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Insights: Five Essential Crowdfunding Success Tips

SoCal Tech Calendar

For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have Melinda Moore , author of How to Raise Money: The Ultimate Guide to Crowdfunding , who gives us some tips on crowdfunding. Here are 5 key tips on crowdfunding. Read the rest of Melinda's five tips: Five Essential Crowdfunding Success Tips. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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6 Tips For Combining Passion And Purpose To Stand Out

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Deciphering one’s personal purpose should be priority one.

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AvantStay, a platform for kitting out — and then renting out — high-end vacation rental homes, raises $160M

TechCrunch LA

AvantStay — which has built a platform where it decorates and then lists properties owned by others for people to rent out for vacations or other short-term stays — has raised $160 million in a Series B round of funding. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

Both Sides of the Table

In sales we do this by creating a “compelling event” or as some people call it “a burning platform” (in case the reference isn’t obvious, when you’re on a oil platform that’s burning you have no choice but to jump. Actually within a certain margin you can bring sales forward slightly.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Along with personalized tips that inspire creativity: Inject Professionalism with a Touch of Fun: Mark, as a dedicated math teacher, you likely have engaging stories from the classroom.

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10 Tips For Continuously Disrupting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Use your connections and employees viewing and participating in various social platforms to see firsthand how power is shifting and status quo is changing. Plan for multiple possible outcomes and be prepared to shift and ride the wave as it happens, instead of struggling for air after the wave passes over your head.

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