Venture Well
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The founders of medtech startup T33 Dental explain how they prioritized developing a sustainable company from the earliest stages, and how other entrepreneurs can do. The post How These Founders Are Building Sustainability Into Their Medtech Startup appeared first on VentureWell.
Paul G. Silva
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Practice Your Pitch and Save Your Social Capital Entrepreneurs benefit tremendously from practicing their pitch and Q&A. The more practice they get, the better they become at understanding common questions, responding clearly and concisely, and handling the emotions of tough questions. However, mentors have limited time, and many do not ask the hardest questions or provide enough critical feedback.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
As a small- to medium-sized business, hiring is difficult. Very difficult. But there’s a hack that I have leveraged to consistently find dedicated, top talent: hiring military spouses. Let’s dive a bit deeper into why hiring military spouses can solve several challenges for lean small businesses, and why talented military spouses are often underemployed.
Source Link
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The post Innovation-Led – Supporting the Types of Businesses in Your Ecosystem appeared first on SourceLink.
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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?
American Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
New CEO named to lead transformative technology in the beauty industry. AI continues to open up new frontiers as innovators apply the fast-emerging technology in ways that gain investor support. By combining AI and robotics, California-based LUUM provides eyelash extensions in just minutes, supplanting existing two-hour-long procedures. The technology-driven beauty company also announced the appointment of Jo Lawson as its new Chief Executive Officer and the transition of co-founder Nathan Hardi
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AsiaTechDaily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
The Indonesia Investment Authority (INA), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has partnered with Singapore-based venture capital firm Granite Asia to jointly invest as much as $1.
Paul G. Silva
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
I am thrilled to introduce Forge the Future —an immersive roleplaying simulation designed for aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals! Have you ever tried explaining to friends or family what it’s really like to build a startup? The late-night pivots, the investor meetings that change everything, the moment you realize your MVP needs a complete rebuild while your runway is dwindling?
HPA
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
HPA is pleased to share that Zengines , an innovative AI-powered data management company , has announced closing their oversubscribed $9M Series Seed round and a major software release. HPA invested in the round , which was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development and fuel market growth. Zengines has introduced an end-to-end Data Migration platform , revolutionizing the way organizations handle complex data migrations.
Hunter Walk
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. One component of a good Board is a high value add Independent Board Member, which in my experience, often doesn’t get added early enough (for a variety of reasons). But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors.
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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.
American Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Award Recognizes Women Business Leaders Making a Significant Impact on the State’s Economy Boston-based nonprofit The Women’s Edge and its twelve-year partner, The Boston Globe , announced this past week its annual Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list, its part to advance women in leadership positions. For the 24 th year, the organization published the list, developed through a nomination process for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The major areas of AI innovation automate white-collar work. Reviewing the BLS’ data on employment for white collar work, I aggregated the data to these categories. It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. Occupation Employment (in millions) AI Technology Software Developers & IT 2.71 Code completion, generation, refactoring, security analysis Education & Librarians 2.37 Computer adaptive in
NZ Entrepreneur
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Did you know, that in New Zealand 50% of businesses die within four years of starting? That’s a frightening fact! When Eden Design started over 17 years ago, cheques were still in use, Facebook was only three years old, and Teams Meetings were but a twinkle in Microsoft’s eye! A lot has changed since then, however nearly two decades on, there are some common brand and design mistakes that contribute to a shaky foundation.
Red Rocket
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
I am in the middle of a sale process for one of our portfolio companies, and I wanted to share some useful tips to ensure your sale process goes as smoothly as possible. This article will focus on the actual “process” of selling, so you can better understand what levers you can pull to your advantage in getting the quickest sale at the highest price.
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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.
AsiaTechDaily
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, in collaboration with global venture capital firm Walden International, has launched the Nanyang Frontier Fund, a venture capital initiative to support deep-tech spin-offs from the […]
Founder Bounty
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Dmytro Kudrenko, the founder and CEO of Stripo, started his journey in software development 25 years ago alongside friends. About 15 years ago, they launched a customer data platform that featured an integrated email template editor. Understanding the difficulties marketers encountered when designing complex emails without coding knowledge, they developed a solution: an intuitive email template builder.
American Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Celebration of the creator spirit and the announcement of an expanded collaboration with Pharrell Williams were made. At the highly attended Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal this past week, creators were recognized for their significant role in the growth of the digital economy. A major announcement came for Visa, celebrating the impact of creators and expanding the company’s collaboration with musician and filmmaker Pharrell Williams.
Hunter Walk
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
“What’s one thing you stress to new VCs now that wasn’t as important, say, 10 years ago?” That was the question put to me last week by a senior leader at a large university endowment during Screendoor’s yearly Convening [part annual meeting for our LPs, part community event, part strategy session]. My answer was something like, “That knowing when, and how, to sell out of a company is now not just opportunistic, but part of your job.” It used to be as a s
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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.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
“AWS’ AI business is a multibillion-dollar revenue run rate business that continues to grow at a triple-digit year-over-year percentage and is growing more than 3x faster at this stage of its evolution as AWS itself grew, and we felt like AWS grew pretty quickly.” “Our AI business is on track to surpass an annual revenue run rate of $10 billion next quarter, which will make it the fastest business in our history to reach this milestone.
Red Rocket
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
What is it about Memorial Day, July 4 th , Labor Day and the Christmas season? They bring out all the big discounts, which gets shoppers flooding to the malls to save money, especially on big ticket items like cars and mattresses, as examples. And the sellers of those products bring out their best prices during these holiday seasons, trying to capture has much market share against their competitors as they can.
AsiaTechDaily
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a venture capital firm based in Vietnam that focuses on climate-friendly investments globally, has announced its involvement in the seed extension round for Cambrium, which […]
Jason Malki
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. They are at the forefront of industry transformation with their integrated tooling approach. Gururaj shared valuable insights from his experiences on having his previous startup getting acquired by a large public company, rapid growth with large-xLarge customers, and challenges in capturing SMBs and medium
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CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.
American Entrepreneurship
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Innovative entrepreneurs have an opportunity to obtain funding and resources in an upcoming cohort. Entrepreneurs with innovative ideas utilizing NEC’s technologies and businesses can move their ventures forward into seed-ready startups upon acceptance into NEC’s Elev X! Venture Studio. The Venture Studio program provides founders with resources and up to $200K of equity funding to develop their vision into a business with substantial market impact.
Founder Bounty
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
One inspiring entrepreneur success story is that of Sara Blakely , the founder of Spanx. Her journey from a frustrated consumer to a billionaire entrepreneur shows how passion, persistence, and an innovative idea can lead to extraordinary success. 1. The Beginning of an Idea In 1998, Sara Blakely was working as a sales trainer in Florida, selling fax machines door-to-door.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
77% of enterprise AI usage are using models that are small models, less than 13b parameters. Databricks, in their annual State of Data + AI report , published this survey which among other interesting findings indicated that large models, those with 100 billion perimeters or more now represent about 15% of implementations. In August, we asked enterprise buyers What Has Your GPU Done for You Today?
NZ Entrepreneur
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
Who: BlueRock What: Business Funding Advisory NZ HQ: Christchurch, Canterbury Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? BlueRock NZ helps entrepreneurial kiwi businesses fund their growth and innovation projects. Entrepreneurs can cut the cost of innovation – and boost business cashflow – with government funding for research and development, but navigating the rulebooks can be challenging.
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