VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The most important companies are those that others don’t see as valuable. Peter Thiel The statistics for startup success are well known. About 90% of startups will fail within three years of starting. Within the group of startups that succeeds, the returns for venture investors are concentrated in few companies. Assuming an investor is able to see one of these potential outlier companies in time, there’s always a question of whether they are able to spot the opportunity and pursue an

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Outsmart Competitors With Agency-First Web Design written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Itai Sadan, founder of Duda , a website builder designed for marketing agencies and small businesses. As a digital marketer since the birth of the internet, I remember Duda’s early days.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2024

by Charlie Carroll, author of “Eat Like an Entrepreneur“ Have you ever started a fire? Most of us have, and we know that fire needs wood to burn. But wait, you might say, you can throw lots of things in a fire and they will burn. Sure, that’s true. Fire burns paper, cardboard, fabric — […] The post Right Fuel. Right Fire. appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In the era of technology and the internet, having the option to share short and easy-to-remember web links is incredibly useful. A shortcut URL, or quick links, are commonly used to make long website addresses more accessible, making them easier to read and share on various platforms. This article delves into the process of creating custom URLs and outlines their benefits.

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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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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Why reduce investor risk? In the creation of a young company, there are five principal risks to be addressed by the entrepreneur. Professional investors will probe these five risk areas and make the decision to invest based upon comfort with each. So, it is important for the entrepreneur to identify, address and mitigate each of these in order to increase valuation and decrease the risk of ultimate loss of the business.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Austin’s venture capital landscape shows signs of recovery, with area startups raising $978 million across 80 deals in Q3 2024, marking a 44% increase from last year, according to data presented at Austin Tech Week.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 31, 2024

If you are building a new organization or finding that your current board’s role isn’t quite taking you in the right direction, it’s important to understand: there is no single correct way to set up a board of directors. Board governance models for nonprofit and for-profit organizations are surprisingly diverse, a necessary quality given the different purposes of these organizations and their goals.

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