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3 Surefire Ways to Surprise and Delight Your Customers

Entrepreneurs' Organization

An ocean of prospective customers awaits. It’s also full of competitors. How is your company faring in these waters? Some businesses drop anchor with the right “bait” needed to fill a widened net with conversions. But what happens when other competitors offer something similar? What you’re selling might not stand out anymore or, worse, could become the least attractive option.

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How Attractive is Risk Today?

Revolution

To fill a pail with rocks of different sizes, it’s better to put big rocks in first, and then finish with small rocks. Investing is similar. If you get the big questions right, you can get other stuff wrong and do well. The biggest question: “How much risk should I take right now?” For individuals, that could mean allocations between stocks and bonds; for institutions, it could mean allocations across various risk buckets.

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Techstars Launches Accelerator Program in Japan with Mitsui Fudosan and JETRO

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Techstars , the world’s largest pre-seed investor, has teamed up with Mitsui Fudosan, a prominent global real estate developer based in Tokyo, and the Japan External Trade Organization ( JETRO ). The trio will introduce a new accelerator program in Japan.

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How Attractive is Risk Today?

Revolution

To fill a pail with rocks of different sizes, it’s better to put big rocks in first, and then finish with small rocks. Investing is similar. If you get the big questions right, you can get other stuff wrong and do well. The biggest question: “How much risk should I take right now?” For individuals, that could mean allocations between stocks and bonds; for institutions, it could mean allocations across various risk buckets.

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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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Why The Most Dangerous Way to Innovate is the Most Effective Way

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Often, the best ideas often look very similar to the worst ideas In 1963, Seymour Cray’s team at Control Data, based in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, built the world’s first supercomputer, the CDC6600. At the time, IBM was the Google of computers, except more so. Imagine Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon rolled into one. That was IBM. Its CEO, Thomas Watson Jr., was apoplectic.

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South African e-commerce startup TUNL gets funding to accelerate growth of its exports platform

TechCrunch

TUNL, a South African parcel shipping platform, has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding from investors, including Founders Factory Africa, Digital Africa Ventures, E4E Africa, and Jozi Angels. The platform, which claims to help e-commerce merchants save between 50% and 80% on international shipping costs, said the funding will fuel its expansion in its primary […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Step-Ups & Duration : The Shape of Things to Come to the Series A in 2024

Tomasz Tunguz

The typical software startup raised their Series A 15 months after raising their seed at 2x their seed valuation. A year ago, that Series A would have been raised three months earlier at 3.5x the valuation. Here’s another way of visualizing the data. The red dot is 2023 - the other years are in grey. Across rounds for the 50th & 75th percentile of companies, step-up valuations are the lowest multiples in about ten years.

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What’s next for Texts.com under new owner Automattic, as Apple cracks down on rival Beeper

TechCrunch

What’s next for Texts.com? The all-in-one messaging app was acquired this fall by WordPress.com owner Automattic for $50 million, marking the company’s first official expansion into the world of private messaging — outside of its startup investments, at least, which have included Apple’s recent foe Beeper and Element, a Matrix-powered app.

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How Should Founder Mental Health Feature in VC Investment Decisions?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

We know startups are bad for mental health. How can venture capitalists promote human sustainability in entrepreneurship?

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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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OpenAI launches second Converge startup cohort

TechCrunch

Palace intrigue might be dominating the news cycle around OpenAI, but the AI startup — and its accelerator programs — are chugging along uninterrupted, so the PR team tells me. OpenAI today announced the launch of Converge-2, the second cohort of its six-week Converge program for “exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, and product builders using AI […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Lesson #357: Prioritizing Investment Return Objectives

Red Rocket

I was recently talking to an entrepreneur that passed on an investment because it would not need yield the company at least a 10x growth opportunity. I told him those level of returns are reasonable when investing in small businesses under $5MM, but that he should consider lowering his ROI threshold when investing in larger companies. My logic was twofold: (1) bigger companies are harder to grow as quickly as small businesses, so the growth percentages will be lower; and (2) you can make “oodles

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Choosing the right deep tech fund manager: 4 essential questions for investors and founders

TechCrunch

To master deep tech investing, a VC fund manager must understand market opportunities that are growing in size and at a rate that cannot be ignored. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Entrepreneur’s Cup Marks 20 Years: Reimagined Competition and Brand – Same Entrepreneurial Spirit

Innovation 2 Enterprise

The Entrepreneur’s Cup, presented by Love’s Travel Stops, provides a platform for the next generation of business leaders to showcase their innovative ideas and support toward transforming these concepts into thriving businesses. Now approaching its 20 th year, this statewide collegiate business plan competition is unveiling a fresh look, an exciting new award category, and a streamlined competition structure.

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Enhance Customer Value: Unleash Your Data’s Potential

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Safeguarding AI Forum on January 22nd announced by Host, The Center for Security in Politics

American Entrepreneurship

The Center for Security in Politics with Digimarc announced that on January 22 nd it will host with Secretary Janet Napolitano a public forum on “ Safeguarding the Development of Artificial Intelligence ”. The panel discussion moderated by NBC News Correspondent Jacob Ward will discuss the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on election security.

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Zuper dons field service management cape for small business, enterprise customers

TechCrunch

Zuper’s platform provides automated workflows and workforce collaboration so that customers have the best possible experience. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Magnitude vs. Probability: Angel Investors and Risk

The Seraf Compass

When evaluating new venture opportunities, every angel investor thinks about risk, but how we think about it and assess it is very personal. I did an interview with Greg Stoller, a Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, who is studying risk from different perspectives. He asked me for my thoughts on risk from the perspective of early stage investors, and I figured I’d share my answers here.

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E3 Durham: A Rebirth of Grassroots Entrepreneurship

Forward Cities

Forward Cities Director of Entrepreneur Engagement, Hassan Bazzi, reflects on the current state of entrepreneurship and shares his thoughts on the future, drawing insights from his work as the Navigator for the E3 Durham Community Navigator Program.

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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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[Materials Zone in PR Newswire] MaterialsZone Enables Further Innovation at Kafrit Group, Enhancing Products and Customer Experience

OurCrowd

The post [Materials Zone in PR Newswire] MaterialsZone Enables Further Innovation at Kafrit Group, Enhancing Products and Customer Experience appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Apple will no longer give police users’ push notification data without a warrant

TechCrunch

Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order. In its law enforcement guidelines updated this week, Apple said law enforcement and government agencies can now obtain push notification records with a court order or a search warrant, both of […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Outline: Venture Studio Boot Camp

Morrow

Boot Camp Program Outline The post Outline: Venture Studio Boot Camp appeared first on Morrow.

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Worldcoin adds integrations with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre

TechCrunch

Worldcoin, a crypto project co-founded by Sam Altman, said it now supports integrations for its World ID with Minecraft, Reddit, Telegram, Shopify and Mercado Libre. The company already supports integrations with Discord, Talent Protocol and Okta’s Auth0. Launched to the public about four months ago, the protocol recently was updated to World ID 2.0, which, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.

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Underestimating AI in Healthcare

Andreessen Horowitz

Over the past half century, Wall Street was completely revolutionized by computers. Not so long ago, human brokers on the stock exchange floor haggled to buy and sell every stock, writing their agreements on pieces of paper. But in 1971, the NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, was introduced. Electronic trading platforms followed in the 1980s, and the rise of the internet in the 1990s brought online brokerages like E*TRADE.

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With AI Studio, Google launches an easy-to-use tool for developing apps and chatbots based on its Gemini model

TechCrunch

After announcing its family of Gemini models last week and bringing it to its Bard chatbot experience, Google is now bringing Gemini to developers by launching a slew of new and updated services today. One of these services is AI Studio — which was previously known as MakerSuite. AI Studio is a web-based tool for […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Scaling New Heights: The Journey of Raghav Belavadi’s Luxury Mobility Startup from India to Global…

Jason Malki

Scaling New Heights: The Journey of Raghav Belavadi’s Luxury Mobility Startup from India to Global Success I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Raghav Belavadi, the founder of Hype Luxury. A Mechanical Engineering graduate and an alumnus of Oxford University, he is a seasoned professional with a distinguished leadership background. Having worked with renowned brands such as Daimler, Rolls Royce, J&J, and CAT, Belavadi also brings a wealth of experience from global leadership roles at

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Amazon competes with its own Goodreads with launch of book discovery service, ‘Your Books’

TechCrunch

Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will organize all the books you’ve bought, borrowed, or saved, including print books, as well as Amazon’s Kindle and Audible titles. This library will […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.