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Looking forward to Digitoo AI & Business Conference tomorrow! What I am most looking forward to is pannel AI & Byznys with: Miroslav Uďan, Founder of Shoptet and CEO of Out of Dark Martin Cigler - Seyfor Tomas Havryluk - exAlza Ondrej Fryc - Reflex Capital Will summarize my learnings in the next post after the event Check out more great events in this Google Sheet: https://lnkd.in/ePK3_sa2

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Case Study: How Game Garden increase IAP Revenue & LTV through personalizes in-game shops.

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There are many (if expensive) data sources for the later parts of the startup market, but (you know there had to be a BUT coming)... ‌ But what about the founders who are just getting started? And the investors who fund these nascent companies?  ‌ Where can they go for market insights when the vast majority of investment in these spaces happens on unrecorded SAFEs and Convertible Notes? ‌ Enter - Carta’s State of Pre-Seed Report, Q1 2024 (https://lnkd.in/g8wBAH2j). ‌ Since 2020, companies on Carta have signed more than 100,000 SAFEs and notes before raising priced funding. We can speak from experience here about how these convertible instruments have reshaped the face of early-stage venture. ‌ If you’re a pre-seed founder or funder, don’t miss the downloadable addendum to the report above where we break out valuation cap medians for 10+ industries. Source: This is a re-post of the original email from Peter Walker and his team at #carta who create the Carta Data Minute (https://lnkd.in/gbxpyCb6) #startups #founders #fundraising #preseed #venturecapital #ventureinvestors #capvalue #termsheets #thefundraisingangel

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💬 Meat B2B industry is generally driven through 1:1 chats between buyers and suppliers via WhatsApp, Viber and text messages. This is how business is done. 📣 But, what if you could chat with the entire market at once? What if you could just ask the entire market "do you have frozen chicken from Poland?" and if yes, what if you could say "I need it next week." And if yes, "who can offer me the best price?" Well, now you can. Today we announce the new AI-powered chat that allows you to "talk to the market". 👏 Big kudos to the MeatBorsa team for delivering this amazing feature. 🤯 While I cannot say I truly understand how this works, our CTO Desislav Bonchev explained to me that it's all pretty simple, really. Namely, all we do is generate a 200-dimensional vector for each listing and then simply compare the angles of these vectors. Simples. 😏

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Here is a free, curated list of 500 active seed-stage VCs. (Scroll down to get it) But first, a few words on how to use it: Your goal is to connect with the general partners in those VCs - they are the decision-makers. Analysts, associates, and venture partners can be helpful but only if you can get them to forward your pitch to the the general partners. Now, when you are raising from angel investors, the best strategy is well-researched cold outreach. But since there might not be many VCs that are a true fit for your startup, you need to be more strategic to connect with the VCs' general partners. Here is what we suggest you do: 1. Research - go through the list, read the description, and check that there is a basic match with your domain and location. Then, go to their websites and other online resources (Crunchbase) to ensure the VC firm is a good fit for you. 2. Go to their LinkedIn page and identify the general partners in the firm. 3. Check to see if you have any mutual contacts that can introduce you to one of the partners. 4. If you can't find a way to connect via an intro or in person: focus on one of the partners. Ideally, you should find someone who is your second-level contact on LinkedIn and an active LinkedIn user. If possible, engage lightly with their content and then reach out with a connection request on LinkedIn. 5. If you get no response after a day or two, reach out to the next general partner in that VC. The list we giving you has been hand-checked by the Meet.Capital team and includes all you need to get started: Website. Location. Investment thesis/description. Preferred domains. Preferred stage. Linkedin company page. ✅ To get it - visit here: https://lnkd.in/dEYuAQsY ❤️ Also, comment on this post, if: 1. You want to introduce your VC to founders viewing this post. 2. You work with or support many startups and want to partner with Meet.Capital 3. There is someone who you know can benefit from this post - tag them.  4. You want to help this reach more founders ❤️ Thanks! * Join over 5,000 startup founders and investors subscribed to get our weekly 5 startup tips and more. You can subscribe on the link above (and get the free investor list) or right on our homepage (and get a free guide).

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If you want to have a good talk over health tech, the future of pharma, and digital solutions in medicine and you also attend Latitude59 or you live in Tallinn drop a line here or in the event app! I'll be there representing our company, Targenta Ltd. But what is Targenta?... 👉 Our why In the last decade, medical services have diversified, involving both public and private sectors. However, this diversification has led to challenges due to the lack of integration and coordination among services, as patients often use a mix of private and public facilities, and communication between their different physicians and pharmacists is not guaranteed. The frequent failure to establish secure and seamless intra- and inter-organization communication channels has resulted in medical professionals unintentionally neglecting each other's insights. This lack of collaboration has given rise to conflicting treatment and medication plans, creating a complex web of challenges for patients. Prescribing medications without a shared understanding of a patient's case among different physicians can be highly dangerous. The widely prevalent fragmented healthcare raises the risk of adverse drug interactions, duplicate prescriptions, and conflicting treatment plans, posing serious health threats. Without a comprehensive view of the patient's medical history, there's a heightened potential for unintended side effects, compromised efficacy, and overall confusion in managing the patient's health. 👉 Our Solutions for Healthcare Challenges At Targenta, we've engineered a suite of innovative solutions to address the complex challenges facing medical professionals today. Our Tailored Treatment Options provide personalized diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations, streamlining decision-making and reducing case-specific research times by approximately 20%. With the Medical Team Dashboard System, healthcare providers gain secure, remote collaboration capabilities, enhancing overall patient care effectiveness and cutting administrative costs. Additionally, our PharmaSolv system ensures medication safety by analyzing and optimizing schedules, preventing potential drug interactions, and redundant prescriptions. Check out our services here: https://lnkd.in/d_d6vNDm #startup #tallinn #estonia #latitude59 #innovation #businessangels #venturecaptalists #MVP #preseed #healthtech #medtech #digitalhealth #targenta

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How viral is viral? The latest viral web3 game, Hamster Kombat, just yesterday hit 116M players after 72 days.. and it’s stilll growing. The 100m user club and how fast they reached this benchmark: 📈 Meta Threads: 5 days (2023) 🕹️ Zynga CityVille: 43 days (2010) 🤖 OpenAI ChatGPT: 60 days (2023) 🚜 Zynga FarmVille: 63 days (2009) —> 🐹 Hamster Kombat: 70 days (2024) 📱 TikTok: 9 months (2018) 💬 Telegram: 2.5 years (2016) 📸 Instagram: 2.5 years (2012) 🎵 MySpace: 3 years (2006) 📞 WhatsApp: 3.5 years (2013) 👤 Facebook: 4.5 years (2008) 🐦 Twitter: 5+ years (2011) 📺 YouTube: 6 years (2011) 📧 Gmail: 6 years (2009) 📧 Hotmail: 7 years (1999) 📦 Dropbox: 8 years (2017) 🎵 Spotify: 8 years (2016) 🎥 Netflix: 10 years (2016) The power of social connections never ceases to drive growth. From instant virality to sustained social engagement, apps like Hamster Kombat, today are leveraging networks like never before. These consumer apps are constantly evolving with new forms of fun, connections and community. With new tools in AI, Web3 and crypto, new forms of digital interaction and money are emerging in a next wave of social connections and virality. #ViralGrowth #Web3 #socialFi

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If inspiration, then Allegro! Check out Allegro Teasers in the app 🎉 After months of intensive work by our project team, we are introducing a tool that aims to: 🟠 inspiring users, 🟠 increasing their involvement, 🟠 motivating you to discover new shopping categories. Allegro Teasers will make discovering our offerings more engaging and educational, helping users better understand the value of our platform. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this success. This is just the beginning - we are already working on implementing the components on international markets! 🌍 #Allegro #AllegroTeasers #ecommerce #marketplace

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VC generalists - 1,000 Emails and LinkedIns - Seed - US/Europe - Part 1 You can find this list and many others with investors contacts and startups from YC, Techcrunch, WebSummit and all future lists here https://lnkd.in/dpSAUEYb The list covers: - Full VC funds info: links to Crunchbase, Website, LinkedIn, № of investments, founded date, Industries, Stage Focus, etc. - Emails and LinkedIns of VC funds employees, their Location, Duration in Role. #VC #startup

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Investors and teamates - exchange your ⛱️🩲👙 to —> 🤝🎙️💰! Come to the Plug and Play Europe Lithuania Demo Day on the 21st of June! I will leave the link in the comments. Cannot wait to see you and tell you more about AQ22 and our model AQ1! You haven’t heard of it yet? We need to get you up to speed. 🚀 #AQ22 #plugandplay #demoday #invite Startup Lithuania Karolina Urbonaitė

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Export your ecommerce to Central and Eastern Europe 🚀🚀🚀 Considering expanding your online store? Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) could be your next big move with over 500 million potential customers in Europe. ui42 helps you to build success see our success story in comments. - Slovakia: Revenues increased by 123% YtY - Czech Republic: Revenues soared by 270% YtY - Hungary: Achieved a 75% YtY revenue growth Why choose CEE? - Abundant Customers: Tap into a vast market with easy EU access. - Innovation Hub: CEE is buzzing with new ideas, especially for tech companies. - Efficient Shipping: Modern transport infrastructure in CEE ensures product deliveries. - Proven Track Record: ui42 has empowered 87% of clients to expand their businesses successfully! Ready to seize the opportunities in CEE? Let's discuss your expansion strategy! #ecommerce #CEE #growth #easy #expansion #innovation #logistics #partnership #ui42

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Two of the very few founders who are crazy enough to challenge Big Tech are from Porto, Portugal We all use established products from US companies like Excel/GSheets, Powerpoint/Slides, the iPhone, etc. But very few European companies are trying to disrupt and innovate on these (some outdated) tools. We have: Pitch on PowerPoint/Slides Rows.com on Spreadsheets Mistral AI on AI Decipad on Documents Both Humberto Ayres Pereira (from Rows) and I come from the same small European city and country: Porto, Portugal How come? Are we crazy for taking on these challenges? Yeah. But what I feel is privilege. I'm privileged to be able to work on the problem of clearly telling stories with data. The same way Excel was not made for today's days and Rows.com is disrupting it, Documents were never made to tell stories with data and math. So we built Decipad to innovate on them. Watch this space. Disruption happens slowly until it happens all at once Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

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TAKE OFF YOUR SCARF! DISCRIMINATION AGAINST VISITING FANS! I’m glad that our topic “scarves in visiting stadiums” with Tomáš Martinec hasn’t been forgotten. Recently, a major Czech sport’s newspaper Deník Sport has taken interest in it, inspired and based on our article. Their journalistic investigation revealed that although many clubs officially ban visiting fans, regardless of whether they are families with children, pensioners, or hooligans, from entering the main stands with symbols of the visiting team in their visitor rules, in practice, they are more lenient during non-risk matches. However, this approach is legally wrong and discriminatory. Clubs should revise their visitor rules so that in exceptional cases, they can, mainly for security reasons, deny entry to certain fans, either completely or with certain symbols. They must be able to properly explain and justify their decision if such a fan disagrees. Will the visitor rules of Czech clubs change in this direction? And will fans of the visiting team, who do not fall into risky groups, be allowed to normally and decently support their team with a scarf around their necks on the main stands, if they are not sold out to season ticket holders or otherwise occupied by home fans? 🏟️🙏⚽️ #football #law #stadiums #discrimination

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Hey, everyone! I want to make an announcement for you My name is Sergei Kovalev. I’m trendsetter, investor, founder, serial entrepreneur, and fundraiser. Consulting professional with over 15 years of experience in the financial, marketing, and IT industries   Has competencies in the field of investments, and innovative technologies in the field of blockchain, DeFi, BioTech, and AI. Advised and tested 139 niches and over 200 products. Helped launch dozens of successful startups from cryptography to cloning I do paid consultations that can help your business What can I do for you? Management: - Raising capital - Business Development - Project management in Agile, Scrum methodology - Cross-functional remote team management - Development of effective KPI systems - Building organizational structures and business processes Web3 development: - Creating and analyzing tokenomics - DAO development, smart contracts, NFT, blockchain, crypto exchange, crypto wallets, metaverse Venture Capital Investment: - Project auditing and trend tracking - Project Scouting - Project Scoring - VC investment - Finding and building a team to raise capital - Fundraising capital - Fundraising Campaign Management Digital Marketing - Automated sales and marketing funnels. CPL, CPA based model - Webinar and direct sales models - Conducting customer development interviews - Marketing and semantic business packaging - Cross-channel marketing - Lead Generation: Facebook, Youtube, Telegram, Tik-Tok, LinkedIn, Discord, Twitter, Influencers Sales - B2C sales, working with retail investors - B2B sales, building communications and corporate sales - Syndication and transaction support - Company sales - M&A transactions Animal cloning What will you get from a personal consultation? - The right contacts - My years of experience - A question laid out in a nutshell - The solution you have been waiting for Anyone interested can make an appointment with me for a consultation by sending me a message marked CONSULTATION #consultation #startups #cloning #tech #ai #business #sales #b2b #b2c #digitalmarketing #venturecapital #investment #web3 #defi #biotech #it #crypto #blockchain #innovation

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2 days ago, I collected 52 answers about how startup studios attract founders. The top 4 problems mentioned while answering an open question: 1. Hard to find the “true founder material” 2. Studio culture & values fit 3. Hard to engage full-time with founders – lack of founder’s focus 4. Small network to attract founders – either the need to hire outside your industry/niche or inside it I think the answer to the first 3 problems lies in these statistics: – Only 10% of studios (5 answers) work exclusively with second-time founders, those who have tried to build their own companies but failed. 90% are ready to work with first-time founders. It’s usually hard to expect (or at least) test grit, perseverance, high level of commitment & risk tolerance in first-time founders. There are two ways: 1. Either you find ways to attract experienced entrepreneurs despite adverse selection (founders will be inclined to launch their own companies independently if a studio can’t provide a no-brainer deal) or 2. You turn the weakness (first-time founders) into your strength, allowing current full-time employees to test new business ideas with your support without the risk of losing jobs and becoming full-time co-founders only after validation and substantial revenue. DQventures is a good example. Suppose you’ve decided to focus on second-time founders. How will you seek them? Grant Morgan suggested one interesting idea for our (potential) future marketplace of venture studios & founders: “To target founders of companies that shut down or got acqui-hired recently. Founders that haven't been successful, but who have lived the startup lifecycle are great in our opinion, and there are / will be more of them than ever over the next couple of years following ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) environment where many companies raised too much and/or at valuations that their companies will never grow into, but the experience these founders have is very valuable, and they're often hungrier having tasted some level of success already.” – 73% of studios consider partnering remotely with candidates from their country. 52% consider co-founders in other countries as well. Yesterday, while discussing with my partner ideas around the marketplace, we thought that as our first MVP, there could be a job fair online conference where some studios will pitch to potential co-founders. 1. Do you think it’s a good idea? 2. Would you pitch to attract candidates (for free or for the success fee? Let me know in the comments, and if we decide to organize the event, I will invite you.

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Next Monday, ViennaUP - The Startup Festival! is starting again. I have been regularly attending this event for years, because most of the CEE investor and startup scene is here. Ping me if you are in Vienna on 3rd (at Startup World Cup Austria Finale) or 4th June (at Connect Day 24) and let's talk about the investment opportunities of Kék Bolygó Tőkealapok / Blue Planet Venture Capital in CEE region. #ViennaUp #blueplanetventurecapital

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This week’s podcast episode is very special to us because it features Blendrit Elezaj, co-founder of Tactica and GIG Education. Tactica has been our digital marketing partner for quite some time now, and our cooperation has been outstanding. In this episode, we discuss global teams, remote work, sales, and job market trends, focusing on the Balkans and Kosovo. Blendrit told us about his company’s journey. It originated from a small country and later successfully expanded to the point that it now has 75 U.S. clients. Their work is done remotely, and they even set up an in-house academy to train new employees. We all agreed that working with global partners is the absolute best solution. The price is fair, and the service quality is high. Take it from me: I’ve been partnering with Tactica from Kosovo, developers in India, and AI developers in Ukraine, and their work matches, if not surpasses, the quality found anywhere else in the world. However, we also took a critical approach to job market trends. With such globalized work, employee job hopping is on the rise, posing a significant challenge for business owners. Listen to the full episode to hear more about investing opportunities and the diaspora’s effects in Kosovo, a hidden gem of entrepreneurship in the Balkans.

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Hey! Here's an overview of the services of S4AMZ (A specialized company in the consultations of Amazon sellers from all over the world). with the founder of S4AMZ Milcho Vasilkov - and thx a lot to Amina Djabara for filming :D Filmed at the Balkan eCommerce Summit by Nikola Ilchev. It was a good e-commerce business event in Sofia, Bulgaria. S4AMZ will help you whether you are just starting out in Amazon or need help. As an official Amazon EU Agency Gold Partner, there are no unsolvable problems on the platform for S4AMZ. With their years of experience, they have accumulated many practices that save time to reach the goals and eliminate the confusion that every Amazon business has. If you ever decide to work with S4AMZ, please mention my name, Vova Even, and you'll get great offers for their services. Good luck! #amazonfba #amazon #amazonseller #amazonsellers #amazonbusiness #s4amz #amazonselling #sellingonamazon #amazonexperts #amazonexpert

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