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What Happened In 2021

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

As is my custom here at AVC, I like to end the year looking back and start the year looking forward. This post will be the look back and I started by revisiting my look forward into 2021 that I wrote on New Year’s Day 2021. In my typical optimist fashion, I was dead wrong about how quickly the pandemic would fizzle out. I predicted that vaccines plus immunity from those who had been infected would end the pandemic by mid-year 2021.

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How—and why—to prioritize employee comfort with ergonomic office furniture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As the pandemic lingers, there’s no shortage of entrepreneurs wondering how to inspire their remote employees to want to come back to the office, at least a few days a week if not full-time. The benefits of employees interacting in person fuels creativity and engagement, which are positive outcomes business leaders want to encourage. While there are multiple strategies for attracting employees back to the office environment—including a more lenient dress code policy, hybrid work schedules, and a

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3 views: How due diligence will change in 2022

TechCrunch

A few years ago, VCs were expected to perform extensive due diligence on startups. Investors dove into financials, called customers and vetted founders. But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply.

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News: 17 Million New Businesses Are Expected to be Launched in 2022, Reports QuickBooks Survey

Smart Hustle Magazine

If you want to start a new business in the new year, then you’re not alone. According to QuickBooks’ New Business Insights report, 3 out of 5 (57%) US employees thinking about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. And of these wannabe business owners, 20% will take the leap in the coming year, which will translate into around 17 million new businesses in 2022.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Five Predictions for 2022

Tomasz Tunguz

Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions. 2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023.

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Southeast Asian startups to watch in 2022

TechCrunch

As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!” This was the year that global investors not only started to pay close attention to the region’s tech ecosystems, but also began putting real money into them. Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet.

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Start a Sneaky Online Empire from Your Bedroom (In Silence) to Unlock Passive Income

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s exactly how, thanks to Romeo and Juliet. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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My Favorite Books of 2021

Tomasz Tunguz

These are my favorite books from this year. The Future of Money. I’m waist deep in this compendium of financial history that traces money from the first paper currency issued by Kublai Khan to modern day crypto. The Future of Money is great so far, but I’m running out of time to finish it before 2022, so it might not truly belong on this list!

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Add These Trends to Your Marketing Plan This Year

StartupNation

There’s no better time than now to map out a solid marketing plan for 2022. The COVID-19 outbreak has left a significant impact on marketing in 2020 and 2021. Consumers are no longer buying the way they used to, leaving brands with no choice but to change their sales and marketing tactics. While the pandemic isn’t in our rearview mirror, there have been positive signs of a new normal.

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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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Not every creator economy startup is built for creators

TechCrunch

Ten years ago, if you were a scrappy kid somehow making a living off of YouTube ad revenue and brand deals, you were probably told you didn’t have a real job. Now, if monetizing your creative output is how you pay your rent, you’re part of the creator economy, a buzzy new industry. An often-cited landmark report from the venture capital firm SignalFire says that creators are the fastest-growing type of small business.

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An Angel Investor’s Resolution: Invest in 1 Startup Per Month

Entrepreneur's Handbook

My New Year’s Resolution for 2022 is to Invest in a Startup Every Month for a Year Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Mark-to-Market Rounds - What Will Your Startup's Strategy Be?

Tomasz Tunguz

Ten years ago, startups pulled capital from the capital markets. A startup raised money, executed for 12-24 months then sought more capital on Sand Hill, flaunting milestones to justify a higher valuation. Today, a global investor base pre-emptively shoehorns dollars into the most attractive startups, saturating the balance sheet with cash every six to nine months.

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How to Help Consumers Manage the Pressures of Inflation

StartupNation

Around the world, consumers are facing higher prices for goods and services due to disruption to supply lines and labor availability primarily brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the consumer price index (CPI) increasing by 6.2% over the previous year — the greatest annual rise since 1990 – inflation is hitting record levels. This upsurge in the consumer price index is due to the fact that most companies respond by shifting the cost to the consumer in the form of higher prices and charg

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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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Sectors where New Zealand startups are poised to win

TechCrunch

As a remote island nation in the middle of the South Pacific, New Zealand is experiencing the stirrings of a burgeoning startup scene. The country has historically been capital-starved, but recent investments from the government and foreign investors have significantly increased access to early-stage venture capital funding. Now, certain industries are emerging as potential areas where New Zealand can win in the tech space.

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Why I Became An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It was 2011 and I was cratering. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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My hard-earned lessons from negative exits.

Berkonomics

In my life as an early-stage investor, I’ve been closely involved with so many businesses, there were bound to be numerous stories of actual and near failures, hopefully from which to learn lessons for all of us as we go forward. The emotions we feel when “turning out the lights.”. Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose of remaining assets, I have literally been the one to turn out the lights, carry out the documents, books and records t

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8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus

StartupNation

In today’s microwave society—where more data is created in one year than the last 5,000 years—it’s a herculean task to stay focused. Getting distracted may seem innocuous, but the consequences are disastrous over time: lost productivity, falling revenues, and a gnawing ever-present sense of missed opportunities. Grace Lackey | The Oracles. These overachievers and members of The Oracles share their strategies to sharpen your focus, prolong your concentration and beat distractions once and for al

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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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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021

TechCrunch

When we penned the intro for this piece last year , little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. Amid another holiday season marred by a new variant, seemingly the more things change — well, you get the picture. Surprisingly, however, in spite of the fact that we’re still very much in the throes of a global pandemic, 2021 hasn’t been punctuated by as many high-profile losses in the startup world as the year prior.

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#9. Best Advice For Entrepreneurs 2021 From EH Podcast

Entrepreneur's Handbook

EH Founder Dave Schools + an editor Amardeep Parmar Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. In this end-of-year special, we pick some of the best advice from all our guests in 2021. We’ve had the pleasure of talking to some incredible entrepreneurs this year and here you get the digestible snippets that will make a real difference to your own journey.

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[Workspot in Digital Journals] Digital transformation success: It’s all in the clouds

OurCrowd

Since the start of the pandemic, the business world has seen the widespread acceleration of digital transformation and cloud adoption. The message reverberating through the corporate networks is that businesses can no longer afford to take slow, measured approaches to digital strategies. Read more here. The post [Workspot in Digital Journals] Digital transformation success: It’s all in the clouds appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Artist and Entrepreneur Erik Wahl Shares How to Create Brand Value [VIDEO]

StartupNation

In “The Spark and The Grind,” artist, author and entrepreneur Erik Wahl illustrates the delicate balance between creativity and discipline: the spark of inspiration, and the grind of turning that idea into reality. “Sparking the grind and grinding the spark,” according to Wahl, is the two-fold process that ignites the power of disciplined creativity.

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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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How to be one of the ‘haves’ of SaaS

TechCrunch

Sean Fanning. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team. Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated.

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Seraf Toolbox: Questionnaire for Checking Customer References

The Seraf Compass

In addition to articles and eBooks, the Seraf Compass makes various tools and checklists available for anyone to use. An area of diligence we talk a lot about is assessing the market and verifying customer demand. To help guide our investors through that process we have developed a Questionnaire for Checking Customer References.

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[Hailo in EE Times] Hailo Partners with NXP on AI Solutions for Automotive

OurCrowd

Hailo is partnering with NXP Semiconductors to launch a number of joint AI solutions for automotive electronic control units (ECUs). The joint solutions will combine NXP’s automotive processors S32G and Layerscape along with the high-performance Hailo-8 AI processor. The Hailo-8 outperforms other available AI processors for edge computing with up to 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) at a typical power consumption of 2.5W.

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Why I Turned Away a $2,000 Customer Begging for My Services

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And when you should, too. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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.