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8 Important Business (And Life) Lessons A Billionaire Taught Me

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And how I became a second-degree connection to Warren Buffett Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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OK. Letโ€™s AMPLIFY your three levels of leadership.

Berkonomics

Another leadership development bit? Yup. But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical. Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. The conundrum of competing needs. As a leader, you must worry over issues from mundane to strategic, constantly reordering your priorities to accommodate competing needs.

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AI chipmaker Rebellions gets $22.8M Series A extension from Korean telco company KTย 

TechCrunch

South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . Last month, TechCrunch reported on Rebellions closing on $50 million in funding that valued the company at an estimated $283 million. At that time, Rebellions CEO and co-founder Sunghyun Park told TechCrunch that the startup wrapped up its initial Series A, which was oversubscribed, in less

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Fundraising round strategy, when and what type matters with Trade Signal Inc

Gust

Welcome to the Gust Launch Founder Spotlight! Gust Launch supports a variety of exciting founders doing amazing things. In this ongoing series weโ€™ll highlight the experiences of Gust Launch founders, in their own words, as they navigate the challenges of early-stage entrepreneurship. Want to share your story? Reach out at spotlight@gust.com. The Founder, the company, and why […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics wonโ€™t cut it in todayโ€™s data-driven applications โ€“ not for your end users, your development team, or your business. Thatโ€™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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#36. From Mini Retirement To A 50,000+ Subscriber Newsletter Business w/ Dru Riley

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Learn from the founder of Trends.vc Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Todayโ€™s guest is Dru Riley, the founder of Trends.vc. Now, a few years ago, Dru did what many of us would love to do, he quit his nine to five and just traveled and took a sabbatical for years. He learned about himself. He learned about what made him tick, and eventually, he decided it was time to get back to work.

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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. While circuit boards are mostly invisible to end-users, they are foundational to the world they inhabit, powering smartphones, automobiles, microwave ovens, garage doors, and the entire connected world.

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Take A Seat In Our Startup Boot Camp And You Might Take Home Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Contact: Bob Dornich / Program Director. 814-865-7332 / BobDornich@psu.edu. STATE COLLEGE, PA โ€“Ben Franklinโ€™s Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers a VIRTUAL 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. Youโ€™ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000!

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Everything Startups Need to Know About Convertible Notes

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The traditional startup investment instrument remains popular with angel investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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541 Ventures, a new Los Angeles-based firm looking to globally empower Asian founders in frontier tech

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 541 Ventures – a new LA-based VC firm , announces its launch on July 5, 2022. Founded and led by a founder-turned investor and a former Techstars Managing Director, Eunse Lee, the new Los Angeles-based firm globally invests in early-stage frontier tech companies with at least one Asian founder, operating dual offices in LA and Seoul, Korea.

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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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YC makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt makes an a16z, a16z makes a YC

TechCrunch

Tech innovation is a cycle, especially in the main character-driven world of early-stage venture capital and copycat nature of startups. The latest proof? Y Combinator this week announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups โ€œto help them climb up the leaderboard,

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3 Reasons EO Global Speakers Academy was transformational for meโ€”as a speaker coach

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Andrea Heuston , an EO US West Bridge chapter member who is a Speaker Coach to leaders at Fortune 100 companies, a best-selling author, and CEO of Artitudes , a full-service design firm specializing in executive presentations, branding and visual marketing. EOโ€™s next Global Speakers Academy will be held in-person and virtually from 21 October โ€“ 4 November 22 in Cancun, Mexico.

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10 Ways Founder CEOs Can Create High-Performing Leadership Teams

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Great teamwork will be your sustainable competitive advantage Photo: Pexels Many leaders have high IQs, and some also have high EQs (Emotional Intelligence). But only the minority have high WeQs (Collaborative Intelligence). Too often, you come across teams with individual IQs of 120 or more where the team functions at a WeQ of 70 or less, meaning theyโ€™re performing at less than the sum of their parts.

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Juragan Material raises $4M funding from Go-Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Juragan Material , an Indonesian platform for construction technology , has announced raising $4 million from lead investor Go-Ventures. In this round, Susquehanna International Group (SIG) also took part. With this funding, Juragan Material intends to expand its workforce by making quick hires for crucial positions in product development, engineering, sales, and operations boost marke

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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 โ€” and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, theyโ€™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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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

TechCrunch

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than weโ€™ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , itโ€™s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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Happy 4th of July: Think Independently!

Continuations

Every 4th of July I like to reflect on what it means to be independent. Today I wrote nearly an entire post on production independence, starting with energy independence. But I have decided to post that another day because there is a different type of independence that I have decided is more important at this particular moment in time: independent thinking.

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A Kickass Side Hustle Is How You Survive This Recession

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s how you should think about it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Indonesiaโ€™s PINA secures $3m in fresh capital from AC Ventures, others

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian wealth management startup PINA.ID announced raising $3 million in seed funding round led by AC Ventures, Vibe.VC, and & Y Combinator, with participation from XA Network. Indonesia’s top and most seasoned financial management software’s recent funding round also saw the participation of existing investors including Prasetia Dwidharma and 1982 Ventures taking p

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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 canโ€™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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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Itโ€™s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake). Yet, laypeople have also become the target of novel schemes hoping to attract their bets and savings.

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[TytoCare in PR Newswire] Tampa General Hospital is launching TGH at home, an innovative program providing personalized care and improved patient access

OurCrowd

TAMPA, Fla., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tampa General Hospital patients now have a new option for care that combines the expertise of a world-class facility with the comfort of their own home. Tampa General Hospital (TGH)’s Hospital at Home program combines expert care and innovative technology with a focus on the needs of the patient. Read more here.

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5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Writing Copy That Cost Them $500,000+

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I fired all my ad teams, social media managers, and copywriters to 100x my revenue with copy alone Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Woman Investor Profile Series: Njeri Muhia, General Partner, FrontEnd Ventures

The Seraf Compass

This profile is the sixth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. As a General Partner and Co-Founder at FrontEnd Ventures in Nairobi Kenya, Njeri Muhia is focused on working with diverse founding teams that are passionate about impacting their industry value chains and addressing challenges that exist in their communities.

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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 e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment

TechCrunch

Simon Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon is a partner with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments. More posts by this contributor. Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution. From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity.

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[Alpha Tau in Globe Newswire] Alpha Tau hosting key opinion leader meeting on Alpha DaRT clinical trials

OurCrowd

JERUSALEM, July 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: DRTS) (“Alpha Tau” or the โ€œCompanyโ€), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, announced today that it will host a hybrid in-person/virtual key opinion leader (KOL) meeting at Convene (North Hub Room), located at 530 5th Ave.

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Before Rebranding Your Startup, Do These 5 Things First

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How to avoid Brand Disaster 2.0 Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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The New AVC

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AVC has been around for nineteen years and it has evolved over the years from a place I’d post multiple times a day to once a day to now once a week. There was a time when there was a vibrant comment community at AVC with many posts getting over a hundred comments and replies. That’s long gone and now it is just me posting here with some chatter occasionally on Twitter.

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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 Associationย 

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.