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How to Pitch to Investors in 10 Minutes and Get Funded

Up and Running

Image via WOCinTechChat. I know what it’s like to pitch to investors—both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology startups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Here’s how to get started. Create a presentation.

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Framework Benchmarks Hardware Update

TechEmpower

We have retired the hardware environment provided by Server Central for our Web Framework Benchmarks project. We want to sincerely thank Server Central for having provided servers from their lab environment to our project. Their contribution allowed us to continue testing on physical hardware with 10-gigabit Ethernet. Ten-gigabit Ethernet gives the highest-performing frameworks opportunity to shine.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building.

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Anaplan: The verticalization of analytics

deal architect

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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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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When Bitcoin Investment Adviser Relationships Sour

YoungUpstarts

by Robert Long and Ross A. Williams, partners at Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP. As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, cryptocurrency investment advisers have started to spring up. These may be highly-sophisticated businesspeople who have developed an expertise in cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency investment aces who have developed a financial services business (perhaps by starting a cottage industry advising friends and family), or anything in between.

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Anaplan: The verticalization of analytics

deal architect

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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7 Types Of Video Content To Guide The Buyer’s Journey

YFS Magazine

Video is part of an effective inbound marketing strategy. Use varied types of videos to attract prospects and help them move through the buyer’s journey of awareness, consideration and decision.

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ICO Advertising On Google

Feld Thoughts

Google just banned ICO and cryptocurrency-related advertising. For the official policy, see Financial Services: New restricted financial products policy (June 2018). Oh – and happy Pi Day. And MIT Admission Notification Day. And Einstein’s birthday. And Amy’s half birthday. And the day that Stephen Hawking transitioned to the next quantum energy level.

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Your Startup Idea Sucks Until You Validate It – Follow 6 Simple Steps

YFS Magazine

Launching a startup idea without validation is like roasting an expensive, 20-pound organic turkey for a dinner party, only to find out the guests are vegans.

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Success story: how startup Augury determined its market opportunities

Where to Play

The post Success story: how startup Augury determined its market opportunities appeared first on Where to Play. The tale of an Industrial IoT startup discovering a new strategic business tool. Augury is bringing predictive maintenance technology to new markets. The technology combines two key shifts in the industry: artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

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AMA for the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator

Feld Thoughts

“Technologies that have revolutionized so many sectors of the economy have the potential to transform the way we do conservation. We’re at the front end of a new ‘nature-tech’ revolution and nature stands to win big from it.” Brian McPeek, Chief Conservation Officer of The Nature Conservancy. As many of you know, Techstars and The Nature Conservancy have teamed up to build a tech accelerator for the planet – Techstars Sustainability.

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Three Startups Win Food+City Challenge Prizes at SXSW

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News For the first time, Food+City held its annual Challenge Prize competition at South by Southwest. And judges awarded three $10,000 cash prizes to the winner of each of three sessions on Tuesday. Altogether 14 startups competed as finalists from the U.S., China, Kenya and the United Kingdom. […]. The post Three Startups Win Food+City Challenge Prizes at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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7 Proven Reasons Why Good Design is Good Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Good design is good business. From dating apps to online shopping, we choose products, services and people based on beauty. Successful business owners know this well. According to Adobe , companies with a strong design outperform companies with a weak design by 219% on the S&P Index (a stock market index) over the span of 10 years. In fact, 48% of people surveyed by Tyton Media said that the website design of a business was their number one factor in determining the credibility of that busin

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

VC fund managers typically want to grow their businesses aggressively, just like the founders we back. But we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. My partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building.

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Matthew Kimberley: How To Sell An Apple For $1,000

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Matthew Kimberley stepped on stage and proceeded to deliver a speech revealing deeply personal stories about challenges his family had been through… …then he taught us all how to sell an apple for top dollar! It. The post Matthew Kimberley: How To Sell An Apple For $1,000 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How to Build a Small Business Brand Through Design

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build a Small Business Brand Through Design written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brad Bouse. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Brad Bouse. He is the co-founder of Lightboard , a company that delivers great design for sales and marketing teams.

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Whurley Says Quantum Computing is the New Space Race

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Quantum computing, not Artificial Intelligence, is the space race of our generation, said William Hurley, known as Whurley. Whurley, founder and CEO of Strangeworks, gave the keynote speech Tuesday afternoon at South by Southwest on “The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing.” He pledged to keep the math […].

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How to Impress Your Investors: An Entrepreneur's Guide

Transformify

Making sure potential investors are impressed with your business is one of the most essential parts of securing funding as an entrepreneur. If you want to get the money to develop your idea, you'll need to be able to stun the people who are in a position to give it to you. Here are four of the best ways entrepreneurs like you can impress investors.

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SXSW Accelerator 2018 Award Winners Including ICON 3D and GrubTubs of Austin

SiliconHills

At South by Southwest, some of the globe’s most innovative companies pitch every year to become the winner in their category. At the 10th annual SXSW Accelerator Pitch event, judges selected ten winners among the 50 finalists and for the first time, they named a “Best in Show” winner, which went to “Nanowear, a New […].

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Attaining Competitive Advantage in Any Business

Growthink Blog

An underrated joy of being in business is the daily opportunity it offers to strive for and experience breakthroughs in "that best version of ourselves." To some this may sound like pop psychology babble, but when you dig into it just a bit you will find within a HUGE KEY to attaining competitive advantage in any business. It all starts with just going to work every day , and doing so with enthusiasm, optimism, pride, and a striving toward excellence.

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10 Ways To Jeopardize A New Venture Early And Often

Startup Professionals Musings

Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs seem to prefer to fail their way to the top, rather than do some research and learn from the successes and mistakes of others. It seems to be part of the “ fail fast, fail often ” mantra often heard in Silicon Valley. As an advisor to many startups, I’m convinced it’s an expensive and painful approach, but I do see it used all too often.

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Matthew Kimberley: How To Sell An Apple For $1,000

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Matthew Kimberley stepped on stage and proceeded to deliver a speech revealing deeply personal stories about challenges his family had been through… …then he taught us all how to sell an apple for top dollar! It. The post Matthew Kimberley: How To Sell An Apple For $1,000 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being an Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Book #9: A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea

Jeff Hilimire

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). ** A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea. This book was INCREDIBLE. Heart-breaking, haunting, and deeply insightful, this look at one man’s journey through his life in North Korea is like nothing I’ve ever read before.

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Transcript of How to Build a Small Business Brand Through Design

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Build a Small Business Brand Through Design written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, PodcastBookers.com. Podcasts are really hot, right? Do you know what’s also really hot? Appearing as a guest on one of the many, many podcasts out there.