The Next Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Italy may be a latecomer to the booming startup scene but it’s fast becoming a hotbed of new tech talent. But the government is now on a mission to cut down barriers, launching several new initiatives focused on making it easier to grow hi-tech companies, including the Italian Startup Act and Visa scheme.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). What comes next?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Typically these subject matter experts might include: Business development executive: This is often a CEO or a technology transfer professional from a university who puts the deal together. Scientific/Technical expert: This person provides a range of expertise that makes him the go-to person for due diligence research.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this article, I share how I’ve executed marketing and technical support for a virtual summit with 3–5k registered attendees. Most successful traditional conferences focus on networking and learning with a small amount of sales pitches throughout. Choosing the right tech for your virtual summit.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Insurance is the next big industry due for a disruption. But wait, before letting your eyes glaze over or clicking out of here entirely, give me just two minutes of your time to explain – because the opportunity is big and the technology is really cool. The technology existed; it just needed to be deployed for an insurance purpose.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2020

Technological advancements have undoubtedly made life easier but they have also left companies susceptible to data breaches. You should go through various VPN reviews like the surfshark review to determine which VPN will protect your data effectively. Here are 5 companies you wouldn’t believe got hacked! My Fitness Pal.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Covid changed many things for the post-pandemic world and brought on digital tech advancement, one of the major advancements was in AI , especially in the field of con versation. It also allows businesses to create call playlists to accelerate new hires’ sales training and ramp-up process. Now you must be thinking, “All this is fine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Gerber memorialized this concept many years ago in his classic book E-Myth , which postulates that most startups are initiated by entrepreneurs with technical skills, rather than business skills, resulting in a high failure rate. In fact, both customers and investors often avoid the perceived high risk of innovative technology pitches.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Review What Worked. Executives should review the past year’s goals to discriminate which goals were reached and which were not reached. In addition, while large sales may be a “home run,” encourage smaller “base hit” sales, which can happen everyday. Here are five things to look at: 1.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” In my first post earlier this summer, I highlighted the fact that we’re still a ways off from truly autonomous vehicles, despite many decades of technological advances to assist drivers. FWIW, the first true competitor to Tesla’s Auto-Pilot ADAS system, Mercedes “DrivePilot”, has gotten terrible reviews.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™. Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

From manufacturing to sales to finance, the supply chain routinely fails to command the respect it deserve. Suppliers also have machinery and technology issues to contend with as they create customized products. trillion in profits due to cost-saving and increased revenues. Don’t Forget the Hidden and Indirect Costs.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. GoPro’s High Tech Wearable Cameras. Netflix: An Ever-Growing Video Streaming Presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

Many of the entrepreneurs I meet prefer to focus on the technology, so they desperately need a people-oriented partner for balance. For example, a technologist needs a strong finance person or a strong sales person who is willing and able to make decisions. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/08/2015.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. We believe the message applies as much today as it did in 2015 when it was published. --. Before you indulge in marketing, sales and blinged-out offices, find product-market fit. How do you know you have it?

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2019

By 2021, global B2C ecommerce sales are expected to surpass $4.5 If you don’t, your competitors are lining up to scoop up those sales. Aside from direct to consumer online sales, shipping and fulfillment challenges can also have an impact on online retails who also sell their products through larger retailers. percent in 2015.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 23, 2020

Cree was recognized as MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies for 2014 and as one of Fast Companies World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2015. What you’ll learn if you give a listen: How products that solve problems are marketing and sales success stories. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. TBR believes Apple is primed for a run of year-to-year growth each quarter in 2015 between 5% and 10%, particularly as its relationships with China’s largest carriers, China Mobile and China Unicom, mature.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

We are now almost as likely to buy a product because of an online review or recommendation from someone within our social media circles as we are after seeing a TV ad(3). Advancements in device technologies and mobile networks are sparking the use of mobile devices by shoppers at every point on the path to purchase. Social Commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/14/2015. It simply doesn’t matter how great your solution is.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Year-to-year revenue growth in 2Q15 was due entirely to revenue infusion from its inorganic Motorola and System x businesses, as Lenovo’s PC business, which accounted for 68% of Lenovo’s total revenue in 2Q15, declined 12.7% year-to-year to $10.7 year-to-year to $7.3

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 16, 2017

at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, We also see older school SaaS companies being rebuilt with more flexible back-end technologies like microservices and reimagined with a more responsive and beautiful UI. pick a vertical, say old archaic tech and SaaS-ify it?—?my So why is this the case?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. For example, Mikaila Ulmer launched her own business of Lemonade: Bee Sweet Lemonade at only 11 years old in 2015. from 1997 to 2014.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Expenses related to supporting Microsoft’s growing devices businesses will offset overall profit growth and search revenue gains through 2015. Additionally, a focus on boosting sales of the Xbox One, unit shipments of which surpassed 6.6 While Microsoft’s 7.9%

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious. Bring it on.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world.

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