Sat.Mar 13, 2021

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5 Early Entrepreneur Strengths That Can Limit Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. All the skills and instincts you needed to get to this level can actually start working against you, and you can fail to scale. Investors often say that successfully navigating the early stages of a startup requires lots of street smarts, guts, and luck.

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Oracle Earnings Call - a missed opportunity

deal architect

Larry Ellison is one enterprise software exec I have not spent much time with. Oh, I have seen plenty of Oracle OpenWorld and other keynotes. I mean in a small group setting. He has always let Ray Lane or Charles.

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Top Health & Safety Tips For Your SME Food Business

YoungUpstarts

When working in the food industry, you can’t afford to compromise on health and safety. Here are some tips to help ensure high standards. The post Top Health & Safety Tips For Your SME Food Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How did the 2020 pandemic impact startups?

David Cohen

Here’s a chart of financings that happened inside the Techstars portfolio during 2020 vs 2019. 2020, of course, will likely be known as the year of the pandemic. There were 623 discrete financings totaling approximately $3.1B in our existing portfolio of 1,751 active companies in 2020. By contrast in 2019, there were 619 financings totaling approximately $2.2B and the portfolio size was closer to 1,484 active companies at the end of that year.

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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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AlertMedia Receives a big Investment From Vista Equity Partners

SiliconHills

AlertMedia announced last week that it has signed an agreement to receive a significant growth investment from Vista Equity Partners. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. An article in Fortune estimated the investment by Austin-based Vista Equity Partners at $400 million. AlertMedia, which has 200 employees, plans to use the infusion of capital […].

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How to protect your small business from digital threats

Our Own Start-up

If you want to protect your company from these digital threats, you are going to need to take precautions. The post How to protect your small business from digital threats first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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Tips for new real estate agents who need to drum up business

Our Own Start-up

Starting a new real estate business is exciting! The post Tips for new real estate agents who need to drum up business first appeared on Our Own Startup.

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