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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Sustainable growth: Prioritise sales efficiency over growth at all costs. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc). The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Having a simple background in sales and marketing , he came up with attractive employee benefits.

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Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 Edition)

VC Cafe

Rising inflation and interest rate hikes, growth in debt to GDP ration, the war in the Ukraine (and global instability), increases in prices of energy, changing consumer habits to a post Covid-19, supply chain issues, etc, might be all contributing factors to the stock market (and tech in particular) declines. Multiples by vertical.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Business development consultant. Check out the tweets here.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. Jonathan Siddharth.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Business development consultant. Check out the tweets here.

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Why Nuance Is Giving It Away

www.businessweek.com

Daniel Ives, a managing director at investment bank FBR Capital Markets ( FBRC ) , estimates that Nuance’s revenue from mobile software will double, from about $250 million today to $500 million, over the next three to four years. Globally, sales of voice recognition software for wireless devices should reach $21.3 Google Plus.

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