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turning the tide: how Beall Applied Innovation champions educational equity

Venture Well

When leaders at UCI BAI discovered VentureWell’s Advancing Equity report, they used it as a blueprint to develop a DEI framework for their organization. The post turning the tide: how Beall Applied Innovation champions educational equity appeared first on VentureWell.

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NYC’s Tech Resurgence

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Early in the pandemic, we were all deluged with stories of tech workers, companies, and founders leaving Silicon Valley for Miami and Austin. And that was true. But from my personal experience, they also left for many other places too, including Los Angeles and New York City. I met with a founder last week who has left the bay area for good and now splits his time between homes in LA and NYC.

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Impact Investor Profile Series: Naava Mashiah, CEO, ME LINKS

The Seraf Compass

This profile is the first in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting impact investors. Naava Mashiah is a Geneva Switzerland based wealth manager and business development consultant focused on impact investments in the Middle East.

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Why some leaders deny reality with return-to-office strategies amid Delta surge

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky , an internationally-renowned thought leader in future-proofing and cognitive bias risk management and an EO 360° podcast guest. We asked Dr. Tsipursky to explain how normalcy bias and other cognitive biases impact entrepreneurs in determining return-to-office scenarios. Here’s what he shared: As the efficiency rate of vaccines against the Delta variant slides to 39% , company leaders who implement a normal office return are denying reality.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Power in People: Humans Will Determine Digital Transformation Success

StartupNation

Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. According to the Economist , one of the most significant outcomes of the pandemic will be “the infusion of data-enabled services into ever more aspects of life.” We were already expecting a transition to digital transformation thanks to technological advancement, dubbed the “fourth industrial revolution.

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Slack: The Green Light Isn’t an Indicator of Productivity

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Jenn Fulmer, a content writer for TechnologyAdvice , IT Business Edge, and Baseline. There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. If employees constantly worry about keeping their green light on, they can’t focus on their actual work. Many managers are worried about the productivity of their remote workers and want a good way to measure it.

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Height - The Project Management Tool for the Modern Worker

Tomasz Tunguz

Today, Height.app launched out of private beta, and we’re thrilled to announce Redpoint has partnered with the Height team, especially Michael & Kat, who hail from Stripe and Facebook. We were captivated by Height when we met the team several years ago. In particular, the company aspired to a vision of enabling cross-functional teams to work better together, particularly as organizations grow.

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Why Employers Should Consider Recruiting Remote Employees

StartupNation

One lesson the COVID pandemic has taught us is that employees do not need to work in the same location as their employer to be productive. This has since opened up a much larger pool of candidates for companies as they no longer need to focus on recruiting in areas near an office location. This may be a new way of doing things for many employers, but there are a lot of benefits to recruiting remote employees.

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Indian online learning platform Vedantu becomes unicorn with $100 million funding

TechCrunch

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. Vedantu, which last month refuted rumors of it considering a sale to Byju’s , said on Wednesday it has raised $100 million in its Series E financing round that valued it at $1 billion, up from about $275 million early last year.

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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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Amplitude (W12) is going public

Y Combinator

Today, Amplitude, which was part of YC’s W12 batch, is going public. Their story of grit, determination, and creativity, is an epic one. Spenser and Curtis first applied to YC in 2011, but their idea, a new version of Mechanical Turk, did not impress YC’s reviewers at the time, and although they were clearly brilliant hackers, that first application was rejected.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

Our world is changing, and fast. With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies.

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WJR Business Beat: Local Company AdAdapted Strikes Major Partnership For Growth (Episode 298)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about a major collaboration between Ann Arbor startup AdAdapted and Buzzfeed that impacts how consumers find recipes and shop. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about AdAdapted’s partnership: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications

TechCrunch

As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has built technology to make that process move faster and more efficiently is announcing a round of funding to address those enterprises’ evolving needs.

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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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3 Marketing Tips for Small Business Owners to Succeed in 2021

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Megan Wintersteen, Vice President of Marketing at Zenreach. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on small businesses (SMBs) throughout 2020. Moving through 2021, however, we’ve seen increasing signs of optimism. Consumer foot traffic to restaurants and retailers has increased more than 52% since January. Vaccination rates are also climbing.

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Mum Builds a £50 Million Brand Because Her Kids Needed a Better Education

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How the founder of Cambridge Satchel Co. started with £600 and made it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Monetizing Your True Purpose: How to Make Money at Anything

StartupNation

By now, you’ve mastered the importance of cracking your life’s purpose code and finding your purpose. Now, it’s time to discuss monetizing your true purpose. There are five primary reasons people do not achieve their dreams: They never begin. They quit too soon. They make poor decisions, derailing their ambitions. They worry about what others think.

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Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women

TechCrunch

After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal told TechCrunch. She began researching how Pakistani women deal with money—for example, how do they save or take out credit?

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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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How to Change Business Owners’ Love-Hate Relationship with Marketing

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Zev Asch, Marketing & Business Growth Consultant. Business owners need not be their company’s marketing experts. You trust your CPA to guide you on finances and your lawyer to advise on legal matters – marketing should not be an exception. Your role as a business owner is to create a vision, set goals and manage the business by hiring the best talent you can find for each part of the business (HR, accounting, sales, customer service, operations, etc.).

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3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media

The Startup Blog Market Brief

Cognitive ToyBox conducted an experiment to find out which forms of advertising via social media are most effective in reaching educators. The post 3 Strategies for Ed. Companies to Reach Teachers Through Social Media appeared first on Market Brief.

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Entrepreneurs Must Optimize Their Fundraising Strategy to Move Forward

StartupNation

Despite the recent radical economic changes, entrepreneurs have been resilient and adapted their business models to cope and sometimes even go public. However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can optimize their fundraising strategy by learning to avoid cash management pitfalls and how investors evaluate startups.

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Employers are consumer edtech’s next beta test

TechCrunch

Remote work may have changed the way we spend our days, but there’s quite a sneaky disruptor among us: burnout. As the pandemic drags on, employees are either soul-searching for a bigger purpose or simply exhausted by the uncertainty and stale culture of their current jobs. It’s not a small subset of the working population, either: Microsoft estimates that 41% of people are likely to consider leaving their employer within the next year, and 46% are planning to make a major pivot or career transi

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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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i2E adds experience and talent to better help Oklahoma entrepreneurs

Innovation 2 Enterprise

We’re still the same i2E that has served Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community for the past 22 years, providing business advice to nearly 800 startups and investing $79 million in 187 companies. We’ve celebrated 11 major exits and one “unicorn” among our portfolio companies over more than two decades of service to Oklahoma. Now, we offer even more to Oklahoma’s founders to keep up with the growing demand for our services through our subsidiary, i2E Management Company, Inc.

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Founder With a $12 Billion Exit Told Me the Strategy He Used to Get VCs to Finally Pay Attention

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You’ll be able to fundraise once you understand what investors really want to see. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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5 Company Naming Mistakes that Can Kill Your Startup

StartupNation

In the fervor of starting a new business, it’s easy to overlook the long-term impact of a quick company naming decision. Most new business owners worry first and foremost about the more pressing issues of cash flow, staffing, leasing, signage and inventory. The company name will work itself out, or come with the help of family and friends (or so the thinking goes.

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Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group , which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation from Bow Wave Capital Management and returning backer Ant Group.

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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.