Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 28, 2023

In this week’s edition, we discuss The deadly mistakes that will kill your startup The end of season 1 of the EH podcast Let’s get to it. ? The deadly mistakes that will kill your startup Author and startup design leader Michael Burnett has seen many deadly mistakes repeatedly and observed how they played out. Any one of these will slowly kill your startup, so tackle them head-on at the starting line: A startup fails to find product-market fit —  You need to perform Discovery, Validation, and Us

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

With a drier than normal investment scene, founders are looking for more effective ways to reach the right VCs. To that end, over the past few weeks, thousands of founders have applied to land capital through a common app, but instead of hoping to land into a university, they’re hoping to land capital from top investors. The platform they’ve been using is Seed Checks , launched by venture capitalist and growth marketing entrepreneur Julian Shapiro around one month ago.

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StartupNation

MARCH 28, 2023

Even the most die-hard fans of Logan Roy, the fictional family patriarch at the heart of HBO’s hit… The post How to Succeed in a Family Business — and Enjoy ‘Succession’ for What It Is appeared first on StartupNation.

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Deskmag

MARCH 28, 2023

Struggling to increase the revenue of your coworking space? In this article, our guest author Helga shares five effective hacks to help maximize profits and keep your business running smoothly.

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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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Jason Malki

MARCH 27, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Shawn Taikratoke, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mozee. A startup focused on redefining the human journey. Shawn Taikratoke is a seasoned software engineer and leader with a remarkable career spanning over a decade in the tech industry. With an unwavering passion for innovation, Shawn has made his mark on the world by developing cutting-edge solutions and working with leading companies such as Apple, Fossil, and worked with various organizations within the Dep

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne , that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees , including one of WaveOne’s co-founders , now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 541 Ventures , a Los Angeles-based global venture capital firm, announces its official debut into the innovative and influential ecosystem of family offices in Southern California. The event, co-hosted by The Global 51, a family office association, and Revere, an information platform for asset allocators and emerging VC managers, brought together over 30 family offices and investment

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2023

CRM Software offers Small Businesses a Way to More Efficiently Grow Sales Sustainable growth for any small business is tied to building sufficient operational infrastructure to support a growing customer base. Only by having the right facility, technology and personnel can a growing company maintain the quality of its product and services it needs. On the revenue side, how well a company builds and manages it sales staff is also a determining factor of long-term success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 30, 2023

Why You Can’t Raise VC Money Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash Many entrepreneurs have experienced the keen sting of rejection when venture capital firms refuse to invest in or otherwise respond to their exciting new startups. In fact, founders today have less than a 5% chance of getting institutional money from the top VCs, and the most elite firms boast an even rarer rate of success (for example, the odds of securing backing from Andreessen Horowitz are approximately 0.7% ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

If you think embedded insurance is the only hot thing in insurtech these days, we’ve got a surprise in store for you: While it’s true that startups that help sell insurance together with other products and services are enjoying tailwinds, there are plenty of other opportunities in the space, several investors told TechCrunch+. You see, insurtech startups often need to take into account the myriad rules and regulations in place when they seek to innovate and embed insurance into products, which m

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. “Founders should also evaluate which VC is able

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

I asked Sriram Gollapalli , a founding member of TBD Angels and Long Angle , to share some details on TBD Angel’s tech stack and the ways in which it has helped TBD become one of the largest and most active angel networks in the US, since its inception 3 years ago. This is part of PEVCtech ‘s series on investment management firms’ tech stacks. Q: Please give us an overview of TBD Angels.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 31, 2023

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern Pennsylvania and its network of clients continue to bring cutting-edge ideas that impact Pennsylvania’s economy by driving investments, fostering entrepreneurship, supporting innovation in established manufacturers, and attracting and retaining talent. In 2022, Ben Franklin supported the creation of 29 new companies, 253 jobs, and helped clients retain 1,737 positions, according to impact surveys completed by clients who received support

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 27, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Harriet, a leading platform championing female founders, has partnered with venture capital firms Artesian, Wavemaker Partners, Wavemaker Impact, B Capital, and 1982 Ventures to launch a new forum aimed at bridging the funding gap for female-led startups in the Asia Pacific region.

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Reforge

MARCH 28, 2023

Table of Contents Where do users fit in product development? 3 Common User Story Makes Product Managers Make To Use or Not to Use User Stories The Misuse of User Stories – a title like that begs the question: Who misused them, how, and why? Foundational questions for a classic whodunnit novel. Well, user stories may not be literary works of art, but they very well may be the red herrings in their own tale.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

Funding will support platform roll out to accelerate the loan origination process for lenders and borrowers NEW YORK, March 29, 2023 – Presta , an end-to-end digital lending platform that modernizes and accelerates the loan origination process, announced its launch today after raising $3.3 million in oversubscribed pre-seed fundraise. Led by Distributed Ventures with additional investment from Zeal Capital Partners, Matchstick Ventures , The Fund , Tech Stars , and Jumpstart Ventures , the fundi

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

It’s estimated that about a third of all food produced worldwide every year, which is approximately 1.3 billion tons, is estimated to be wasted. Aravita , a Brazilian artificial intelligence startup, thinks that supermarkets are the best place to start fixing this problem. Marco Perlman, co-founder and CEO, started the company with Aline Azevedo and Bruno Schrappe in 2022 to tackle waste in the fourth-largest food producing country in the world where 33 million Brazilians have some type of food

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-based Baskit , a technology company focused on enhancing traditional supply chains in the country, has raised $1.5m in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Forge Ventures , and also saw participation from DS/X Ventures, Sketchnote Partners, Prasetia Ventures, and other notable regional and global angel investors.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 26, 2023

March 26, 2023 – JERUSALEM, Israel — The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of Uruguay (MIEM) and OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investor and a leading operator of Israeli and global incubators are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the potential establishment of a Technology Incubator in Uruguay within the framework of the Uruguay Innovation HUB Program (UIH).

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2023

The modern pricing platform gives businesses the infrastructure to automate billing, experiment with pricing, and optimize revenue capture SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 29, 2023 – Orb , the modern pricing platform, launched today and announced that it closed $14M in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, following a seed round in 2021 of $5.1 million led by Greylock, bringing the total raised to $19.1 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 30, 2023

In February Sandy Wollman, Marty Isaac, and myself worked with the Angel Capital Association to evolve New England & New York’s syndication process to work for more angel groups. Angels from New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania came together to test out our new approach to syndicating deals. Representatives from other syndication groups from as far as the west coast attended as well.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5 million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC. The round was also joined by SEEDS Capital and Masik Enterprises. The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2023

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 28, 2023 — FedML today announced $6 million in funding to spearhead a “collaborative AI” movement that empowers companies and developers to work together on machine learning tasks by sharing data, models and compute resources – fueling waves of AI innovation beyond the largest technology companies. To meet that need, FedML has built an open-source community, enterprise platform, and software tools that make it easier to train, deploy and customize machine learning model

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