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How To Talk About Competitors And Gain Credibility

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. This approach only makes these important constituents question your integrity, intelligence, and your understanding of business basics. Pointing out flaws in others does not give you strength.

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Introducing Hustleathon.

Hippoland

It’s been a while since I’ve had a side project. But, I’m excited to talk about a new side project called Hustleathon today. It’s something that I wish I had had several years ago as an entrepreneur. When I first started my company LaunchBit five years ago, it was clear to me that the number one thing I could do to advance my company was to sell.

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Aunt Bertha Raises $5 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Aunt Bertha, a social services search and referral platform, announced it has raised $5 million in venture capital. Techstars Ventures led the Series B round of financing and as part of the deal, Jason Seats, partner at Techstars Ventures, will join the company’s board. “There’s a lot of unnecessary suffering going on for many Americans […] The post Aunt Bertha Raises $5 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Busy 60 days at Homebrew

Hunter Walker

It’s been an exciting past 60 days or so at Homebrew , our seed fund. ManagedByQ raised their B Round [ link ]. Even raised their A round [ link ]. RadioPublic raised their seed round [ link ]. Chime raised more money for growth [ link ]. TheSkimm raised their B round [ link ]. Primary raised their A round [ link ]. Winnie raised their pre-seed round [ link ].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #043

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State SUBSCRIBE View this email in your browser Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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A Busy 60 days at Homebrew

Hunter Walker

It’s been an exciting past 60 days or so at Homebrew , our seed fund. ManagedByQ raised their B Round [ link ]. Even raised their A round [ link ]. RadioPublic raised their seed round [ link ]. Chime raised more money for growth [ link ]. TheSkimm raised their B round [ link ]. Primary raised their A round [ link ]. Winnie raised their pre-seed round [ link ].

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The Impact of Techbikers – Part II

VC Cafe

“Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship ”?—?Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The other day I introduced the Inspiration for Techbikers? —?in this post I’d like to share the Impact with you. Closing the circle?—?Nepal, May 2016.

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Are you FOR or AGAINST hate in all forms?

This is going to be BIG.

Cue the news cycle again. Mass shooting. Guns. Terrorism. Blame. It's all hate. Are you for more of it or against all of it? Cue up all of the anti-gun, anti-muslim rhetoric. Let's find out if the shooter ever knew anyone from the Middle East. Let's trace the NRA money. Let's make some laws. Ban the guns. Ban the muslims. These aren't the causes--they're the outlets and the catalysts.

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