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Rescuing Israeli Startups Amidst Conflict: A Mission of Urgency In this urgent and impactful episode, Jared shares his personal mission to support Israeli startup companies deeply affected by the ongoing war. With many founders engaged in combat, these businesses face potential collapse. Jared's initiative aims to take operational control of these startups, ensuring their survival and growth. He discusses the challenges of financing this effort and plans to expand support beyond Israel to global regions in need. Emphasizing action over passive aid, Jared builds a robust network to achieve long-lasting impact, allowing donors worldwide to see the fruits of their contributions. 00:00 Introduction to the Urgent Mission 00:42 The Impact of War on Israeli Startups 01:26 Challenges Faced by Distressed Companies 02:10 Proposed Solution: Taking Over Operations 03:10 Executing the Plan: Commercializing Dreams

🍦 How did the power of Social media rocket an ice cream business to a 9 figure valuation? We broke down exactly how in last week’s issue of Innovators Uncensored ⚡️ 🍕 We showed you how you can use FOMO to secure new customers! 👀 For our Start-Up of the week, we took a dive into what Josh Higginson and Harry Higginson are building at The Deli Society ✍️ All that plus sooo many more tips, tricks and tools in last week’s issue of Innovators Uncensored - link to subscribe and read the issue below👇 https://lnkd.in/esJKHqRv

"For venture capitalists, this part of the investing process – the time between discovering a desirable, competitive deal and making the investment is the arena. It’s the province of sharp elbows, late-night phone calls, speed reading data rooms, and dueling term sheets. If handled well, this can be the making of the firm. With a small number of intelligent, farseeing decisions, you may find yourself the equity holder of a legendary business and the partner to a historic entrepreneur. But if managed poorly, you may find yourself sitting on an overheated pile of buzzy logos, not real businesses. Based on the strategies of the exceptional investors we’ve interviewed, and our own research, we’ve devised a five step playbook to help you run a tight process, make shrewd decisions, and win allocation." https://lnkd.in/g9-Uhkyu

“A common piece of advice for founders is to validate their idea by seeking early feedback from potential customers. So, we did that. We started with interviews with friends who fit our target audience. We widened the circle to interview people we met at events. We paid to survey a thousand people that fit different market segments we wanted to test out. We analyzed the data and included it in our pitch decks to show product-market fit. It’s not that the advice we get as founders is wrong—it’s just truncated, incomplete, pithy. Here’s the thing. People don’t like telling you to your face that your idea isn’t going to be big. Our efforts showed that people thought the tech was cool (because it was!). But that didn’t mean anyone would pay to use the application we wanted to build. What I should have done is set up a presell campaign: a website describing our product and offering a deep discount if people prepaid for the promise of delivery in the future. That would have given us real data on whether our target audience saw enough value in our product to pay something—anything—for it. If you can’t get buyer commitment, it’s product-market fit by luck.” Annette Lavoie, PhD Vanessa Liu

Amazing to work with Nick Telson-Sillett & 🎺 Rory Sadler at trumpet 🎺 The trumpet platform has over 10k sales users who are proving that conversion of sales is higher and faster, and the buyer experience is significantly improved. Clearly both customers and investors are seeing the amazing benefits I’ve seen. 1st hand the pitch response with prospects is incredible around understanding the ROI. What does a sales person want 1. Great product. 2. Great references. That’s Trumpet 🎺

If you are struggling with product-market fit (and what startup isn't), you might find this a helpful guide. I sure did. Thanks Lenny's Newsletter! #freelancerevolution

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At zupply, we ring the bell to celebrate small victories on our journey 🔔 Today, I haven't rung it, but it reminded me how building this company sometimes is like a boxing match 🥊, where each day is a set of "rounds". Here's a glimpse into today's: - The "speed round" 🥊 --> 2 hours ensuring our latest product developments are spot-on for a client we're onboarding at week's end - The "sharpness round" 🥊 --> 2 investor meetings, always a "round" of challenging questions. - The "talk to clients round" 🥊 --> Addressed 8 customer support emails to help our existing clients thrive. - The "metrics round" 🥊 --> Sent 3 important updates to our existing investors. - The "hustling round" 🥊 --> Sent sales deck and marketing materials for a major potential client. - The "round of I don't have a clue, but i need to become an expert fast" 🥊 --> Learned how to use better NFC/RFIDs to track circularity. - The round of "Did I just lost focus? " 🥊 --> Conducted a 1-hour strategy workshop aimed at delivering more value, faster??? - "The round of lets connect and a cool network" 🥊 --> Met with a great person in the startup ecosystem over a talk of baseball. - The "round of I don't speak Danish but I wanted to start a company in a foreign country so now I have to figure it out" 🥊--> Called public organization for an issue with our company affairs. ...happily it's only 6:30 PM! Yet, I am still making circularity happen! P.S. I've started bringing a cap to the 'boxing arena' each day—it helps me stay focused and dodge the "punches 🥊" that come my way. #zupply #CircularEconomy #StartupLife #Entrepreneurship #makingcircularityhappen

Celebrities can give a much-needed boost in brand recognition to the companies they back. But some celebrity investors stand out from the pack when it comes to picking future unicorns or identifying strong M&A targets. We used CB Insights data to cut through the hype and see which celebrities-turned-investors are the strongest. To create the Celebrity VC Index, we dug into recent financing and exit activity, unicorn metrics, and portfolio company Mosaic scores — CB Insights’ proprietary algorithm measuring startup health and potential.

Nice to see public figures, actors and athletes in as investors in startups, would be interesting to know some of following: -Do they bring in other public figures -Does its a difference to founders, if one set of investors has a public figure -What stage they are typically focused/bias -What amounts -Are they active involved or passive with their investments -Do they follow on invest -What have been some sample exits?