NZ Entrepreneur
JULY 17, 2022
Are entrepreneurs born or made? We think both. While it helps to have that entrepreneurial flair inbuilt, there’s no reason you can’t learn and develop the qualities of an entrepreneur. Here, we share three essential skills for taking ventures from ideas to reality. Essential skill #1: falling in love with the problem, not the solution. Successful products, services and businesses solve problems for people.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 19, 2022
Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Tactics to master entrepreneurship, marketing and sales Building huge social audiences The defining qualities of successful entrepreneurs Let’s get into it. The introvert’s guide to entrepreneurship Rachel Greenberg graduated from unsuccessful attempted sales calls to running multiple businesses that make 6+figures for just a fe
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Revolution
JULY 21, 2022
The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the Boulder-based company creating a new category of clean, whole-cut alternative meats and the latest addition to Revolution Growth’s portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Meat substitutes have gained traction as planet-friendly alternatives to their animal-based counterparts, but few check all the boxes on consumers’ wishlists.
TechCrunch
JULY 17, 2022
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.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
NZ Entrepreneur
JULY 19, 2022
Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. Kimer Med. “Talk to your potential customers as soon as you can.” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company.
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Reforge
JULY 20, 2022
Table of Contents What makes a “Dream Team” a dream team? The 4 critical components of every Dream Team 5 steps to building your Dream Team for fast, aligned results Common pitfalls to avoid when setting your team up for success Every startup begins with a close-knit team. Imagine a dozen people sitting in the same room where everyone knows what everyone’s doing, and everyone is aligned on what’s most important.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2022
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. It’s hot all over the world, and even hotter in today’s newsletter. We’ve procured a steaming pile of TechCrunch deliciousness for you to devour. If you can believe it, it is only Tuesday. — Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 19, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fintonia Group (Fintonia), an entrepreneurial financial services company based in Singapore , announced today that it has secured a provisional virtual asset license granted by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The license allows Fintonia to participate in Dubai’s fast-growing digital assets ecosystem by operating crypto native services under full regulatory supervi
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 18, 2022
Every quarter our firm goes through a process to value our entire portfolio. Those values, on a schedule of investments we publish to our investors every quarter, flow through to our financial statements and capital accounts and establish how much an interest in our partnerships are worth at that time. We have always taken this process very seriously and approach it with a lot of rigor.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 18, 2022
Some of those clients have startups that raised over $100 million, while others tuned out to be fraudulent individuals. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JULY 22, 2022
Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Word to the budget-wise: don’t miss out on early-bird savings. Buy your early bird pass before prices go up on July 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT and save up to $1,300. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 22, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fairbanc, the Indonesian and Silicon Valley based technology platform that enables B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) for micro-businesses in Indonesia just secured $4.8M in pre-A note led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Companies, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Accion Venture Lab (AVL) also participated in this round.
Hunter Walk
JULY 18, 2022
Why I’m Not Telling Every Startup To ‘Pull The Brakes’ Just Yet. Here’s how I’ve generally described what’s occurring in tech land over the last few months: For a variety of reasons, technology companies were being rewarded with valuation multiples which far exceeded historical norms and the view on their growth rates, amount of capital they could/should spend to capture revenue/market share, etc were incredibly rosy.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 19, 2022
Begin with the user, and validate as much as possible to enhance your chances of success. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
JULY 21, 2022
A lot of promising companies come out of work by researchers at universities, or even grad students who have struck on some new innovation. But the transition from tech-focused research group to product-focused startup isn’t easy to make; fortunately three experts in the matter joined us at TC Sessions: Robotics to discuss a few ways to get through it successfully.
AsiaTechDaily
JULY 17, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Tanaku , an Indonesia-based proptech startup , raised $5.5 million pre-seed funding led by East Ventures. The round included equity and debt capital from an International Bank. The fresh capital will accelerate Tanaku’s mission to make home ownership accessible and radically transform the home buying experience, with the current focus on building the product, expanding the team, acquir
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 20, 2022
Contributed by Chris Jacks , director of growth strategy for HireInfluence , where he analyzes and adapts to the ever-changing influencer marketing industry. In 2020, the Instagram influencer market size across the globe surpassed US$2 billion. Other platforms such as TikTok are also steadily increasing in popularity among marketers. In 2020, TikTok’s initial influencer count was 35,500 but later leaped to over 106,000.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 22, 2022
( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”. I recommend reading that entry first before diving into this one.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2022
While the pandemic prompted companies to digitize much of the way they do business, not every brand made the pivot successfully. In some cases, it cost them dearly. According to Couchbase, enterprises wasted on average $4.12 million on failed, delayed or scaled-back projects in 2020. The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required.
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 18, 2022
In 2018 at Saastr, Jason Lemkin & I talked about private equity becoming an increasingly aggressive buyer of venture-backed software companies. Last year, private equity firms inhaled $29 billion dollars’ worth of startups - a twenty-year record and 50% more than the previous peak. The high-water mark underscored the importance of private equity sponsors as an exit avenue for startups in black Sharpie marker.
The Seraf Compass
JULY 20, 2022
This profile is the seventh in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. Elaine Bolle is an active angel investor, board director and advisor who has led domestic and global organizations from start-ups to $750M+ enterprises. She has built and successfully exited several early stage venture backed companies. She currently focuses on early stage entrepreneurial ventures serving on several boards.
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Jason Malki
JULY 18, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Crew, the CEO and co-founder of Planet Theta. Chris lives in the Pacific Northwest and is an avid PC gamer. A former collegiate debater and coach, Chris has made a career out of creating new businesses. Some of his larger successes include starting three multimillion-dollar companies including a niche plastics manufacturer, a growing agricultural processor, and a thriving retail store.
TechCrunch
JULY 22, 2022
I won’t use this space to dissuade anyone from launching a startup, but founders should embrace the fact that investors are looking for reasons not to give you money these days. Perhaps you don’t have much revenue. Or maybe, too much of your cash flow depends on a single customer. Oh, and when are you on track to join the $100 million ARR club? Given current conditions, best practices for fundraising and finding investor alignment are less relevant than they were a year ago.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
JULY 19, 2022
All the ways you can make money as a financial writer + how much I charge. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
Andreessen Horowitz
JULY 19, 2022
“Maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all…They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can’t see and spaces we can’t cover.” — Robert Harbison, Professor of Architecture. Cancer, which uses genetic mutations to turn … The post Investing in Cartography Biosciences appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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