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7 investors reveal what’s hot in fintech in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing.

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How to Pitch to Angels—Your Early Stage Investors

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Angels have different motivations from VCs and need to be approached differently Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook » startup angel-investors fundraising entrepreneurship venture-capital

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Driving the Dialogue: Questions These Female Founders Wish You Asked

Revolution

Women represent 50.5% of the U.S. population, but in 2022, companies with solely female founders garnered just 2% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups. The share of funding for companies co-founded by women? That ticked up to 15.4% last year, which still leaves a massive delta.

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EmpowHER: EO Members Share How Businesses Can Better Support Family Life

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In March, EO recognizes and celebrates women entrepreneurs with its second annual EmpowHER virtual conference , which focuses on the specific challenges women in business experience.

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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

Join Wayne Spivak, experienced CFO and corporate finance expert, for an insightful discussion on managing cash flow and company profitability.

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Approximations, Assumptions and Aspirations: Methods For Valuing Startups [Part I]

The Seraf Compass

Over the years, Christopher and I have interacted with hundreds of startups. Whether as an advisor, mentor, investor or just as an observer, the issue of valuation has been a major part of our conversation with each of these companies.

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Despite the downturn, CVC gains traction in Brazil’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider.

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Why the Key to Solving Burnout Is Creating a Culture of Openness

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In March, EO recognizes and celebrates women entrepreneurs with its second annual EmpowHER virtual conference , which focuses on the specific challenges women in business experience.

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IWD: 45 Women to Watch

GCUC

IWD: 45 Women to Watch Women have been making significant contributions to the coworking industry since its inception, and continue to be influential in shaping the future of work.

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Pachamama Ventures’ Karen Sheffield On The Journey From Operator to VC Investor

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. She is also a Finance Director at Visa and has previously worked for PepsiCo and American Airlines.

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7 Ways to Supercharge Your ABM Strategy with Real-Time Intent

Streaming real-time intent is a homerun for marketing and sales’ account-based marketing (ABM) strategies. With real-time buyer insights, you can be first-in-line to provide solutions and lead better, hyper-personalized conversations.

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Salesforce Ventures targets new $250M fund at generative AI startups

TechCrunch

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.”

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Stay Ahead of Crisis PR with ChatGPT: The Secret Weapon for Business Leaders

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Eden Gillott, an EO Los Angeles member and president of Gillott Communications , a strategic communications and Crisis PR firm.

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How ChatGPT Will Restructure Engineering Teams & Create Opportunity for Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. The core engineering team ships the product & focuses on reliability. For most companies, the data science team analyzed data & wrote machine learning models to support the business functions : sales, marketing, customer support. These teams operated downstream of the data warehouse.

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Where is your personal finish line? ?

Berkonomics

Here is one very personal question. “Have you figured out what you want to have, or to be, when you reach the end of your personal run in this business life?” It is a fair question to ask.

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Digitizing Logistics: Harness the Power of Data in 4 Steps

Entering a new demand gen position in a volatile market is nerve-wracking. In demand generation, data is essential for knowing who you should target and how. In this eBook, you’ll learn how to identify and target your ideal prospects using different types of data.

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Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform

TechCrunch

The tools of modern cinema have become increasingly accessible to independent and even amateur filmmakers, but realistic CG characters (like them or not) have remained the province of big-budget projects.

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Conscious Content: How to Create an Eco-Friendly Branding Strategy

StartupNation

Startup branding can be a tricky nut to crack. With so much competition weighing on new entrepreneurs, it… The post Conscious Content: How to Create an Eco-Friendly Branding Strategy appeared first on StartupNation. Branding eco-friendly ESG ESG investing

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7 Important Tax Strategies for Startup Founders

Startup Blogpost

From including your team in deductibles to researching specific exemptions, here are seven answers to the question, “What are your most helpful tax strategies that every startup founder needs to be aware of?”

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Surbhi Sarna's new book on entrepreneurship

Y Combinator

YC Group Partner Surbhi Sarna has written a book called Without a Doubt , and today it goes on sale. Without a Doubt tells the incredible story of Surbhi Sarna's company, nVision Medical, which started with a health scare when she was 13 and ended 20 years later in a $275M acquisition.

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16 Go-to-Market Plays for Your Entire Sales Funnel

After gathering some of the best go-to-market plays from our own B2B sales and marketing pros, we've package them here for you. Try one of these 16 plays in your next salesflow or as inspiration for your next winning sales engagement strategy.

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Silicon Valley Bank shoots self in foot

TechCrunch

It may go down in the history books about Silicon Valley: the time that its most prominent bank, a bank founded nearly 40 years earlier, inflicted such grievous injury on itself that it had to be rescued by another bank or else risk going down in flames in a single day.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories.

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Ben Franklin’s Food and Beverage TechCelerator is hosting a Pitch Event!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Join us for a virtual event awarding up to $30,000 to a Pennsylvania-based food and beverage startup!

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Scaling a Startup to $1 Million ARR: Insights from Three-Time Founder Varun Jain

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Varun Jain. He is a three-time founder, who has scaled his current startup, Default , to $1 million ARR. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

Successfully complete the five stages of ABM: define, identify, engage, convert, and connect. We’ll show you how to create a unified system with your sales team to help them land more qualified opportunities and connect with prospects like never before.

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Consensus raises $110M to inject automation into SaaS product demos

TechCrunch

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers.

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Weekly 30: The value of women founders

Entrepreneur's Handbook

In this week’s edition, we discuss The value of women founders in combatting short-termism, How hate mail can be an entrepreneur’s secret weapon. P.S. If you’re deep in the entrepreneurial trenches and have a story to tell, we’d love to read it (and publish it).

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[Apploi in McKnights] The key to retention in long-term care? Create career paths

OurCrowd

Career stall-out is a frustration that many individuals in senior and long-term care know deeply and painfully. It can be extremely difficult for people to advance in senior care without additional training or education. Read more here.

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Build Your Start Up Dream Team

Gust

Starting and building any business other than the very tiniest one-person shop is a complicated task. Thus, the majority of businesses that aspire to become high-growth companies of the future—are launched by a founding team of two, three, or more people.

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The Ultimate Guide to Executive Recruiting

Sourcing the right executive candidates and filling key managerial roles in an organization can be difficult, even in the best of times. Download this eBook to level up your discovery process, talent sourcing, and strategies for reaching your best-fit candidates.