Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

By Bryce Kelly. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses faced challenges staying open and growing. As changing conditions create a path to returning to normal, many businesses that persevered through these challenges are seeing rapid growth during the recovery. While everyone wants to see their business do well, making your business bigger can be just as difficult as going through hard times. 2021 YLAI Fellow Kenna George knows this well.

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Source Link

JULY 30, 2021

Affiliates agree that getting the word out about their SourceLink networks to entrepreneurs and business owners is one of their highest priorities. To support our affiliates, we’ve recently held three virtual discussions on marketing in March, May and July. The basics. In May, Abby Smith and Jessica Toms from CruxKC , SourceLink’s marketing partner, guided our discussion on how to build a successful marketing plan.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 29, 2021

The science is clear… and so are the economics. Vaccines prevent the spread and severity of the COVID-19 virus with side effect rates at well below the instance levels of lots of other drugs people commonly take for things like birth control, erectile dysfunction or to keep their cholesterol in check. Yet, somehow, things like masks and vaccines have become a political hot potato—dividing the country in two on how to avoid a four (fifth?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

The two most used measures of a venture fund’s performance are the “cash on cash” return and the “internal rate of return” (IRR). One measures how much an investor got back divided by how much they put in (cash/cash). The other measures what the effective rate of return is on the investor’s money. You might think these measures go hand in hand, but that is not the case.

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Venture Well

JULY 29, 2021

Lauren Choi of The New Norm is protecting the environment by transforming plastic Solo cups into an innovative wearable fabric for the fashion industry. The post weaving sustainability into fashion: q&a with Lauren Choi of The New Norm appeared first on VentureWell.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

By Yarielka Arrieta Batista. For businesses to have a successful marketing strategy, they must first have a defined target audience. Along with making sure your brand reflects your business, who your brand targets is also an important consideration. Business owners who understand their target audience are successful at reaching customers who fit their niche and better understand who they can reach beyond that niche.

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Revolution

JULY 26, 2021

Our Investment in Sila, the Portland-based Startup Founded by a Fintech Pioneer. By Revolution Ventures Partner Clara Sieg and VP Graham Ober Banking regulations are confusing. For over 150 years, that has worked to the advantage of legacy banks by deterring competition. But emerging fintech companies are breaking into the industry and changing how we transact, send payments, and transfer money.

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Venture Well

JULY 27, 2021

Learn how early-stage support helped E-Team HandHero helped transform a scientist’s career trajectory. The post HandHero: how early-stage support transformed a scientist’s career appeared first on VentureWell.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Rui Ma. Contributor. Rui Ma is a partner with 500Startups based in Beijing. More posts by this contributor. Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years. Working With A Chinese Factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition. China’s e-commerce and industrial ecosystem is as different from the Western world as its culture.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

By Luisfer Pelayo, founder of ATÁLIA. When we start a brand, we rarely begin with thinking about the community around it. While it’s true that some businesses are situated in markets where creating a community around their brand is easier for them than others, all businesses or organizations have an audience with which they can create a community. The question for many might be: Why create a community?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Hannah Perry is the founder of The Giggling Pig Art and Party Studio , located in Connecticut (USA). She owns one studio, with a second studio, as of July 2021, franchised. Join Hannah, and Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com, on this new series of the Smart Hustle Podcast , Hannah’s Journey! We’ll follow Hannah on her journey through the hustle, the Smart Hustle of business growth.

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StartupNation

JULY 29, 2021

The market looks vastly different than it did a year ago, which means new opportunities — for better or worse. As businesses reopen, they offer clues to which industries proved to be pandemic-proof, meaning they were hit hard but show strong promise of recovery, and which ones appear gone forever. If you were already researching businesses to buy as well as methods on buying a business before the world went on hiatus or you find yourself looking at a brand-new career landscape post-pandemic , yo

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute heavily to the economic success of many countries, particularly those in the developing world. They are the backbone of most economies: Globally, SMEs represent about 90% of existing businesses and create more than 50% of employment. In South Africa, these businesses contribute around one-third of the country’s GDP.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 28, 2021

Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy. STATE COLLEGE, PA – Fourteen companies located in central and northern PA recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners that will allow them to further develop and commercialize new products, processes, or software applications. The Ben Franklin program has been investing in tech startups and small manufacturers for nearly 40 years.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 26, 2021

The Secret Ingredient to Riot Games’ Success From the Former President of Worldwide Publishing Courtesy of Riot Games Growing a company takes hard work, time, and dedication, but those are not the only keys to success. Without the customer, there would be no company. When looking at what makes some of the most successful companies thrive, they all have one thing in common?

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StartupNation

JULY 25, 2021

A business plan is an essential tool for startups and, when executed correctly, it serves two key purposes: It provides goals and a roadmap for you to follow in order to build a successful company. It provides the format and information lenders and investors need to determine whether or not to provide funding to you. When preparing your business plan for investors , you must keep this audience’s unique needs in mind.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. We’ve gone around the world, working to better understand the geyser of cash flowing into today’s startups. But we’ve saved the best for last: Latin America. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2021

A venture dollar’s velocity has never been faster. The time it takes for a dollar to appear in an LP’s pocket, for the LP to wire it to a VC fund, and for the VC fund to invest can be measured in minutes. Then, hold your breath for the pre-emptive round, and you’ll have 3 term sheets before you pass out. I’m kidding of course, but the hyperbole illustrates the velocity of money in Startupland.

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OurCrowd

JULY 25, 2021

Startup of the Week: GoDaddy bets on Tailor Brands. Wall Street Journal: Gallium nitride is “the future”. The Startup Nation’s startup government. Entangled Networks: Quantum computing for all? BlueGreen named Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year. DouxMatok’s low-sugar sugar’s sweet spot on Netflix’s ‘Explained’ Sweetch raises $20M for app that helps boost health outcomes.

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StartupNation

JULY 26, 2021

When thinking about conversions and conversion rate optimization , we often contemplate product and service pages. After all, they are the most direct route to taking someone from lead to customer. However, your blog posts can impact your bottom line just as significantly. . Long gone are the days when blog posts were written purely because publishing them was “something that needed to be done.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. But the capital is not flowing evenly. For example, the explosion in capital raised by U.S. startups this year is contrasted by a modestly cooling Chinese venture capital scene.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

by Catherine Mitchell, VP of Product Development & Management at Cox Business. Many small businesses’ efforts to adopt cutting-edge technology were on a slow trickle until the pandemic hit in first quarter 2020. However, COVID-19 opened the floodgates for companies adopting technological solutions that would help them survive tough times and set them up for greater success now and in the future.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 28, 2021

And that’s okay — some of us go from zero to $1 million, while others go from $100 million to $1 billion. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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StartupNation

JULY 26, 2021

One of the keys to successfully scaling a business is being able to find and identify your ideal customer. You might already have some insight into who this customer is through your business plan. A traditional business plan will outline its target audience through a market analysis. Using Census data, a small business can learn more about its audience demographics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Sila announced Monday it raised $13 million in Series A funding for its banking and payment platform that gives software teams tools to build the next generation of financial products and services. Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus.

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