Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Putting on your mask first: knowing when to spend as a first-time founder. “Be scrappy” is great advice for most founders, but for first-generation and minority founders, it’s often the wrong advice — and one of the most challenging things I had to unlearn when I built my first company. Of the many lessons that come with entrepreneurship, learning how to spend as a first-time founder was brutal.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The process of acquiring venture capital can stir up quite a few emotions in an early-stage founder: Excitement. Fear. A sense of doing something incredibly important. The incredible degree of pressure in knowing that you need this money to be successful. However, as many founders have discovered, chasing that venture capital funding can be incredibly time-consuming, expensive, and frustrating.

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Venture Well

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sarah Wharmby offers advice for early-stage innovators on developing and maintaining mentor relationships. The post Sarah Says: How To Find the Right Mentor appeared first on VentureWell.

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In CYA: Liability Insurance for Directors we talked about some high-level concepts relating to Directors & Officers insurance. Here we are going to go into a bit more detail. This will get you well-grounded, but as we noted previously, there is no substitute for a good D&O broker to help you wade through your options. Without the help of a broker, it is very easy to pay more money for a lesser policy, when, with some help, you could have purchased better coverage for your needs for less money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Kittu Kolluri Contributor Share on Twitter Kittu Kolluri is the founder and managing director of Neotribe Ventures , which focuses on strategic investments in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. More posts by this contributor Reimagining The Network For A Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Silicon Valley dreams of unicorns.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Request for proposals seeks to support nonprofits leading groundbreaking food security projects Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS) found through their recent study that the estimated impact of malnutrition on the global economy reaches as high as $3.5 trillion per year. The study also found the primary causes to be record high food prices and other macro-economic factors that result in civil unrest, global displacement and more.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Since February 2022, the UN High Commission on Refugees reports that nearly 14 million people have been displaced from their homes in Ukraine—most of them seeking safety and shelter in other countries. More than 9 million of them crossed the border into Poland alone. Dawid Adach, a co-founder of technology company MDBootstrap and former EO Poland president from 2021-22, partnered with fellow EO members Szymon Boniecki, Jakub Szalaty and many others across Europe and North America to fundraise, c

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”. It would be fair to say that TechCrunch can only concur with this sentiment.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Chinese government has selected MY EG Services Bhd’s (MYEG) blockchain infrastructure Zetrix to be a component of its government-to-government collaborative research programme that is set to lead to commercialisation. It said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia that Zetrix, a layer-1 public platform developed by MYEG, is the international super node for China’s national blockchain Xing

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Salt Lake City, UT – Gauge , an online auction for dealers to buy vehicles directly from consumers, announced today that it closed an oversubscribed $5.3 million seed round led by Maniv Mobility, with participation from other mobility and marketplace investors including Proeza Ventures and FJ Labs. Gauge will use this round to expand into new cities while continuing to build its technology.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

An Economic Vehicle With a Societal Mandate, Screendoor Backs Emerging Managers from Underrepresented Groups My hope for Screendoor is clear, if not simple: we’re going to be the largest, and most impactful, investor in emerging managers. Our strategy for accomplishing this is to focus on new firms led primarily by underrepresented VCs, back them meaningfully, and support them via a community of peers, advisors, and institutional LPs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Soylent Nutrition is joining public company Starco Brands as part of an acquisition that will keep the plant-based food technology company operating as a separate unit under its current CEO Demir Vangelov. As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Turno , an India-based platform for commercial electric vehicle (EV) distribution and financing, has raised $13.8 million in Series A that it could use to build a proprietary battery tech platform that will address issues on end-of-life battery value.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

When do you sell your company? Obviously, we all want to sell at the top. And there is the problem. How do you know when you are at or near that right point to sell for maximum value? Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. We hang on just a little bit longer, expecting continued or accelerating growth and value as in previous periods of the same.

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OkDork

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Bill Gates net worth is $107 billion dollars as of 2023, and even though it fluctuates depending on how certain stocks perform, he’s still one of the RICHEST people alive. When I was 21, I went to Bill Gates’s house (and I peed in his bathroom. True story). It was INSANE (his house was—not peeing in his bathroom… but that was cool too). And I asked him the ONE question I had always wanted to know the answer to… “If you saw a dollar bill on the ground, is it worth your time to pick it up?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. When most people think of venture capitalists, they often think of investors, the people writing checks to fund startups. But that image is only one part of venture capital. In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register SwipeRx’s plan to expand its Business (B2B) commerce platform for the pharmaceutical industry in key markets in Southeast Asia received a boost after it earned additional funding of $10 million from its Series B2 round. This round saw the participation of marquee investors such as global pharma Sanofi’s Global Health Unit and Cercano Management (formerly Microsoft co-founder Paul

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Learn from the founder of MGMT Accelerator Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

North East England will be promoted as the premier location for electrification technologies and international investment at one of the leading international Electric Vehicle (EV) trade shows. Read more here. The post [Connected Energy in Highways News] Companies join forces to accelerate roll out of EV charging appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Audience Choice results are in, which begs the question, could we BE more excited to share this news? No, we could not. Out of hundreds of applications, we curated 10 breakout sessions and 10 roundtable discussions. Your mission? Vote for the topics you want to see live and in person at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Malaysia-based marketing technology startup Involve Asia has announced raising $10 million in an investment round led by Bintang Capital Partners. The investment was made through Bintang’s maiden fund, BCP Asia Fund I, according to the announcement.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A two-man show that created a fintech SaaS enterprise with diligence, sweat and tears — a story without sugar coating. cover by finstack.app When my co-founder and I started finstack.app, we were two individuals with a visionary mindset, driven to achieve what was previously thought to be unrealistic. We were pretty unimpressed by pre-existing solutions and focused on addressing a problem that we had personally encountered.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

TEL AVIV, Israel and VIENNA, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Innoviz Technologies (Nasdaq: INVZ) (the “Company” or “Innoviz”), a technology leader of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, and General Laser, a leading European provider of products and services in the fields of lasers, robotics, special machinery and more, today announced their collaboration to drive sales for Innoviz’s LiDAR solutions in the European market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

U.K. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5 million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche, the U.K. government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), and a host of additional investors. Quantum computing, for the uninitiated, builds on principles borrowed from quantum mechanics, with a focus on quantum bits (qubits) rather than atoms, promising to advance what’s possible with comput

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile applications. He started out by laying out the new primitives that mobile smartphones made available to developers.

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