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8 Shocking Confessions Revealed at a Founder’s Meetup Pool Party

Entrepreneur's Handbook

These are the jarring admissions founders rarely tell their friends, family, customers, or even investors. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Potential Partners - Trust but Verify

The Seraf Compass

“There are only so many IPO candidates out there. I invest to make a return. If the entrepreneur or I can’t put our finger on obvious alternatives to an IPO, something is wrong,” said Ron Conway, one of San Francisco’s most prolific and successful early stage investors. Ron has been an active angel investor for over twenty years, investing early in companies such as Google, PayPal and Facebook.

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How to take advantage of a recession to build your brand

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Vladimir Gendelman, an EO Detroit member and founder and CEO of Company Folders, Inc. , an award-winning online printing company that has helped over 5,000 businesses print more than 20 million presentation folders. The company made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for three consecutive years.

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All About Acquihires

Andreessen Horowitz

In today’s ever-competitive environment to drive growth, identifying and hiring key talent through a structured transaction — known as an “acquihire” — has become an increasingly popular and effective way for companies to address hiring needs and accelerate product innovation and development. Often joining the acquiring company as a unit or existing team, employers also.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Why I Went from Selling a Software Company to Selling T-Shirts

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The Mark Zuckerbergs and Evan Spiegels of the world have shown how software businesses can be a fast track to fame and fortune. With a good idea, hard work, and skillful execution, you too can go from rags-to-riches (or, in their cases, riches-to-filthy-riches) and own a Hawaiian island or marry a supermodel. I too created a software company out of my dorm room.

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Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The end of May and June marks graduation for millions of students around the world. These students are eager to make their mark in a new phase of life, whether it’s at university or in the real world. Most of these graduations, especially at universities, will feature a keynote speaker charged with inspiring the graduates and entertaining the families.

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SG biotech startup Amili raises $10.5m in Series A funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Amili , a Singapore-based precision gut microbiome startup , has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding. This round was led by Vulcan Capital, the investment arm of late Microsoft Corp Co-Founder Paul Allen, which invests in category-leading technology, internet, and life sciences firms.

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Why this Angel Investor Hates Liquidation Preferences

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And Why I Demand Liquidation Preferences, Too Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Small Innovations Can Make Big Results New Book from Square Execs

Smart Hustle Magazine

The book, Self-Made Boss is your roadmap to help you start, grow and eventually if you wish, sell your business. Lauren Weinberg, CMO of Square, and Jackie Reses, Luna Financial Group and former Square excec, teamed up to put together a book which is a “soup to nuts” guide for aspiring and existing small business owners. Self-Made Boss covers business plans , legal , operations, finances, marketing, hiring , growth and scale and more.

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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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Five Great Blog Posts I Found This Week

Hunter Walk

Tough Love, Running Effective Meetings, Making Products That Produce Emotion, and More. Cross-country flights are great times to catch up on newsletters and unread feeds. This week there’s a bunch I want to share with you. How Levels Does Meetings. Levels is a consumer health company focused on glucose monitoring and they run themselves in a very deliberate manner, mostly asynchronous and fully remote from what I understand.

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Indonesian payments platform Flip makes second close of Series B round

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Flip , Indonesia’s biggest consumer payments platform , announced the second closure of a Series B fundraising round headed by Tencent and including Block, Inc. (previously Square, Inc.) and current investor Insight Partners. Guillaume Pousaz, Founder & CEO of Checkout.com, through Zinal Growth; Gokul Rajaram, Executive at Doordash and Board Member at CoinBase and Pinterest;

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A VC Told Me His Favorite Question to Ask Entrepreneurs, and the Brilliance of it Shocked Me

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Even the simplest questions can have unexpected implications Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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An inflection point for coworking at GCUCNA 2022

GCUC

Guest post by DeShawn Brown, CEO of Coworks Our team returned from Seattle a few weeks ago, but it’s taken that time for me. The post An inflection point for coworking at GCUCNA 2022 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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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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Mastercard Exec On Black Female Founders and Digitization and Automation

Smart Hustle Magazine

Black female founders get some of the least funding for their business. Ginger Siegel, who heads Mastercard’s small business in North America wants to change that. Her passion is authentic. Listen to our podcast here. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Digitize and Automate – Tips from Mastercard Exec. Watch the video interview here. Grants and Investments.

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Cake DeFi releases $317m in payout to customers as it turns 3

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Cake DeFi , Singapore’s fastest-growing Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform, marked its third anniversary with a significant achievement. The company claimed that it had paid out over $317 million in prizes as of the end of Q1 2022, while continuing to witness strong quarterly business growth of about 90% since 2019.

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Weekly #9: Investment During A Downturn

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Creating successful online courses, Unexpected turnarounds to become investors, Sources of investment during an economic downturn. How to create online courses that are actually successful Most online courses fail.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO CONTROL LTD – THE LATEST WINNER OF BEN FRANKLIN’S PITCH EVENT!   

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

. Eight entrepreneurial teams just completed a ten-week, virtual, business startup boot camp. This exciting program has been offered by Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @State College, in partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, for ten years. On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, beginning at 2:00 PM, the teams pitched their business concepts to a panel of independent judges for a cash prize of $10,000!

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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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Newsletter: Game-changing tech for lab-grown food + Investing in the Metaverse

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Mermade, game-changing tech for lab-grown food Jerusalem, Tel Aviv among world’s best Ag/FoodTech hubs Nas Academy joins OurCrowd portfolio June 20th online: Startups in the Metaverse D-ID generates the virtual presenter of your choice SomaLogic inks licencing agreement with OncoHost FDA clears Scopio Labs’ blood test device and application TechCrunch: Xage Security releases advanced anti-MFA tool Bloomberg: Focus on safety drives Superpedestrian

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Juneteenth Gave Integrity to Entrepreneurship

Forward Cities

Thanks to Juneteenth, “entrepreneurial ecosystem” is now a resource that all Americans can use to build equity and upward mobility for themselves, their families, and all of our communities for generations to come. So, in this season of freedom, we first must honor the freedom that came second in order to begin recognizing any form of independence that can be claimed by all.

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A While Ago, I Won A Startup Competition?—?My Startup Shut Down While The Losers Just Had An IPO.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It hurts when an expert investor looks at you and tells you that they believe in others more than your startup. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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ECHO Investment Capital BIO

Innovation 2 Enterprise

To read the full 2022 i&E OKBIO Edition, click here. The post ECHO Investment Capital BIO appeared first on i2E.

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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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[Connected Energy in Agility PR] Connected Energy, second life battery energy storage specialist, secures an additional £15 million from investors

OurCrowd

NEWCASTLE, UK / AGILITYPR.NEWS / June 16, 2022 / A further highly successful round of investment for Connected Energy has secured £15m from five new major investors and will be welcome news to all those keen to see increased energy security, improved use of clean energy and extended lifetime use of electric vehicle batteries in energy storage systems (BESS).

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The Most Popular Financing Round in 2022

Tomasz Tunguz

The round extension is the most popular fundraising round today. You won’t find statistics detailing their rise in PitchBook or Crunchbase, but “reopening the last round” or “raising a round extension” precede pitches Startupland today. How does an extension impact a company’s cap table on average? Round dilution from VC dollars has been declining for the past decade.

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A Founder’s Guide to Startup Due Diligence

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How founders can think like a VC to secure funding for their startup. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Let A Recession Make You Stronger. Advice from Fundbox CFO.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Covid was bad. Like really bad. However, it also made many of us stronger. Businesses that were not harnessing technology the way they should, harnessed it better. Businesses who didn’t hone in on their customers honed in much better. Marten Abrahamsen, CFO of FundBox says that small business resiliency can help us weather these challenging times.

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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.