Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2022

Elon Musk recently declared an end to remote work at Tesla , announcing that all Tesla staff must return to the office full-time, according to an email sent to executive staff and leaked on social media. Musk said those who don’t want to come to office should “pretend to work somewhere else.” This strict, top-down approach rooted in mistrust and false assumptions goes against best practices.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property.

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Continuations

JULY 11, 2022

For a long time there was a narrative that computers would only be good at automating routine tasks, leaving creativity to us humans. I never believed this because creativity isn’t some kind of magic but rather much of it is based on exploring variations either based on known rules or based on precedents. For example, I titled a post in 2016 “ Machine Creativity: Possibly Sooner than Anticipated.

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 13, 2022

There are a million reasons not to invest in any given startup. Even in the best case, there will be unanswered questions, missing pieces, missing team members, projected losses and uncertainty all around. The diligence process tends to document all of the warts in one place. You would think a compilation of those warts would be the death knell - the final nail in the coffin.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

As one of the best marketing channels to connect with audiences and build your brand , email continues to serve as a valuable tool to communicate with potential customers and move them further along your conversion funnel. That said, all marketers know that high conversion rates don’t appear out of thin air; it takes quality content that informs and inspires to persuade your leads to make those final clicks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

For much of her career, hacker Runa Sandvik has worked to protect journalists and newsrooms from powerful adversaries who want to keep wrongdoing and corruption out of the public eye. Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 12, 2022

Want to just get started? Click here to sign up for Hostinger and start your online store with WooCommerce today. Starting an online store isn’t only about having a brilliant idea—you also need to market it right to maximize your reach. Get it right and you’ll watch the sales start to roll in. Get it wrong and you’ll just have a very time-consuming hobby on your hands.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2022

Contributed by Roger Patterson , an EO Vancouver member and the founder and CEO of visual marketing platform Later , and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. His insights on leadership , social commerce and mental health have been published in outlets such as Fast Company and Entrepreneur. My first impression of TikTok wasn’t atypical for a Gen Xer: To me, the platform seemed like a hub for tweens to flaunt dance moves and indulge in pre-adolescent narcissism.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

In this Startup Spotlight session, Propel(x) had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Barmak Heshmat, the CEO and founder of Brelyon. Barmak spoke about Brelyon’s mission and vision to bring an innovative new display technology to market, his experience raising capital with Propel(x), lessons learned and Brelyon’s future plans. The summary below has been edited for context and clarity.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Coding school Holberton today announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by African Leadership Group (ALG). The seven-year-old company, with physical schools across the globe in addition to its core online platform, will split in two. Holberton’s technology platform will become part of ALG’s existing ALX online learning platform and the existing 34 physical locations will get spun out to become a stand-alone business under current Holberton COO Florian Bucher.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 12, 2022

Want to jump straight to the answer? The best online reputation management company for most people is WebiMax or NetReputation. Online reputation management services can help you build a positive brand image or repair a damaged one. This isn’t something you want to try to accomplish on your own for the first time, unless you really know what you are doing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 11, 2022

Don’t make the same mistakes I made during the last financial crisis Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2022

Yesterday, Office Hours welcomed Lars Nilsson, VP Sales Development from Snowflake to talk about his learnings across 5 companies he helped take public. Throughout the hour, Lars provided insightful perspectives on how to build sales organizations. These the five most memorable takeaways for me. In early-stage companies, founders sell for the first three to four quarters.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

This April, Black Coffee, the famed South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo, made history at the Grammys. With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win an award in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category. His win came when the global appetite for Amapiano, a style of house music that emerged in South Africa , and Afrobeats, a popular music genre that originated from Western Africa , had increased exponentially.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 13, 2022

Our recommendation for most people is Hostinger because it’s affordable, fast, and reliable web hosting service. Sign up with Hostinger for as low as $1.99 per month. The hosting provider you choose is crucial to the success of your website. A reputable web host keeps your site online and helps you avoid unnecessary downtime. This guide explains the best types of web hosting for different situations.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 12, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: How to avoid another bad rebrand for your startup, Building a 50,000 subscribers newsletter business, The state of the crypto markets (with Arthur Hayes). Let’s get into it. Don’t rush into branding disaster 2.0 It’s a familiar story.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 13, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Venture capital firm Lightspeed announced raising over $7 billion in various funds that will invest in early and growth stage entrepreneurs around the globe. The firm said it has closed Lightspeed Venture Partners XIV-A/B LP (Fund XIV) with $1.98 billion, Lightspeed Venture Partners Select V LP (Select Fund V) with $2.26 billion, and Lightspeed Opportunity Fund II LP (Opportunity Fund

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

It seems like every time a demo day ends , there’s a new one waiting around the corner — and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of crypto projects and teams who participated in the latest cohort for Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 12, 2022

Our recommendation for most people is Nextiva because it’s an easy and affordable online fax service. Sign up today for a 500-page, 30-day free trial. Online fax services are better than traditional faxing in every way. By digitizing the process, you can send or receive faxes from your phone and retrieve an old fax with a simple file search. Here are the best online fax services—many of which you can start using for free.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 14, 2022

Learn from the founder of Apprentice & Likeable Media Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today’s guest is a best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen. He’s founded companies such as Likeable, Apprentice, and Remembering Life. His books include “The Art of People” and “Likeable Social Media”. On top of this, he’s built a huge audience on social media, and he’s got nearly 700,000 followers on LinkedIn.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

Phospholutions Inc., a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, has announced additional. investment from leading global agricultural companies to support commercialization of. RhizoSorb® in the US row crop market. The recent funding includes investment from Ospraie. Ag Sciences (OAS), Bunge Ventures, the for-profit, global investment arm of Bunge.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Gen Z is getting a dose of some economic medicine that has older generations recalling 2008 and 2001, and Uprise is here for it. Uprise’s financial recommendations for Gen Z. Image Credits: Uprise. Jessica Chen Riolfi and Chris Goodmacher co-founded the company in March 2021 as a free financial planning tool for Gen Zers. Around the same time, they were seeing younger people invest randomly in certain stocks or cryptocurrency with no real education behind it — and losing money.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 13, 2022

Want to jump straight to the answer? The best HR outsourcing service for most people is Rippling or Paychex. Human resources are a vital part of every company. But not every company has the budget to staff an in-house human resources department. That shouldn’t stop you from getting the help you need or having access to the best solutions. Compare the 9 Best HR Outsourcing Companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 12, 2022

From someone who’s built multiple profitable 6+ figure startups without showing my face or taking sales calls. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Hunter Walk

JULY 11, 2022

Why Some Smart Startups Are Putting (Paid) Projects Ahead of Employment Offers. 80–90% of startups shouldn’t follow the advice I’m about to give. Instead these companies are better off just investing resources in improving their hiring via candidate flow/sourcing, interview process, offer communication/negotiation and closing experience. Being at least A- in those areas will put you way ahead of most of your competition.

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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?

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