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8 Important Business (And Life) Lessons A Billionaire Taught Me

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And how I became a second-degree connection to Warren Buffett Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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OK. Letโ€™s AMPLIFY your three levels of leadership.

Berkonomics

Another leadership development bit? Yup. But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical. Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. The conundrum of competing needs. As a leader, you must worry over issues from mundane to strategic, constantly reordering your priorities to accommodate competing needs.

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How a pediatrician-turned-entrepreneur helps EO members communicate with tweens

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Similar to entrepreneurship, parenthood doesnโ€™t come with a manual. Parents are left on their own to learn how to raise well-adjusted, informed, self-starter adults. But even with an EO-level thirst for learning, parenting isnโ€™t always easy. Even the best parents find it difficult to talk to their kids about tough topics like puberty, sex, and porn.

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AI chipmaker Rebellions gets $22.8M Series A extension from Korean telco company KTย 

TechCrunch

South Korean AI chip developer Rebellions has raised a $22.8 million (30 billion KRW) extension to its Series A financing from a strategic investor KT , one of the largest telecom companies in South Korea. . Last month, TechCrunch reported on Rebellions closing on $50 million in funding that valued the company at an estimated $283 million. At that time, Rebellions CEO and co-founder Sunghyun Park told TechCrunch that the startup wrapped up its initial Series A, which was oversubscribed, in less

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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500 Founders: Matt Miller, Ani Tawhiao-Lomas, Rob Stirling & Samantha Gadd

NZ Entrepreneur

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to โ€˜500 Foundersโ€™ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Matt Miller – Founder. BrakeAce. โ€œMy best piece of advice for founders is to keep in mind that they can’t do it alone. “ “ In terms of the business, you’ll have more fun and build a greater product with a great team.

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The End of Web3

Tomasz Tunguz

Pop any venture firm’s website into the wayback machine , peruse the bios from the late 90s, and you’ll see statements like “I invest in Internet companies.” Or Web2.0 or SoLoMo. At the time, it made sense. But not anymore. Why isn’t time kind to these types of proclamations? Novel infrastructure often enables new software.

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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. While circuit boards are mostly invisible to end-users, they are foundational to the world they inhabit, powering smartphones, automobiles, microwave ovens, garage doors, and the entire connected world.

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Ask the right questions of the right people

NZ Entrepreneur

Yes and no. Two simple words that can have loaded connotations. Thereโ€™s certainly a place for single word answers, but when youโ€™re building a business or teasing out an idea, you want to expand your thinking, not shut the conversation down. Keep your options open. Hearing โ€˜noโ€™ can feel limiting when youโ€™re exploring why and how. As an entrepreneur, learning to ask the right questions to get deeper, insightful responses is an important skill to master.

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Everything Startups Need to Know About Convertible Notes

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The traditional startup investment instrument remains popular with angel investors Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Fundraising round strategy, when and what type matters with Trade Signal Inc

Gust

Welcome to the Gust Launch Founder Spotlight! Gust Launch supports a variety of exciting founders doing amazing things. In this ongoing series weโ€™ll highlight the experiences of Gust Launch founders, in their own words, as they navigate the challenges of early-stage entrepreneurship. Want to share your story? Reach out at spotlight@gust.com. The Founder, the company, and why […].

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YC makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt makes an a16z, a16z makes a YC

TechCrunch

Tech innovation is a cycle, especially in the main character-driven world of early-stage venture capital and copycat nature of startups. The latest proof? Y Combinator this week announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups โ€œto help them climb up the leaderboard,

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Koreaโ€™s biggest startup event COMEUP 2022 calling for promising startups to be โ€˜COMEUP Starsโ€™

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Korea Startup Forum (KSF) is calling for startups from all around the world to join COMEUP Stars at COMEUP 2022. COMEUP Stars are promising startups that are bound to lead the global startup ecosystem and are hand-picked annually by professional judges consisting of well-known VCs and founders.

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10 Ways Founder CEOs Can Create High-Performing Leadership Teams

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Great teamwork will be your sustainable competitive advantage Photo: Pexels Many leaders have high IQs, and some also have high EQs (Emotional Intelligence). But only the minority have high WeQs (Collaborative Intelligence). Too often, you come across teams with individual IQs of 120 or more where the team functions at a WeQ of 70 or less, meaning theyโ€™re performing at less than the sum of their parts.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

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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Build Credibility by Writing a Perfect Executive Summary

Reforge

Table of Contents What is the purpose of an executive summary? What your audience is actually looking for 5 steps for writing a great executive summary What good and bad executive summaries look like The mindset shift required for more effective communication A rubric you can use to evaluate your own executive summary Youโ€™re ready for the big meeting when suddenly an exec starts some tangent on slide #2 that completely derails the conversation.

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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective

TechCrunch

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than weโ€™ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , itโ€™s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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Fintech stock trading platform MarketWolf scores $10m funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fintech stock trading platform MarketWolf announced raising $10 million in a Series A funding round co-anchored by Jungle Ventures and Dream Capital. Existing investors and others including 9Unicorns, iSeed, Crescent and Riverwalk, also participated in the round, which brings the total capital raised by the company to $17.4 million since inception.

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Take A Seat In Our Startup Boot Camp And You Might Take Home Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Contact: Bob Dornich / Program Director. 814-865-7332 / BobDornich@psu.edu. STATE COLLEGE, PA โ€“Ben Franklinโ€™s Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers a VIRTUAL 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. Youโ€™ll expand your network, engage with other successful entrepreneurs, discuss your business model with experts and develop a pitch that could win you up to $10,000!

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Newsletter: Israel-Saudi breakthrough hopes + AI development data engine

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Dataloop, AI development data engine Will Biden trip bring Israel-Saudi breakthrough? American Roboticsโ€™ parent signs term sheet to acquire Airobotics TechCrunch: Maolac CEO, from supermom to superfood July 13th Online: Labs/02 Startup Demo Day Tech in plane sight: Solving the airline industryโ€™s jet lag CropX disease management helps farmers cut chemical use Toyota Tsusho taps Quantum Machines for Japanese market FDA approves Insightec treatment

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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Itโ€™s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake). Yet, laypeople have also become the target of novel schemes hoping to attract their bets and savings.

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541 Ventures, a new Los Angeles-based firm looking to globally empower Asian founders in frontier tech

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 541 Ventures – a new LA-based VC firm , announces its launch on July 5, 2022. Founded and led by a founder-turned investor and a former Techstars Managing Director, Eunse Lee, the new Los Angeles-based firm globally invests in early-stage frontier tech companies with at least one Asian founder, operating dual offices in LA and Seoul, Korea.

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A Kickass Side Hustle Is How You Survive This Recession

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s how you should think about it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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3 Reasons EO Global Speakers Academy was transformational for meโ€”as a speaker coach

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Andrea Heuston , an EO US West Bridge chapter member who is a Speaker Coach to leaders at Fortune 100 companies, a best-selling author, and CEO of Artitudes , a full-service design firm specializing in executive presentations, branding and visual marketing. EOโ€™s next Global Speakers Academy will be held in-person and virtually from 21 October โ€“ 4 November 22 in Cancun, Mexico.

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How e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment

TechCrunch

Simon Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon is a partner with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments. More posts by this contributor. Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution. From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity.

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Juragan Material raises $4M funding from Go-Ventures

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Juragan Material , an Indonesian platform for construction technology , has announced raising $4 million from lead investor Go-Ventures. In this round, Susquehanna International Group (SIG) also took part. With this funding, Juragan Material intends to expand its workforce by making quick hires for crucial positions in product development, engineering, sales, and operations boost marke

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5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make Writing Copy That Cost Them $500,000+

Entrepreneur's Handbook

I fired all my ad teams, social media managers, and copywriters to 100x my revenue with copy alone Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ยป.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape โ€” and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, theyโ€™re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr