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When Startups Fail, It’s Usually Because Founders Overlook These 3 Obvious Things

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Are you the type of entrepreneur who get distracted by minutia that doesn’t really matter? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How To Leave Your Day Job – Side Hustle To Full Hustle

Smart Hustle Magazine

You’ve been doing double duty for a long while. Working your reliable day job has been paying the bills, and your evenings and weekends have been reserved for your true passion: running your own business. In some ways, you have been getting the best of both worlds: stability and security, coupled with some time to stretch your wings and star in your own show.

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Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E

Venture Well

Learn how the Screw Ideas manifesto’s radical approach to I&E education can help you redesign your curriculum. The post Screw Ideas: How To Fix the Flaws of Ideation-Focused I&E appeared first on VentureWell.

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3 strategies to combat digital distractions

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Roger Patterson an EO Vancouver member, is the founder and CEO of visual marketing platform Later and co-founder of accelerator Launch Academy. Roger recently shared his thoughts on how to un-polarize your workplace by creating middle ground. In this post, he explains how he actively works against digital distraction with three smart strategies: Twice a day—three times if I’m lucky—I reach a blissful state of focus.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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5 ways to start greening your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

5 ways to start greening your business. By Shannon Courtney. The climate crisis is increasingly more urgent and requires a whole-of-society approach to create a clean-energy economy that benefits all. This means all companies, including young businesses and businesses run by young leaders, must also do their part to decrease their environmental impact and maximize their operations in an eco-friendly and sustainable manner.

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OhYeah!’s Salcedo is Helping Sustainable and Ethical Brands to Align With the Right Influencers

Jason Malki

Daniel is an immigrant New Yorker who defines himself as a rare mix of a producer and a serial entrepreneur with a variety of experience and success within the startup scene, including music, tech and video content. In the last 10 years, Daniel has produced video content for 500 fortune companies, as well as platforms like HBO, Discovery and Netflix.

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Top 5 Stoic Qualities of the Perfect Startup Hire

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Ray Dalio’s advice: Stop obsessing over skills and focus on your candidate’s character and abilities. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Addressing hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras?

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Addressing hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Community members farm in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. (USAID). U.S.-funded programs in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras help farmers expand and diversify their operations, enabling them to provide for their families and feed more people in their home countries. Up to 4 million people need food assistance across those three countries, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

TechCrunch

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! And if you want to have this hit your inbox directly once it officially turns into a newsletter on May 1, sign up here. Fintech M&A hasn’t been as robust as one might expect in recent months.

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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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Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 that Will Upend Web2 Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

As I’ve explored web3 I’ve been forming a mental model of the major innovations powering this enormous wave of innovation. At the moment, I see four clusters: A permanent ownership record that exists beyond and outside a company. The photos I take, the movies I buy, the music I rent, the emails I write and receive, the messages I send - all of these are captive.

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3 Lessons From My Meanest Customer Ever?—?Customers Aren’t Always Right

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Her aggressive approach to business proves why the rat race mentality injects unnecessary poison into the startup ecosystem. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Introducing Campaign Monitor SMS: a New Way to Connect and Convert

Campaign Monitor

Today, audiences expect a lot from the brands they interact with. They want personalized, relevant communications delivered in a format that’s convenient, at a time that suits them. Email has been an essential medium for this kind of communication for a long time, and at Campaign Monitor, we’ve helped thousands of brands across the world use email to deliver personal, impactful messages to their customers.

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Thunkable raises $30M after its no-code mobile app development platform hits 3M users and 6M apps

TechCrunch

Mobile apps have become part of the bedrock of how the world at large gets things done and spends a lot of its leisure time, so it’s no surprise that the development of them has become increasingly democratized, too. Now, one of the startups that has created a platform to make it easier to build mobile apps is announcing some funding to continue its expansion after passing 3 million consumer and business users and more than 6 million apps developed on its platform.

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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.

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Investing in Season Health

Andreessen Horowitz

‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ – Hippocrates. In a world where medication non-adherence is one of the biggest contributors to poor health outcomes , we’ve talked and written about how “food is medicine that … The post Investing in Season Health appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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A company came to me to help them raise $10 million. My commission was $300k, I said no?—?Here’s why

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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[VIDEO] How to Grow Using a Roll-up Strategy

Red Rocket

I was recently interviewed by Chelsea Wood , a Managing Director at Acquisition Lab , an M&A advisory service for early-stage entrepreneurs that prefer to grow through mergers and acquisitions, instead of building a startup from scratch. This video presents strategies for how to think about planning and executing a roll-up, rolling many businesses up into one company to achieve better economies of scale (which we better detailed back in Lesson #258 ).

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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PDAX introduces new prime service for crypto investors in the Philippines

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register PDAX , one of the Philippines’ leading regulated and licensed digital asset exchanges , has launched PAX Prime, a new exclusive service dedicated to sophisticated Filipino crypto investors and their growing needs in the dawn of digital assets.

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Beware of Toxic Business Advice From Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There’s one major difference between being a content creator and a CEO Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Paycom a constant innovator that empowers employees at client companies

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Paycom a constant innovator with technology that empowers employees. By Scott Meacham. Oklahoma’s Paycom Software has just been named to Fast Company’s 2022 World’s Most Innovative Companies list. Paycom is the only human resources and payroll technology company to make Fast Company’s prestigious global ranking. Additionally, Paycom achieved Fast Company’s Top 10 most innovative enterprise companies.

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London-based Fidel API lands $65M in Series B funding, proving fintech infrastructure is hotter than ever

TechCrunch

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . “With this infrastructure, developers are able to create highly contextualized and event-driven user experiences at the point of purchase,” it claims.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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Crypto staking startup RockX scores $6m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Crypto staking provider RockX announced that it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round anchored by Amber Group, a global digital asset platform. The funding round, which raised RockX’s valuation to $30 million, was also participated by other prominent crypto industry leaders including Matrixport, Primitive Ventures, FBG Capital, Draper Dragon, IMO Ventures, Alpha CW an

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Successful CEOs Navigate These 3 Phases of Leadership

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You don’t have to attend a seminar to learn how to be a better leader Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A Good Investor Can Help You Close Candidates. A Great Investor Will Sometimes Tell You Who Not To Hire.

Hunter Walk

For Early Stage Startups, You Need Employees To Choose The Company. Not The Other Way Around. I love helping startups hire, especially early on. Look, companies don’t exist without founders — often when we write our initial investment checks there aren’t any employees — but nothing amazing happens without a team. I’d go even further and suggest that if I could access just a single predictive signal after we’ve made an investment of whether the company has a chance to be successful it would be so

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A newcomer to AI data labeling, Encord looks to ride a rising tidal wave

TechCrunch

Before you can even think about building an algorithm to read an X-ray or interpret a blood smear, the machine has to know what’s what in an image. All of the promise of AI in healthcare — an area that has attracted $11.3 billion in private investment in 2021, can’t be realized without carefully labeled data sets that tell machines what exactly they’re looking for.

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The Startup Funding Gap

This resource discusses the gap between early funding from friends/family and the more substantial rounds from angel groups and VCs. Why does this gap exist and what can be done about it?