Sat.Nov 05, 2022 - Fri.Nov 11, 2022

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How to avoid “death by meeting.”

Berkonomics

Zoom, Teams, phone, or in person? Imagine yourself with a calendar requiring you to be in six meetings in a day. Day after day. It doesn’t matter whether you’re required to be there in person or virtually, you get worn out after a few of these. Your attention span sorely reduces to nil, and your quality of input and insights fall as the long day progresses.

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6 Surprising Parallels Between Entrepreneurship and Crisis PR

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Eden Gillott, who is president of Gillott Communications , a strategic communications and crisis PR firm. She’s the author of A Business Owner’s Guide to Crisis PR: Protecting You & Your Business’ Reputation, an EO Los Angeles member, and that chapter’s Accelerator co-chair. We asked Eden about the similarities between entrepreneurship and crisis public relations.

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3 tips for managing a remote engineering team

TechCrunch

Greg Soh. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kuan Wei (Greg) Soh is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor who enjoys building world-class technology teams. Previously, he worked in financial services, the hedge fund industry and at high-growth startups. Remote work is not for every business and it may not be everyone’s cup of tea. When my co-founder and I decided to build a distributed engineering team for our startup, numerous questions raced through our minds: Will they be productive?

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Identifying Blind Spots: How to Make a CEO Successful in the Role

The Seraf Compass

Being CEO is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. As CEO, you are ultimately held accountable for the success or failure of the company. Your employees and their families depend on you for their income. Customers depend on you to solve important problems for them. Shareholders depend on you to deliver the promised return on investment. When times are good and the company is growing and profitable, it’s a great job to have.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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 Raise Funds for Your Startup

Jason Malki

Are you a startup looking for funding? If so, you’re in the right place. In this article, we’ll give you some tips on how to raise money for your startup. Keep reading to learn more! 1. Understand Your Funding Options There are several ways to finance a startup, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. The most common options are grants, venture capital, and angel investors.

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Resource Spotlight: Anika Horn’s Ecosystems for Change Podcast

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Ecosystem building and community building is hard. Entrepreneurship ecosystem builders work for social change and impact — working to help their communities thrive. They amplify the work of local makers, doers and innovators by championing their efforts and rallying support around them. They build a culture of trust and collaboration among stakeholders, so that the doers and innovators have equal access to information, talent and resources when they need them.

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Daily Crunch: Sequoia Capital writes off its $210M investment in crypto exchange FTX

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Tech reporting is a lot of things, but it sure ain’t boring, as the chaos around Twitter, crypto, and layoffs continues. We’re just trying to hang on for dear life to try to make some sense of it all. We think we did a pretty decent job, and here, we’ve got a selection of what’s been happening in the past 24 hours of tech. — Christine and Haje.

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What the FTX Fiasco Means for Web3

Tomasz Tunguz

During one of the toughest years for technology in more than a decade, the web3/crypto segment is suffering the worst. Inevitably, this crash will evoke disillusionment in the technology & the space. Earlier this week, FTX, a top crypto exchange became insolvent. Recently valued at $24b, FTX is the third major crypto company to collapse in 2022 due to insolvency: Three Arrows Capital & Terra complete the trio.

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ShipBob co-founders featured in Crain’s 40 Under 40 List

HPA

Congrats to Divey Gulati and Dhruv Saxena, the co-founders of ShipBob, for being listed in the 40 Under 40 Class of 2022 list from Crain’s Chicago Business. Gulati and Saxena created ShipBob in 2014 as they saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. After raising a $200M Series E round last year, the leading cloud-based ecommerce logistics platform became a Chicago unicorn.

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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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AI-based content creator WriterZen scores $1.35m in Seed funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register WriterZen is working to expand its product features and penetrate strategic markets in the US, UK and Australia in 2023 after it secured seed funding of $1.35 million. Singapore’s AI-based SEO content creation software-as-a-service company hopes to further accelerate its growth next year after its recent seed funding round led venture investor Wavemaker Partners.

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Laid off from your tech job? Day One wants to give you $100,000 to start a company

TechCrunch

Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year. The program, titled “ Funded Not Fired, ” will write $100,000 checks into 20 startup teams by the end of the year. Top businesses from the cohort will then get follow-up capital from Day One Ventures commitment to lead their pre-seed round with a $1 million check.

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Investing in Equals

Andreessen Horowitz

VisiCalc, the first computer-based spreadsheet, was launched in 1979. For the first time, this brought data analysis and computing together, in a way thousands of times more powerful than pen and paper. While VisiCalc is no longer around, the … The post Investing in Equals appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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How to Maximize Your Chances of Getting Venture Capital

Jason Malki

Raising venture capital is no easy task. The odds are stacked against you from the start. In fact, only about 2% of startup companies will ever receive VC funding. So, how can you increase your chances of being in that 2%? Here are a few tips. Use Your Networks One of the best ways to get VC funding is to use your networks. If you have any connections to VC firms or individual investors, now is the time to use them!

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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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Singapore’s Speedoc raises $28m in pre-Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Singapore-based healthcare platform Speedoc announced that it already closed its pre-series B funding round with $28 million in investments that will boost their efforts to make virtual hospitals a reality across the Southeast Asia region.

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How ButcherBox bootstrapped to $600M in revenue

TechCrunch

Some of the best companies only come about because they found a problem worth solving. For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at ButcherBox , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran a Kickstarter campaign back in 2015, which drew the attention of its first thousand customers.

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After 10 Years of Consulting, I’m Doing The Opposite Of Everything I Learned in Entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How about a slowly growing solopreneurship with no profit, funding, or exit strategy? Let’s see where this goes. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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How to Write a PRD That Actually Helps You Build Products

Reforge

Table of Contents Why a great PRD makes the work of building easier The 3 evolutions of a dynamic and evolving PRD How to know that you’re on the right track with your team Product Managers are ultimately responsible for figuring out what to build and ensuring it is impactful. Simple in theory, but not easy. PMs have to source and process ideas from every direction, rationalize and advocate for which investments make sense, and hold steady in conviction about their roadmap while staying flexible

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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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Korean startup Imagoworks launches AI-based web dental CAD 3Dme Crown

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Korean startup Imagoworks Inc’s 3Dme Crown, a digital dental CAD solution company based on artificial intelligence, is attracting attention as the next-generation dental CAD. 3Dme Crown is an automatic crown design module of 3Dme Solutions , Imagoworks’ AI-based web dental solutions.

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The fintech layoffs just keep on coming

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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This Random Guy’s Course Launch Made $85,000 in 7 Days

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s the best way to take non-fiction content and turn it into an income you can live off Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Psychology of Money Book: Key Takeaways from a CEO

OkDork

Some books should be required reading, and The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel is one of them. When I worked at Mint.com , I was surprised how many people didn’t know how to manage money. It’s super common, and it’s super avoidable. A lot of people think it takes TONS of mental effort and number crunching and math. It doesn’t. Not always. A lot of it comes down to psychology.

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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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Set local traction before venturing overseas – John Lim, Partner, Meet Ventures, tells startups

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Startups looking at going global should first establish proof of local traction before doing so, John Lim , Partner at Meet Ventures , said in an interview with AsiaTechDaily. “If you can’t generate demand locally, it is usually even more difficult to generate demand overseas,” Lim said, adding that many good Series B/C startups he has come across already have signifi

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Blnk, a fintech that provides instant consumer credit in Egypt, raises $32M in debt and equity

TechCrunch

Credit card penetration in Egypt is low, with just over 4 million cards used in a population of more than 100 million people. As such, people in the country have little or no access to credit, given the other few options that exist in the market. One of these options, consumer loans, is being explored by Blnk , a fintech launched last October. The digital lending platform partners with Egyptian merchants, allowing them to underwrite customers at the point of sale and provide them with finance to

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How to Make Your First $1000 As a First-Time, Lost Wantrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you have no skills, no clue what to do and don’t want to create a 100 hour/week grind, do this instead. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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What is Andrew Tates true net worth? With its virality we take a deeper look at the future of ed tech

Founder Bounty

Andrew tate who has made his money from affiliate marketing was numerous ways to think about how much he actually earnt while his company from hustlers university was actually on. So what did it show us? The future of learning is all online, coaching is important and mentors help you to grow in business. "He claims 355$M is what they actually know about" His businesses include: Hustlers University Only Fans The War Room Webcam Business His hustler's university had over 200,000 subsc

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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.