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Angel Fundamentals: Understanding Equity Deal Terms - Governance, Management and Control

The Seraf Compass

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4 secrets to successful social media

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This article comes from the Melbourne chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. According to some estimates, there are 3.80 billion users on social media. And every business owner and founder knows that social media is one of the most cost effective ways to market your products and services. . We asked members of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) in Australia to explain how they use social media. 1.

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Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion

Dream It

Infermedica (Healthtech ‘18) is an AI-driven platform that helps insurance, telemedicine companies, and health systems increase efficiency through fast, digital symptom-checks. The platform has nearly 60 B2B partners across 30 countries, including Microsoft, Allianz, Global Excel, Sana Kliniken, and Médis, and has performed more than 6 million health checks globally.

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A Thriving Family Business + How They Make It Work

Smart Hustle Magazine

A family owned and operated business is nothing new, but a family business managed by two parents and eight and children is pretty unique. Goat Milk Stuff. The business started with making soap, as it is a low barrier (much less difficult than food products) and the whole family could easily be involved in making and selling it. With eight kids, it was really important to get them all working within the business early on. .

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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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5 Questions with Ian Hathaway, co-author of The Startup Community Way

Ian Hathaway

01. What is “The Startup Community Way”? The Startup Community Way is a book I co-authored with Techstars cofounder Brad Feld. It’s a collection of frameworks, principles, and action points that guide and inform practitioners and observers about the key characteristics, behavioral patterns, and basic function of startup communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Innovation Insider: Intensive Care

OurCrowd

Greater agility, better infection containment, fast diagnostics and telemedicine: Meet your healthcare providers post Covid-19. When the coronavirus surfaced in China in December 2019, it set off a domino effect worldwide – with the number of active cases snowballing rapidly. By February 2020, the daily increase in people falling ill with Covid-19 was in the thousands and -though international borders closed down and households went into lockdown – active cases skyrocketed in June to

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Announcing the YC Startup Library

Y Combinator

We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library, found at ycombinator.com/library. Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen and learned from their successes and failures. The library consolidates the knowledge and advice we’ve previously published and provides a central location for new content.

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Revolution Growth-Backed BigCommerce Goes Public

Revolution

In 2013, we invested in BigCommerce , a SaaS startup helping companies build, manage, and market online stores. This morning, the Austin-based company raised its initial public offering. BigCommerce is now listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol BIGC. This marks an exciting milestone in the company’s trajectory which has been fueled by a boom in e-commerce.

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Collaborate and Communicate Remotely with Webinars and Video conferencing

Smart Hustle Magazine

This year has shown just how important it is to be able to connect remotely. Effective communication and collaboration are crucial during this trying time and outside of it to keep businesses and education running smoothly. Webinars and video conferencing help companies, universities and colleges stay connected with global employees, students and customers.

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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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[TechSee in PR Newswire] TechSee becomes Pega® ISV Partner

OurCrowd

TechSee, a global leader in Visual Customer Assistance powered by AI and Augmented Reality, today announced that it has joined the Pega Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program. The Pega ISV Partner Program extends clients’ Pega investments with readily available, out-of-the-box solutions to further accelerate their time to market. Read more here.

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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

Derek Sivers

Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. They’re not even officially released yet, but they’ve already sold over $250,000. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. I’ll admit, it made me ridiculously happy to make $250,000. I was expecting way less than that, so it was a big surprise.

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Inside Rounds Have Become a Sign of Strength at the Series B

Tomasz Tunguz

In my recent post about the fundraising market during COVID, I wondered aloud about inside rounds. Inside rounds, new financing rounds led by existing investors, have historically been primarily the territory of companies who cannot raise from outside investors at attractive terms. But recently, insiders have been leading the most competitive rounds in their portfolio companies.

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Pandemic brings lasting change to world of hospitality, health care

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. If anyone had told me a year ago that we would be in the situation we are in today, I might not have said it out loud, but I would have thought that they were completely nuts. The global pandemic has given me a new standard for what a worst case scenario looks like. Whatever else develops with this pandemic, one thing is certain. It has changed the world.

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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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[TechSee in MarTech Series] TechSee Becomes Pega ISV Partner

OurCrowd

TechSee, a global leader in Visual Customer Assistance powered by AI and Augmented Reality, announced that it has joined the Pega Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner Program. The Pega ISV Partner Program extends clients’ Pega investments with readily available, out-of-the-box solutions to further accelerate their time to market. Read more here.

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US Black Chambers CEO Shares Optimism For the Future

Smart Hustle Magazine

US Black Chambers is an advocacy organization comprised of 145 black chambers and represents over 330,000 black owned businesses. Ron Busy, CEO of US Black Chambers said, in a recent interview, that while most business are seeking access to capital, black owned businesses number one priority is access to affordable credit. Ron shared that 20 - 30 years ago there was a focus on diversity and inclusion, however today, especially for black businesses, that focus must shift to the inclusion of black

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The Secret to Productive Group Meetings over Video

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2017, I wrote the post Managers Must be Insane to Brainstorm in Groups. If you’ve been a group meeting for brainstorming, you’ll identify with the three problems reasearchers identified with in-person brainstorms: Only one person can speak at a time. Many people don’t participate and free ride hiding in the back of the room, unengaged.

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Types of Entrepreneurship: Meaning and Importance

Common Reasons Why Startups Fail

Entrepreneurship is the process of coming up with an idea for a business venture, developing it, and finally, launching and running that same business venture. The post Types of Entrepreneurship: Meaning and Importance appeared first on.

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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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[SixGill in WFMZ News] Palo Alto Networks Introduces Industry’s Largest and Most Comprehensive Security Orchestration Marketplace

OurCrowd

Cortex XSOAR Marketplace enables organizations to discover and share orchestration innovations contributed by an ecosystem of experts, extends the ROI of security investments, and rapidly addresses new automation use cases – New content packs will be available from launch partners, including Code42, Google Chronicle, Illusive Networks, Infosys, Recorded Future, RiskIQ, SafeBreach, Sixgill, Tufin and Wipro. – Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring the largest ever SOAR hackathon, which runs

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How To Cope with Stress. The UPS Store Exec Offers Insight.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Small business owners are no stranger to challenging situations, and as cases of COVID-19 rise throughout the U.S., these savvy entrepreneurs continue to rise to the occasion and tackle these stressors in familiar ways. In our third annual Inside Small Business Survey, fielded in February before the pandemic with more than 1,000 respondents, we found that the top three most-stressful aspects of owning and working at a small business are heavy workloads (15%), long work hours (12%) and tight dead

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GCUC Canada Update

GCUC

A Note from Liz and Stormy: Thank you Ashley Proctor for your contributions not only to GCUC Canada but to the larger coworking world. The post GCUC Canada Update appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Equitable Evaluation: Learning with the Frontlines of Racial Justice

Surdna Foundation

How can we in philanthropy do a better job of supporting the kind of collaboration and shared learning that grassroots organizations need to grow their movements? In 2019, the Surdna Foundation Sustainable Environments team set out to better understand grantees’ progress to advance racial justice and deepen their participatory grantmaking and equitable evaluation practices.

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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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In the News: Hollywood Happy Ending to Coronavirus Horror?

OurCrowd

Movie theaters are closed, but the spirit of Hollywood lives on in our over-optimistic approach to the coronavirus. This is not a movie, and COVID-19 was not made in Hollywood. It will not be defeated in 100 minutes by a raven-haired heroine and a gruff old scientist pulled out of retirement. This disease will be with us for the foreseeable future and, as Bill Gates and others have warned, the next pandemic is out there, waiting to pounce.

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Back to Work Faster with New Zoho App

Smart Hustle Magazine

To work in the office or work remotely? That is a common question today. With many businesses in limbo amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, Zoho has an answer for returning to work. Zoho Corporation is a global technology company offering the most extensive suite of business software applications in the industry. This week they launched the new app BackToWork.

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Independent Director Compensation

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I got this question yesterday and answered via email and thought I’d share that discussion with all of you: I enjoyed your article on Board Diversity ( [link] ) and am planning to implement it at my company. I was hoping to get some guidance on the following: * How would you define the role of the independent director / what is their job? * How would you compensate them for this job?

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advancing sustainability, equity, and entrepreneurial success: q&a with Amy Tuininga of Montclair State University

Venture Well

Faculty Grants recipient, Amy Tuininga, is working to increase entrepreneurial success for students traditionally underserved in STEM fields. The post advancing sustainability, equity, and entrepreneurial success: q&a with Amy Tuininga of Montclair State University appeared first on VentureWell.

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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!