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How to thwart collaboration overload by working smarter

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Rob Cross , professor of global leadership at Babson College, cofounder and research director of the Connected Commons business consortium, and author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being. What is dysfunctional collaboration? The most common collaborative dysfunction is a product of too much collaboration driven either by an overly inclusive organizational culture, formal designs with too many reporting relationships, or e

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SoftBank commits $3B more to investing in Latin American tech companies

TechCrunch

SoftBank Group Corp. is doubling down on its commitment to Latin America. Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. “Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement.

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Why Grit is Essential to Your Success as an Entrepreneur

StartupNation

For entrepreneurs building a business, the initial startup stage is an exhilarating time: you’re energized by your idea and engrossed in building the business. It feels like it’ll always be fun. The hard truth is that in building any business , there are peaks and valleys. When you hit a valley, it can be difficult to stay inspired and engaged — and this is the time to persevere, to remind yourself you’re in this for the long haul and to stick with it.

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FINALISTS IN BEN FRANKLIN’S $50,000 BIG IDEA CONTEST ANNOUNCED!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Over the course of the summer, hundreds of people located in Ben Franklin’s 32-county footprint in Pennsylvania, visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our $50,000 innovation contest. Recently, our team had the difficult job of choosing finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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How to elevate product design by leveraging neuroscience

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by J. Cornelius, an EO Atlanta member. J. is the founder and president of Nine Labs , which helps companies imagine, design and build world-class web and mobile products. Great design is not a luxury. It’s a necessity. . That bears repeating: Great design—a product that looks good and works well—is essential for success. Product design in the software industry has matured enough that you simply will not succeed with an ugly, ill-conceived digital product.

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From Employee to Owner: How I Bought My Business

StartupNation

Every entrepreneur’s story is unique. Many individuals start off with a good idea. This idea allows them to create an offering or product that helps solve a problem facing customers. They acquire the necessary legal assets, including entity formations and tax IDs, so this idea may become a startup, launch, and open for business. What about entrepreneurs that don’t start their business from scratch?

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What You Learn at a Startup that Grows from $0 to $7.75 Billion in 2 Years

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Hyperscaling Hopin: An early team member’s story Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Are you killing innovation in your company?

Berkonomics

First, let’s recognize the problem. Here’s one for executives of any company with next generation products in mind. As your business grows more complex and there are more employees to manage and more customers to care for, slowly you will notice that more and more time of your chief innovation officer or system architect or R&D department is spent focused upon enhancements in response to needs of the user base.

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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. The facility is set to open in June of 2022, with an eye on early-stage U.S. companies working toward their seed round.

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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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Trademarking Your Startup: Claiming What Is Yours

StartupNation

Working in a startup comes with its own set of ups and downs, but owning the creative rights to your work should not be one of them. Whether you are in the early stages of the company or have been around for a while, keeping the intellectual property (IP) at your organization’s discretion is a means for the preservation of integrity. Trademarking your startup is essential to avoid future breaches of confidentiality, and running the risk of others profiting from your ideas.

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I Interviewed 75 Overachievers?—?Here Is the One Thing They All Have in Common

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Along with anyone who ever started to work on their own thing Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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What is the Product the Customer Buys Before They Buy Yours?

Tomasz Tunguz

What is the product a customer or a prospect buys immediately before they buy yours? We’ve all heard the words digital transformation. Now that I’ve given you time to unroll your eyes and let the sarcastic comments dissipate, please give me a chance to make something useful of this idea. As a customer progresses along their journey, they evolve from a previous inferior state to a new superior one.

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Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen

TechCrunch

Immi is putting a healthy spin on instant ramen by going plant-based and offering more bold tastes. The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding. Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the same tech company.

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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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Small Business Drive and Passion: What Keeps an Entrepreneur Going?

StartupNation

If you are an entrepreneur just starting out, you’ve probably already gotten a glimpse into the hard work that goes into launching and running a business. While it’s rewarding, there can be sleepless nights and a slew of new challenges you did not anticipate. You’re not alone – a new study this summer by OnePoll revealed that 84 percent of small business owners said they feel like they wear several hats, such as being their own human resources, operations, and customer service.

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5 Ways to “Woo” a Partner, Co-Founder, or Investor Without Even Trying

Entrepreneur's Handbook

9 months after getting 100% rejected, this founder turned the tables and bagged his dream team without sacrificing an ounce of equity. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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News: Alibaba.com Introduces Grants, New Services, and Tools to Help SMBs Grow Fast

Smart Hustle Magazine

Running a successful eCommerce business is a tough job. From product research to timely sourcing to inventory management, you have to take care of multiple tasks to grow your business. Are you treading water in your eCommerce business? If yes, then Alibaba.com’s latest offerings can make the difference to help you grow fast. One of the world’s largest B2B eCommerce marketplaces, Alibaba.com, is introducing dropshipping solutions, new platform tools, and grants program totaling $500,000 in awards

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EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries

TechCrunch

In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and even electric vehicles, battery startup EnerVenue says it developed a breakthrough technology to revolutionize stationary energy storage.

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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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5 Tips to Keep in Mind as You’re Starting a Business

StartupNation

Starting a business is incredibly exciting, but it also requires a lot of strategic planning if you want to create something going to last for years. Follow our top five checklist for precisely what new business owners need to know, and you can look forward to creating your own success. . Five tips to know when starting a business: Plan, plan, plan.

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Startups: Don’t Waste Your Time Pitching Without a Valuation Cap

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Why I will not invest in an Uncapped Note or SAFE Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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[JumpCloud in TechCrunch] JumpCloud raises $159M on $2.56B valuation for cloud directory tool

OurCrowd

JumpCloud, the late-stage startup that is modernizing the notion of corporate directories in a cloud context, announced a $159 million Series F investment on a healthy $2.56 billion valuation today. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in TechCrunch] JumpCloud raises $159M on $2.56B valuation for cloud directory tool appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Creative adtech is on the cusp of a revolution, and VCs should take note

TechCrunch

Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. 2021 has been a good year to be an adtech investor. Valuations are surging , Wall Street is happy and exits are frequent and satisfying. It’s the perfect time to double down and invest in an area that has been largely ignored but is poised for major upside in the next few years: Digital creative ad technology.

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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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Want to Successfully Build Your Company Brand from Scratch? Here Are 5 Tips

StartupNation

So, you’re starting a new business? Then you’re also creating a brand from scratch. Building a company brand gives you the chance to get creative and make something that resonates with people. Whether you’re not sure where to start or just want to make sure you’re on the right track, we’ve got the basics covered below. Building your new company brand from scratch .

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If You Want To Be Financially Free, Then Start With A Side Hustle

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Whatever you do, don’t quit your 9-5 job. Here’s how I did it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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News: Alibaba.com Introduces Grants, New Services, and Tools to Help SMBs Grow Fast

Smart Hustle Magazine

Running a successful eCommerce business is a tough job. From product research to timely sourcing to inventory management, you have to take care of multiple tasks to grow your business. Are you treading water in your eCommerce business? If yes, then Alibaba.com’s latest offerings can make the difference to help you grow fast. One of the world’s largest B2B eCommerce marketplaces, Alibaba.com, is introducing dropshipping solutions, new platform tools, and grants program totaling $500,000 in awards

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Atlanta’s sundry startups join in global VC funding boom

TechCrunch

Mailchimp is selling itself to Intuit in a transaction valued at $12 billion. The deal is a coup not only for companies that eschew venture capital backing — Mailchimp is famous for its bootstrapping history — but also for the city of its founding, Atlanta. Mailchimp’s mega-exit comes in the same year that fellow Atlanta-based startup Calendly raised a massive $350 million round that valued the technology company north of $3 billion, per Crunchbase data.

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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.