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As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works

TechCrunch

Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. Millions — billions — of dollars are flowing toward upstart tech companies of all stripes, and as the de-facto news hub for the startup ecosystem, we are as guilty as anyone of being a

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4 ways to restore faith in marketing by connecting with humans, not algorithms

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Technology is a driving force of marketing, and its role is poised to scale in the future, empowering marketers to create ever-more-personal experiences that connect consumers to brands and products. A personalized approach is important for attracting and retaining customers, but what’s lost is the human connection. Instead of completely removing humans from the equation, incorporating human insights and creativity can improve how you act on the data and glean important insights to create more p

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What the CHIPS Act Has in Store for Entrepreneurs Across the Country

Revolution

SparkCharge Founder, Josh Aviv, gives opening remarks during the signing ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The CHIPS and Science Act ?—?an initiative poised to strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security by investing in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future?

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A canvas to help Business Services teams innovate

Paul G. Silva

If you work in a business services company (consulting, accounting, legal, etc.) and are in charge of evaluating ideas for innovation, most of the tools you’ve heard of don’t work. And so was born the KISS (Keep It Super Simple) Canvas for Business Services. All of the key information you need to do a basic assessment of an idea’s potential fits in one page.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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.

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India’s higher education startup Sunstone raises $35 million

TechCrunch

Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.

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FOMO Pay, SG’s first digital payment token licensee, raises $13m in Series A

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FOMO Pay , the Singapore-headquartered major payment institution that enables the digital economy with global virtual banking solutions for financial institutions and enterprises, announced that it has secured a $13 million investment in its Series A round led by Jump Crypto.

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What Is Non-Dilutive Funding and Why Is It So Important for Early-Stage Innovators?

Venture Well

When you’re just starting out as an early-stage innovator, the number of funding opportunities can be overwhelming. Learn how non-dilutive funding can be right for your venture. The post What Is Non-Dilutive Funding and Why Is It So Important for Early-Stage Innovators? appeared first on VentureWell.

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ThreatX raises a fresh round of capital to protect APIs and web apps

TechCrunch

ThreatX , a vendor selling API protection services to mainly enterprise clients, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Harbert Growth Partners with participation from Vistara Growth,406 Ventures, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketin

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The Power of In-Person Learning

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Sometimes you just need to be in the room—to feel the vibrations of energy and possibility all around you. When hundreds of EO entrepreneurs under the same roof connect with a speaker at precisely the same time, that energy is exhilarating. That is our Global Leadership Conference (GLC).

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Fundraising in 2022: Where We Are & Where We're Going

Tomasz Tunguz

Last week, I presented an overview of the fundraising market at the Traction Conference in Vancouver. The slides are embedded above & linked here. My brief narrative of the slides follows. The current state of affairs arose as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. Since 2008, the US experienced an unabated 12 year bull market fueled by four waves of money printing which increased US money supply by 30%+.

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500 Founders: Sophie Silver, Terry Wen, Ankita Dhakar & Aleks Dahlberg

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. Sophie Silver – cofounder. Celadon. “Take as much time as you can to understand your customer. “ “This journey has taken much longer than I expected.

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Will your company cut your benefits or your coworkers first?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha was joined by TC+ reporter Rebecca Szkutak to wade through the news of the week. It was frantic, it was full, and forgettable it was not! Here’s what we got into: Quick note from Becca on Neumann’s return and if follow-on funding will be a possibility for flow – given some investors reactions. .

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The Low Energy Trap

Continuations

I recently read Joseph Tainter’s outstanding book “The Collapse of Complex Civilizations,” which I recommend. It should be required reading for all politicians. Tainter’s theory is one of diminishing returns to bureaucracy, which we are clearly experiencing across many societies today. He also proposes one historic escape mechanism from such a collapse: a big energy unlock.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Live Community Events by Entrepreneur’s Handbook on Medium

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Meet the editors and writers, learn Medium tips, and grow your audience and your business Upcoming and past events below Coming up: October 11, 2022 | Community AMA Event Link to register Past events: August 9, 2022 | Community AMA & Awards Event Watch the recording: [link] Stephen and I discussed the top questions asked, including: how to get started on Medium today how much money can be made on Medium how to get published in Entrepreneur’s Handbook how to grow an audience thank yous to wri

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Stop managers from gaming the system!

Berkonomics

Does this really happen? Business unit managers are under lots of pressure to perform, and occasionally are tempted to step over the line finding ways to look better than reality reflects. Of course, this has never happened to you, and you have never done this in your past. So, we are speaking of a theoretical manager here. Of course. Well, how to prevent it from happening?

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The Station: Arrival slashes EV targets, more Tesla FSD controversy and NHTSA loses its captain

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. . Concerns and controversy continue to swirl around Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving software beta.

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Legatech VDR provides essential technological security for diversification of business, including M&A & investment

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register In recent years, companies have been actively engaged in short-term expansion and business restructuring through M&A. For example, global pharmaceutical and bio companies’ aggressive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are rising.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.

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MedTech Investment panel

Health Tech Capital

Check the July 21, 2022 MedTech Innovator investment panel with JJDC, Dexcom and Healthtech Capital

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How To Connect Design Students to Sustainability

Venture Well

Course & Program grantee Mateo Neri offers advice for faculty seeking ways to integrate sustainable principles into their courses. The post How To Connect Design Students to Sustainability appeared first on VentureWell.

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Upskilling platform GrowthSpace secures $25M to grow its global business

TechCrunch

As the jobs market remains tight (mass layoffs and hiring freezes in tech aside), companies are laser-focused on retaining staff. One of the areas they’re investing in is upskilling, which aims to teach employees new skills in departments with which they’re unfamiliar. For example, Walmart announced in 2021 that it would invest nearly $1 billion over the next five years to provide its employees with access to higher education and training.

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SG health tech startup MiyaHealth pockets additional funding to expand global reach

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based healthtech startup MiyaHealth has announced raising additional funds in its pre-Series A round anchored by healthcare and technology investors including HealthXCapital, Central Capital Ventura, and SEEDS Capital. This comes after MiyaHealth raised $6.5 million pre-Series A in February this year, which was one of the largest pre-Series A rounds by a healthtech start-up i

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Investing in Flow

Andreessen Horowitz

Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young … The post Investing in Flow appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Why is HardTech so Effing Hard?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Are you prepared to build a factory? Few people are. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen, Atlántico, MAYA Capital add some dough to Fudo’s restaurant tech recipe

TechCrunch

The restaurant industry was thrown for a loop two years ago when the pandemic kept people at home. Some weren’t prepared to accept online orders and others didn’t have a delivery network. Startups, like Fudo , stepped up with technology to get restaurants back on their feet. In Fudo’s case, the Argentina-based company offers a web-based restaurant operating system and point-of-sale software that brings together a restaurant’s operations into a centralized “hub.

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I Assumed This Memoir Was Just Another CEO’s Personal Brand Reinvention. I Was Very Wrong.

Hunter Walk

You Might Learn About Entrepreneurship Reading Andy Dunn’s Burn Rate But You’ll Learn Much More About Being Human. The realization of how mistaken I’d been hit somewhere around page 24 when the author details slipping into a psychotic state where he believed he was the returning Messiah. You see, my purchase of Andy Dunn’s Burn Rate was primarily to be supportive (I like him), and this past spring, it went from its Amazon package to a ‘Later’ pile in my office.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!