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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

Professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong Continue reading on 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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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to spin up an investing network from scratch as a first-time founder

TechCrunch

Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you don’t happen to be part of a social or economic circle where striking up early conversations with potential investors is a no-brainer. We recently sat down with three VCs who have also been founders to talk about different ways founders can approach this problem, how to land that first term sheet and what that term sheet should contain.

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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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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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[Theranica in PRWeb] AHN neurologists explore innovative treatment for migraine headaches

OurCrowd

Neurologists at Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Headache Center are among the first in the region to begin offering patients who suffer from migraines access to an innovative new therapy called remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) to better manage their headaches without medications. Read more here. The post [Theranica in PRWeb] AHN neurologists explore innovative treatment for migraine headaches appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Adin ross again using content to get rich and famous. A case study.

Founder Bounty

Adin Ross, who is worth now over 30M$ part of the creator economy who got famous with his podcasst with andrew tate. He regularly posts on his twitch Chanel. best known for streaming NBA 2K20 and GTA V. Adin ross comes from a wealthy part of Boca Roton, Florida. He did not come from a poor family and so had the resources time and effort to get started.

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Daily Crunch: What’s around the corner for the EV market in 2023?

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. Greetings, readers. As Haje and Christine told you last week, this week’s Daily Crunch will look a bit different, given they are both taking some time off. But you’ll still get some TC tidbits during this typically slow news week.

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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.