Entrepreneurs' Organization
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Contributed by Alexis Maness, contributing editor at 365businesstips.com. Nearly 100,000 businesses have permanently closed due to COVID-19. And with no end in sight for returning to business as usual, that number can be intimidating to anyone who’s considering opening their own business or entrepreneurs hoping to survive the next year.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
I was talking to a group of education entrepreneurs (on Zoom naturally) last week and was advocating for the “direct to learner” approach that defines our eduction investing strategy at USV. For the most part, we do not like to back companies that sell learning tools to educational institutions. We like to back companies that use software to go directly to learners, wherever they may be.
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Venture Well
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Christine E. King developed a virtual reality immersion course that helps engineering students create solutions to real-world healthcare challenges. The post sparking innovative student-led solutions to healthcare challenges: a Q&A with Christine E. King of University of California, Irvine appeared first on VentureWell.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. Startups involved in B2B e-commerce such as Faire and Mirakl have burst out of the gates in 2020. Almost overnight, these startups transformed into consequential platforms, earning billion-dollar valuations along the way.
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
In his newest book, “The Practice: Shipping Creative Work,” author and entrepreneur Seth Godin provides the roadmap for all creative people seeking to implement change in the world through their work. “The Practice” is a little book packed with lots of wisdom. Based on The Akimbo Workshops created by Seth and his team, readers now have a compass on how to “ship” creative work , create change by trusting themselves and their voice, and work without waiting for flow.
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Startup Catalyst Brief Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
It seems like SoftBank and the Mubadala Corp. aren’t finished taking big swings at the commercial real estate business in the U.S. Even after the collapse of WeWork, the investors are doubling down on a similar business model as part of a syndicate investing $700 million into REEF Technology. REEF began its life as Miami-based ParkJockey, providing hardware, software and management services for parking lots.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Not everyone has the drive to start their own business. Even deciding to press ahead and take that risk is a massive first step, and one to be applauded. We need that entrepreneurial spirit and mindset in the world in order for innovative new businesses to emerge. However, it’s important to take things slowly and wisely. You need to consider all of the steps that need to be taken to open a business.
NZ Entrepreneur
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Somehow, in the annals of time gone by, when the notion of business building was in its infancy, a rule was decreed that for every ‘yes’ a business leader got in their quest to build their dream, they would be discouraged by a simply crushing number of ‘no’s’. And it was so that negativity became the foundation of this career path for all eternity, rendering the journey of the entrepreneur, fraught with the merciless onslaught of rejection and rebuff.
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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?
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Over the course of the past six weeks, dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs located in the Northwest Pennsylvania counties of Erie, Crawford, Mercer, Venango, Warren, Forest, and Clarion visited BIGIDEA.BenFranklin.org to check out the rules and the easy application process for our $50,000 BIG IDEA contest. Last week, our team had the difficult job of identifying finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs, innovators, and small manufacturers.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. And today, one of the early pioneers of the medium is announcing some funding as it tips into profitability on the back of a pivot to enterprise services, targeting businesses and governments that are looking to upskill workers to give them tech expertise more relevant to modern demands.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
If you’re not utilizing LinkedIn to network, build and grow your brand, you’re missing out on an essential resource. According to Hootsuite , in 2019, 30 million companies were on LinkedIn (and that number is constantly growing) – so why not yours? For a technology software company like mine, LinkedIn has been a powerful tool for growing our personal and professional exposure.
Feedough
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
Every business has a journey. Their endings might be different but starting is always the same i.e. from a small-scale business to a large-scale business. But in many cases, the business might remain small/medium-sized throughout its life-cycle. These types of businesses come under small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The number of SMEs in the world is way more than large companies and employs many more employees collectively.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
How to kill your idea and get your first customer Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
New research looking into how U.K. VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
When you’ve got a great idea for a product, there’s an important decision to make right up front: Do you want to build a brand new company from the ground up in order to commercialize the product, or do you sign a product licensing deal with a pre-existing company that already has the resources in place in order to get your product out into the market?
Innovation 2 Enterprise
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
By Scott Meacham. “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We don’t really know who said this first—maybe Buddha or a Zen master — but the idea is endlessly powerful. When we open our minds and our eyes, we can learn so much from wherever we find ourselves. From wearing so many different hats over the course of my career — banker, attorney, state treasurer, and now in a business whose mission is investing in entrepreneurs to build successful high growth companies in Oklahoma —
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
There’s a trick to every trade, and all the best traders seem to know the same “trick” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 31, 2020
This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain that some public investors were willing to pay more for growth-focused technology shares than private investors. We saw this in both strong tech IPO pricing — the value set on companies as they debut — and in resulting first-day valuations , which were often higher.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Most entrepreneurs are familiar with Small Business Saturday. The holiday, which falls on the Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, celebrates shopping locally at small businesses throughout neighborhoods and communities. It gives small businesses the chance to boost their holiday sales and allows customers to learn more about local businesses and embrace the #ShopSmall mentality.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
by Stacey Brandhorst , Director, Business Development and Venture Advisor, i2E. In Jim Collins’ book Good to Great , the author shares, “Those who build great companies make sure they have the right people on the bus and the right people in the key seats before they figure out where to drive the bus. When facing chaos and uncertainty… your best strategy is to have a busload of people who can adapt to and perform brilliantly no matter what comes next.”.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
After 3 years of working 10 meters away from his office Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Do you find expression “the sky’s the limit” well, limiting? Join a global community of brilliant visionaries, makers and investors on December 16-17 for TC Sessions: Space 2020 , an online conference dedicated to moving beyond the confines of this world through innovative tech and to creating stellar startup opportunities. Speaking of a stellar opportunity, this one lets you navigate your startup into the orbit of the space industry’s leading experts and decisions makers.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of American deaths and counting. Staggering unemployment numbers nationwide. Unprecedented hardships for small businesses and their owners. Eight months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s clear — perhaps now more than ever — that the ability to adapt swiftly and successfully is vital to survival for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
Radicle Growth has announced MycoTechnology and BlueNalu as the winners of Syngenta’s Radicle Protein Challenge. The Challenge was initiated to uncover innovation and invest a total of $1.25 million in two leading players in the transformation of protein. Read more here. The post [BlueNalu in Vegconomist] MycoTechnology and BlueNalu Announced Winners of Radicle Protein Challenge, Receive $1.25M Investment appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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