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Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

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. --. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes.

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How to Get the Best Out of Your Virtual Meetings

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Get the Best Out of Your Virtual Meetings written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Fraidenburg. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Fraidenburg, a certified mediator, natural resource scientist, and former government executive with broad experience helping organizations and executives who are struggling to work effectively in environments with a lot of conflicts.

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New Normal: Conversation with Ben Pring of Cognizant's Center for Future of Work

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Foodtech Trends That Are Here to Stay

View from Seed

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. Now, as COVID-19 revolutionizes much of what was “normal” before March, several trends in foodtech are experiencing tailwinds. We can’t dine at restaurants, so we’re cooking and ordering takeout and delivery more frequently.

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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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Perception and Your Career – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

Perception is a powerful thing: What we do, where we live, which school we went to, which company we work for and who our clients are paint a picture of where we belong in people’s minds. Rightly or wrongly, perception is reality. Perception also informs finance. A thought experiment: You meet someone at a function and ask the obligatory question of what they do for a living.

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The API-as-a-marketplace

Version One Ventures

As we’ve been spending time on B2B marketplaces and dev tools/platforms, we’ve come to realize that there’s an interesting sub-category that combines elements of both: the API-as-a-marketplace. What is an API-as-a-marketplace? Just like a traditional marketplace, an API-as-a-marketplace has two sides: suppliers and buyers. But, the interface is different. .

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How You Can Get Your Startup Off on the Right Track

The Startup Magazine

If you are planning on setting up your own business to run then, you will have a lot of things to think about. From choosing the kind of business you want to run to signing paperwork to finding the right office location, there are plenty of things that you will need to keep in mind. If you are looking to get your startup on the right track then, be sure to keep reading to get some startup tips.

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Pros And Cons Of The Various Types Of Cryptocurrency Wallets

YoungUpstarts

Virtual currency (cryptographic assets, cryptocurrency) is a currency that is exchanged only by electronic data, and does not have compulsory power (legal effect used as a means of repayment of financial debt) by the state like legal currency. It is mainly used for transactions on the Internet, and is also known as digital currency. Since the emergence of Bitcoin, which started operation in 2009, derivative virtual currencies called altcoin were also created one after another, and the emergence

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Teacher to Entrepreneur: an inspiring journey of Swati Chugh, director of dessert chain 7th Heaven

Our Own Start-up

Many women opt for conventional careers without realising that they can do wonders in the business world and address its risks, challenges and successes whereas some women believe that being an entrepreneur would be a part of their destiny. Entrepreneurs are born, not made. Such an example is Swati Chugh, the director of 7th Heaven, a popular chain of dessert stores across India.

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Corporate Team Building Efforts To Improve Productivity & Bonding

YoungUpstarts

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller. Corporate team building is the need of the hour. It has numerous benefits and newer opportunities. For starters, it enhances the team’s productivity, boosts morale, improves bonding, and results in better work performances. All of which is essential to build a strong team and positively impact the company’s bottom line. .

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COVID-19 Crisis: Following Twitter and Facebook, Shopify opts for permanent work from home

Our Own Start-up

The current situation is not in the favourable terms, so many corporates are settling upon permanent Work from Home. Recently, an announcement was made by microblogging platform, Twitter, stated that it will allow employees work from home permanently. With this, social media platform Facebook and Canadian e-commerce website Shopify have also chosen permanent work from home for their employees.

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Should you cast your net where the big fish swim?

Berkonomics

This is one of those “My dad used to say” homilies. You’ve probably heard the accompanying “It takes just as much effort to sell a small deal as a big one,” over the years. It is not that simple in the business world. The truth of this is more nuanced. Some businesses will prosper in the shadow of larger competitors by specializing in those smaller accounts that are just not attractive to those with higher overheads and larger aspirations.

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COVID-19 Crisis: Multiplexes lose from OTT as Amazon Prime Video announces Direct to Digital releases in India

Our Own Start-up

As OTT is growing extensively, Multiplex association of India has demanded producers and studio partners to honour the "exclusive theatrical window" of a film i.e. 60 days gap between theatrical and OTT releases. Amazon Prime Video announced the premier of Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushman Khurana, on its platform.

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Marketplace Quality Tactics

A Crowded Space

I talked about the marketplace quality flywheel today with mini case studies from Rev , MasterClass , Faber Connect , and others. This is the link to presentation and slides from the Marketplace Conference 2020 (COVID virtual edition). Hope you enjoy. Big thank you to Autotech Ventures , SpeedInvest , and Battery Ventures for organizing and sponsoring my favorite event every year.

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NDA’s: Keep your secrets in the cone of silence

NZ Entrepreneur

You don’t want others swiping your valuable ideas and running with them. But without the right confidentiality agreements in place, that’s exactly what could happen. Non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s, are vital when you’re disclosing new ideas or information to people outside your business. They’re also important to use when you’re receiving confidential information from others, because they clearly outline your obligations and theirs.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 19

TechEmpower

Round 19 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project is now available! This project measures the high-water mark performance of server side web application frameworks and platforms using predominantly community-contributed test implementations. Since its inception as an open source project in 2013, community contributions have been numerous and continuous.

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Will COVID-19 mainstream AR/VR?

VC Cafe

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact nations, businesses and the lives of billions, and the aftermath of the recession remains to be seen, some trends are already emerging, such as the embracing of digitization. From video conferencing tools to project management platforms, companies, institutions and individuals are becoming adjusted to remote environments.