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There is no startup who doesn't know about the Y Combinator accelerator. This summer, next stream ended there, and, despite the online format, it was still an 🔥event for venture investors from all over the world.
👉We will tell who was given💸 money, what conclusions we can draw, and also why investors from all over the world focus on the pattern of a successful startup.
#investments
The Russian mortgage market is 💣booming. The industry is now more than ever in need of new solutions to help make 🏠mortgages flexible.
And here is one of them — get acquainted with the fintech startup Refin.Online! With Mikhail Chernov, with Mikhail Chernov, CEO and co-founder of the online mortgage management service Refin.Online, we talk about:
🔻about how FinTech startups make the life of bank customers easier,
🔻which technologies have the greatest impact on the development of the industry
🔻and the attitude of banks to such innovative projects.
#startup_of_the_day
Have you heard about TAM-SAM-SOM? And no, this is not a children's 🔢counting rhyme at all!
📌TAM-SAM-SOM is one of the most common market assessment methods. And, despite the scary abbreviations, this method is also one of the easiest to calculate as you do not need knowledge of further mathematics, just be attentive and use a calculator and several search queries.
👉What is this method based on and how does it work? What are examples of its use in practice? Read about all this in a new article!
#education
Do you think engineering and reengineering is more about 🪚🔨 construction? Read our new article: exploring business processes and their effectiveness.
💡Engineering involves making small corrections to business processes: you can compare it with cosmetic repairs. Reengineering is a much more radical measure. Here we are talking about a global restructuring of business processes.
👉Today we will figure out how the reengineering of an organization's business takes place, why it is needed and what reengineering gives to commercial organizations.
#education
We continue our research on BEAUTY & COSMETIC TECH🔥
📌Today we publish an article on technological solutions that are transforming the industry of dermatology and cosmetic surgery, as well as providing an additional set of tools for industry professionals: dermatologists and surgeons.
☝️For example, teledermoscopy, AR, 3D modeling enable industry professionals to do their job more efficiently.
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If people have not heard about your startup, do not know what product or service it offers, most likely they will not buy. It doesn't matter how you feel about advertising, it is necessary.
📌Today we realize how to promote a startup right:
✔️why it is relevant to know your client's face,
✔️how to develop your marketing strategy
✔️and what to pay attention to when choosing channels for promo.
Go!
#education
Heading "About Trends for the🌛 Night": today we are talking about ClimateTech🔥
The climate on our 🌏planet is changing more and more every year. Unfortunately, this is irreversible, and human beings were the source of the changes. At the same time, there are quite a lot of startups in the world that belong to the ClimateTech field and are doing everything to, if not reverse climate change, then at least slow it down.
👉Check out our review of ClimateTech startups: which one do you think can save the planet?
#about_trends_for_the_night
You should no longer be embarrassed of wanting to 💵 earn money. If you are a good specialist, you constantly improve your level of knowledge and work efficiently, it is natural to ask your boss to raise your salary.
Get new insight from the discussion groups of the startup studio Founders Club: we tell you how to take care of your promotion 📈already in the interview, when it is reasonable to ask for a salary increase and what arguments to give, and also how to understand in time that the salary will not be increased.
#insights
Today is Monday, which means it's time for quick news: read what interesting happened in the world of technology, venture and crypto. 🏃♀️Go!
🚩The largest cinema chain AMC Theatres began to accept cryptocurrency for online purchases.
🚩A startup from Ukraine Global Ledger raised $3.5M, which will allow it to enter new markets and obtain strategic partnerships.
🚩The project of the founders from Russia Inworld AI raised $7M. The AI-based platform allows you to develop virtual people, and then use them in VR and games.
🏁MTS will add to its venture fund for ₽1B the same amount. The focus of the selection of projects is FinTech, Sharing economy, EdTech, IoT and several other new directions.
More news and details see on our website. Have a productive week!
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Heading "About Trends for the Night": today we are talking about the abundance of startups that somehow are connected with 🌏maps and geolocation.
We make a bet: most likely your phone has at least some kind of application related to maps and terrain orientation — be it Google Maps, MAPS.ME or something else. If you wish, you can easily find an alternative to them — the market is constantly evolving and offers new solutions to both trivial problems like "getting from point A to point B" and more complex problems.
Read before 🌙✨bed and get inspired — a coming weekend, where you can test a new geo-app of those that we tell you about, or your future success: what if you come up with a🦄 product that will leave behind all the leaders in this segment.
#about_trends_for_the_night
Do you know that artificial intelligence, augmented reality, face recognition technologies are becoming the basis of a new direction in the startup development — digital aesthetics? 💡It turns out that digital technology provides many opportunities for aesthetic medicine.
Today we are considering technologies and startups that are shaping the future of Beauty & Cosmetic.
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Yes, Monday is considered a tough day, but let's not complicate matters! Have you been thinking about a startup for a long time, but don't have 💡a sensible idea yet? 99% sure — after reading this article, you will have more than one cool idea.
What is the methodology of the matrix of ideas and what are the ways to come up with a new genius start-up idea? 👉We will tell you in a new article.
We also give 🎁16 topical business concepts and top ideas for startups from around the world. Go ahead!
#education
In any media/community/channel they write about how important and useful 💰to invest, if their topic is even remotely related to finance and business. It is clear that investments could be different. We decided to get a jump on the day and talk about FAANG shares - this abbreviation consists of the first letters of the names of five 🌎world famous companies: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (Alphabet). We don't need to see to know: it is very unlikely that these companies will go bankrupt in the coming years.
👉Look in the new article for all the details about FAANG: characteristics of stocks and companies and, of course, how you can invest in them.
#investments
Last month, we discussed with the founders of the startup Intimatica the prejudices around sex education, the complexities of adolescence, and gender stereotypes in the startup community. Today we are sharing the cool news: the Intimatica application is available for download in the AppStore🔥
This is the first full-fledged 📱 application from the Sex Education sphere in the CIS. With it, a teenager can gain basic information about growing up, including sexual identity and the specifics of puberty.
Find more details here.
#news
Scouts ⛺️for many of us associate with the American youth movement, where the emphasis is on active tourism and wildlife survival skills. It turns out that scouting is also widespread in venture, although this is not entirely about tourism.
📌Scouts are people who are looking for startups, technologies or teams to collaborate with. This cooperation can be different starting from investing, accelerating, or buying technology to much more.
👉Sensible cooperation with them can give a startup serious benefits. We will tell you how to work with a scout to get the most out of it.
#education
Thursday evening is time for the heading "About trends for🌛 the night". Today we will focus on open data, as a movement and a basis for creating new startups.
📌Open data is a concept that reflects the idea that certain data should be freely available for machine-readable use and further republishing without restrictions on copyright, patents and other control mechanisms.
❓How is “open data” related to copyright and free licenses? How is open data different from open content? What are open data startups?
👉Read about all this in a new article.
#about_trends_for_the_night
There is a lot of talk and writing about Generation Z now — and for good reason, because very soon it will be its representatives who will dictate how a wide variety of markets will develop — from consumer to labor market.
📌We do not stand aside and today we are talking about what changes in the traditional attitude to work are brought by Generation Z. What do its representatives value? What are they avoiding? How to motivate them and what kind of vacation do they prefer?
👉You will learn about all this from the article on the new insight of the startup studio Founders Club.
#insights
A new review of the news of technology and the venture world. 🏃♀️Go!
🚩Once a $1B valuation and 🦄unicorn status seemed like an unattainable status, but today, that is, this year, the number of decacorns with an assessment of >$10B has reached thirty, having doubled the last year's figure.
🚩EdTech M&A deal: Skyeng has acquired a quarter of Qmarketing Academy — an online marketing and design school.
🚩The Thai authorities are going to restore tourism at the expense of the crypt and tourists who got rich on it, issuing special tokens. Special crypto tourism!
🏁The venture ecosystem Starta VC has opened an office in Berlin. By the way, in December the company is opening a new set for the accelerator!
👉For more details, see the full review on our website. Have a productive week!
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Heading "About Trends for the🌛 Night": talking about pitch-decks🔥
How to create the presentation of an idea in a way to receive the desired (it may be investor’s💸 money or sales to the first client)? This❓ question necessarily arises before all aspiring entrepreneurs.
👉What should be a startup presentation? Why can't you delegate it to a designer? What is important to mention on a pitch deck? Read about all this in a new article.
#about_trends_for_the_night
There have been fraudsters, probably, at all times and in all spheres. Alas, startups are no exception.
📌Together with Anatoly Zemtsov, an IT-lawyer and co-founder of DFCenter consulting, we figure out, how come founders turn implementing an original idea into a banal fraud, how to conduct pre-investment audit and technical Due Diligence with minimal risks.
#education
Today we are concluding our series about pitching for investors and sharing tips on how to get their attention.
Know: if you were unable to keep the audience's attention in the first⏱ 5 minutes of the performance, consider the pitch failed. This is especially true for specialized events like Demo Days, conferences and competitions.
📌The easiest way to get attention is to ask a question. Why does it work? What other good tactics are there? How do you fit the most important information into a 30-second pitch? Read about all this in a new article.
#education
Over the past months, we have released a series of articles on venture capital studios, having analyzed them literally from A to Z. It's high time to take a look at the work of a startup studio from the inside — together with the CEO of Rocket DAO Gabil Tagiev we’ll take a sneak peek into Founders Club venture studio.
💡How the idea to create a startup studio came about, where the projects come from and how the work with them is organized, what the studio team does — read about all this in the new article.
#Founders_Club
We keep talking about what a 🎙pitch deck should look like. In the first part of the series, we dwelled on the structure of the presentation, today we are analyzing the slide decks of large global companies from Facebook to Uber. Here are 1️⃣2️⃣ examples with links to original pitch decks. Dive in!
#education
💡It's not enough just to come up with a cool product and create a prototype, know the market and be able to predict trends — it's important to convince investors to give you money for development. What is needed for this? Learn to present your startup!
📌Spoiler alert: no need to prepare a speech🎙 for 15 minutes and illustrate it with dozens of slides. The optimal pitching duration of a young project is 2-3 minutes, and the size of the presentation is 10 slides.
👉We have prepared the most detailed guide on how to properly talk about your idea: in the first part, we tell you what the structure of the presentation should be.
#education
More and more business projects are adapting the blockchain for their tasks. We come to you with the latest news on decentralized data storage.
This week, bitcoin again broke📈 the historical maximum of its value, reaching an estimate of $68,500 on November 9. And the total cryptocurrency market capitalization reached $3.1T — this is an increase of 400% in just a year! Top in terms of market share are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and Cardano.
👉More details on our site.
#news
We all know the feeling of loneliness. You can relate to it in different ways: someone avoids, someone, on the contrary, strives. But we decided to study! Diving into a new insight from the Founders Club🔥
📌How to explain loneliness in a crowd? What is the paradox of loneliness in the modern world? If loneliness becomes a problem, how can you solve it?
👉Read about it in a new study.
#insights
The closer the end of the year, the more news. Gathered a new harvest of the best: 🏃♂️ Go!
🚩Telegram does not stand still either: now it is possible to officially place advertisements on the messenger platform.
🚩The Rallyware startup, whose co-founders include Ukrainians, raised $22M. The platform developed by the company allows increasing the productivity and efficiency of distributed teams.
🚩Experts analyzed the video game market: their popularity has already reached the level of invincible messengers. This means that this growth in gaming is expected to lead to closer interaction between the business and the gaming industry.
🏁If you are suddenly a Russian-speaking startup at growth stages A and B, with international revenues of $50,000 per month, showing a twofold growth from year to year, then there is good news. It is on these criteria that projects will be selected for financing by the new $100M Leta Capital Fund III.
More news and details on the link😉
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We have prepared a new format for you: catch the heading "About trends for the night"! Every Thursday evening we will tell you in simple terms about something that a startup cannot live without👏
Let's start with an article on startup management. We are figuring out whether it is so easy to work in a startup, as it sometimes seems from the outside - they say, you do what you like, no one controls you, you don't need to count ⌛️hours.
Do you know that what you read before bed is best remembered? So read on and go to sleep🌙✨!! Dream about ideas of future unicorns🦄
#about_trends_for_the_night
We continue our series of articles on start-up studios: today we analyze the most important international studios, dive into their history and tell about their most successful 🚀startups.
The start-up studio Idealab (USA) starts our list. It appeared back in 1996 and at that time it was a very bold concept: businessmen launched several ideas at the same time and then developed the most effective one. And yet, IdeaLab succeeded! There are 4️⃣5️⃣ (!) successfully grown startups out of 150 projects launched by the company.
👉Want to know what has helped this and other international start-up studios succeed? Go ahead and read!
#VC_trends
We continue to consider the main source 💸 of financing for startups — venture funds. Yesterday we learned what a venture fund is and that it differs from a venture company. Also we got acquainted with the classification of funds by investment stages. In the second part of the article, we will realize how a venture fund works, as well as get acquainted with the world's largest venture funds.
#investments