Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

We asked entrepreneurs what has been their favorite technology innovation and here is what they have to say: #1- Personal finance management Photo Credit: Shammika Munugoda I founded and created a personal finance management app about 8 years ago. I was solving my own pain point as a consumer.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 13, 2024

There’s a great deal of complexity involved with managing daily logistics, and that’s just when things are going well. It’s why many staff in the chain are required, and why everyone counts, from the fleet manager to your warehouse staff. But when it comes to logistics management, does any of that apply?

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Katina served as a Senior Executive and Management Committee Advisor at Bridgewater Associates. Reporting directly to the CEO, Katina managed various departments including Back and Middle Office, IT, Recruiting and Talent, Client Service Reporting, Fund Legal and Compliance. However, this is about to change.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As noted by the World Economic Forum , the ongoing shortage of labor includes a shortage of talent for designers, architects, and higher levels of management. The labor shortage has an “undermined project management and execution, adversely affecting cost, timelines, and quality.”.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. Learn how to manage a remote workforce. The first stage in this crisis was survival. Here are our 4 tips.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It could help people manage resources more efficiently (such as anticipating future demands for clinics and emergency rooms), help people intervene earlier in disease processes, recommend specialty services, and more. When AI can aggregate data and offer projections, patients and professionals can act with the future in mind.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. aggregates resources from all the VCs. I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 in mathematical logic and senior portfolio manager at the time, started an AI-program trading small amounts. Transaction Processing.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

Then, consider the added costs of adding e-commerce, from the cost of setting up your online sales site to the marketing and shipping expenses that you might incur. Remember that almost every aspect of e-commerce can be outsourced, from inventory management to fulfillment. You don’t need to go all-in on e-commerce.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Instead, it’s about assumptions, expectations, drivers, tracking, and management. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. Sales forecasting as management requires an easy way to track results and see how they match the plan. We’re human; we don’t do that well.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Large corporations heavily rely on technology to improve performance, increase efficiency, grow profitability and manage expenses. A business is an aggregate of multiple repetitive tasks and processes. Teleconferencing is a powerful tool for cutting the cost of meetings. Source: Pixabay. Process Automation. Teleconferencing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 27, 2019

However, Boris’s recent post on what exactly is a managed marketplace , as well as some recent conversations with entrepreneurs, have made me reflect on what might be possible. Could a managed marketplace model work for healthcare? In particular, I’ve been thinking about three key elements: Aggregate and curate supply.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. Facilitating work-flow reduces work for the participants, as well as increasing switching costs. High Fragmentation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. . ” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. “And if you have a valuation cap; a higher cap is always better than a lower cap.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. In talking to customers, the team found that cities are actively trying to reduce street lighting costs (retrofitting with LEDs, turning off lights, and charging streetlight fees.)

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

These two recommendations will help you compute the opportunity size for your management team. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Direct competitor comparisons. 38% cheaper than Nordstrom.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents? The lesson?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As Mixpanel ’s Aaron Krivitzky explained: [Cost per Acquisition] and [Cost per Click] are important, but they tell you nothing about user retention, they tell you nothing about lifetime value, and they tell you nothing about the actual end-user sentiment, behaviors, or experience.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. What is CRM? Who is using CRM? Share information.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. To get $1 in the bank, creators have to generate $2 (taking into account platform costs, creation costs, promotion, taxes, etc).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc 5) Due diligence.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

For example, third-party personal financial management tools use your bank account information to help you track spending and reach other goals. With open banking solutions, third-party services can quickly acquire aggregate data from many financial institutions. Consumers are taking control of their financial information.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

In order to grow your business’ economic value, there are two routes open to you: (1) you can do it by increasing customer value , (2) reduce your costs to serve. As you will read below, your business can earn sustainable economic profits by attacking profitable markets in which you have competitive advantages or reducing your cost to serve.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. BusyEvent.com manages what sessions conferences-goers want to attend and records their vendor-booth encounters. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

While I had managed to persuade two great VC’s to teach the class with me ( Jon Feiber and Ann Miura-ko ), what if I was wasting their time? Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

Much like a GPS plans the best route to guide you to your destination, KPIs help project managers stay on track for successful completion. Let’s take a look at the questions that project managers need to be asking, and how the KPIs that are visible through a comprehensive project management software platform can answer them.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. 1) Dealery , the daily deal aggregator gets on the evening news. 8) Fellowup , a personal virtual assistant to manage your unmanageably large network.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Retention rates had declined from the high 90s to the mid 80s, which senior management felt the need to address quickly.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. Get a shared understanding with your management team of why you are on Facebook. An additional prove value scope can also be: Cost savings. But not, ever, in aggregate.].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Re: cash, the more “unbundled” types of accelerators (less formalized, less equity) tend to not provide any cash upfront, but also typically “cost” less in equity, often just 1–2% of your fully diluted capitalization. Others find it a necessary cost to getting access to the accelerator’s network, which is what they’re really there for.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2014

Some are about basic business performance, including sales, direct costs, and expenses. Step 4: Manage your business’s cash. Instead, try to lay out how sales, costs, and expenses relate to each other, so later when sales are different from expectations, you have an easy time of identifying the related changes you need to expect.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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