Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result. The first of question is about qualifying your potential customers aka leads. I recently wrote about the three rules of sales. Why Buy Anything ? Why Buy Me?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company has been built on the concept of giving consumers a way to buy things online without having to pay for them upfront, and without resorting to a credit card. If a bank is partly about corralling enough users on to your platform to pay money in and out, Klarna is well on its way. Image Credits: Klarna.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With sensitive personal and business information being stored on mobile phones, apps, and across the internet, now more than ever it’s important to protect you and your business from cyberattacks. It happens every day – employees fall for phishing and open emails from unknown senders. What is cybersecurity?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

5000 list , but getting there came with many, many landmines that could have blown up the business—as well as our relationship. She managed the co-working space I was working in. I was able to focus on business growth, business development, hiring and sales. Growing Pains. She said, “I got this.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

How to communicate with your board in tough times. Five success factors for behavioral health startups. More recently, and spurred in large part by mobile, on-demand use cases, managed marketplaces like Uber, DoorDash, Instacart and StockX* have taken online consumer purchasing a step further. Justin Da Rosa. Contributor.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There are many small business loans available for startups. Learn more about the different financing options and how you can get a startup loan for your business. There’s a bit more that goes into running a business than a million-dollar idea and an endless supply of Red Bull. Check your credit report.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups typically rely on innovative ideas and technologies to disrupt and revolutionize their respective industries. Most startups can expect to have severe exposure to cybercrime and unintentional data breaches at some point. It’s estimated that by 2021, there will be a cyberattack happening every 11 seconds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Last week’s big news was corporate spend management startup Brex’s announcement that it was laying off 11% of its staff , or 136 people.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

When it raised in September, Jeeves — which describes itself as “an all-in-one corporate card and expense management platform for global startups” — was valued at $500 million. and Europe that are a combination of high-growth startups, e-commerce companies and SMEs, including Bitso, Kavak and Belvo, among others.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Getting a credit card is something most Americans take for granted. In fact, less than 20% of the population has access to a form of credit, with just an estimated 10% having credit cards. One such startup is Vexi. In countries such as Mexico, it’s a much more difficult and less common endeavor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. On September 28, LinkedIn released its Top Startups list, which is its self-described annual ranking of 50 emerging U.S. Welcome to The Interchange !

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. — Mary Ann and Christine Busy, busy, busy It was a busy week in startup and venture lands, and the fintech space was no exception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Fintech startup Spendesk is announcing that it has raised an extension to its Series C round. Tiger Global is investing $114 million (€100 million) in the startup. In January alone, five startups announced that they have crossed the threshold to reach unicorn status — PayFit , Ankorstore , Qonto , Exotec and Spendesk.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

For many entrepreneurs, the startup they are trying to get off the ground might be only the second entry on their resume. Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. Image Credits: Steve Jennings / Getty Images. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners. Image Credits: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. They’ll take questions from the audience, so please add a reminder to your calendar to join the conversation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. On a high level, it’s no surprise that funding flowing into fintech startups was down both globally and in the U.S. Welcome to The Interchange!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. I do not take this lightly because without your support, I would not be doing this. Image Credits: John Anderson, head of payments / Plaid.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling a startup is hard. Scaling a startup bank is even harder. In April 2020, British banking startup Monzo’s revenue fell by almost 50%. In the United Kingdom alone, there are 73 million personal accounts and four million business accounts , through which customers make more than 40 billion payments per year and hold £1.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” “Perhaps even more than the name of your startup does.” Choose your job title before you name your startup. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Corporate management startup Ramp confirmed that it has secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubles its valuation to $8.1 New York-based Ramp was founded in 2019 and came out of stealth in February 2020 with a corporate card offering. Expansion over time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Credit scores have been around since 1989, or for over three decades. The startup says its goal is to help people “build credit, not debt.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. The world of expense management just got (even more) competitive. Rho believes in the power of integrating spend management and business banking services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. My best advice: Strengthen your network. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Such staffing cuts are not abnormal in such business combinations, even if that is little comfort to those in eliminated roles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Danish startup Pleo may lay off 15% of its workers. Credit Karma, now a subsidiary of Intuit, has “decided to pause almost all hiring.”

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StartupNation

JULY 13, 2021

The dreaded 180-day notification arrives on your computer. It’s time to change your password again. Now, you must remember this new password and the one to your credit card and your bank and your Venmo and on and on. Contact Michael Spath with any of your insurance questions. Sherbert5678?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2018

What you are spending your money on and when you spend are often key indicators for an organization’s financial success or failure. . When you’re just trying to make it through the end of the month, you may lose focus on your long-term goals. As a vulnerable new business founder, it’s easy to submit to sunk cost thinking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Greenoaks Capital and TCV co-led the financing, which brings the three-year-old San Francisco startup’s total raised to $1.2 Brex started its life focused on providing credit cards aimed mainly at startups and SMBs. Image Credits: Brex. He’s a unique hire in that sense, and that’s particularly important for Brex.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

. “Remember that your application should be good enough to get an interview, not win a prize,” says Morton. Image Credits: Robert Katai under a license. . You can’t hack your YC application, but here’s what to avoid. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Some people believe that launching a business is stressful. Uncertainty exists no matter how well you plan your to-do list or schedule your time. Most businesses collapse due to financial factors such as the entrepreneur running out of cash , being incapable of paying workers, or not supplying enough goods to stay afloat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. However, in general, a chartered bank in operation has obtained a form of government permission to do business in the financial services industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

” (Full disclosure: the second time I worked at a startup founded by Mark Pincus, Zinga slept behind my desk and I was one of her favorite dog-sitters.). 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. Image Credits: Andrii Yalanskyi (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. But for some reason, when you’re talking about a company that had achieved the highest-ever valuation for a privately held startup, it sits differently.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. These innards show an exciting business — and a larger story about how the year is going for tech companies in general. Will this be bad for DoorDash’s business? Image Credits: John Artman.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you can, I recommend join HubSpot for Startups , which offers generous discounts. We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2021

When it comes to meeting compliance standards, many startups are dominating the alphabet. From GDPR and CCPA to SOC 2, ISO27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA, companies have been charging toward meeting the compliance standards required to operate their businesses. It makes sense that startups want to tackle compliance first.

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