Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How has fundraising changed in the last few years? Between COVID, the evolution of the API economy, and a increase in second, third & fourth time founders who are seeking funding. Janelle van Deventer breaks down the options for raising capital through bootstrapping, dilutive investors, government subsides and various forms of debt. The post How To Raise Capital and How Raising Capital Has Changed appeared first on Gust.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Yesterday, Office Hours hosted Carilu Dietrich, marketer at Atlassian & advisor to many iconic product-led growth companies (PLG). She’s seen many different types of businesses from startups to massive publicly traded software companies. Her unique vantage point on the tension facing the companies pursuing both PLG & classic selling formed the basis of most of our conversation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. In many ways, Revyze looks just like TikTok. But it is focused specifically on educational content for teenagers. “We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We asked them: ‘What do you think about school and what’s the best way to learn?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: How VCs choose which startups to fund. How you can sell your startup to VCs with a one-pager. Plus, a recording of our second AMA event (see below). Let’s do this. You won’t believe how VCs decide which startups to fund Aaron Dinin, PhD teaches entrepreneurship at Duke.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Is seeing the world-famous Southern Lights phenomenon on your bucket list? The Aurora Australis—also called the Southern Lights—is the southern cousin of the Northern Lights. To witness this breathtaking spectacle, you would need to go as far south as Tasmania—but even then, the chance of seeing the Southern Lights is spotty at best, with only a 1-2% chance on any given night.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus can be a sign of a larger issue. This was one of the takeaways I had when chatting with Continuum CEO and co-founder Nolan Church about a recent spree of CFO resignations, including but not limited to OpenSea,

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Pave helps companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee compensation. Today, the company has 160 employees, more than 3,500 customers, and is valued at $1.6B. Founder and CEO Matt Schulman has created one of the most comprehensive and thorough recruiting processes, which has made him one of the most successful recruiters in the YC community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The unspoken, unmet need was not “a faster horse” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 18, 2022

So many times, I’ve heard founders ask me, “How do I find great engineers?” or “Do you know any awesome marketers?” That always struck me as the wrong way of looking at the problem—but I couldn’t quite figure out why. I realized that you’d never ask this question if you had built a consumer app and you were trying to do customer acquisition. No one ever asks, “Where do you find users for my dating app?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to a Bloomberg source, and comes as the demand for AI-powered content generation accelerates.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Grab my attention with key information instead of packing the deck with details Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Table of Contents Why Most Testing is a Waste of Time Why Marketers Don’t Make Bigger Bets Examples of Big Bets that Paid Off Case Study: Turning Off Your Best Channel Other Examples of Big Bets Measuring the Value of Anything Decision Making In Uncertain Times The gospel of testing has spread far and wide, and today you'd be hard pressed to find a company that isn't actively experimenting in some form.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register bolttech, one of the world’s fastest growing international insurtech companies, announced that Tokio Marine, alongside other shareholders, will lead its Series B funding round. The investment values bolttech, Singapore’s only homegrown insurtech unicorn, at an up-round valuation of approximately $1.5 billion, one year after it closed the largest ever Series A funding round for an insur

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Here’s how to find yourself as a founder Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When most people think of Brazil, the country’s golden beaches, world-class soccer players, and famous Carnaval festival spring to mind. Top of mind for us, however, is Brazil’s financial regulation. Over the past decade, the government has introduced regulatory changes … The post Brazil’s Surprising Fintech Tailwind appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register PropertyGuru Group , Southeast Asia’s property technology major , has acquired Singapore home services technology company Sendhelper for an undisclosed amount, according to a company announcement. The acquisition marks PropertyGuru’s foray into the home services industry as it aims to provide easy and reliable access to home management and maintenance services.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Learn from the CoFounder of Harlem Capital Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today we welcome Henri Pierre-Jacques, the founder of Harlem Capital. After losing money in the stock market, Henri managed to take his own savings of $10k and transform it into the empire that is Harlem Capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In this episode of a16z Live, we are joined by Titan co-founder and co-CEO Clayton Gardner; a16z General Partner Anish Acharya; and a16z growth partner, Alex Immerman. … The post Titan’s Clayton Gardner on How the Fintech Market is Changing appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. The tranche is the company’s first, remarkably, and comes as Jasper is in the process of acquiring AI startup Outwrite , a grammar and style checker with more than a million users worldwide.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Thailand-based property technology ( proptech ) startup PropertyScout is expanding further in the country after raising $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Singapore-based venture investor Altara Ventures. In a statement, PropertyScout said the round was also backed by Partech, Hustle Fund, AngelCental, Asymmetry VC, among others, and brings its total funds raised to date to

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How innovation really works based on lessons from nature. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Feedough

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Email marketing is a highly measurable way of communicating with. Read more. The post The 10 Email Marketing Metrics You Should be Tracking appeared first on Feedough.

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