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How To Live Your Worst Life. 25 Quick Tips.

Smart Hustle Magazine

We talk a lot about how to live your “best life” But what does it look like if you wanted to know the steps to live your worst life? I’m a host of Breakfast with Champions, one of the fastest-growing shows on Clubhouse (the audio only app). In an episode, I did a “spoof” show and walked the community through my best tips on how they could live their worst life ever.

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Finding Your Professional Community – 3 Things To Look For

Smart Hustle Magazine

As small business owners navigate the challenges of inflation , the importance of peer support is paramount. Given that online communities have grown 3X in the last seven years, reaching revenues of $1.2 billion in 2021, it’s clear there’s a demonstrated need for such digital kinship. Especially in specific fields like B2B marketing and sales, it can be incredibly valuable to connect with peers in similar positions, swap advice and even vent about frustrations.

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Can Your Portfolio Company Cut Your Bad Cholesterol by More Than Half? It Can When It's Culina Health.

This is going to be BIG.

The pandemic and parenthood hasn’t been great for either my eating habits or my activity level—not to mention the two month grandparent visit when we brought Mirren home. Here’s my approach to my snacks: “I finished off this candy too fast. I can’t ever buy it again.” Here’s my father-in-law’s approach to my snacks: “I saw that you finished off the candy so I ran out and bought you some more.

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Gotham Gives

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Gotham Gives is a public charity that the Gotham Gal and I started one year ago to complement the family foundation that we have been using to make philanthropic gifts for over two decades. A public charity allows us to raise capital from others in addition to our family’s philanthropic gifts. We use this public charity to put together syndicates of donors and raise more capital for our projects than would be possible on our own.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas. By Jewelle Saunders. The United States will host the Ninth Summit of the Americas from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles, California. The theme for this summit is “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future,” which responds to the hemisphere’s most pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, threats to democracy, the climate crisis, and a lack of equitable access to opportunities. .

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Ayoken raises $1.4M to grow its NFT marketplace for creatives

TechCrunch

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue streams through digital collectibles. The startup’s marketplace, Ayokenlabs , will feature digital collectibles from musicians, sports brands and influencers from all over the world. Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols.

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Collector’s Holmberg is Refreshing a Stifled $400B Market in Physical Collectibles

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tuomas “Tuom” Holmberg, a serial high-tech and biotech entrepreneur who is spearheading a new blockchain startup called Collector. Tuom earned his MBA from the University of Southern California after battling through Caltech’s fierce physics program. While founding and raising over $100M in funding for early-stage companies, Tuom’s favorite hobbies have had him keeping a close eye on collectibles markets and cryptocurrency for far longer than most.

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Why Every Startup Founder Needs to Study One Book

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you don’t understand accounting, you won’t even know if your startup is succeeding or failing Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Startup Due Diligence: What Entrepreneurs Should Know

Feedough

Finding an investor is hard. Convincing him to invest in. Read more. The post Startup Due Diligence: What Entrepreneurs Should Know appeared first on Feedough.

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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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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. As a part of an expansion, Google today announced that it’ll invest just over $8 million in organizations helping “justice-impacted” individuals, including the formerly incarcerated, enter the workforce.

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Japan’s Akatsuki to invest in Web3 startups with $20M funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Akatsuki , a Japanese entertainment corporation, announced the launch of Emoote , a $20-million fund focusing on Web3 investing. Emoote, based in Singapore , plans to invest in Asia, which is seen as a key market for Web3 companies. The company, however, stated that it will maintain a “global perspective” and that it is searching for Web3 companies that can partner with Jap

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Weekly #7: Gaining the clients you want

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: What it takes to make $100K from freelance work (hint: it’s no get-rich-quick scheme) Building MVPs to avoid creating stuff that doesn’t sell Recovering from failure to gain massive clients Using empathy as a competitive advantage How to make $100K from freelancing Carter Kilmann has been freelancing for nearly 3 years, and last

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Creating a place of belonging follow up

GCUC

Big shout out to Cat Johnson for hosting a Coworking Convo about creating a place of belonging last week. She had some amazing speakers. The post Creating a place of belonging follow up 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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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

TechCrunch

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. At least, not at first. The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. But when he was struck by the urge to start a company, he researched the money-attracting industries of the world, and then, using AngelList, saw how many compa

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Last day to join K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Today, May 31, 2022, Tuesday, is the last day for startups to apply for the biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government – K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) 2022. The program, which is also supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), is organised by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA).

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This Is How The Highest-Performing Cofounding Teams Create Efficient Conversations (and Reduce…

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Practicing this framework helps founding teams focus on desired outcomes rather than getting stuck in chaotic discussions. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Seraf Toolbox: Sample Board Meeting Minutes for Early Stage Companies

The Seraf Compass

Dealing with board minutes can be a bit of a chore, but they must be an important one given how much attention is paid to them. If we are going to be involved in startup boards, we need to get grounded in the basics. This article provides an overview of what board minutes are and why they are so important, including a downloadable template.

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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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Berlin-based B2B BNPL platform Mondu raises $43M Series A led by Valar in the US

TechCrunch

Given the likely global recession, small businesses are reaching for new kinds of financing. Thus, the buy now, pay later business model is now expanding into this B2B world at a rate of knots. Playter has raised backing to do this, as has Hokodo, Billie and Tranch, to name a few other players. But in Germany, B2B Payments company Mondu has emerged as a significant entrant to the market.

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Valor Equity Partners leads $20m Series B funding in alt data insights startup Synaptic

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Synaptic , a leading alternative data insights start-up, announced the successful closure of $20 million in Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners. Synaptic combines the best of technology, machine learning, and finance to bring sophisticated alternative data insights to decision-makers.

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Rejecting Capital From Investors (Even Sharks) Can Sometimes Pay Off

Entrepreneur's Handbook

To take funding or not to take funding — that is the question Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How To GUARANTEE You Have A Million Dollar Business Idea

OkDork

Over the last 20 years, I’ve launched 23 companies. Many failed, 4 did alright, and 1 of them is currently making close to $100M/year! In the process, I wasted a lot of money and time in exchange for some expensive lessons. In this post, I go over the proven process I use to test the business ideas that save me (and now, you) tens of thousands of dollars, as well as years of working on the wrong business idea.

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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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Daily Crunch: Tesla shares drop after leaked CEO email reveals hiring freeze, plans to cut 10% of staff

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Fri-yay the 3rd of June 2022. Or, as this cursed pandemic is still doing its thing, perhaps it’s March 824, 2020, who knows. Whatever is happening in your world, we hope that you are experiencing peace and that you know the source of peace.

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Singapore edtech GIFT.ed gets $1m from IMC Pan Asia Alliance

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register IMC Pan Asia Alliance has invested $1 million in GIFT.ed , a new Singapore-incorporated edtech firm from the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT). The company, also announced that it has engaged a CEO with two previous exits and is growing its personnel and platform.

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The Dark Side of Curiosity in Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Shedding light on innovation blockers Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Video: Womensphere Capital Forum

David Teten VC

Womensphere has now posted the video from the first Womensphere Capital Forum , which I was honored to co-chair. We discuss advancing women’s leadership in finance and investment, and expanding capital access for women in business. Given I have 3 daughters plus a wife working in finance, this topic is close to my heart. Our speakers included: Aidan Madigan-Curtis – Partner, Eclipse Ventures.

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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.