With slogans like “There is no Plan(et) B” gaining popularity around the globe, business enterprises have evolved to focus on the 3 Ps (People, Planet, and Profit) and not just on Profits. Popular buzzwords like “environmental sustainability” and “social governance” are becoming more relevant to the business world, including startup enterprises. This is driving the […]
How to Know Which Funding Round Your Startup Needs to Raise and When
Getting funded is what startup founders want more than anything. However, getting it wrong can be costly. There are several factors to consider before committing to money. The stage of the company, industry, and business cycle can all have a massive impact on the amount of financing required. According to HBSaccelerate, In 2017, over 70% […]
How the Pandemic is Accelerating Industry 4.0
Unpredictable expectations. Unprecedented workplace complications. Unexpected hurdles in the supply chain. The pandemic has brought in a whole load of surprises for industries worldwide, especially for the manufacturing industry. Even before the pandemic, the industry was transforming with the digital culture, new technologies and tools to facilitate smart manufacturing. Ever since the pandemic hit, there’s […]
Cybersecurity and Industry 4.0
The massive shift towards automation and technology across all industries, also known as Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution, faced its most significant challenge to date with the COVID-19 pandemic. Resilience, robustness, and maturity of the Industry 4.0 technologies to handle real business use cases putting them to their most significant challenges to date […]
SPACs: Wall Street’s Hottest Trend or a Looming Bubble?
Did you know that market analysts have already declared that 2021 is the year of SPACs? Today, many private companies are bypassing the traditional IPO and going public through SPAC. Recently, the flexible workspace provider, WeWork, has announced to go public via a merger with SPAC called BowX Acquisition. The company took this decision after […]
5 Key Challenges Before FinTech Startups (and How to Overcome Them)
Remember the last time you transferred money online to a friend or paid at a restaurant with your smartphone? Those were made possible because of products from the FinTech market. FinTech apps are becoming a part of our lives more than we realize. With digital payments and mobile banking becoming a norm, the FinTech industry […]
Robotic Process Automation: Everything You Need to Know
Businesses across the globe are evolving at a rapid pace. Automation technology is a significant aspect of a successful business and it is changing the way organizations work. A McKinsey & Co. survey reported that 66% of business leaders planned to automate at least one business process in their organization in 2020. Emerging technologies like […]
10 Pitch Mistakes Entrepreneurs Need to Avoid
A great pitch can open doorways to resources that can help you grow and scale by leaps and bounds. A bad pitch, on the other hand, is a missed opportunity. Pre-empting what could go wrong with your pitch will stop you from derailing your pitch through some very avoidable mistakes. Here are 10 of the […]
How Startups Can Increase the Odds of Long-Term Sustainability
During the past decade, the world has witnessed growth of global startups facing serious threats from lack of longevity plans. Many startups that mushroomed during the mid-2000s disappeared overnight due to the lack of a “long-range vision.” Although these upstarts dared to disrupt and demolish the old order of business, they completely ignored the traditional […]
How Startups Can Leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Startups today are in an exciting phase. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Tesla, and many of the world’s biggest household names in technology were small fledgling startups not so long ago. Even now, every few days, we hear of another startup like Spotify, Airbnb, or something or the other becoming a unicorn, going public, and before […]
Why Raising Too Much Money May Not Be Good for Your Startup
The success of any startup largely depends on how much funds have been raised, invested, and judiciously utilized. However, the real question is how much funds should be raised at the start. If you are establishing a startup for the first time, there’s every possibility of being tempted to fundraising in a big way at […]
5 HealthTech Trends That Will Shape 2021
The outbreak of COVID-19 has helped people gain awareness about health and created a necessity for the rapid growth of healthcare technologies. It has revolutionized the way doctors diagnose a disease and treat it. Taking on the situation, the global tech giants are gearing up to integrate more health-related equipment in daily used gadgets for […]
GDPR: ADOPTING MORE STRINGENT PRIVACY IN THE US
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implementation by the EU in 2018 was a watershed moment for both consumers and businesses alike. Given the increasing worldwide dependence on digital data capture, storage, and processing, the regulatory framework couldn’t have come at a better time. The GDPR is a stringent data privacy law that seeks to […]
Raising Capital as a First-Time Founder
Starting a new business is not easy. The process includes a whole lot of priorities and aspects that you need to focus on. A survey by the Kauffman Firm estimated that, on average, it takes at least a minimum of $80k to keep a startup running through its first year. Fundraising is a challenging task, […]
Data Security in Healthcare
In today’s digital world, it is imperative to protect enterprise data across different environments and follow privacy protocols. In every domain, including retail, healthcare, finance, and supply chain management, businesses are thriving because of the availability of data. Data is now central to all business strategies and forecasts. And because data is so important, it […]
How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Blockchain?
In recent years, the one technology we have been hearing about repeatedly is Blockchain – which originated with the development of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. With the whole world seeking to find solutions to manage the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners have found the use of Blockchain technology valuable across industries. A 2019 […]
How COVID-19 Impacted the Investment Theses of Family Offices
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the modern world into uncharted waters at an alarming speed, bringing the global economic activity to a near halt as the world tried desperate measures to bear the brunt of its onslaught. From startups to global conglomerates, everybody in the economic world was hit by the crisis. Family offices were no […]
Pitching to Investors: Best Practices During the COVID-19 Crisis
Certainly, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the year 2020 has been an unprecedented one for startup companies in the U.S. and globally. While venture funding across the globe fell around 6% in the first six months of 2019, the first half of 2020 witnessed a sharp fall of 17%. In the […]
Do Women Entrepreneurs Refrain From Asking for Help?
As we celebrate what seems to be a steady increase in female entrepreneurship in the United States especially over the past few decades, seeking and raising capital remains increasingly difficult for women entrepreneurs. Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association recently came out with their Q3 numbers, which suggest that while overall investment remains robust […]
Three Traits Family Offices Seek in Startup Founders
Only the fittest survive the fierce world of startups. One of the biggest factors that make startups go bust is the lack of capital. Successful capital raising determines what future holds for any startup. For any startup to successfully raise capital, it is important for it to be aware of the different kinds of investors […]