Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Learn to do them and you’ll be a much more efficient fundraiser Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

At USV, our climate thesis is about both mitigating and adapting to the climate crisis. One way we can adapt to the climate crisis is by building a more resilient energy supply system. Demand Response is one of many approaches that will be necessary to do that. Demand Response is when consumers of energy voluntarily cut back on energy consumption in reaction to peak demand situations.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If one of the trickiest parts of due diligence is knowing when to press ahead in the face of mounting concerns, surely the other tricky part is knowing when to suspend your efforts. The former is a challenge of overcoming inertia and uncertainty, and the latter is a challenge of overcoming momentum.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A Glimpse Inside The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream Today, my second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , was released by Simon & Schuster?—?but its message has been more than a decade in the making. If you’ve followed my journey as an investor and advocate, it’s likely one you know well: Great companies can start and scale anywhere.

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sarah Wharmby defines the different types of customer discovery interviews early-stage innovators can use. The post Sarah Says: What Customer Discovery Approach Is Right for You? appeared first on VentureWell.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Get the move upmarket right and you can unlock new users, use cases, and revenue streams. But get it wrong, and you risk losing focus, increasing burn, and stifling product innovation. So how do you prepare? Understand the unique value-add … The post Getting Ready to Move Upmarket appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ For Startups, a Bleak Year for IPOs and Acquisitions ”  — Fast Company “ Venture capital investing plunged in 2009 ”  — The Washington Business Journal “ Venture investments fall 61 percent in Q1 ”  — Associated Press Though these alarming headlines seem all too familiar today, each originally ran from 2007–2010: The Great Recession dramatically slowed venture capital fundraising for many companies, just as rece

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

3-question rule-breaker test to determine whether or not your business can profitably break the rules of marketing and win. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft took off for the first time yesterday , teasing a future in which regional flights of hundreds of miles will be done with zero emissions and a lot less noise. It’s still a ways off, but today’s demonstration shows it’s at least just a matter of time and money. The Alice is a prototype of what will eventually be a passenger plane capable of carrying around 2,500 pounds total, which equates to 9 people and their luggage (just don’t p

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Today Whatnot ( W20 ) is a lively platform where collectors can buy, sell, go live, and geek out with other like-minded people across a wide variety of product categories. But, like every startup, the founders of Whatnot began with only an idea. YC’s Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Whatnot Grant LaFontaine to discuss their first five launches.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Traveloka , Southeast Asia’s leading travel and lifestyle platform, has announced raising $300 million in a funding round led by a private credit fund managed by BlackRock. A consortium of global institutional investors also participated in the funding round that will finance the expansion of Traveloka’s platform and strengthen the company’s capabilities as the world opens up.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Daniel Hoffer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Daniel Hoffer is the managing director of Autotech Ventures. He leads investments in B2C and B2B startups with a focus on marketplaces, SaaS, and logistics. Commerce is as old as humanity, and yet innovation in how to build better and more efficient companies not only continues, but is accelerating. Although many forms of business innovation exist, marketplaces seem simplest at first glance, but they have evolved significantly from exchanging goods i

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Leading by example. How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them? By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If the CEO can do this, he gives permission for anyone to confess as well,” he states.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Insurance on-blockchain pioneer YAS MicroInsurance seeks to further expand and insure the Web3 economy after raising $4.5 million pre-Series A funding round co-anchored by Noria Capital, ZEMU VC, and JKL Capital. 500 Startups also participated in the funding round, according to the announcement.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Startups need both a builder and a visionary to create a rocketship that won’t explode Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Disperse , a U.K.-based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Disperse effectively creates a digital version of an entire construction site, including visual snapshots that track the progress of work to help all stakeholders — regardless of where they’re based — keep up with things.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Contributed to EO by Brooke Lively, an EO Fort Worth member who is founder and president of Cathedral Capital , which provides strategic financial advice to drive profit. By creating customized teams of financial professionals to analyze data trends and guide entrepreneurs through their numbers, CathCap serves as support to predictably scale and grow businesses.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Healthcare startup Lissun has announced raising about $1 million in pre-Seed funding led by IvyCapt Ventures and backed by We Founder Circle and Supermorpheus. The funding round, which will help finance the company’s plans to expand its operations in 25 cities in India and 5 new therapeutic areas, was also supported by marquee angel investors, including Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Harsh

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If you want to engineer a profitable business, arbitrage is the universal key Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regie.ai , a startup using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating system to create sales and marketing content for brands, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Foundation Capital, South Park Commons, Day One Ventures and prominent angel investors. The fresh investment comes as VCs see a growing opportunity in AI-powered, copy-generating adtech companies, whose tech promises to save time while potentially increasing per

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GCUC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Colleagues, friends, and industry OGs Caleb Parker, Founder at Bold, and Liz Elam, Founder at GCUC, take us on an in-depth tour of the. The post GCUC Podcast Recap: Caleb Parker appeared first on GCUC Community.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Southeast Asia’s used car marketplace giant Carro is expanding into the Japanese market through a joint venture with SoftBank Corporation, according to an announcement. The JV will be named Carro Japan Co Ltd and will introduce a full suite of services, such as subscription-based services and car leasing.

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Derek Sivers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every day you go on a long run through the forest. You picture a pot of gold at the end. It helps you finish when you feel like quitting. One day you pretend there’s a tiger right behind you. It makes you much faster, so you keep using this approach. A running expert suggests you try acting like you’re running on hot coals , to keep you on the front of your feet.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

John Zic. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John Zic is a partner and founding team member at EQUIAM. He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. Shachi Shah. Contributor. Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. She is passionate about leading design, implementation and oversight of actionable strategies unlocking synergies, leveraging untapped efficiencies and fosterin

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