Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

As we continue to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month and the 13-19 May Mental Health Awareness Week , Ethan King (EO Atlanta) shares an innovative method for prioritizing mental health while keeping the sometimes overwhelming pace of entrepreneurship. Modern life is like walking a tight rope high above the ground every single day. You’re up there carrying different weights, trying to balance your career, family life, health, and personal growth.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 8, 2024

This article is intended to provide a quick overview and explanation of the principal documents in a fundraising where the investors are purchasing convertible debt. Unlike a stock transaction, these convertible debt deals do not alter the capitalization of the company by adding new stockholders until the debt is converted into equity.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. On the flip side, athletes, entertainers, and C-level executives also ask what they should expect when investing in technology startups and working with founders looking to build the next big thing.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 6, 2024

Sydney-based startup Brainfish, specializing in AI-driven customer support solutions for online businesses, has successfully secured AUD 3.85 million (USD 2.5 million) in its second funding round.

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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?

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2024

The founders of Eight Sleep — part of YC’s summer 2015 class — set out to solve a problem that resonates with just about everybody: they wanted better sleep. Not just more sleep. Better sleep. That real, deep, wake-up-happy sleep that most people only get when the stars align just right. A huge part of that equation, as anyone who has woken up at 2 a.m. to throw the blanket off could tell you, is temperature.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

For consumer products, the rubber hits the road at retention. It’s the lifeblood of an app and the hardest metric to move, as I learned viscerally during my time running the growth team at Snap. To attract repeat users, companies can’t just fill a product with the latest and greatest tech — they must intentionally craft each product feature to ensure their users come back again and again and again.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 8, 2024

Orange Inc., a manga localization technology company, has successfully completed its pre-Series A financing round, raising JPY 2.92 billion (USD 19.5 million).

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

The fastest growing category of US venture investment in 2024 is AI. Venture capitalists have invested $18.3 billion through the first four months of the year. At this pace, we should expect AI startups to raise about $55b in 2024. AI startups now command more than 20% share of all US venture dollars across categories, including healthcare, biotech, & software.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 6, 2024

State College, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (CNP) is pleased to announce the selection of eight outstanding entrepreneurial teams to participate in the Spring 2024 TechCelerator Business Bootcamp. Following a rigorous application process, these finalists have been chosen for their innovative ideas and potential to make significant impacts in their respective industries.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

In the year and a half since ChatGPT launched a new AI wave, a crucial shortfall has dominated headlines: the insatiable demand for GPU computing resources. But when we talk to cloud leaders and data center operators to understand why there’s a compute crunch, it’s clear that access to power is often a bigger bottleneck than access to NVIDIA’s coveted GPUs themselves.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2024

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, in collaboration with Meritech Capital Partners, has taken the lead in a Series C funding round for Atlan, an AI startup headquartered in San Francisco.

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David Teten VC

MAY 4, 2024

Inevitably, some of a VC’s portfolio companies will become “zombies”: not dead, but not growing. They have some technology and revenues, but morale is low. The CEO is hinting he’d like to get into VC or otherwise find a soft landing. Finding a buyer is difficult, because the company is not exciting to anyone, including even the founders. So what do you do?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 6, 2024

State College, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (CNP) is pleased to announce the selection of eight outstanding entrepreneurial teams to participate in the Spring 2024 TechCelerator Business Bootcamp. Following a rigorous application process, these finalists have been chosen for their innovative ideas and potential to make significant impacts in their respective industries.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 9, 2024

If history is a guide, transformative breakthroughs emerge when powerful creative tools reach the masses. That’s why we’re thrilled to lead the $5M seed round for Yellow, a company focused on revolutionizing 3D character creation through generative AI. The potential impact is immense. Despite rapid progress in 2D image generation and control, 3D has remained stubbornly difficult and expensive due to challenges like maintaining clean topology and requiring numerous intermediate repres

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Berkonomics

MAY 9, 2024

Your success must be based upon data that is solid and sometimes flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Here in brief are ten tests for your successful vision. Try these on for size, and test yourself for attractiveness to the marketplace, to investors and to history. Ten tests for your business success: Is your market identifiable and accessible?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 8, 2024

More Than a Great Idea: How an Experienced Legal Partner Can Help Launch a Successful Startup By Elizabeth Sigety Every great startup starts with a great idea. But, over the past three decades, after investing in countless emerging companies through the Delaware Crossing Investor Group, my angel network, and working with entrepreneurs and investors through my role as an attorney and Chair of Fox Rothschild’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, I’m confident in saying one thing: Su

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 6, 2024

State College, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (CNP) is pleased to announce the selection of eight outstanding entrepreneurial teams to participate in the Spring 2024 TechCelerator Business Bootcamp. Following a rigorous application process, these finalists have been chosen for their innovative ideas and potential to make significant impacts in their respective industries.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As more workloads and data move to the cloud and generative AI takes over the enterprise , cybersecurity is more critical today than ever. And that’s because with every new paradigm shift—from the internet to cloud computing—the sheer magnitude of digital threats has exploded and threat vectors have become increasingly sophisticated. Some of the greatest software platforms in history have risen to the occasion in their respective markets to protect the enterprise against these evolving threats.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 8, 2024

In May, mental health is top of mind with Mental Health Awareness Month and the upcoming 13-19 May Mental Health Awareness Week. Don’t miss our previous post on How to Protect Your Mental Health When Starting a Business. Did you know that your inner dialogue can significantly impact your state of mind and ability to achieve? We asked entrepreneur and best-selling author Al Zdenek to share how he changed his negative inner dialogue into a positive force to help him reach his goals.

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GCUC

MAY 9, 2024

Community of Cultivators: Edition 67 – Abigail Schilling, Coworking Space Expert Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through coworking, we’ve cultivated a global community.

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OurCrowd

MAY 10, 2024

Xage Security, a global leader in zero trust access and protection, is announcing the launch of two product enhancements—Xage Insights and Xena—which aim to empower enterprises to adapt to the constantly evolving world of cyber threats.

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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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A Smart Bear: Longform

MAY 5, 2024

A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

When a person asks a question of an LLM, the LLM responds. But there’s a good chance of an some error in the answer. Depending on the model or the question, it could be a 10% chance or 20% or much higher. The inaccuracy could be a hallucination (a fabricated answer) or a wrong answer or a partially correct answer. So a person can enter in many different types of questions & receive many different types of answers, some of which are correct & some of which are not.

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GCUC

MAY 6, 2024

GCUC Podcast Recap: Christine Wyckoff In this episode of the GCUC podcast, Liz Elam and Christine Wyckoff, Director Enterprise Sales & Partnerships at Cushman & Wakefield dive into how.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2024

Geely, a major Chinese automotive manufacturer, and Foretellix, a leading provider of safety-driven V&V solutions for Autonomous Vehicles (AV), announced today a strategic partnership to enable safe large-scale deployment of AVs while reducing Geely’s R&D costs and increasing development efficiency. Read more here.

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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.

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