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Essential skills for an entrepreneur

NZ Entrepreneur

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.

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Weekly #13: The Introvert’s Guide to Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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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Valuing a Venture Capital Portfolio

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

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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Revolution Growth Invests in Meati, the Mushroom-Root Superfood

Revolution

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.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson

NZ Entrepreneur

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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Once a key driver of global venture activity, fintech investment slows around the world

TechCrunch

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with good reason. While companies around the world turned to software during the pandemic to ensure that they could keep operating , accelerating the digital transformatio

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Learnings of a CEO: Max Rhodes, Faire

Y Combinator

Every year, 200 YC companies go through our post-accelerator programs. These programs provide founders with the resources they need to build a company all the way through IPO. One area covered extensively is how to scale as a CEO of a growth-stage company. Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO.

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9 Qualities of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs I’ve Worked With

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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 ».

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Lessons from Implementing Netflix’s “Dream Team” Model at 3 Hypergrowth Tech Companies

Reforge

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.

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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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The bright side of fintech funding results

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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Singapore’s Fintonia secures virtual asset license in Dubai

AsiaTechDaily

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

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8 Ways to Know if You Have a Winning Business Idea on Your Hands

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Begin with the user, and validate as much as possible to enhance your chances of success. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Investing in Cartography Biosciences

Andreessen Horowitz

“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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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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Daily Crunch: Russia fines Google $374M for ‘illegal content’ over its Ukraine invasion

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. 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.

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Indonesia’s Fairbanc raises $4.8m to scale B2B BNPL to unbanked merchants

AsiaTechDaily

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.

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The #1 Mistake That Derails Ambitious, Capable Wantrepreneurs

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you feel like you’re failing or getting nowhere fast, here’s the solution to right the ship Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Recession Money Moves with Ramit Sethi

OkDork

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to my buddy Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Ramit is a well-known financial advisor and entrepreneur. His bestselling book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich , helps people who didn’t grow up with rich parents or didn’t learn anything about money at school, make smarter financial decisions so they can live their rich lives — whatever that means to them!

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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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Check out the founder-focused sessions happening at TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch

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.

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Indonesian proptech startup Tanaku secures more than $5m in fresh capital

AsiaTechDaily

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

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Survey Customers at Your Own Risk

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Maybe the strategy entrepreneurs love using to improve their products isn’t so great Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Mergers & Acquistions

Secure Docs

With mergers and acquisitions (M&A), it is likely that an overarching due diligence investigation will be required to allow the parties to the transaction to gain a strong understanding of the other side’s financial, corporate, and legal standing. This is a particularly rigorous process when there are substantial assets or significant risks at stake.

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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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Robotics and AI are going from cage to stage

TechCrunch

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.

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Korean metaverse startup Anipen secures $8m in Series C funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Anipen , a South Korean metaverse platform , has raised around ₩11 billion ($8.3 million) in a Series C funding round backed by Medici Investment, Ulmus Investment, and Korea Development Bank, according to a Forkast report. The company, a deep learning-based metaverse platform developer, said it will use the fresh funding to expand its metaverse content services and strengthen partners

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How I Make $7,500 a Month Writing For the Financial Services Industry

Entrepreneur's Handbook

All the ways you can make money as a financial writer + how much I charge. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Q2 M&A: Slowing But Still Strong

Secure Docs

Q2 M&A: Slowing But Still Strong. Global deal-making topped $1.2 trillion in Q2 and nearly 6,000 transactions, marking a continued slowdown from 2021 but well above the pre-pandemic average. The prevailing trend for the year is a moderation from the record-breaking highs of 2021, along with continued momentum that made 2022 one of the biggest first halves of any prior year.

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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.