Conversation, affiliates discussed the challenges moving from individual entrepreneur support organizations to a collaborative, community-based model. The affiliates that joined the conversation in March wanted to learn more about engaging with the resource partners in their network, so SourceLink® set aside time in April to continue the conversation and address unanswered questions.
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.
StartupNation
MAY 4, 2021
A strategist, educator and venture developer, Southfield native Monica Wheat has dedicated her career to venture capital, but what truly sets her apart is her dedication to improving Detroit’s startup community and making it more inclusive to women and girls. When in high school, Wheat attended camps to learn about career options. That’s where she first found out about the venture capital business.
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 5, 2021
In celebration of Small Business Week, Mailchimp and Oscilloscope Laboratories are announcing a specially curated lineup of films available to stream on Mailchimp Presents , Mailchimp’s global streaming platform. Editor’s Note – Huge props to Mailchimp for always INNOVATING. Via their Mailchimp Presents production studio, Mailchimp continues to innovate and be creative in how they spotlight and showcase creators, entrepreneurs and small business owners.
OurCrowd
MAY 7, 2021
Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Treedom cuts carbon emissions. A chance to talk to legendary investor Bill Gross. Who will step up when the chips are down? Israeli technology on the world stage. HoneyBook: Small businesses fuel Israel’s newest unicorn. NeuReality sets out to revolutionize data centers. Locusview: Digital construction management platform raises $64M.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 4, 2021
What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B in 2010 to €9.6B in 2019, according to Dealroom , an industry database.
TechCrunch
MAY 5, 2021
Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS ’ investment process. The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional clients, including hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds, will have access to Lynk’s database of 840,000 experts around the world. Founded in 2015, Lynk has raised a total of $30 million in funding, including a $24 million round announced in January that was led by Brewer Lane Ventu
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Innovation 2 Enterprise
MAY 2, 2021
By Scott Meacham. Oklahoma’s Love’s Cup teams are making history that future generations will read about. I am a history buff. I really enjoy reading about the events of our state and our country from years ago. While it is highly unlikely that I would ever sign up for a civilian trip to the moon, if time travel ever became a reality, I would at least investigate the possibility.
Angel Capital Association
MAY 6, 2021
By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. With their shared dedication to professionalize angel investing, commitment to educate the angel community and decades long friendship, it is easy to understand why Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile have been so successful at changing the face of angel investing.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 6, 2021
Often times we see “success” and think that it was “overnight” We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. Three or more steps forward and 1 step backward. We forget it was many lonely nights of tears and misery until the breakthrough happened. This is the case of Tyler Perry, Casey Neistat, Dave Ramsey, Jim McCann of 1800 Flowers, Rebecca Minkoff and so many others.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2021
HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. Tiger Global Management, Battery Ventures, Zeev Ventures, 01 Advisors as well as existing backers Norwest Venture Partners and Citi Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the New York-based company’s valuation to over $1 billion.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MAY 1, 2021
Tips for new entrepreneurs and executives. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
Impact Hub
MAY 2, 2021
At Impact Hub, we’re excited to work with IKEA of Sweden to find the innovators and disruptors of the food sector. IKEA is a curious company with a constant drive to enable people to live a better everyday life within the limits of the planet. As one of the world’s largest food providers, IKEA aims to make healthy and sustainable food more affordable and desirable to the people.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 3, 2021
U.S. small businesses are on the road to recovery from the financial losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by Intuit QuickBooks. The report, Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Recovery, published today by Intuit, uncovers the varied impact the pandemic has had on small businesses across different industries and geographies since March 2020, when COVID-19 caused many business owners to temporarily shut their doors.
TechCrunch
MAY 3, 2021
Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It has a popular and meme-ified mascot in the form of the owl Duo, a creative and engaging product, and ambitious plans for expansion.There’s just one key question in the midst of all those milestones: Does anyone actually learn a language using Duolingo?
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Angel Capital Association
MAY 7, 2021
By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The prestigious Luis Villalobos Award, recognizing the most ingenious and innovative ideas recently financed by members of the Angel Capital Association, was recently awarded to two ACA member-funded companies disrupting their fields. Algenesis, a material science technology company, in the Technology, Services and Consumer category; and Genomenon, a genomic health IT company, in the Life Sciences category.
StartupNation
MAY 5, 2021
Mentors reduce your learning curve by years through mastering the best of wiser, more experienced role models. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. These 11 entrepreneurs share the number one piece of advice their closest mentor ever gave them: Time is the most valuable thing you have. My father, Charlie Harrington, was my first and best mentor.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 6, 2021
Sheets & Giggles creates sustainable bedding and other home textiles out of eucalyptus trees. (Soo cool!) And this kind of bedding uses up to 96% less water than cotton sheets to make them. They also use energy, no insecticides, and no pesticides. (Cotton can use up to 24% of the world’s insecticides on any given year.) These sheets are also more breathable, so if you’re a hot sleeper, they distribute moisture perfectly across the filaments, keeping you cooler.
TechCrunch
MAY 4, 2021
Personalized nutrition startup Zoe — named not for a person but after the Greek word for ‘life’ — has topped up its Series B round with $20M, bringing the total raised to $53M. The latest close of the B round was led by Ahren Innovation Capital, which the startup notes counts two Nobel laureates as science partners. Also participating are two former American football players, Eli Manning and Ositadimma “Osi” Umenyiora; Boston, US-based seed fund Accomplice; he
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MAY 7, 2021
Longtime AVC reader Alex Wolf has a Kickstarter project that I think is awesome. She has long been working on a “pattern alphabet” to encode the patterns of nature and life. This project turns this alphabet into cards that can be used by kids in school and at home to learn. I backed the project this morning and I hope and expect she will do great with this Kickstarter project.
StartupNation
MAY 6, 2021
TikTok has risen to new heights in recent years with its short-form videos: the app is now available in over 150 markets across the globe, in 75 languages and has over 689 million active monthly users. Internet usage has spiked amid the pandemic, and TikTok remained the most downloaded app in Q1 of 2021. As people seek online entertainment as a way to stay productive, healthy and aware, brands are considering ways to harness their reach and shape new conversations on platforms like TikTok.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MAY 4, 2021
No one starts a business with the hopes that it fails, yet business failure rates remain astronomically high. Cory Mosley , Principal & Founder, Mosley Strategy Group shares his insights. When you look around social media or turn on the TV, you see and hear about all of the people killing it with their business. This company just hit another record, or that one is celebrating 7 years of record revenues.
TechCrunch
MAY 6, 2021
The topic of compensation has historically been a delicate one that has left many people — especially startup employees — wondering just what drives what can feel like random decisions around pay and equity. Last June, software engineers (and housemates) Miles Hobby and Geoffrey Tisserand set about trying to solve the problem for companies by developing a data-driven platform that aims to help companies structure their compensation plans and transparently communicate them to candidat
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