Sat.Jul 06, 2019 - Fri.Jul 12, 2019

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How VCs Can and Should Invest in Later Rounds

David Teten VC

You have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them. So when a company in which I’m an investor is raising a later round, should we (the VC investor) keep our pro rata or get diluted? . My view is that one should always make this decision on an individual company basis. Almost all VC investments include pro rata rights. These give the right to invest more money in a company sufficient to keep the same percentage ownership, for so long as we have both the cash and the appetite.

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4 Ways Partnerships Can Scale and Increase Profits For Your Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

When I launched one of my companies, the Small Business Summit, I started it with a partner. She was an older white lady, who had an MBA and was great with numbers. I was a young black guy, who loved marketing (hated numbers) and event production. We were a great fit. This was one of my first successful partnerships. It worked so well, we eventually sold the business.

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7 Class Exercises to Amplify Innovative Thinking

Venture Well

We curated a fresh new list of cutting-edge class exercises to incorporate into innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum. The post 7 Class Exercises to Amplify Innovative Thinking appeared first on VentureWell.

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Business Model Innovation

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I’ve shared my views on this before here at AVC. I believe business model innovation is more disruptive than technical innovation. A good example of this was moving from web apps to mobile apps, which was largely a technical innovation. While the move to mobile certainly created some new companies, it largely strengthened the market position of the big Internet companies because there was little to no business model innovation.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Support for entrepreneurs is a moon shot effort

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman. This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was President John F. Kennedy’s idea. In 1961, the president challenged NASA and the nation to land an astronaut on the moon before the decade was over. Russia had taken the lead in the race for space with the Sputnik launch in 1957.

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Are you a remote manager? A good one?

Berkonomics

Are you a virtual manager? Can you be effective if you are a “virtual” manager, commuting from home or a home office and being with your employees only part time? Measuring your performance. In a virtual environment, people measure you mostly by your actions, and remember only the most recent good work you’ve done for them and for the organization. The typical scenario for a virtual manager.

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The Heretic

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I am reading a friend’s book which is still in proofs and so I’m not going to talk about it yet. But there is one part of the book that really rang true for me and that is when he talks about certain kinds of problematic employees, particularly one he calls The Heretic. This kind of employee, and we have all seen this up close, is negative about the Company and disses the management, coworkers, the board, the strategy, the workplace, and everything else under the sun.

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Press Release: Impact Hub Joins Pact for Impact Summit 2019

Impact Hub

Pact for Impact Conference 2019 marks the beginning of the Global Alliance for a social and inclusive economy. This event aims to build a coalition of States, institutions, actors and networks, for the development of SSE, inclusive economy and social innovation. Impact Hub Executive Director, Gabriela Gandel will be featured as a panelist to share Impact Hub’s commitment to social and economic growth.

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Is my business idea feasible? Key questions to ask before you start.

NZ Entrepreneur

Doing a business feasibility study first will help you figure out whether your new business idea is worth your time, energy and money – all very precious commodities. It will help you calculate, analyse and project what will be involved and the likelihood of success. Your big, bold business idea. So bright and shiny, it’s been keeping you up nights.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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 GrowOK workshop comes to Durant & McAlester on July 18-19

Innovation 2 Enterprise

July 10, 2019. i2E, Inc. and the Choctaw Nation provide intensive, one-day business assessment class to help small businesses validate concepts, expand market, capture new revenues. Contact: Darcy Wilborn, (405) 813-2424. contact@growok.org. GrowOK, a free one-day venture assessment workshop designed to help rural and tribal entrepreneurs understand the markets they serve, is coming to Durant and McAlester on July 18-19.

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Video Of The Week: Angela Duckworth – Grit

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

A few years ago, we invited Angela Duckworth to speak to our portfolio company CEOs at our annual get together. It was a terrific talk that absolutely impacted the way these CEOs thought about hiring and managing their teams. Angela’s theory of “Grit” as a predictor of success in education, careers, and life is powerful. If you have not read her book on the topic, you should.

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Time for the Opportunity Fund?

EntreWorks Consulting

As we get closer to the 2020 election year, DC-based think tanks are starting to float big ideas on how to jumpstart the economy in our distressed regions. Third Way has recently released a plan to create a new $60 billion Opportunity Fund to encourage venture capital (VC) investments in locations outside of America’s VC hotspots. That’s a big menu of places since the VC industry is heavily concentrated in a handful of locations, like Silicon Valley and the Boston area.

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7 Things you can do to help with revenue in the Summer Months

GCUC

We’ve been in your shoes, when summer rolls around 1 of 2 things happens… actually strike that, both of these things are likely to happen over the course of the season but one is more concerning than the other…. Kids are out of school and parents are struggling to work from home so you see an influx in your membership (YAY). Kids are out of school and parents are wanting to spend more time with their families and are traveling so they are pause or cancel their memberships for the summer (STRUGGL

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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YOUR BIG IDEA COULD BE WORTH BIG BUCKS!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DUBOIS, PA – There’s up to $50,000 on the line! You don’t need to be an inventor, scientist, or historic statesmen like Ben Franklin in order to win this year’s BIG IDEA contest. Ben Franklin Technology Partners is looking for tech entrepreneurs, developers, or small manufacturers who are creating innovative new products, processes, or software applications.

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500 Startups & Misk Innovation to Launch Second Batch of the Misk 500 Accelerator Program

500

Applications are now open for Batch 2 of the Misk 500 Accelerator Program 500 Startups and Misk Innovation will host the second batch of its accelerator program based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to fuel startups throughout the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. Batch 2 of the Misk 500 Accelerator Program will bring experts from Silicon Valley and beyond to educate 15-20 early-stage startups from MENA.

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Conectar la comunidad con el ciudadano: Cómo los medios de noticias locales pueden desarrollar la comunidad y salvar a los medios nacionales

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Meg Jones. Con tantas fuentes de noticias y voces que hablan una sobre la otra, es difícil aquietar la mente el tiempo suficiente para evaluar la calidad de una noticia en los medios. Así las cosas, las declaraciones de actores radicales pueden pasar desapercibidas como artículos de opinión y la oposición puede crear una representación engañosa de un candidato y promoverla en medios sociales y campañas televisivas como fidedigna.

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5 Critical Steps to Solving Your Business Problems for Good

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Todd Smart, an experienced entrepreneur, the co-founder at Traction ® Tools and an EO member since 1992. . Are you a small business entrepreneur whose leadership team lacks cohesion or focus? Or maybe you’re running a start-up that can’t reach your next revenue goal? Is your company’s leadership team constantly seeing the same issues popping up?

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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

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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A Doctor For Sensitive Issues

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our portfolio company Nurx started out offering birth control prescriptions on a mobile phone delivered to you in the mail. This has been a game changer for many women who live far from a doctor or a pharmacy or live in places where it is not easy to get a birth control prescription. But they have not stopped there. They added HIV Prep for people who are at risk for HIV and want to protect themselves.

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[INSIGHTEC in Yahoo Finance] INSIGHTEC Receives FDA Approval and CE Mark for Exablate Neuro With GE SIGNA Premier MR System

OurCrowd

GE Healthcare, a leader in medical technology and diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, and INSIGHTEC®, a global medical technology innovator of incisionless surgery, today announced FDA approval and CE mark for Exablate Neuro compatible with the SIGNA Premier MRI system from GE Healthcare. Read more here. The post [INSIGHTEC in Yahoo Finance] INSIGHTEC Receives FDA Approval and CE Mark for Exablate Neuro With GE SIGNA Premier MR System appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Programador guna Kelvin Alvarado participa de GES 2019

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Por Embajada de . El programador panameño guna, Kelvin Alvarado fue seleccionado entre miles de emprendedores alrededor del mundo para participar de la Cumbre Global de Emprendimiento (GES, por sus siglas en inglés), que se celebró del 3 al 5 de junio en La Haya, Países Bajos. En esta cumbre se reunieron líderes políticos, empresarios e inversionistas de todo el mundo para compartir sus experiencias e impulsar emprendedores de 120 países.

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Seraf Toolbox: Venture Fund Economics Modeling Tool

The Seraf Compass

This Venture Fund Economics Modeling Tool is designed to help you understand compensation for a venture fund's General Partners. The overall structure of the worksheet is quite simple. There are two main areas where you supply information into this worksheet: 1) Fund Size, Fees and Results and 2) Payments to Partners and Fund Operations. Based on your inputs, Total Compensation for the different partners is calculated.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Price Stability

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

One of the use cases that has eluded cryptocurrencies to date is “means of exchange” (something you would spend). I wrote about this a couple years ago and showed this transaction in that blog post: That was a payment I made to a caddie named Kris after he carried my bags one morning six years ago. We played today and he was carrying a friend’s bag and I asked him if he still had that Bitcoin and he smiled and said “absolutely.” That made me feel good but the truth

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[Juganu in Globes] LED lighting connectivity co Juganu raises $23m

OurCrowd

Israeli smart city LED lighting communications infrastructure company Juganu has announced the completion of a $23 million financing round led by Viola Growth and with the participation of OurCrowd and a Mexican investment fund. Read more here. The post [Juganu in Globes] LED lighting connectivity co Juganu raises $23m appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Social Media and Thought Leadership for Founders

This is going to be BIG.

Running a startup consumes a ton of time. Just the immediate priorities seem to take up more than one person’s potential working hours—so it’s no surprise that when it comes to something like social media, many founders have trouble making it a priority. The consequences of failing to position a founder’s profile aren’t always obvious—and it’s usually all about missed opportunities.

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Startup School 2019 Meetups

Y Combinator

This year, more Startup School founders can get the opportunity to attend meetups and live tapings of the lectures. They’ll also be able to interact with YC partners, alumni and, more importantly, meet other founders in the Startup School community. These events will only be available to registered and active participants in Startup School. Attending these Startup School events is completely optional and not a requirement to complete the course.

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How to Avoid the Pain and Cost of PCI Compliance While Optimizing Payments

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.