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Redefining ‘founder-friendly’ capital in the post-FTX era

TechCrunch

Blair Silverberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Blair Silverberg is co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital , a financial services company using technology to accelerate the fundraising process. More posts by this contributor. The right questions to ask investors when fundraising in a down market. 8 steps for building a financial model to calculate your fundraising needs.

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How to Pitch Like a Pro, Even if You Aren’t

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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How To Name Your LLC: 14 LLC Naming Tips

Startup Blogpost

From incorporating an entity type to Googling possible business names first, here are the 14 answers to the question, “What are some helpful tips for naming an LLC?” Include the Entity Type. Pick a Company Name With an Available Domain Name. Find a Name That Conveys the Purpose or Mission. Consider Using Keywords. Keep It Simple to Pronounce.

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Why now is the ideal time to learn from your successes

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Brooke Lively, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth. Brooke is founder and president of Cathedral Capital , which provides strategic financial advice to drive profit by creating customized teams of financial professionals to analyze data trends and guide entrepreneurs through their numbers so they can predictably scale and grow their businesses.

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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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A $30B Software Company from a $15m Investment

Tomasz Tunguz

Constellation Software is a $30b+ publicly-traded software holding company employing more than 25,000. A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. Vertical software companies pursue a particular market segment like car dealership management or hotel management software.

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Singapore’s Alchemy Foodtech raises $3m to fund new market developments

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Singapore -based food innovation company Alchemy Foodtech announced that it raised $3 million in a recent funding round. In a statement, Alchemy Foodtech said the investments will allow them to pursue the next stage of development in markets locally and overseas.

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What Might You Bring Into Existence in the New Year?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Brian Kight, an entrepreneur, coach, keynote speaker and EO member in Colorado. Brian is the founder of Daily Discipline , through which he shares powerful mindsets and explores personal skills that help accelerate the path to achieving your biggest priorities. In his work as a coach, he helps teams simplify and execute on leadership, culture and discipline.

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Can a VC Think Like a Startup? That’s Part of Homebrew’s Goal in Switching to Our Own Capital.

Hunter Walk

Why Investing Our Savings Instead of Other People’s Money Let Us Rethink What Venture Capital PMF Looks Like in the Decade Ahead. [Part Two]. a group of happy bees, digital art [DALLE-E]. According to the physical rules of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly, but it doesn’t know that, so it does. The same can be said of startups and their founders, in the sense that so many things can go wrong in the building of a company to an exit, that success almost seems to be a stati

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Y Combinator-backed Poly uses AI to generate art assets

TechCrunch

As generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 attract investor attention, startup entrepreneurs are looking to cash in with new business models built around them. One of the more interesting ventures to emerge from the space recently is Poly, which lets designers create video game and other virtual assets, including textures for 3D models, using only text prompts.

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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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Centbee raises $1m in pre-Series A funding round led by Ayre Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. The additional investment from Ayre Group will enable the company to scale and grow as well as strengthen its technical and operating capacities.

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Clues: How to think like a growth CEO

Berkonomics

Growth CEOs differ from those who merely station–keep their way into the status quo, protecting the enterprise by reducing risk and cost – without creating a vision and action plan for growth. Here is how to test yourself. Here is a way to test yourself with a tool useful for any leader seeking to create positive change. Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review.

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The Time-Sucking Trap: How Small Tasks Can Derail Your Startup’s Success

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Startup founders — every minute counts. Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash As a startup founder, you know that every minute counts. Every decision you make and every task you tackle has the potential to impact the success of your business. However, it’s easy to get bogged down in the small tasks and details that can take up significant amounts of time and resources.

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High-growth startups should start de-risking their path to IPO now

TechCrunch

Carl Niedbala. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Carl Niedbala is COO and co-founder of Founder Shield, a commercial insurance broker. High-growth companies often set significant goals, knowing full well that the idea of “overnight success” is for the storybooks. However, there is no better time than the middle of a market downturn to start planning for the leap from a private to a public company.

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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.

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Dubai-based TD VC launches $100m Web3 ‘special situation’ fund

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register TradeDog Group, the parent company of TD VC that is based in Dubai in the UAE, has announced the launch of their $100M Web3 “special situation” fund that will be allocated in projects with good products and businesses with struggling token markets.

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He Built a Million Dollar Business by the Age of 21 (w/ Chandler Bolt)

OkDork

                                        . Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to Chandler Bolt, CEO of Self-Publishing School & SelfPublishing.com. Chandler was a REALLY fun guest to talk to. He is full of energy and has a lot of insights for people that are just starting out on their entrepreneurial journey.

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How to Create Profitable Courses With the Cheapest Tools (Like These 6-Figure Creators)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Your permission to ban perfectionism, launch faster, and increase ROI. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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5 promising fusion startups that aren’t unicorns — yet

TechCrunch

The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked one of fusion power’s biggest challenges — successfully getting more energy out of a controlled fusion reaction than they had put in. Fusion power, which has always seemed like science fiction and just about as plausible, suddenly took a very tangible step toward reality.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Tata Communications acquires The Switch Enterprises to gain strong foothold in US media, entertainment market

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, has publicly announced that it entered into a definitive agreement, through its wholly owned international subsidiary Tata Communications (Netherlands) B.V., to acquire The Switch Enterprises LLC.

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NFT Tax Lost Harvesting, George Carlin, Living Colour and More: Seven Links To Read (12/30/22)

Hunter Walk

Some link-blogging for the last Friday of the year. Enjoy! a happy monkey reading a book in the style of calder [DALL-E]. The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin (NYT) — Dave Itzkoff. Certain types of humor can be timeless and Carlin, despite having died in 2088, gets recirculated for his incisiveness. Itzkoff looks at why both side of the political spectrum have embraced (some might say co-opted) the comedian’s takes.

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Seraf Toolbox: How to Conduct an Effective CEO Performance Review

The Seraf Compass

In a previous post, we discuss ways in which a board can help make a CEO successful. One of the best ways to facilitate the CEO’s future growth and success is by providing her with an annual review detailing how she is doing in the job. It is the responsibility of the board to conduct this review since the board is responsible for hiring and firing the CEO.

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Recall.ai helps companies make the most of virtual meeting data

TechCrunch

For organizations that do a good chunk of their work through virtual meetings, simply hitting record or taking notes isn’t enough to capture everything that’s said. Some build their own meeting integrations to capture data, but that’s time-intensive and costly. Recall.ai helps with a unified API that currently works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Team, and can be used to build apps that (among other use cases) automatically fill out CRMs or prompt customer reps during support calls.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Regional healthtech Doctor Anywhere acquires Asian Healthcare Specialists

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register After it successfully earned $38.8 million from Series C1 of its funding round, Doctor Anywhere (DA) has announced its acquisition of Catalist-listed Asian Healthcare Specialists (SGX:1J3), an integrated healthcare provider in Singapore.

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2022 Was The Year We Decided To Not Raise Another Venture Capital Fund. What Happened Next.

Hunter Walk

When Homebrew Started Investing Its Own Money, The Reaction From Our Venture Capital Peers Surprised Me [Part One]. During the last several years venture firms approached fundraising like trips to an All-You-Can Eat buffet: fast, frequent, and without regards for the digestive impact. As they piled more LPs into more fund vehicles, and then deployed that capital faster than ever, it’s not a surprise that everyone involved is now dealing with the after-effects of a decade-long gorge. a buffet of

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The Huge Downsides of Quitting Your Job to Make Money Online

Entrepreneur's Handbook

(That no one talks about out of fear) Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Despite myriad flaws, US remains top spot for Black startup founders seeking VC dollars

TechCrunch

Despite, well, everything, the U.S. is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money. The check sizes are bigger, the market more mature, the ambition oversized. There are more funds, more options, more opportunities, more, more, more. It’s quite easy to harp on the dismal funding and often discriminatory treatment that Black founders receive in the U.S.

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The Startup Funding Gap

This resource discusses the gap between early funding from friends/family and the more substantial rounds from angel groups and VCs. Why does this gap exist and what can be done about it?