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Weekly #3: Your Business is Nothing Without True Fans

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. If you haven’t checked it out yet, we launched the newest arm of the handbook brand last week?—?the Crypto Handbook ?—?and revealed our new Entrepreneur’s Handbook Community. We even launched an NFT. Brand building is exciting, right?!

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What Is Problem-Solution Fit? How To Achieve It?

Feedough

So you have a great idea for a new business. Read more. The post What Is Problem-Solution Fit? How To Achieve It? appeared first on Feedough.

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Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?

This is going to be BIG.

For most founders, fundraising is a struggle. Only a small minority of people are born into the kinds of connections and life paths to provide them instant access to capital. The rest have to work super hard to create access for themselves, build trust and win investors over. That may come with the headwinds of bias working against you—conscious or otherwise.

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Top 10 Aha! moments from GLC 2022 in DC

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Ethan King , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member who has served in many leadership roles within EO, including chapter president of EO Atlanta. He is a bestselling author , keynote speaker and co-founder of Zeus’ Closet , in addition to running businesses in apparel, fitness, e-commerce and real estate. As a GLC Influencer, Ethan shared his GLC 2022 experience in real-time on EO’s Instagram during the Washington, DC portion of the event.

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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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Getting Together In Person

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last week we held USV’s annual Portfolio Summit here in NYC. Every year we invite the leaders of our portfolio companies to come to NYC and spend a couple of days with us and each other. However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. In the three years that have passed since our last summit, we roughly doubled the size of our portfolio, adding 65 new investments.

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Revolution Growth Invests in Team Liquid Parent Company, aXiomatic

Revolution

The esports and gaming startup partners with industry leaders to create best-in-class shared digital experiences for fans and players alike. Meet aXiomatic ?—?the leading esports and gaming enabler and latest addition to Revolution Growth’s portfolio. Who They Are: aXiomatic was founded by a group of iconic entrepreneurs with a mission to build a dynamic esports and gaming portfolio.

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4 steps to creating a standout marketing binder for conferences and trade shows

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Vladimir Gendelman, an EO Detroit member and founder and CEO of Company Folders, Inc. , an award-winning online printing company that has helped over 5,000 businesses print more than 20 million presentation folders. The company made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for three consecutive years.

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. The continent is also home to more than 1.2 billion people with below-average disposable income, most living in landlocked nations.

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Your 9-5 Pays the Bills. Your 6-12 Builds You F*ck You Money.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You work for roughly 40 years. Then relax in retirement for 14 years before you die. Am I the only one who sees the problem? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tomasz Tunguz

A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success.

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Investing in Graphite

Andreessen Horowitz

We are now in the era of collaborative building, enjoying the benefits of many popular open source projects which power every company’s software stack. This new behavioral trait also permeates through every organization’s internal development processes. Developers benefit from not … The post Investing in Graphite appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Banking giant Truist acquires fintech startup Long Game in effort to reach younger demographic

TechCrunch

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist was the 10th largest bank, with $509 billion in assets. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks.

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Mixing personal and business finances common but not always optimal

NZ Entrepreneur

If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur mixing personal and business finances to support your business, you’re not alone. However, you could be complicating money matters and creating additional barriers within the current lending environment. A recent survey of Kiwi small businesses, commissioned by small business lending specialist Prospa , found that when businesses need money, almost two in five (38%) business owners will dip into their personal savings for financial sup

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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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She Went From Sports Marketing to Launching Postal Petals

Smart Hustle Magazine

Talia Boone, founder of Postal Petals , is on a mission to help people relax and enjoy life, all through the use of “do it yourself” flower arrangements. In this podcast learn about her journey from sports marketing to entrepreneurship. Learn about the power of testing and figuring things out. We also find out how just because a market is tough to break into doesn’t mean it’s not impossible.

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My Previous Client Raised $320K to Make a Play-To-Earn Game That Is Actually Playable

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It’s called play-to-earn for a reason. One plays, to earn. While this sounds very logical, it’s very sad to the gaming community. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Aurora unveils fleet management platform to optimize autonomous operations

TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation has unveiled a fleet management system that can be used to help optimize operations for the startup’s trucking and ride-hailing products. Aurora announced the platform, named Aurora Beacon , alongside its first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, during which the company presented investors with a series of milestones on its path to commercializing its trucking product, Aurora Horizon, and launching its ride-hail product, Aurora Connect,

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How to Find the Best Time to Send an Email Newsletter to Your Audience

Campaign Monitor

It’s the age-old debate of every email marketing conversation: “when is the best time to send an email newsletter?” The answer is — there isn’t one best time. Yes, you read that right. If you want to increase email engagement rates, it’s not as simple as picking a certain day or time. Similar to Farmers Insurance , “we know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two” when it comes to email marketing.

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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.

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Cash Flow Shockwaves

Tomasz Tunguz

The public markets are deep crimson. The last time VC sentiment was so publicly negative, Twitter turned two. Term sheet re-trading rumors have surfaced. Public markets do impact startup fortunes, but only inasmuch as the prices at which venture rounds clear. IT spend is the more important canary in the coal mine. If customers cut their software spend, startups should expect a harsher climate.

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BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS & THE ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ECF) CREATE $300,000 LOCAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

ERIE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners is pleased to announce a partnership with the Erie Community Foundation creating the Hartman Innovation Fund for startup technology and existing small manufacturers in Erie County, PA. The $300,000 fund combines capital from both organizations and will invest in and promote business growth and economic development, exclusively in Erie County.

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rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

TechCrunch

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite. The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages.

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Interview: VC and Disruption of the Investment Management Industry

David Teten VC

Angelo Robles, Founder of the Family Office Association , just posted a video interview with me. We cover Versatile VC’s strategy and many other topics relevant to family offices. The Family Office Association also just published our full white paper on “Who Is Disrupting Investment Management, And How?” For the slide deck and video presentation version of the paper, click here.

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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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Investing in Lumos

Andreessen Horowitz

It’s not an overstatement to say that identity has always been at the core of the Internet. Indeed, the first transmission to ever be sent across the Internet in 1969 was an attempt to log into a system. The authentication … The post Investing in Lumos appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea has progressed a lot as a country ravaged by war in the 1950s to becoming an economic powerhouse in Asia. The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally.

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Amazon aggregator Thrasio begins layoffs, names new CEO

TechCrunch

A day of reckoning has come for Thrasio , one of the bigger startups buying up and consolidating third-party Amazon sellers. TechCrunch has learned from sources that the company, valued last year at between $5 billion and $10 billion, is going to be laying off a proportion of its employees this week. That news is coming at the same time that Thrasio is changing its leadership: today it announced that Greg Greeley, a former president of Airbnb and a longtime Amazon executive, is joining its board

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A final column and a thank you for reading

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Thank you for reading this column for nearly a decade. By Scott Meacham. This is my final column for The Oklahoman. As CEO of i2E , I have had the wonderful opportunity since January 2013 to write this weekly column for the readers of this newspaper. That stacks up to more than 460 columns on all aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation in Oklahoma.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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.