Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Contributed by Amanda Ma, founder and CEO of Innovate Marketing Group and EO Los Angeles member. As entrepreneurs, we go through ups and downs all the time. These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. I am an avid entrepreneur and have now been in the events industry for 15 years. In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Rebranding and expanding your target audience with a social business expert from Brazil. By Shannon Courtney. With the challenges presented to entrepreneurs and their businesses during the pandemic, it is crucial, now more than ever, to utilize this time as a moment of professional growth and self-reflection on the branding and marketing efforts of businesses.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We started looking at crypto ten years ago, starting investing nine years ago, and have had a front-row seat to its development ever since. It has been enlightening, exciting, rewarding, but definitely not mainstream. I think that is changing quickly now and yesterday I saw this tweet: BREAKING: The @NBA and @Coinbase have announced a multiyear partnership that makes Coinbase the exclusive cryptocurrency platform partner of the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and USA Basketball.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As the diligence process proceeds towards conclusion, thoughts naturally turn to the terms of the deal. Regardless of whether there is an existing term sheet to review, or a need to negotiate and establish a set of terms for the deal, thought needs to be given to the terms of the deal. Just like the various risks reviewed in diligence, deal terms can have a huge impact on the outcome of an investment.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Learning how to adapt is the reality of any successful business, but COVID-19 was perhaps the ultimate stress test. In a matter of days, businesses in industries such as travel, entertainment and hospitality came to a grinding halt due to lockdowns. Many companies couldn’t withstand the shock of the pandemic and the economic havoc it wrought. And in the first year of the pandemic, the US Federal Reserve estimates that 200,000 more businesses shut down than usual.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Organizations that have made the leap into using big data to drive their business are increasingly looking for better, more efficient ways to share data with others without compromising privacy and data protection laws, and that is ushering in a rush of technologists building a number of new approaches to fill that need. In the latest development, a startup called TripleBlind — which has devised a way to encrypt data so that it can be shared without ever being decrypted or even leaving the

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

By Les Pardew, founder of Mystery Escape Room. Many businesses are struggling to find the best way to move forward as some employees return to the workplace while others will continue to work at home or a combination of both. A Gartner Inc. survey finds one-third of business leaders are most concerned with maintaining corporate culture while 13% worry about providing parity between the remote and in-office workers.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Finance teams worldwide emerged as strategic leaders for startups with the onset of the pandemic by recognizing ways to efficiently manage remote teams, their finances, company operations and associated cost-cutting mechanisms. Now more than ever, as the remote work landscape continues to change , startup leaders need to reevaluate whether they’ve enabled their finance teams enough to scale the excellent work. .

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 21, 2021

YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches. We now have enough data to identify some interesting trends among our co-founder profiles and matches.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most FMCG brands rely on a combination of owned and outsourced assets to carry out delivery operations. The variety of both models brings about a fragmented logistics cycle and FMCGs can lose significant value in the process. ILLA is an Egyptian startup that provides full-stack delivery solutions to corporates and small businesses in the FMCG sector.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic forced businesses to reinvent themselves to survive and thrive in difficult times. So, there is no surprise that more and more businesses went online during the pandemic. According to Recovery Insights: Small Business Reset report prepared by Mastercard Economics Institute, the number of SMB offering online products/services tripled between the pre-pandemic era and 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every cloud has a silver lining. With a bit of creativity, you can transform a crisis into an opportunity. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Once a startup has successfully launched, it can move onto the scaling phase. This can be a perilous time for a fledgling company, with only 1 in 200 startups becoming successful scaleups. There are many reasons for this fairly low success rate. For example, a startup’s product could be inadequate, failing to address its target market’s actual needs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Building usable models to run AI algorithms requires not just adequate data to train systems, but also the right hardware subsequently to run them. But because the theoretical and practical are often not the same thing, there is often a gap between what data scientists may hope to do and what they practically do. Today, a startup called Deci that has built a deep learning platform to help bridge that gap — by building models that can work with the data and hardware that are available to us

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We believe the 2020s are the decade of data. The trends are ubiquitous and plain. The number of data teams is growing as more companies rely on data for daily operations. In addition, the sophistication of these teams has progressed meaningfully in the last five years. During this period, there have been three main categories of data work: business intelligence, machine learning, and exploratory analytics.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab (NASDAQ: GTLB), a SaaS platform for DevOps, completed a successful public listing on October 14, 2021. We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You are setting up your business and have a million problems to worry about. Languishing toward the bottom of your painfully long to-do list are the words “privacy policy for website.” You plan to find a precedent online at some point and use that for now. After all, nobody actually reads privacy policies, right? Data protection compliance can seem like a tick-box exercise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The decentralized reality of office work after the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive plenty of startup activity. To wit: OfficeRnD , which makes workplace management software that’s increasingly geared toward helping businesses provide a “hybrid office” model — meaning they’re offering flexible work spaces to staff who want to spend some of their time working out of a shared physical location, not just dial in and work remotely from home.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2021

By Jon Fasoli, VP and Segment Leader, Small Business and Self-Employed Group at Intuit. Financial forecasting can be the lifeblood of your business, especially if you want happy employees, a content landlord, and more opportunities to grow. And part of that involves keeping a watchful eye on your cash flow. Money coming in is great but, as most business owners will tell you, a lot of money goes out too.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Amazon, Facebook & Microsoft all use the same approach Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Recent events have caused major shifts in how we work. Now, more than ever, businesses are rethinking what it means to be productive. Gone are the days where working more hours was the key to success. Instead, if you want your business to grow, you need to prioritize productivity over hours worked. Here are five ways you can do it in your business. Working more isn’t better.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work. The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. But “remote” has taken on a different meaning than it denoted two years ago. Since COVID-19 began, companies that never planned on working remotely have moved millions of employees online.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With funding support from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners has launched a Job Link initiative to help companies in Central and Northern PA find talent. We plan to create ‘win-win’ opportunities for local talent to find relevant meaningful job opportunities that match company needs. Ben Franklin’s Job Link AIMS to create a talent pipeline that connects students, graduates and alumni to area technology and manufacturing companies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2021

4 lessons I learned the long way Husna Miskandar on Unsplash Some entrepreneurs are so lost in their bubble that they can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to be like them. How could anyone want to be a slave to an evil boss? Yet these same people want to grow their businesses which requires them to hire. They need to manage the same people who they think are beneath them.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Most businesses need to continuously innovate to stay relevant in the marketplace. With such intense focus on innovation, businesses naturally seek to patent their inventions to avoid infringement by other parties. But there’s an alternative: trade secrets. Getting a patent is a very time-consuming and costly process. In niches such as tech, where first mover advantage can make or break businesses, one generally does not have the leeway to go through a long process.

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