Mon.Jan 30, 2023

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Startup 101: What goes in a startup data room

VC Cafe

“Organization is the foundation of success.” – Andrew Carnegie As a founder, one of the key tasks in raising capital is to effectively communicate the value of your company to investors. In my post “ YC’s guide to series A ” I shared Ycombinator’s advice on how writing your own investment memo can help articulate your value proposition for investors and have the answers to the questions you’re likely to get probed on by VCs.

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Salesforce: Plenty of growth markets

deal architect

Most of the recent analysis I have read about Salesforce has focused on the stakes taken by Starboard Value and Elliott Management. Activist investors play a useful role as they push for efficiencies and resets to increase shareholder value. I.

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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Over my many years of mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear a desire to start a new business, with a big hesitation while waiting for that perfect idea and perfect alignment of the stars. From my own experience and from the best entrepreneurs I know, I always offer some basic business realities, and assure you that conditions will never be perfect.

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The MIT Banana Lounge

Feld Thoughts

I’ve co-founded or been an early investor in many things. One of my favorites is the MIT Banana Lounge. I will be hanging out there Tuesday afternoon and doing an AMA from 2pm to 4pm. It began with an email from Zoe Sheill. I met Zoe at PSL when she was an intern the summer before her freshman year at MIT. We stayed in touch, and I went bananas when I got the following email from her on May 3rd, 2021. … Right now, though, we’re running into a bit of trouble raising the money for star

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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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Monday Motivation: FOCUS ON YOUR DREAM

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great. Here are some takeaways from the video: You overcome fear with your dream You haven't failed until you give up Make the right decision to make a difference Hardwork works Let your should become a must The post Monday Motivation: FOCUS ON YOUR DREAM appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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Are you a food or fibre business seeking investment?

NZ Entrepreneur

Help is at the ready for growing food and fibre businesses looking for capital to support their growth potential through dedicated support, knowledge, mentorship and investor connections. Even with the right people and strategy, young businesses still need sufficient investment to really hum. But it can be hard to know where to start and a challenge to try to connect with investors.