Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Contributed by Shawn Johal , an EO member and former president of EO Montreal, who is a leadership speaker, bestselling author of The Happy Leader , and founder of Elevation Leaders , a business growth practice helping companies 10X their business valuation. A whopping 77 percent of business owners wished they better understood the numbers within their business, and 82 percent of businesses fail due to cash management problems.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Ten years ago today, I wrote a post titled “ Choosing market segments on customer profitability. ” How healthy are the business’s underling customers? Today, that question matters more because of the recession than at any point in the last decade. Selling to very profitable customers benefits a startup. Account executives can charge a highly profitable company more than one without much money.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I’ve always been interested in tapping into the “crowd” to fund things that need to happen and that our current institutions can’t figure out how to support. Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. In the last thirteen years, Kickstarter has helped direct $6.2bn towards creative work that would not have been funded by the legacy institutions that support creative work.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. The market was down considerably with public valuations down 53–79% across the four sectors we were reviewing (it is since down even further). ==> Aside, we also have a NEW LA-based partner I’m thrilled to announce: Nick Kim.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Winter may hve arrived early for AI and machine learning startups. After years of rosy projections, growth and investor enthusiasm, a new report from PitchBook shows that VC activity in the AI sector declined precipitously over the past few months. Deal value growth in AI startups was down 27.8% quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 billion across 1,340 deals.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The angel groups of New England and New York joined forces to help startups get funded. Initial results: 2x as many startups are being seen by 2x as many investors, in 1/10th the time. Entrepreneur Pain Points. You would think that the marginal effort to raise money from a second angel group is much lower. Won’t the second group take all the hard work you did from the first group and only need to ask a few more questions?

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. How do you sell to them? I’m an investor in many companies which sell to these types of clients. I put together a cheat sheet with some of the sales best practices I’ve seen. I thought this would be helpful to two types of companies: Companies which sell directly to private equity/VC funds and family offices, e.g., some of my portfolio companies from my prior VC funds – Addepar , Drop Technologies ( Cardify

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Venture Well

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Faculty can use biomimicry to teach sustainable design principles to students who are looking to solve the challenges of the climate crisis. The post Inspiring Sustainable Design: Biomimicry—Using Nature’s Blueprints appeared first on VentureWell.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

CRED plans to invest about $10 million in its lending partner LiquiLoans as the Indian fintech startup broadens its ownership in financial services, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s investment in Mumbai-headquartered LiquiLoans increases the lender’s valuation to close to $200 million, the firms said in a statement.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We all need a kick in the ass once in a while. I got one Wednesday when I read the New York Times article on Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s decision to put his family’s entire $3B ownership stake into a perpetual trust , with 100% of future company profits dedicated to protecting the environment. I worked for Yvon and Malinda in the mid-’90s, first heading up the “technical” products group (all the sport-specific products requiring specialized fabrics and construction), and then leading the

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we enter the third school year of the Covid era, a disturbing new normal is settling over the country. Students continue to be chronically absent ; nearly 50,000 Los Angeles public school students failed to show up on the … The post The New Learning Economy: It’s Time To Build in Education appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Figma for $20b , valuing the business at 50x current ARR, the highest multiple paid for any software company of scale. Congratulations to team Figma on building their impressive business. After the correction earlier this year, public valuation multiples had reset to those of 2017. That year, Cisco acquired AppDynamics for 17x trailing revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

French biotech company WhiteLab Genomics has raised $10 million in funding for an AI platform designed to aid the discovery and development of genomic therapies. Founded out of Paris in 2019, recent Y Combinator (YC) graduate WhiteLab Genomics provide gene and cell therapy companies with predictive software simulations to expedite the design of gene and cell therapies.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and their budgets?—?have felt the freeze. Web3 projects worldwide are laying low and waiting for the market to pick up to do more marketing.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-based food and agritech startup Glife Technologies announced Wednesday that it raised $3 million in its Series A1 funding round led by venture capital investor Tin Men Capital. The funding round will help Glife in accelerating its commercial plans, including the launch of a digital marketplace for the F&B sector and strengthening its operational capabilities within Indone

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’ve run a high-growth company, you know that office space decisions are a nightmare. You are forced to anchor your growth assumption in cement–literally–for a typical lease term of seven years. Most companies try to take down enough space … The post Investing in Codi appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The quest to define what exactly a web3 use case looks like hasn’t always been easy but has allowed plenty of founders to get creative in building out products designed to tap the ethos of decentralization and the business opportunities of the creator economy. Arpeggi Labs , a new crypto startup focused on using blockchains to make music creation more collaborative, has scored $5.1 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm alongside a host of artists including nam

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Learn from the founder of Maven 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’s guest is Wes Kao, the Co-Founder of Maven. It’s a platform that hosts cohort-based courses from some of the world’s greatest business experts including Anthony Pompliano, Shaan Puri, and Li Jin.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Labeaud Colbert who is changing the way entrepreneurs view business and marketing. She’s reached thousands with her messages of marketing, entrepreneurship and leadership. Labeaud’s distinctive point of view is a direct result of a life filled with harrowing challenges which has produced present day triumph. Since 2006, Labeaud has been a sought after thought leader.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As we write in our piece It’s All About The Money (Movement), moving money internationally is an opaque, fee-intensive process that requires two things: actually “moving” the money and leveraging onboarding and compliance workflow software. What’s often misunderstood about this … The post Investing in Payall appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. The full terms of the transcation were not disclosed but Eric Muliro , who founded HotelPlus in Kenya 13 years ago is getting a payout and $1.9 million in shares in HotelOnline, which was valued at $24 million before the deal.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

An early team member’s story?—?one that’s not over yet. Johnny and me, October 2019 in London at the Tech Expo Event This is my third long-form update on the story of the software company Hopin and the lessons I’ve learned as its first full-time team member. This week I celebrated three years at the company. If you haven’t read the first two posts, you can find the links below.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Japanese multinational corporation Suzuki has acquired a strategic stake in Australian technology company Applied EV for an undisclosed amount, according to an announcement Wednesday. The strategic investments comes as Applied EVE seeks to accelerate its software development for next generation mobility.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Four (!!!) Checks I’ve Written The Company Since Saying “No,” Never Bought Me As Much As Saying “YES!” Would Have In The First Place. An Investor and a Founder Postmortem a Mistake. The common VC passes are pretty cliche. “It’s a bit too early for us but we’ll be rooting for you from the sidelines,” “We were intrigued and impressed but just can’t get there at this time,” or just plain ghosting you without any feedback.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Matt Cohen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. More posts by this contributor. As fundraising gets harder, founders should ask investors for a flat round. How to strategically manage your startup advisor’s compensation.

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