Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MARCH 9, 2020
By Elise Kemp. As a young leader and changemaker, you should make sure that the goals you have worked so hard to achieve also align with the management of your finances. When it comes to financial goals, most of us know what we would ideally like to reach, but not many of us know how to set a specific financial trajectory for a frontier we have not yet pioneered.
OurCrowd
MARCH 9, 2020
As the global community comes together to combat the coronavirus, our thoughts are with those directly and indirectly affected. Israel has taken an active role in trying to prevent the spread of the virus and has reduced potential exposure in various ways. Read here how Israeli research groups are hard at work on a vaccine. OurCrowd is maintaining close contact with our portfolio and network to provide guidance in navigating this crisis.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 13, 2020
Submited by James McKelvey. McKelvey is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, philanthropist and artist. He is also the cofounder of Square, a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California. In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective.
Venture Well
MARCH 10, 2020
Universities are not merely places for learning about the problems created by our waste stream—they are places for demonstrating real-world solutions. The post from cast-off to startup: using the waste stream in the classroom appeared first on VentureWell.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 7, 2020
For all my friends who kindly track the progress of my ventures, I have a short update :). Launch413 (the post-accelerator) – We’ve invested in 13 companies in just under 3 years, expanded our team of kick-ass Venture Advisors, and are starting to see some real results from our top companies. It is still early days, but the model seems to be scaling and our ability to deliver impact is growing.
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 11, 2020
Contributed by Cory Treffiletti, global head of marketing at Cisco Webex. In decades past, it was common for a young athlete to look to the bleachers after an incredible play—only to find an empty space where a parent should have been. Work was demanding, and it wasn’t exactly acceptable to dip out of work at 3:30 pm to catch your kid’s soccer game.
500
MARCH 10, 2020
Esports continues to be a leader in advancing media technology, yet the gaming community continues to struggle in creating a singular hub for viewers to check out all their favorite games and for there to be a singular hub for gaming education. With the market as large as ever and continuing to grow, Batch 26 companies Gamerzclass and Juked are working towards creating the next big hubs in esports.
Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 10, 2020
Building a business with real profits, good jobs and sustainable growth takes time, as Charles Fred, TrueSpace founder and CEO, knows. As a successful serial entrepreneur, he has experienced firsthand the difficulties associated with leading a business through the startup stage to post-startup and finally mid-market. Motivated by the desire to understand the systemic reasons keeping businesses from scaling , Fred spent four years conducting an ethnographic study whose conclusions helped define a
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 11, 2020
What could happen to the fundraising market in the coronavirus era where organizers cancel events, the financial markets suffer from a bear market, and there is a lot of uncertainty? The most recent event to use as an analogy is the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008, I had just joined the venture industry, and then Lehman fell. So this was a bit of a trip down memory lane.
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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.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 7, 2020
Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is proud to support International Women’s Day (IWD), which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. With robust female-focused initiatives and a longstanding history of empowering women leaders , EO upholds the mission of this global program every day. Terry Segerberg (pictured at left) is an EO member in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fink About It
MARCH 10, 2020
The cannabis industry has been regarded, for good reason, as one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. And while the potential for this fledgling industry remains immense, it met some significant challenges in the second half of 2019. A problematic Q3 and Q4, which saw a significant correction for publicly traded cannabis companies, resulted in [.].
Berkonomics
MARCH 12, 2020
Reduce the emotion; reduce the threat of lawsuit. You’ve certainly experienced the angry outburst from an associate or employee who has just learned of an event that the person took as “unfair,” no matter how rational the explanation by the decision maker. Most emotional responses to decisions in business are generated not because the person making the response feels the decision was unwise, but rather unfair.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 8, 2020
Recently, we welcomed Lisa Lawson to SaaS Office Hours to talk about building a channel go-to-market strategy for SaaS companies. Lisa built the channel at Optimizely, which accounted for a meaningful fraction of new business. I learned quite a bit from the sessions with the five companies who attended the one-on-one sessions. Here are my notes. Where to Start.
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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.
Impact Hub
MARCH 13, 2020
How Impact Hub Belgrade supports its members. As a team, we are dedicated to supporting and developing the Serbian innovation ecosystem. We support change-makers who come from different backgrounds and are carrying-out various missions all while hosting a diverse network of experts who take on the role of mentors, educators, and investors. This is part of broader efforts to contribute to the creation of a paying-it-forward culture.
EntreWorks Consulting
MARCH 10, 2020
In recent years, many states and communities have embraced food systems and ag/food sector development as core economic development strategies. This is a field with lots of innovation and creativity underway, but one of my favorite efforts has been Vermont’s Farm to Plate programming. This effort kicked off in 2009, and, since then, a wide and deep statewide network has been pushing goals of supporting sustainable economic development, improving soil and environmental quality, and ensuring tha
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
MARCH 8, 2020
By Ana Gonzalez. Stress about your finances can be all-consuming. You might feel it when discovering you’ve lost your wallet out in public, or when receiving an unexpected bill, or upon realizing there is not enough money in your savings account to deal with an emergency. Often, this stress comes from upcoming financial situations or other financial hardships, and it can cause many problems, such as anxiety, trouble sleeping, depression, feelings of guilt and a sense of loss of personal control.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
MARCH 8, 2020
By Scott Meacham. Successful startups are all about vision and passion and great ideas. They are also about attaining metrics that lead to positive cashflow and attract investment. When it comes to metrics, the customer growth story from SendaRide, a young Oklahoma company that provides customized, concierge, non-emergency medical transportation, packs a punch.
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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
Impact Hub
MARCH 10, 2020
Smog in the Balkans, Bushfires in Australia and warm water in Antarctica. The future of our planet is becoming more uncertain and less avoidable with every natural disaster that occurs. The world’s population is living beyond its means and the looming reality of resource scarcity is making our current economic models unsustainable. By 2030, global demand for water will increase by 40% and for energy by 50%.
OurCrowd
MARCH 13, 2020
Radiologex announced this week that it has partnered with Trusona, the pioneering leader of passwordless authentication, for its new all-inclusive software for medical doctors, healthcare professionals and healthcare companies. Radiologex(R) or RDEE for short, pronounced [AR-Dee], is the world’s first and only one-stop software ecosystem exclusively for the healthcare industry, powered by blockchain technology, and now protected by the highest level of security.
Dream It
MARCH 13, 2020
Let’s get started by restating an important lesson from our last Dreamit Dose on How to End Your Pitch with Vision. Remember: your exit strategy does not equal your vision. Founders need to understand and articulate the difference because both terms have distinct meanings. Vision is important because it helps early-stage investors understand your key milestones and ultimately where your venture is headed.
The Seraf Compass
MARCH 11, 2020
In this article we are going to take a close look at the individual term sheet provisions and make sense of them by assigning them to the categories where they belong: Deal Economics; Investor Rights/Protection; Governance, Management & Control; and Exits/Liquidity. We’ll do this primarily from the investor perspective.
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
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MARCH 10, 2020
Tech:NYC , NYC’s tech industry association (which I co-chair), has launched a daily email digest for the tech sector to keep up with the latest COVID-19 developments in NYC. Here is the first daily email that went out yesterday afternoon. You can sign up for it here. If you are leading a company right now, it is hard to know exactly what to do and when to do it.
OurCrowd
MARCH 13, 2020
Lemonade is the New York-based insurtech that uses artificial intelligence, chatbots and other innovative technologies to disrupt the home and rental insurance sectors. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in FinTech] Top 10 cutting-edge home and rental insurtechs appeared first on OurCrowd.
500
MARCH 9, 2020
Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by Noteh Strauss. All views and opinions represented in this post are the views and opinions of Strauss and do not represent those of 500 Startups or any of its staff or affiliates. As a designer with my own agency and a mentor to dozens of Silicon Valley startups, I’ve come across my fair share of design challenges.
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