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8 Lessons on Creativity from the Artist Who Sold a $69 Million Collage

Entrepreneur's Handbook

On the day Beeple’s collage sold for nearly $70 million in cryptocurrency, he did what he did for thousands of days before. He created an… Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Why Startups Fail: A Harvard Business School Professorโ€™s Letter to a First-Time Founder

StartupNation

The following is excerpted from the book “Why Startups Fail” by Tom Eisenmann. Copyright ยฉ 2021 by Tom Eisenmann. Used by permission of Currency, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Dear Founder: Congratulations for taking the plungeโ€”for committing to work full-time on that startup concept youโ€™ve been pursuing.

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Goals in Action: A Look Inside Marchโ€™s Quarterly Conversation

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After such a challenging year, we asked our affiliates at our December Quarterly Conversation to identify and prioritize what theyโ€™d like to accomplish in 2021. We then discussed their plans for achieving their goals at our March Quarterly Conversation. Identifying gaps, objectives and resources. SourceLinkยฎ emailed each affiliate a โ€œMake a Plan: Take Actionโ€ worksheet a few weeks before meeting.

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Dapper Labs, Flow, and NBA Top Shot

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I have written about all of these things here at AVC before. But I am writing again as there is likely to be a bunch of chatter about Dapper, Flow, and NBA Top Shot as the news of a financing round comes out today. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company. Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™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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4 Action steps to teach kids financial literacy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed By Susan Michel, EO New Jersey member and founder and CEO of Glen Eagle Advisors , which provides investment management and financial planning advice. Raising kids in an entrepreneurial family comes with challenges. You want to be a responsible parent and raise financially literate children, but where do you start? April is National Financial Literacy Month, the perfect time to focus on the importance of teaching children about money.

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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced the creation of a new Community Navigator Pilot Program to place significant financial resources into organizations that wish to be hubs of entrepreneurship support and ecosystem-building efforts in their communitiesโ€”particularly those organizations with deep roots in targeting underserved business communities.

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Volunteer At TEALS NYC

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

TEALS is a longstanding program supported by Microsoft where software engineers assist in computer science instruction in K12 schools. I have been blogging about and advocating TEALS for over eight years now. TEALS came to NYC in 2013 and has been helping kids learn computer science in NYC schools ever since. For many of those years, the software engineers would have to travel to the school building to assist in classroom instruction.

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How to leverage organizational storytelling in shaping culture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Sharing your companyโ€™s story can have a powerful and long-lasting impact on company culture โ€”especially during times of change. But to maximize your storytelling outcome, it must be done in a way that engages employees and embeds your core values. So, what are some best practices to follow? We found a great example in Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes.

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how a faculty grant transformed an academic career

Venture Well

For Aileen Huang-Saad, teaching biomedical engineering (BME) through experiential learning has had a transformative impact on her students, and the universityโ€™s educational practices and entrepreneurial ecosystem. The post how a faculty grant transformed an academic career appeared first on VentureWell.

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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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Ramon Ray Named as Oracle NetSuiteโ€™s Entrepreneur in Residence

Smart Hustle Magazine

NetSuite , a leading provider of business management software for growing businesses has named Ramon Ray, entrepreneur, best-selling author and founder of SmartHustle.com as its first Entrepreneur in Residence. . As NetSuiteโ€™s Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Ramon will support NetSuiteโ€™s continued success in supporting small and medium businesses as they look to scale and grow.

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Recycling

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Most venture capital funds have a “recycling” provision that allows them to sell some percentage of their investments and reinvest those funds back into new investments instead of distributing that capital to their limited partners. There is no standard recycling percentage in the market, but I think 20-25% is fairly common. We do this at USV very aggressively.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

โ€œCommunities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.โ€ โ€” Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Ecosystem builders know that entrepreneurship and startups are critical for a healthy economy.

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IoT satellite network startup Hiber secures โ‚ฌ26M in funding round led by EUโ€™s innovation agency

TechCrunch

European satellite and communications startup, Hiber BV has secured โ‚ฌ26 million in EU and private investment to expand its IoT satellite network. The funding comes from the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), the EUโ€™s innovation agency, which has a โ‚ฌ278 million Innovation Fund. The EIC co-invested with an innovation credit provided by the Dutch government and existing shareholders.

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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 โ€” and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, theyโ€™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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Jim McCann On How To Future Proof Your Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Dave Kerpen , serial entrepreneur, author and speaker, hosted Jim McCann of 1800-Flowers on Clubhouse, in the Likeable Business Club. Jim McCann went from being a social worker having a home for boys to building the worldโ€™s largest flower company. We learned his story and so much more wisdom and insight in the Likeable Business Clubhouse room. Hereโ€™s a summary of the discussion and questions that Jim answered from Dave and the room moderators, such as Ramon Ray of SmartHustle.com , and the guest

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Tune in to the Business of Music on StartupNation Radio

StartupNation

On todayโ€™s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff chats with three entrepreneurs working to make a huge difference in the business of music. First up, Jeff chats with Jonathan Hayman and Cassie Alexe, co-founders of the Michigan Music Business Club. Hayman and Alexe are both are juniors in college at the University of Michiganโ€™s Ross School of Business.

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How a 25-year-old raised $500,000 from cold emailing billionaire investors

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Dhruv Ghulati gained investment from top Silicon Valley investors including Mark Cuban for his AI startup, Factmata. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics.

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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 canโ€™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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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten VC

Iโ€™ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. The popularity of the model can be judged by the fact that the U.S.

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How to Minimize Startup Risk: Become a Franchisee

StartupNation

The day I became a franchisor, the ceiling collapsed. Literally. I was at Kidville headquarters in New York City and had just signed the final documents. The phone rang, and the CEO answered it. He handed the phone to me and said, โ€œThis is your problem now.โ€ A heavy truck had pulled into the parking lot at one of the facilities in New Jersey. There was a parking deck beneath, where the ceiling should have been secured by beams but wasnโ€™t.

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21 Years Ago Elon Musk Was Fired from Paypal?โ€”?Hereโ€™s How He Bounced Back

Entrepreneur's Handbook

“I didn’t go to Harvard, but the people who work for me did.” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Intranet startup Staffbase raises $145M in growth round led by General Atlantic

TechCrunch

Staffbase , which provides an intranet-style internal communications platform for companies, has raised a $145 million (โ‚ฌ122 million) financing round led by General Atlantic, a growth equity firm. Existing investors Insight Partners and e.ventures also participated in the round. Started in Chemnitz, Germany in 2014, Staffbase has managed to onboard more than 1,000 clients, including Adidas, Audi, BHP, Deutsche Post DHL, Groupon, Hitachi, Ikea, Johns Hopkins University, McKesson, Paulaner, Suncor

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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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What's BitClout? Late Night Conversations With Myself

OnStartups

Disclaimer: I am not an investment advisor or a lawyer. Donโ€™t invest money (fiat or crypto) based on anything you read here.This blog post is for entertainment purposes only. Disclosure: I do not own any shares in BitClout (but would like to). Me : Sorry we havenโ€™t chatted in a while, Iโ€™ve been up late nights playing around on BitClout. Other Me (the skeptical one): Yeah, I saw you tweet about that.

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Starting Your Business? Ramon Shared Indispensable Tips in US Chamber of Commerceโ€™s Panel Discussion

Smart Hustle Magazine

The 9-5 grind indeed kills many peopleโ€™s spirits, but entrepreneurship is not easy either. You need to overcome a host of challenges for starting your business venture and keeping it running profitably. And they say – entrepreneurship is a lonely affair. This means you have to solve your problems yourself. None is going to do that for you. However, you can find tons of small business resources that can guide you in your entrepreneurial journey.

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How To Raise Venture Capital Fast?โ€”?Tips From An Investment Banker (Turned Startup Founder)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Calibrate’s Isabelle Kenyon raised $27 million via virtual meetings Here are her tips and tricks for rapid long-distance fundraising. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Aurora and Volvo partner to bring autonomous long-haul trucks to North America

TechCrunch

The autonomous vehicle startup Aurora Innovation said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Volvo to jointly develop autonomous semi trucks for North America. The partnership, which the two companies say will span several years and is through Volvo’s Autonomous Solutions unit, will focus on trucks built to operate autonomously on highways between hubs for Volvo customers.

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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 Associationย 

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.