Entrepreneurs' Organization
JUNE 24, 2022
Contributed to EO by Chris Warburton of EO Detroit, who is the founder of both Balanced Home Care and his passion project, Lily Hospice. We’re all born, and we all die. We celebrate the day of our birth each year, even though we don’t remember our birth. However, death is something we all know will happen, and many people are alert and oriented right until the moment life ends.
Revolution
JUNE 21, 2022
Last month, we gathered more than 150 investors across 42 states with more than $180 billion in assets under management to explore new frontiers in regional investment. Our inaugural Beyond Silicon Valley Summit was timely for several reasons. First, 2022 marked ten years of Rise of the Rest?—?a decade-long commitment to closing the funding gap between coastal tech hubs and rising cities, creating a more inclusive entrepreneurial future.
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The Seraf Compass
JUNE 22, 2022
This profile is the third in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Peter Adams is a Colorado-based author, investor, speaker, educator and community leader.
TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2022
For nearly all fintech startups, lending has long been the end game. A notice from India’s central bank this week has thrown a wrench into the ecosystem, scrutinizing just who all can lend. The Reserve Bank of India has informed dozens of fintech startups that it is barring the practice of loading non-bank prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) — prepaid cards, for instance — using credit lines, in a move that has prompted panic among — and existential threat to — many fintech startups and caused so
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 22, 2022
For web3 startups to thrive, their marketing teams will need to spend marketing dollars to acquire users efficiently. Existing marketing technology won’t work for web3. Web2 marketing employs the cookie as the primary identifier of a person, not a wallet. There’s no bridge between web2 & web3 data, yet. The behavioral patterns in web3 differ driven by anonymity, communication patterns on discord and telegram, and the consequences of using tokens as user acquisition, as governance
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Andreessen Horowitz
JUNE 21, 2022
On behalf of a16z, I am thrilled to welcome Joe Morrissey as a General Partner to the a16z Growth team. Joe will focus on investing in enterprise companies—from the moment they’ve found product-market fit, all the way through to when … The post Joe Morrissey appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
JUNE 24, 2022
The news that funding for Black founders is falling was no shock to the Black community, much of which was raised with the aphorism, “when white America catches a cold, Black America gets pneumonia.” U.S. startups received VC funding of around $75 billion in Q1 and about $50 billion so far in Q2, despite investors pulling back and valuations decreasing as the markets trend downward.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 19, 2022
OUCH. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 21, 2022
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: Approaching the funding raising process from a VCs point of view The future of cryptocurrency in 2022 Is your side hustle profitable or a waste of time? Let’s get to it. A founder’s guide to startup due diligence What are your chances of actually getting funded by a top VC?
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Smart Hustle Magazine
JUNE 21, 2022
Running a business successfully takes accurate planning and forecasting. It’s normal to have the number of clients you service fluctuate over time and for business to come in surges and spurts. Some industries are busier at specific times of the year and find recurring downtimes that fit predictable patterns. In others, however, what’s hot one moment, and not the next, can be difficult to foresee.
TechCrunch
JUNE 22, 2022
Thepeer , an African tech infrastructure startup connecting businesses’ wallets, has raised a $2.1 million seed round led by the Raba Partnership. The news comes a year after the startup raised $220,000 in pre-seed from a handful of angel investors, including Paystack CTO Ezra Olubi and Edenlife CTO Prosper Otemuyiwa. Participating investors in Thepeer’s seed round include RaliCap, Timon Capital, BYLD Ventures, Musha Ventures, Sunu and Uncovered Fund.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 20, 2022
When Aileen Lee published “Welcome to the Unicorn Club” - the article that coined the word unicorn for a $1b startup - the average public SaaS company commanded a market cap of $1.5b. I remember thinking a $1b M&A or IPO was so rare an investor might hope to achieve it once or twice in a career. Fewer than 15 SaaS companies traded on public exchanges then.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 21, 2022
There are hundreds of accelerators, but do they actually help? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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.
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 22, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register East Ventures, UOB Venture Management, Vertex Ventures SE Asia & India (VVSEAI), and RHL Ventures led the $29 million Series B fundraising round for RPG Commerce , Southeast Asia’s leading Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) social e-commerce platform.
TechCrunch
JUNE 22, 2022
Israeli startup Wilco describes itself as “an immersive upskilling platform for software developers,” and snuck out of stealth this week with its first public version, and a stash-box with $7 million worth of fresh seed funding. It’s just weird enough that it’s the kind of thing I completely love. The problem the company is trying to solve, is the bewildering array of options available to a freshly minted, wet behind the ears software developer.
Tomasz Tunguz
JUNE 21, 2022
Yesterday, Office Hours welcomed Lee Kirkpatrick , former CFO at Twilio to share his experiences managing through three different recessions: the dotcom era, the Global Financial Crisis, and today. Lee headed finance for the company from $15m in ARR to more than $1b. In addition, Lee shared his view on usage-based pricing and defending a startup’s great asset, talent, from poaching during the next recovery.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 20, 2022
Are you ready for what’s coming next? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 20, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Government-sponsored Startup Studio Indonesia (SSI), an initiative for early-stage entrepreneurs, formally began registration for the Batch 5 program. The intensive program, designed by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kominfo), intends to help and progress early-stage digital entrepreneurs to achieve product-market fit.
TechCrunch
JUNE 23, 2022
Steve Sloane. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. More posts by this contributor. Software’s meteoric rise: Have VCs gone too far? The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. Derek Xiao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage.
GCUC
JUNE 21, 2022
ICYMI: GCUC NA took place in Seattle last month and brought together hundreds of owners, operators, vendors and workplace enthusiasts alike. It was an. The post GCUC is back and headed to London appeared first on GCUC Community.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 23, 2022
Learn from experts with Nearly 10 million subscribers Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guests are Mark Tilbury and Curtis Tilbury who run multiple businesses and make millions of dollars per year. They built the Mark Tilbury brand which has 7 million TikTok subscribers, over 1 million on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands elsewhere.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
AsiaTechDaily
JUNE 22, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. The said category honors individuals who are using technology to improve various industries, including the logistics and supply chain sector, which has been booming during the Covid-19 online-order
TechCrunch
JUNE 22, 2022
Strapi , an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product, Strapi Cloud, while bringing in additional tech and solution partners and further developing the Strapi project.
OurCrowd
JUNE 20, 2022
OurCrowd, a leading global securities crowdfunding platform, has partnered with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) in the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) program, according to a statement issued by OurCrowd. The goal is to boost international collaboration between the two countries to increase investment as well as support innovative private firms.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JUNE 24, 2022
Is your idea good enough to become successful and change people’s lives? All images by the author It’s great if a brilliant idea hits you in the middle of the night or while you’re standing in line. But is your idea good enough to become successful and change people’s lives? There is no “one universal” definition of a startup. But we define a startup as a newly formed business that wants to develop a product or service for which they believe there is demand.
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