YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is an old management adage which says that “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” This saying may be true in all parts of a company, but is especially pertinent in finance. Fourth, aggregate functions and processes within your organization to reduce inefficiencies as much as possible.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. Having JEI status is pretty much a golden ticket to financing, and JEI startups also get tax breaks and other benefits. The Startups.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. In a Series A financing, companies must pay the investors’ lawyers as well as their own.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is essentially a digital medical records aggregator that takes care of everything; from collecting paper records, to translating through the jargon, to securely storing it all online. “ Zweena is seeking first-round financing that will help the company grow and add the right people. But the going is not easy. ”

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience. At best. ~

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Here’s where machine-learning comes into play to self-correct over time, dynamically adjusting detection algorithms based on experience, aiming to keep everything within a controllable cost/risk limit.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Now, managing and analyzing your business finances doesn’t have to be a frustrating process. Here are a few tips to help you better manage your business finances. So, rather than handling these things separately, it is often more valuable to leverage a tool that can aggregate and automatically generate financial reports.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics.” ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh). ” (Rob Go).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

They gather the expertise of diligent, thoughtful, experienced donors so that each dollar donated by an individual – you, your friends in finance, your grandma – is as high impact as a dollar donated by the most well-informed, wealthy philanthropist. Agora Fund is a new organization that makes giving more effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Katina Stefanova : The government is looking for effective ways to increase transparency in the aggregate risk of the system and hold investment managers accountable. In aggregate, the investment management community performs below the market benchmark when fees are taken into consideration.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

With typically no in-house accounting and finance teams, and traditional accounts payable (AP) automation solutions like Bill.com not meeting their flexibility and cash flow control needs, small businesses are still writing and posting checks to pay suppliers, a process exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

If your business needs financing, consider equity crowdfunding; its distinctive traits will lure investors desiring the rewards of investment returns and investor protection, in addition to the goodwill generated by their support. Set a Fundraising Goal. Evaluate the amount your business can reasonably collect.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Understanding your competition is critical to success.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2019

If you don’t have the borrowing history necessary to have a great credit score, it may be hard for you to secure the financing you need from a bank. Unisource takes advantage of automation and machine learning so that buyer information can be quickly aggregated from a number of online sources. Kabbage.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. —-.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Finance Dissertation Help. Finance Dissertation Proposal. Yahoo Finance. I was looking for such post.I

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

If you’re anything like me, I get really annoyed by the stacks upon stacks of bills I receive every month – not only is it a painful reminder of how much hard-earned money is being sucked from me, but also because it’s really, really difficult to keep track of one’s finances this way.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!) should not stop you from trying to measure Profitability along with Revenue.

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Boosting the World of Finance. The finance industry is spearheading the AI revolution. Some artificial intelligence systems can determine what’s driving customer behavior by aggregating and analyzing all the various touch-points a customer has with a brand. But, how exactly is it managing to achieve that?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You may have received a loan from a bank at some point to finance a large purchase such as a house, car, or boat. Historically, if you wanted to get an overall picture of your finances, it took a lot of time to manually compile financial information from all accounts. An average consumer today has several bank and credit accounts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Marketing should collaborate as a business function with sales, finance and ops, but you shouldn’t replace any of their tasks as a manager. If you target demand capture, you need to use intent channels that include paint point SEO, PPC, review websites, affiliates and aggregators, or intent data.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). Similarly I assumed that later stage companies would also show a smaller gap. I was wrong.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Recognizing the problem, a number of startups and accelerators in Malaysia have banded together to create Launchpad , an online service that aggregates and provides information on startup internship positions in Asia to help graduates and students to decide which jobs are the best fit for them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

And why funding from families and friends is a dominant source of financing for early-stage ventures (because friends and family know an entrepreneur’s ability better than any resume can convey). Increasing the number of new ventures will only generate aggregate wealth if those who start firms are truly more productive as entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a case x case basis, perhaps barely noticeable incremental improvements, but transformative in their aggregate. Personal Delights. For me, the most inspirational takeaway from the gathering was IoT’s under-stated potential to make our lives more “Personally Delightful” on a day-to-day basis.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Euromoney magazine, a leading international banking, finance and capital markets news publication, named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer the world’s best bank governor for 2010 for his leadership of Israel’s economy in the wake of the global financial crisis. Wireless communications chip developer Qualcomm Inc.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. 7.5 - 10.5% April 12, 2012 6:15 PM.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. From Google Finance.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

Debt consolidation can help businesses regain control of their finances. It can also help a small business to put itself on firmer footing, making it a better candidate for growth financing in the future. Overall Business Finances. Not sure what’s causing the drag on your finances? Personal Credit Score.

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