VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

Human attention spans are short, and some studies suggest they are getting shorter. The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space.

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Gust

APRIL 4, 2024

Yielding 10x growth or more, known as “hockey-stick growth,” remains the goal for many investors. But only one percent of startups become unicorns; in fact, most VC-backed companies don’t reach their expected rate of return. “That means 95% of founders—or more—are gonna have a bad time,” explains Rand Fishkin, the author of Lost and Founder, and co-founder of Moz and more recently of SparkToro.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 4, 2024

Each year, small company owners put in around 41 hours of tax preparation. Each calendar year, you’re required to spend time preparing W-2 forms, 1099-MISCs, as well as filing your last quarterly anticipated taxes in the first quarter. The next step is to total your revenue and spending for the year. It makes sense why it may take up to two full days to complete.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2024

Start-ups with one founder rarely have or need a board of directors. In fact, such a board would seem out of place in a one-person company. As soon as any outside money is ingested into the corporation, others have a vested and legal interest in the behavior of officers entrusted with the best use of funds. Money from friends and family usually is offered in a casual manner with much less restriction than professional investors, so that a formal board is a logical step but not often created

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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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 4, 2024

We all know the proven adverse effects of stress and the damage it can do in a relatively short space of time. Unfortunately, there is not much that eliminates stress from our lives. Life is stressful, especially for female leaders trying to make a difference and further their careers while balancing home life. Women in business need to find creative strategies to reduce stress and enjoy life.

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