The Seraf Compass

MAY 10, 2023

Staying on top of the early stage investing world requires a lot of reading. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested. A decade or two ago, most of the new funds were traditional VC funds located in technology hubs in the US and a few other countries around the globe.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 11, 2023

Stop hustling eighty hours a week, and start building your business like a system.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. With both eager to build, work began on Whalesync — which helps businesses sync their data across no-code tools like Airtable and Webflow — before the two even met in person.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Insights and soundbites from our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit This year, we had more than 150 investors from 31 states join us for our second Beyond Silicon Valley Summit. And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , the most prominent global startup acceleration program of South Korea, is garnering a positive response from global startups as the deadline for the application stage approaches on May 18, 2023,16:00 (GMT+9).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2023

The parallels between entrepreneurship and parenthood are plentiful. With Mother’s Day weekend upon us in the US, we asked EO members what lessons they have inadvertently learned through parenting their children. Here’s what they shared: 1. Be fearless It’s remarkable to see the faith that my two toddlers have that everything will be ok.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. The founding team of the user-generated gaming platform Overplay, gained timely and sizeable backing through its Wefunder campaign , a Regulation CF community investment round.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 11, 2023

To understand the value of business consulting for startups, we reached out to CEOs, founders, and other business leaders for their insights. From understanding the bigger picture to breaking free from constraints, discover the top 14 benefits of business consulting for startups, as shared by these experienced professionals. Understand the Bigger Picture Gain Expertise and Experience Improve Adaptability Discover Marketing Strategies Achieve Specific Goals Temporarily Enhance Financial Planning

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2023

Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I find there are rarely enough hours in the day, but EO helped make me a more complete person. And I want to make time to help others enjoy the same experience. By Ami Kassar, EO Philadelphia president FY2023-25 In late April, I attended the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Global Leadership Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, along with more than 1,300 EO members from around the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Millions of people use sign language, but methods of teaching this complex and subtle skill haven’t evolved as quickly those for written and spoken languages. SLAIT School aims to change that with an interactive tutor powered by computer vision , letting aspiring ASL speakers practice at their own rate like in any other language learning app. SLAIT started back in 2021 as the sign language AI translator (hence the name): a real-time video chat and translation tool that could recognize most

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

BlueHalo Launches Next Generation of Lighter, Stronger, More Efficient Intense Eye UAS Featuring HX5® Injection Molded Chassis from Alpine Advanced Materials ARLINGTON, VA & DALLAS, TX (May 2023) – BlueHalo has launched the next generation of its Intense Eye Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) platform that incorporates an injection molded chassis using HX5®, a multi-scale reinforced polymer from Alpine Advanced Materials (“Alpine”).

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Y Combinator

MAY 11, 2023

Every batch, we invite founders to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC’s early-stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a variety of responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group and individual office hours, Demo Day prep, and more.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea venture investment firm ‘1Billion Partners Inc. participated in the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau, recognized as Asia’s largest technology expo. This renowned event, held from May 10 to 12, provides a valuable platform for global technological innovation and industrial modernization, attracting participation from over 800 exhib

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Are you a seed-stage founder who’s building a unicorn? NFX Founding Partner James Currier would like to save you some time: Startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of defensibility. Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply, customers “cannot rip them out.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Organovis hopes to transform drug testing by making it more precise, ethical, and affordable NEW YORK, May 8, 2023 – The City College of New York (“CCNY”) student-led start-up, Organovis has won the 2023 Women in Tech (“WiT”) Incubator Competition. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas (“Bank”), the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center (“Zahn Center”) at CCNY to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 8, 2023

How many startups with female founders are getting funding?

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 10, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The highly anticipated in-person third edition of the BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) Asia’s foremost annual gathering for technology and innovation, commenced with grandeur in Macau today, on May 10. With a resounding vision of bridging Asia and the rest of the world amidst geopolitical tensions, Jason Ho, one of the co-founders of BEYOND Internat

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months ? Well, it depends on where you look. If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: the charts are all down and in the red, and all you can see are psychedelics companies tottering by, doing their best to impress cynical investors. Similar to most other sectors today, that crumbling of confidence in the sector has trickled down to the private markets as well, slowing down venture dealmaking and further shri

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

$43 million invested to foster regional collaboration to support the economic growth of communities through innovation Universities, nonprofits, businesses and other organizations across the U.S. and territories are the recipients of $43 million in investments made by the NSF, as part of its Regional Innovation Engines Development Awards. These first-time awards were given to 44 teams around the country tasked with driving American innovation into the future.

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Jason Malki

MAY 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jonathan Capriola, the founder of AI Blockchain Ventures , who has a successful track record of entrepreneurship and innovation. With his identical twins, he is building an AI platform to transform 3D animation storytelling by using AI modularity and tying final outputs to blockchain technology. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register beSUCCESS Media Group , a well-known media group in South Korea, participated in the prominent BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) in Macau as a designated media partner. Asia’s largest technology Expo, held from May 10 to 12, serves as a platform for global technological innovation and industrial modernization, hosting over 800 exhibitors from 120 countries

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between. It’s time to disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt This year, we’re reimagining and refreshing Disrupt to deliver the essential tools, knowledge, and connections that help ignite ideas and accelerate the next ge

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Renewable Energy World , a top source for green energy and storage news, will be hosting a virtual panel discussion on May 11 th at 10 am ET, titled “ Innovations in Battery Technology and Infrastructure Fueling the EV Revolution ”. The panel will focus on the challenges facing the EV landscape. They include the need for a domestic supply chain of critical minerals, advancements in EV battery technology and the establishing of the country’s charging infrastructure.

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Jason Malki

MAY 9, 2023

Revolutionizing the In-Vehicle Connected Experience: An Interview with Todd Thomas, CRO of Aiden Automotive I had the pleasure of interviewing Todd Thomas the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Aiden Automotive. Todd joined Aiden from his most recent position as the CEO of a stealth startup within the SBD Radical Innovation Accelerator. He is a recognized voice in connected products & services, connected vehicles, telematics, mobility, IOT, AI and data science.

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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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