Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pitch me a product that solves a problem, not a technology stack Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Venture Well

AUGUST 10, 2022

Welcome to Sarah Says, a new series by VentureWell Program Officer Sarah Wharmby. Sarah will address commonly asked questions raised in our E-Team workshops. Our. The post Sarah Says: Mapping Three Paths for Student Innovators appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2022

Contributed by Roger Patterson , an EO Vancouver member who is the president of visual marketing platform Later and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. Roger recently shared his thoughts on how to un-polarize your workplace by creating middle ground and how to combat digital distractions. In this post, he explains why being on good terms with former employees is more important than ever.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

When fundraising gets tougher for startups, the existing investors (insiders) will often provide a bridge loan to the company to extend the runway for getting another round done. There is more of this sort of thing happening in today’s fundraising market and I thought I’d share some of the things I have learned about setting up bridge loans.

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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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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 10, 2022

Seraf co-founder Christopher Mirabile recently spoke with his good friend Marcia Dawood on her podcast, The Angel Next Door. They talked about a wide variety of topics ranging from how he first got involved in angel investing, to some good exit stories, to his work on the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee, to crowdfunding and regulation of the crypto market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

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, I’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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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2022

This is a paper bond from the US Treasury dated 1976. This piece of paper guarantees its holder $5000 on August 15, 1986. At the bottom, four coupons entitle the holder to $200 at the maturity date on the top right. The coupons represent the interest on the bond. Those four little coupons would lead to the creation of a $2 trillion bond behemoth. Prior to the early 70s, investors bought bonds & held them until maturity.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 10, 2022

I would print these skills on a poster and send them back to a younger me 10 years ago. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 11, 2022

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In 10 years of venture investing I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a seed round which had less demand than supply. From a macro sense, you can thank the bull run our industry was in for the last decade. And then specifically there’s surely some social proof dynamics as well — I’ve always believed that if Homebrew commits to your seed round the risk of not raising the amount you want basically goes to zero (equally so,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Stores face new challenges in a world forever changed by the pandemic. Amazon and other tech giants are encroaching on their business. But perhaps more urgently, supply chain snarls haven’t gone away, presenting retailers with a host of inventory issues. In a March Retail Insights survey , seven in 10 (71%) shoppers said they felt that out-of-stocks — i.e. times when items aren’t available — are worse now compared to the start of the pandemic.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 7, 2022

This year, private equity firms have acquired five public software companies, totalling $38b in value. Seven months into 2022, these figures exceed last year’s totals, something I wondered about last month. Since these transactions’ details are public, we can use them to infer how the private software market values companies. Company. Acquirer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 11, 2022

And why I didn’t have to sacrifice my biggest priorities, even throughout my early startup failures and subsequent successes. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register edamama , the Philippines’ leading parenting-focused e-commerce platform , has secured a $20 million Series A funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures – one of Southeast Asia’s most prominent venture capital firms. The oversubscribed fundraise is one of the Philippines ’ largest early-stage rounds, and includes significant participation by edamama’s existing investors, notable amo

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

David Wright. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Wright is the co-founder and CEO of Pattern , an e-commerce acceleration platform. The world of e-commerce isn’t slowing down, yet many e-commerce aggregators are already struggling. Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm. Unless aggregators change how they operate, their future is bleak at best and nonexistent at worst.

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GCUC

AUGUST 9, 2022

After a big year of welcoming his second daughter into the world, acquiring Office Evolution, and Venture X, this veteran was just getting started. The post GCUC Podcast: Jason Anderson, President of CoWorks appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 10, 2022

Creating a course is easy, getting people to buy it isn’t. Here’s how to create a Udemy course people would buy. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 8, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Crypto.com, the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency platform, announced today it has secured Electronic Financial Transaction Act and Virtual Asset Service Provider registration by acquiring payment service provider PnLink Co. Ltd. and virtual asset service provider OK-BIT Co.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Tiffanie Stanard launched the company in 2017 with a focus on the supply chain, creating a product that provided establishments with the tools and data to choose, compare and form relationships with product suppliers and vendors.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Want the best way to create your core competency quickly and inexpensively? . Think like a startup, with little resources, a limited window of time, and few dollars to spend on expensive experts. Divide the hiring decision into two boxes. This insight comes from a fellow CEO who explains that he leverages his financial resources for growth by dividing his hiring decision into these two boxes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

Thoughts and self-reflection about the closed company Hola! dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. They all refer to the Hola! Dating app , which I co-founded and played the role of a ???. We started the project in Spring 2021. Four guys (two techs and two non-tech) decided to disrupt the dating app market.

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Table of Contents A Brief History of the Memo Sweating (The) Bullets: The Problem with Slide Decks Using a Memo to Help You Clarify, Engage, and Lead After the Memo: Invite Discussion to Make Faster, Better Decisions Putting it All Together What comes to mind when you hear the word “memo”? Is it Gary Cole’s obnoxious prodding about TPS reports in Office Space ?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grocery store technology hasn’t changed much in decades, so when the pandemic hit, it served as a wake-up call to the industry, highlighting its shortcomings, especially concerning e-commerce. Grocery stores that don’t adapt will most likely lose out on market share. The good news for the grocery industry is that technology advancements in recent years, particularly in the area of computer vision, are giving startups a shot at providing grocery stores with e-commerce-like features in a brick-and

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 9, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Did you know Ben Franklin Technology Partners is an award-winning, tech-based economic development program? We’ve been investing in tech startups and small manufactures for nearly 40 years. And now, we’re looking for innovators with BIG IDEAS who are developing new products or processes in the agriculture (AG) and food/beverage industries.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 9, 2022

And it’s surprisingly easy to build. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Reforge

AUGUST 8, 2022

Table of Contents What is Churn & How Is Churn Rate Calculated? Churn Myth #1: All customer churn is bad & should be avoided Churn Myth #2: Improving churn rate requires resurrecting inactive customers Churn Myth #3: Churn means the end of a customer’s journey Want To Improve Churn? Focus On Retention Instead Let’s start with the obvious. You can’t have a successful product if too many customers churn.

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