March, 2023

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Burning Platform: Raising the Bar for Analyst Summits with Truly Zoho

deal architect

In the 83nd episode of Burning Platform, we host Sandy Lo and Pooja Mittal in the marketing team of Zoho and they talk about the elaborate planning and logistics it took to host the Truly Zoho analyst event in Chennai.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Connection And Leadership

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.

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Mobile App Development For Businesses – A Complete Guide

YoungUpstarts

It is important to choose the right agency for mobile app development to gain a competitive business edge. The post Mobile App Development For Businesses – A Complete Guide appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The SVB Saga in Memes

VC Cafe

“The biggest collapse since the financial crisis” is no laughing matter. Silicon Valley Bank was the bank of many founders and funds (30% according to some estimates), including our own at Remagine Ventures. The decisive action taken today by the Department of Treasury, The Federal Reserve and the FDIC (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) to make depositors whole and get access to their account balance on Monday morning, averted a much bigger financial crisis and knock on effects.

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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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Learnings as a New Leader: Books, Storytelling Scholarships, and More

Brandanew

Adopting a new role of an executive non-profit leader this year has meant lots of impatience, new learning, and working out a system to finally be able to rest, and be mindful. Trying to build something new with Peerbagh each day means that I have to unlearn systems that were leading to frequent burnout. It also means being able to give grace to people I work with and lead so we feel comfortable in setting boundaries and don’t metabolize our accomplishments too quickly.

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Gluecon 13: 2023

Feld Thoughts

GlueCon will occur for the thirteenth time, on May 24th-25th, in Broomfield, Colorado. My Foundry partners and I helped Kim and Eric Norlin create Gluecon in 2009 because we saw the need for a developer-focused event to explore emerging technologies around the cloud and APIs. The first year that GlueCon occurred, it seemed like nearly every session began with someone defining “what cloud computing is.

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6 Reasons To Disclose Your Startup Idea Before Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked. They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they don’t worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they don’t forget to listen carefully to critical feedback. They become walking public relations machines for themselves, as well as their idea.

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Going For The Brass Ring: Advice On Navigating A Satisfying Business Career

YoungUpstarts

Make things happen or things will happen to you, says Christopher Volk. He shares how you can achieve a satisfying business career. The post Going For The Brass Ring: Advice On Navigating A Satisfying Business Career appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Use cases for Generative AI in gaming

VC Cafe

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. We expect AI to further augment content creation pipelines by generating images, audio, video, and code. 2023 Unity Gaming Report Generative AI is faster than most consumer products and attracting a high level of VC investment, even in today’s tough funding environment. The applications for generative AI are vast, for us at Remagine Ventures, naturally the impact it can have on gaming is really significant.

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SXSW 2023 Innovation Award Winners Announced

SiliconHills

By Laura Kobylecky, Special Contribution to Silicon Hills News South by Southwest announced the 2023 Innovation Award winners during an awards ceremony at the Austin Convention Center on Monday evening. The winners are Move.ai of London, For Tomorrow: an Innovation Ecosystem of Los Angeles, Time Investigators of Bourne End, U.K.

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An Investment in Board Diversity

Feld Thoughts

Research shows that more diverse teams perform better and are more innovative than homogeneous teams. I’ve written about this before, and it’s covered extensively in my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry. We encourage all our portfolio companies to add multiple independent directors and build diverse boards.

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Time for the tech sector to think about “Business as Unusual”

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I have seen it repeatedly, 4 years in a row. In 2020, I saw it in the pandemic stress in many execs I captured in the New Normal video series. In 2021, the Moment of Service book I helped IFS.

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8 Entrepreneurship Principles For Anticipating Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs who rely only on traditional learning vehicles (teachers, classrooms, and risk-free practice) are doomed to failure in anticipating change today. Either they are never really ready to commit, study an opportunity until it has passed, or fail with tools and techniques from a bygone business era. The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything.

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5 Essential Habits For Every Successful Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Learning and honing certain skills early in one’s career will prep entrepreneurs for the best chance to thrive. Craig Goodliffe shares more. The post 5 Essential Habits For Every Successful Entrepreneur appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Is Generative AI the biggest platform shift since Cloud and Mobile?

VC Cafe

i think AI is going to be the greatest force for economic empowerment and a lot of people getting rich we have ever seen — Sam Altman (@sama) February 13, 2023 I’ve been covering generative AI in VC Cafe for the past couple of years. In November I wrote that generative AI will become truly mainstream when it moves from playful to useful.

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Effective Management Techniques to Reduce Employee Turnover

The Startup Magazine

Did you know approximately 4 million Americans (2.6% of the U.S. workforce) left their job in 2022? Moreover, a Statista’s report reveals that the number of quits has now surpassed the pre-pandemic peak for 21 consecutive months. Young people playing table tennis in workplace, having fun. Perhaps it won’t be wrong to say these staggering numbers are a wake-up call for organizations to take employee retention seriously.

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Founder Mental Health Pledge

Feld Thoughts

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down and took over Silicon Valley Bank. By late Friday, anyone who banked with SVB was concerned about … well … everything. Once it became clear that payroll accounts needed to be funded on Monday to make Wednesday’s payroll, we focused on the immediate short-term to ensure our portfolio companies’ thousands of e

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Burning Platform: A 360 degree perspective on the Truly Zoho event

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Earlier in the week, Sandy Lo and Pooja Mittal of Zoho discussed the elaborate planning and intricate logistics of the week long Truly Zoho event in Chennai and Tenkasi in South India.

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8 Signs Of A New Business Initiative And Not A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I recognize that entrepreneurs tend to substitute vision and passion for formal processes, but using no discipline or process in building something new is a sure way to spend money, rather than see any return and build a self-sustaining business.

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How Brands Can Build A Positive Reputation And Grow Customer Loyalty in 2023

YoungUpstarts

Growing customer loyalty and building a positive brand reputation is more important than ever these days. The post How Brands Can Build A Positive Reputation And Grow Customer Loyalty in 2023 appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Welcome to Peerbagh

Brandanew

After a near 20-year career in marketing, strategy, and communications, I’m leaning at doing things that create more meaning in my life. With many months of deliberation, I’m stepping in to lead a social organization committed to children’s storytelling leaning heavily on South-Asian stories as base frameworks. As a parent and a professional, Peerbagh has drawn me in from the very beginning.

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Communicate And Spring Forward!

Rembrandt Communications

Are Your Communications Ready For The Warmer Months Ahead? March is here, and you’ve made it through winter’s cold temperatures, groundhogs giving their two cents, and more. Now, you just need to prep your umbrella for the April showers that lead to May flowers! Yes! Spring finally arrives in just a few weeks, and that means warmer temperatures and outdoor adventures are on the way.

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Honoring Cecelia Feld on International Women’s Day 2023

Feld Thoughts

Today is International Women’s Day. Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women’s equality. Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity. I’ve been fortunate to have many incredible women influence my life and how I think about gender and gender equity.

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Will Workday lead us out of the Enterprise “AI Winter”?

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I smiled when Sayan Chakraborty, Co-President mentioned “AI Winter” in his presentation at the Workday AI and ML Innovation Summit last week. I smiled for two reasons: He expressed eloquently in two words what took me much longer to describe.

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8 Elements Of Ownership Thinking And Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

If you feel trapped in an unsatisfying and limiting role as a business professional, I urge you to assess your own interest and level of ownership thinking as a means of enhancing your career or growing your own business. I have personally worked as an employee of large businesses, as well as a partner in new ventures, and found the latter to have more potential for satisfaction.

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What Are The Digital Marketing Trends In 2023?

YoungUpstarts

Smart businesses look for the latest trends to incorporate to maximize their results and impact. Here are some of the biggest trends in digital marketing. The post What Are The Digital Marketing Trends In 2023? appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How Does Cash Advance Work?

The Startup Magazine

There are many financing options available for self-employed individuals and entrepreneurs. For instance, you can apply with Giggle Finance for a cash advance for independent contractors. Your business will not have to reach into its own pockets for funds to maintain its cash flow with these financing options. What is a Cash Advance? A cash advance is simply money you borrow and repay using future sales.

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Second order effects of a bank run on fintech startups

View from Seed

The post Second order effects of a bank run on fintech startups appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Do AI Rabbits Dream of Holographic Carrots?

Feld Thoughts

Last week I met a holographic lifeform who calls himself Uncle Rabbit. I now have a new friend, created by Looking Glass , the hologram company out of Brooklyn (we’re investors, and I’m on the board). A hologram + ChatGPT. A robot, but made of software and light instead of atoms. And with a lot more character. The video above shows Shawn Frayne (CEO of Looking Glass) talking with Uncle Rabbit about … me.

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Truly Zoho recap

deal architect

I wrote last Monday that the Truly Zoho event in Chennai promised to raise the bar for analyst summits. I grossly miscalculated. It blew the roof off!! I posted recaps and lots of photos each night on LinkedIn. The 3.

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7 Secrets To Positioning Competition For Constituents

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. This approach only makes these important constituents question your integrity, intelligence, and your understanding of business basics. Pointing out flaws in others does not give you strength.

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Selecting The Right Tech Tools To Make Your New Business Succeed

YoungUpstarts

With so many great tools and software available, selecting the right software for your business is crucial in setting it up for success. The post Selecting The Right Tech Tools To Make Your New Business Succeed appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Entrepreneur Interview: Six Nations’ Jason Hill and his Winning Burger Combo

The Startup Magazine

A drive across the North American landscape inevitably leads to one of countless exit ramps that spiral onto neon-lit roads lined with fast food restaurants of every description. Traveling down these unending ribbons of culinary commerce, it’s hard to believe that some entrepreneurs believe the cheeseburger has not yet been perfected. Today, burgers come in every conceivable combination, spread across a wide range of price points.

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Colossal Aims to Revive Woolly Mammoths by 2028, Says CEO Ben Lamm at SXSW Conference

SiliconHills

Colossal is on track to produce a woolly mammoth by 2028, said Ben Lamm, the company’s CEO, and Co-founder. “I think we’re on the path for that,” Lamm said during a discussion on Colossal’s De-Extinction Mission at South by Southwest Tuesday afternoon.

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When LLMs Collide With Software Development and Economics

Feld Thoughts

Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin of SK Ventures wrote an interesting and important essay titled Society’s Technical Debt and Software’s Gutenberg Moment. The abstract follows. I encourage you to read the full essay. There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT.

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Killing The ‘Must Have a Warm Intro To a VC’ Myth Will Be Good For Founders and Great for the World

Hunter Walker

Why I’m Participating in SeedChecks’ “Submit Your Deck” Community We’ve never believed in hiding. Our email addresses are on our website , and there’s no junior staffer or AI Bot replying on our behalf. A strong Cold Email always beats a weak Warm Email. And we’ve backed successful startups where the relationship began exactly this way.

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