Paul G. Silva
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
When data is scant, scientists can greatly disagree. This video does a wonderful job of explaining why, and how the situation changes as data comes in. For those of us in innovation & entrepreneurship – this is our life! We are always starting in places of low data and high uncertainty, yet need to move forward. Lots of lessons to borrow from scientists here.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Contributed by Dhiren Harchandani , an EO UAE member who is a transformation architect, speaker, author, and endurance athlete with over 2,500 hours of coaching experience. He’s the creator of several personal development programs designed to transform each area of life: Superhuman Journey, Master Your Inner Game, Guided Forgiveness, and Recode your Thoughts.
Paul G. Silva
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The great folks at Slidebean took the Lean Validation Board and gave it an update. Whereas the Business Model Canvas or the Lean Canvas map out your entire business model, this tool focuses only on the most critical things right now. It is a tool that helps you stay focused on the right priorities by putting them very clearly in your face.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
The Seraf Compass
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
As a deal lead, once you conclude that there is enough of an opportunity to merit potential investment, and around the time you start drafting the final report, you can push through the temporary euphoria and begin negotiating the termsheet. In some cases this will be driven entirely by the deal lead, while in investor networks with dedicated management, it might be led by a manager with the involvement of the deal lead.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
For decades, businesses faced a genuine challenge with office space. Growing companies needed enough office space to expand into as they added headcount to support growth. Office prices were constantly rising, and companies faced challenges in finding the kind of space that was suitable for them. However, the pandemic changed all of that. Suddenly, entrepreneurs found staff working from home and focused on virtual, rather than in-person, collaboration.
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Luke Campbell – Cofounder. Vxt. “Startup founders should connect with other founders at similar stages to them, and ones who are a few steps ahead.”.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Bond Pet Foods , known for making plant-based pet treats, is shifting its focus from treats to pet food applications as it leans into the creation of “nature-identical” chicken, beef, fish and other meat proteins using precision fermentation. Last November, Bond kicked this off by announcing a partnership with Hill’s Pet Nutrition to develop a craft meat protein for its product portfolio.
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention. Between the emergence of Stripe, Plaid, and other category-defining decacorns; the continued launches of financial services offerings from non-banks like Apple … The post Foundations for Successful Fintech Infrastructure (and Several Tradeoffs to Consider) appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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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.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
This chart holds the secret to successful hiring of go-to-market teams. What is it? A stack rank of attributes within HubSpot account executive candidates that correlate to quota attainment. Preparation, adaptability, domain experience, & intelligence topped the list. Closing ability correlated negatively. The pushier the account executive, the worse the result.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Welcome to another edition of our newsletter. You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why you shouldn’t always trust billionaire’s advice. The founder lessons found in Uno (yes, the game). Let’s get to it. Should you trust billionaires for startup advice? When seeking advice on an app he was building, Aaron Dinin, PhD met two entrepreneurs.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
In a time when most VCs are acting more cautiously and placing focus on companies with a quick path to profitability, Countdown Capital is instead going all in on hard-to-build, capital-intensive bets. Firm founder Jai Malik told TechCrunch that despite the harder road, these companies may be better bets in the long run. Countdown Capital raised $15 million for its second fund to back companies looking to “rebuild the American industrial base,” Malik said.
Reforge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Table of Contents Challenge #1: The Lean Startup encourages agnostic experimentation instead of starting with a compelling strategy. Challenge #2: The Lean Startup’s focus on MVPs leads to failing too fast. Challenge #3: The Lean Startup leads to incremental products. Challenge #4: The Lean Startup overemphasizes a focus on product over deliberate growth.
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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.
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Orbit Startups , the new accelerator program from venture firm SOSV , has announced a cohort of 10 startups chosen for its inaugural launch. Each of the startups received initial funding of about $180,000 along with an intensive program that supports their growth across emerging and frontier markets.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
In the last few months, we’ve seen an established stablecoin with an $18B market cap de-peg to 0. We’ve seen centralized crypto lending apps like Celsius, BlockFi, and Voyager become insolvent and lose users’ funds due to poor risk management. We’ve also seen $14 billion+ lost in scams, hacks, and exploits over the last year. It’s now completely clear that crypto regulation is coming, and likely sooner than we think.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Do bigger checks lead to bigger swings? Y Combinator’s latest participants are the second batch to land a $500,00 check as part of the accelerator’s recently refreshed standard deal. And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
MECHANICSBURG, PA – Gig and Take has closed a pre-seed round totaling $1.5 million led by Schematic Ventures with participation by Motivate Ventures and SHRM Labs (the venture capital arm of the Society of Human Resource Management). This capital will help fuel Gig and Take’s commercial expansion for the next two years. Finding and retaining labor is the number one challenge in domestic manufacturing.
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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
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Coolmate , a Vietnamese menswear brand that sells through its own e-commerce store, has raised an additional $2.3 million for its Series A funding round participated by GSR Ventures and Do Ventures , according to an announcement. Coolmate is the first Vietnamese startup to receive funding from GSR Ventures, a world-renowned early backer of unicorns including Advance Intelligence Group,
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s BIG IDEA Contest recently offered agriculture and food/beverage entrepreneurs, innovators, and companies in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint the chance to pitch to win up to $25,000 in seed funding. This cash prize is designed to support every aspect of turning a business idea into a business reality. “This is our first time focusing our BIG IDEA contest on a specific industry,” said Stephen Brawley, President & CEO of Ben Franklin.
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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
AsiaTechDaily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Morse Micro , a fabless semiconductor company reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that it has raised $140 million in a Series B funding round led by MegaChips Corporation , a leading ASIC and SoC services company based in Japan.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
As an entrepreneur who’s made 6-figure losses and multi-7-figure life-changing “bets” (wins) with my strategic investments. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
It’s YC Demo Day week, which has us nostalgic for the conversations Found hosts have had with founders who have been through the famed accelerator program. In every episode of Found, hosts Darrell Etherington and Jordan Crook dig into a founder’s background, the peaks and pits of starting and running a company, and relationships and mentors who have helped along the way.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Get organized. Finding your strategic partner, investor or business buyer is not something you do haphazardly. There are many steps to take, each closer to assuring a success. Research is paramount, and sources are everywhere, especially for public companies and large investment firms. Start with the “matrix method.”. You and your advisors, board or partners should start by completing what you can of the matrix shown on this page.
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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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