Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Did you hear? Medium is on the lookout for some 2022 roundup stories. And it’s been a turbulent year for startups and entrepreneurs; look at the tech-scape (and the stock prices) for a reminder. But has it all been doom and gloom? We’d love to read your takes on what 2022 meant for you as an entrepreneur or, more broadly, for the startup environment.
Startup Blogpost
DECEMBER 20, 2022
From having visual and shareable content to making the jump to YouTube Shorts, here are 10 answers to the question, “Should you use TikTok for your business? Please share how your business has approached TikTok as a platform.” Yes, if You Have Visual and Highly Shareable Content. Yes, It’s an Excellent Way to Reach Your Audience. If You Haven’t Already Started, Look Elsewhere.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 20, 2022
At its core, sales is the process of convincing a customer to purchase something by using a series of planned and polished communication techniques. Good selling involves helping customers understand what they need and want so that they’re more likely to buy your products. There is no one-size-fits-all solution for selling products—what works for one company or industry may not work for another.
StartupNation
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Michael Spath of Kapnick Insurance discusses risk solutions with expert Amy DeKeyser of Kapnick Insurance. Here are highlights from that conversation. Michael: Welcome to Kapnick Insurance’s Ask the Expert. I’m Michael Spath. Here with me is Amy DeKeyser , our Vice President of Risk Solutions at Kapnick. Amy, thanks very much for joining us. When someone hears the term risk solutions, that can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park and various other media over the years, have raised $20 million to continue work on their professional deepfake studio for creators, Deep Voodoo. The company got its start during the media shutdown of 2020, when the pandemic prevented most travel and on-set productions. Parker and Stone had already begun assembling an AI artist team for a film they were developing, and when COVID intervened they focused on creating the tools for use later. ̶
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Venture Well
DECEMBER 19, 2022
To help faculty engage students in green design methods, we spotlight key exercises from the Tools for Design and Sustainability course, developed by Dr. Jeremy Faludi of Delft University of Technology. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Circular Economy—Design for a Lifetime appeared first on VentureWell.
Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Whether through COVID-19, climate change, or geopolitical conflict, the past few years have laid bare the tenuous connections underpinning key parts of our modern world. Wars, pandemics, ransomware attacks, and extreme weather events have pushed supply chains, power grids, and … The post Reshore and Restore: Unlocking American Innovation for the 21st Century appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch. “One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform.
AsiaTechDaily
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register MessageGears, a customer engagement platform for big consumer brands, has announced the completion of a $62 million growth financing round. The funding round for MessageGears was led by Long Ridge Equity Partners and participated by Argentum Group and Atlanta Ventures.
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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?
Y Combinator
DECEMBER 20, 2022
In 2022, most of the world freed itself from the shackles of the COVID pandemic, everyone struggled with inflation, and a war broke out in Europe. Here at YC we took things in stride and recruited our summer and winter batches as always. We also slowly began to bring back that very human thing we used to do: meeting in person. For the S22 batch, we instituted a beginning-of-batch retreat and weekly meetups.
Jason Malki
DECEMBER 21, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Glenn Ginsburg. Glenn Ginsburg holds the position of President at QYOU Media and launched and runs QYOU’s award winning Influencer Marketing Agency whose client portfolio includes Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Hasbro, Activision, Capcom, Hyundai and other leading brands. Under Glenn’s leadership QYOU Media has also become the foremost authority on brand engagement on popular short form entertainment platform TikTok.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Viva Republica, an operator of South Korean finance super app Toss , has finalized a $405 million Series G funding and it says it is now valued at 9.1 trillion won ( $7 billion), up from 8.5 trillion won in June 2021, when it raised $410 million in pre-Series G funding at a $7.4 billion (8.5 trillion won) valuation. (South Korea’s currency has depreciated against the dollar this year.).
Founder Bounty
DECEMBER 19, 2022
I have been through the fundraising process. Not only is it damn hard - you guys have to know what not to waste your time on since your busy founders and what to waste your time on. So here it is. Having been in touch with top tier VC's for pre seed and seed these are the best ones. YC Y Combinator is easily one of the most famous accelerators in the world, thanks to its huge profile and excellent reputation among startups.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The nuanced balance to creating value for your customers Image: IWantProductMarket.Fit Problems are at the core of each startup. It shapes your solution that generates value. Without generating value, it’s hard to retain customers. Therefore we have books , articles and podcasts around the mantra: “Love the problem, not the solution”. So what is love?
AsiaTechDaily
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Continuum raised a total of $36 million to accelerate the expansion of 100 percent recycled commercial metal powder production to meet the growing customer demand for sustainable materials. The company, that is based in Los Gatos, California, is a leader in sustainable metal recycling and supply and a leading producer of high-quality additive manufacturing material.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m a glutton for threads or care deeply about why DTC’s worst is still ahead of us — a take that echoes loudly for the third year in a row, mind you — but because it’s nice to see us all sit down and r
Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Every year I make a list of predictions & score last year’s predictions. Here are my predictions for 2023. ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Users grow accustomed to this very quickly & ML becomes a requisite feature in most workflow SaaS.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 18, 2022
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AsiaTechDaily
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Australian carbon management startup Avarni raised $3 million to streamline the future of carbon management in a funding round led by deep tech venture firm Main Sequence. The funding round was also participated by Vulpes Ventures and Common Sense Ventures, Avarni said in a statement.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Milk is polarizing: To some, it’s a refreshing beverage that pairs well with cookies. For others, it’s a cursed liquid that causes tummy troubles. Even with the shelves of alt milks crowding grocery store coolers these days, the U.S. milk industry is a $15 billion category with 90% penetration, according to John Talbot, the CEO of the California Milk Advisory Board.
Source Link
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Looking Back SourceLink director, Rob Williams summarized exciting events from 2022 at our final SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation of the year. We welcomed Dana Masters, Business Development Communications Specialist at SourceLink! Dana will be working with Dara to develop outreach communications with our affiliates, social media and marketing activities as well as business development.
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Founder Bounty
DECEMBER 17, 2022
Building a company is damn hard. So hard that you cannot imagine. The chances of you getting venture funding in 2023 are close to zero. In venture capital, you get paid a management fee whatever happens plus a carry of its one of your investable company exits. Its easier, you take risks and most venture capitalists (especially in Europe) dont really have any kind of company-building experience and dont really understand how founders work.
AsiaTechDaily
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register An asset-light B2B distribution platform that connects buyers, suppliers and end-consumers in the FMCG sector in Vietnam, has secured $1 million in seed funding from Touchstone Partners. The investment will enable Quqo to grow its team and customer base and expand its distribution network across the country.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 19, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. December is getting long in the tooth, there’s Christmas music on every radio station, and the poinsettias are in full bloom. It looks like the year is getting close to the end, and we, for two, are perfectly happy to see the back of it.
Jason Malki
DECEMBER 21, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Brown the CEO of VRYNT. He is a pretty unique individual in that he is highly technical, but also has successfully exited businesses, and has run companies globally in the web2 and web3 space. Thank you so much for joining us! What is VRYNT? VRYNT is a platform that allows Influencers, Celebrities, and Brands to engage with their fans in a new way.
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