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Q&A: How Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Can Help You

StartupNation

We reached out to Brianna Ellison, director of community engagement for Verizon, as part of our initiative to bring the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready program to Michigan entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners. Brianna Ellison. It concludes with a Pitch Showcase awarding at least $25,000 in prize money. How do we bridge this gap?

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Elevate Your Startup’s Future with 4 Financial Forecasting Game-Changers

Entrepreneurs' Organization

For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Mayfield’s Arvind Gupta discusses startup fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

When I suggested that the downturn in the public markets might give startups a chance to focus on finding product-market fit instead of chasing growth, he gave me a personal market correction: Recessions or downturns are always the hardest times to build businesses, always, for the entrepreneurs, for VCs, for everyone involved. Gupta said.

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Decoding and learning from a business failure

Berkonomics

In fact, many angel investors or venture capitalists look for and respect the lessons learned by entrepreneurs that have survived a failed business. The key question is: Why did an entrepreneur fail? A successful entrepreneur who has seen the movie before is even more valued. The economic environment changing downward.

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Dan Teran shares Gutter Capital’s challenge of closing its first fund

TechCrunch

We’ve covered the dry powder that venture capital firms are sitting on and also how difficult it is to raise funding in this economic environment. Forerunner is software for NFIMBYs, or no flooding in my backyard Then they went out and raised external funds. Teran and Gettinger are investing initial $1.5

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Three Learnings for Startups after Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Beatdown

Entrepreneur's Handbook

As an investor that has a basket of potential investment options to choose from, those opportunities with more visibility in the sustainability of their cash flows are at an advantage in uncertain economic environments. What do you think? What other recent observations/learnings from Big Tech do you have?

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Taking on Bilt, Stake aims to expand its cash-back rewards program for renters

TechCrunch

“Today, affordability for rentals is front-and-center in every aspect of our current economic environment. Proptech still has fundamental problems for entrepreneurs to solve. The pandemic has changed real estate forever,” Hobbs told TechCrunch in an email interview.