Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 1, 2023

Navigating business partner arguments is more difficult when teams can’t separate fact from fiction.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman Given the tumultuous year in tech and overall market uncertainty, a hot topic among institutional investors right now is the magnitude of potential markdowns in the coming year or two. But what could that look like? To determine approximately how many U.S. VC dollars are at risk, we conducted a historical analysis of top quartile fund managers over the past quarter century (as far back as we could access reliable Cambridg

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Extend your runway.” That’s what every VC is telling their portfolio companies these days. The very important part they’re leaving out, however, is, “But keep growing at the same pace before the cuts.” In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Contributed to EO by Abeer Qumsieh, a seven-year EO Jordan member who is the founder of Better Business , the leading organization for management consulting and human capital development in Jordan, and Khibraty , an intelligent digital matchmaking marketplace for expertise seekers and providers. She is also a partner in MakanE , an e-commerce enabler in the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here! Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 2, 2023

Why I’m Participating in SeedChecks’ “Submit Your Deck” Community We’ve never believed in hiding. Our email addresses are on our website , and there’s no junior staffer or AI Bot replying on our behalf. A strong Cold Email always beats a weak Warm Email. And we’ve backed successful startups where the relationship began exactly this way.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2023

Marketing is complex in itself, but it comes with even more unique challenges when your agency focuses on crypto and NFTs. In the last few years, we’ve seen massive market changes that shocked the entire financial system, and as a result, our agency quickly learned how to adapt. Our goal is to help clients with everything from token launches and community building to social media management and PR communications.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

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. First off, hello to all the new Startups Weekly subscribers who joined us after last week’s newsletter. I’m glad we all still resonate with a comeback story. Second, here are some basics on what to expect.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

Why we take that with a grain of salt at our consumer startup Photo credit: Derek Liston You hear it constantly in the startup community — “just ship it!” Really? That’s it? Just ship it? Am I being duped by Twitter-speak and startup mentor nonsense spouted by people with no skin in my game? It’s well intentioned on the part of the second or third time founder turned angel, VC, or accelerator mentor.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 1, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Animoca Brands’ gaming subsidiary The Sandbox has announced its acquisition of Sviper GmbH, a German game development studio that is known for its creative excellence in working with major brand partners and its senior-level talent. Sviper’s acquisition is set to add development, engineering, and creative talent to The Sandbox’s global team.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In August, I wrote about why Omni’s technology reinvents BI once more. The Omni founding team hails from Looker & Stitch. They’ve set out to solve the problems customers faced with the previous generation of BI. Today, I can show you what this means in practice because Omni is commercially available. Anyone who has managed a larger BI deployment has faced the challenge of managing hundreds, perhaps thousands of metrics.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Remote working options and workplace flexibility can be a bit of a head-scratcher for employees and employers alike, but Gable , which has just raised $12 million in Series A funding following on a $3.25 million round of seed funding, is hoping to make it smoother for everyone. The company provides a one-stop-shop for managing employees’ remote working options.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. Experience with more than 12 startups is encouraging: the approach saves precious time, increases focus, and identifies problems with the market early. That does not always lead to success, but it helps founders to avoid investments of resources into unpromising markets and ideas.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 2, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Multi-channel e-commerce aggregator Una Brands targets to further develop its platform after raising $30 million in its pre-Series C funding round. The fundraiser, which was a mix of equity and debt, will provide Una Brands with sufficient funding for its operations and acquisition plans in the next two years.

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StartupNation

MARCH 3, 2023

ChatGPT burst onto the scene late last year, creating a massive new wave of interest and investment into… The post ChatGPT & 5 Other AI Tools to Help Your Small Business appeared first on StartupNation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In a blog post published today, Lonsdale — who serves as 8VC’s general partner — said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” While he did not specify which industries the new fund would target or average check size, Lonsdale did reveal that 8VC now manages “over $6 billion in committed capital” and that it plans to invest “at every stage,” as well

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 2, 2023

We can some industries that are expected to grow in the near future and may offer potential opportunities for entrepreneurs. Times are changing the war in Ukraine and covid have both brought opportunities in various sectors. We have tried to put together a few marcos sector which you guys could focus on including the creator economy. Sustainability and Clean Energy - As more people become environmentally conscious, there is a growing demand for sustainable products and services.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FreshToHome ‘s mission to make 100% preservative and antibiotic-residue free fish, seafood, and meat affordable and accessible to millions of meat lovers received a boost from the outcome of its recently concluded Series D. The funding round closed with $104M in fresh investments for the world’s largest and fully integrated online consumer brand for preservative and antibio

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Fundraising isn’t as important to building startups as most founders think Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged members of her community. During her work, she met Jake Soberal, an intellectual property lawyer, who shared Olguin’s desire to leverage the tech industry to effect change at the local level.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We're excited to host an in-person tech hiring event on Wednesday, March 8th at 5:30 PM at Y Combinator's San Francisco office. This will be the first in-person hiring event we're hosting at YC in over two years, and we have 9 YC-backed startups who are looking to hire engineers and technical talent. The event will feature brief founder & company overviews, time to network, and light food and drinks provided by YC.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Fund II, which aims to support high growth potential pre-Seed and Seed stage Web3 and blockchain startups, received backing from key investors, including Polygon, Ripple, Octava, NEO Global Capital (NGC), Appworks, Sebastien Borget COO of

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 3, 2023

From understanding that the journey is not linear to the importance of social proof, here are 13 answers to the question, “What is one thing every startup needs to know about the customer buying journey?” Understand That The Buying Journey is Not Linear The First Buyer’s Journey Map You Create Won’t be Perfect Customers Have Unpredictable Circumstances Technology Affects Customer Buying Journey You Have to Earn Customer Trust During the Consideration Stage Understand the Post-purchas

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here! 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2023

Over the past week, I put ChatGPT to the test, enlisting it as copy-editor for a forthcoming blog post. Here was my process: I dictated a blog post outline into a Google document I prompted ChatGPT to revise the post for clarity & pasted the text I copied ChatGPT’s response, edited it some more & consulted ChatGPT for three rounds just like John McPhee So, does a robot copy-editor work in practice?

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