🐦🦎🐁 Merry Christmas from the InnMind team and their four-legged friends: Exotic Edition!
📆Let us forget for a moment the struggles and battles of 2020 and let's enjoy the lights on the Christmas trees, the food and the love and warmth you feel surrounded by family and friends.
🤯To overwhelm you with cuteness and the holiday mood, we've decided to share our team's pets' most festive pics and we want to see yours!
👇Shows us how your lovable little friends are preparing for Christmas in the comment section below!
Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄🎅🔔☃️
📆Let us forget for a moment the struggles and battles of 2020 and let's enjoy the lights on the Christmas trees, the food and the love and warmth you feel surrounded by family and friends.
🤯To overwhelm you with cuteness and the holiday mood, we've decided to share our team's pets' most festive pics and we want to see yours!
👇Shows us how your lovable little friends are preparing for Christmas in the comment section below!
Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄🎅🔔☃️
📆💽 2020: the most distinctive data sets fro the European Tech industry!
This last year was a difficult one for many entrepreneurs and startups, but not everything as gloom as it seems! The European tech industry continues to be very active against the pandemic headwinds and in Q3 the industry saw lots of deal activity, enough to top last year’s numbers!
🔻Here are some of the most striking data sets of European tech in 2020:🔻
🇬🇧📈The UK raised more funding rounds than France and Germany combined
👨💻☎️Tech companies were hiring more in 2020 despite Covid-19
🇪🇺🦄Europe minted 15 new unicorns in 2020
💊🏥Healthtech had a record year in 2020
… and more!
This last year was a difficult one for many entrepreneurs and startups, but not everything as gloom as it seems! The European tech industry continues to be very active against the pandemic headwinds and in Q3 the industry saw lots of deal activity, enough to top last year’s numbers!
🔻Here are some of the most striking data sets of European tech in 2020:🔻
🇬🇧📈The UK raised more funding rounds than France and Germany combined
👨💻☎️Tech companies were hiring more in 2020 despite Covid-19
🇪🇺🦄Europe minted 15 new unicorns in 2020
💊🏥Healthtech had a record year in 2020
… and more!
🚀💸Do you want to learn all about Revenue Marketing for Startups? Look no further!
👥ZINEB L. is one of the world’s most recognized professionals in strategic marketing with years of experience in accelerating sales opportunities.
As a CMO advisor in residence and co-founder of PitchSLAP, she has successfully helped various tech startups drive direct sales and grow revenue through numerous marketing techniques.
👀Watch InnMind's webinar “Marketing that Sells. Revenue Marketing for Startups" with Zineb Layachi to learn answers to such crucial questions as:
How to save marketing budget ❓
How to stop creating lifeless content that nobody will consume ❓
How to ditch the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) mindset ❓
... and many more!
▶️InnMind Youtube: https://bit.ly/38coFeW
👥ZINEB L. is one of the world’s most recognized professionals in strategic marketing with years of experience in accelerating sales opportunities.
As a CMO advisor in residence and co-founder of PitchSLAP, she has successfully helped various tech startups drive direct sales and grow revenue through numerous marketing techniques.
👀Watch InnMind's webinar “Marketing that Sells. Revenue Marketing for Startups" with Zineb Layachi to learn answers to such crucial questions as:
How to save marketing budget ❓
How to stop creating lifeless content that nobody will consume ❓
How to ditch the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) mindset ❓
... and many more!
▶️InnMind Youtube: https://bit.ly/38coFeW
🎥🚀 Top 10 Movies for startups to watch and get inspired by in 2021!
📆👉What could be a better way to kick off 2021 than watching some movies about entrepreuneurs? Especially if you are a startup owner or entrepreneur, the chances that you will be thinking about your business these holidays are very, very high. So why not go, watch some movies?
📇💵“American Experience” - Henry Ford: The story about one of the most influential businessmen in US history explores the possibilities of creating a business and paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century!
🏚📉The Godfather: n American film series that consists of three crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the 1969 novel of the same name. he films follow the trials of the Italian American mafia Corleone family whose patriarch, Vito Corleone, rises to be a major figure in American organized crime.
👔🔫A Beautiful Mind: a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner.
✒️See the full list in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3b6VgVD
📆👉What could be a better way to kick off 2021 than watching some movies about entrepreuneurs? Especially if you are a startup owner or entrepreneur, the chances that you will be thinking about your business these holidays are very, very high. So why not go, watch some movies?
📇💵“American Experience” - Henry Ford: The story about one of the most influential businessmen in US history explores the possibilities of creating a business and paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century!
🏚📉The Godfather: n American film series that consists of three crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola inspired by the 1969 novel of the same name. he films follow the trials of the Italian American mafia Corleone family whose patriarch, Vito Corleone, rises to be a major figure in American organized crime.
👔🔫A Beautiful Mind: a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner.
✒️See the full list in the InnMind blog: https://bit.ly/3b6VgVD
InnMind Blog
Top 10 movies for startups to watch in 2021
Top list of business movies for entrepreneurs to get inspired
➕➖Value your business like a PRO! Startup Valuation Calculator by InnMind!
🤔💰One of the most typical questions you will hear while pitching to angels and venture investors during your fundraising journey is “How much money are you fundraising and on what valuation?”
For this purpose InnMind team designed the Startup Valuation Calculator, a simple and efficient tool to estimate the value of your startup business just in a few minutes to help startup founders understand what their business is worth today.
📣You don’t need to pay for a consultation or wait to receive the results in your mailbox: answer 10 questions online and get your startup valuation immediately - it’s that EASY & FAST!
Find out more: https://bit.ly/2LnVexO
🤔💰One of the most typical questions you will hear while pitching to angels and venture investors during your fundraising journey is “How much money are you fundraising and on what valuation?”
For this purpose InnMind team designed the Startup Valuation Calculator, a simple and efficient tool to estimate the value of your startup business just in a few minutes to help startup founders understand what their business is worth today.
📣You don’t need to pay for a consultation or wait to receive the results in your mailbox: answer 10 questions online and get your startup valuation immediately - it’s that EASY & FAST!
Find out more: https://bit.ly/2LnVexO
InnMind Blog
Startup Valuation Calculator by InnMind
Free Startup Valuation Calculator to estimate a fair valuation of your startup just in minutes. Trusted by VCs and angel investors networks.
🔌⛰ OGMO Augmented Reality Scanner is looking for beta-testers!
💽One of the Premium Startups from the InnMind community: LiveRoom, is looking for beta-testers for its augmented reality scanner platform - OGMO!
Creating digital twin of any product has never been easier. OGMO harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and cloud computing to create perfect 3D models and its simple as taking a 60 second video clip.
👇If you would like to become a beta tester, apply now:
https://lnkd.in/gr97E6X
💽One of the Premium Startups from the InnMind community: LiveRoom, is looking for beta-testers for its augmented reality scanner platform - OGMO!
Creating digital twin of any product has never been easier. OGMO harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and cloud computing to create perfect 3D models and its simple as taking a 60 second video clip.
👇If you would like to become a beta tester, apply now:
https://lnkd.in/gr97E6X
🚀💡How can I make sure no one will steal my startup idea?
🤔🌐At InnMind we hear this question quite often. And the answer is always the same: without validation and execution, your business idea is worth - nothing. If you can’t accept this simple truth, you will only increase your chances to fail!
Here are 5️⃣ reasons why keeping your business idea a secret may significantly harm your future business and reduce the opportunities for successful execution:
✒️Read the Article: https://bit.ly/2LtU8Al
🤔🌐At InnMind we hear this question quite often. And the answer is always the same: without validation and execution, your business idea is worth - nothing. If you can’t accept this simple truth, you will only increase your chances to fail!
Here are 5️⃣ reasons why keeping your business idea a secret may significantly harm your future business and reduce the opportunities for successful execution:
✒️Read the Article: https://bit.ly/2LtU8Al
InnMind Blog
How Much is a Startup Idea Worth?
As Steve Jobs has declared years ago: "Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They're just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions". And here is why:
🚀⛺️Silicon Valley is coming to Europe with Startup Bootcamp 2021!
🎓🏕Startup Bootcamp 2020 is a 5-day intense acceleration program for startups providing resources, know-how and network to its participants, organised by InnMind and Draper University!
📣Global startups, entrepreneurs and executives looking to gain traction, connect with VCs, and explore new markets, are encouraged to apply, as the program offers unmatched mentorship, access to capital, and offline networking!
👉Sign Up TODAY: https://bit.ly/3pZyoeU
🎓🏕Startup Bootcamp 2020 is a 5-day intense acceleration program for startups providing resources, know-how and network to its participants, organised by InnMind and Draper University!
📣Global startups, entrepreneurs and executives looking to gain traction, connect with VCs, and explore new markets, are encouraged to apply, as the program offers unmatched mentorship, access to capital, and offline networking!
👉Sign Up TODAY: https://bit.ly/3pZyoeU
💽🚀 EU will now directly invest in deep tech startups!
🇪🇺The European Union, for the first time, will become a direct shareholder in startups through the creation of one of Europe’s biggest investment funds expected to total about 3 billion euros ($3.7 billion)!
By directly financing scientific breakthroughs until they become viable for traditional investors, EU officials say the funding will derisk the investments and thereby attract other investors.
💰The new European Innovation Council Fund, will combine grants and equity stakes to finance early-stage companies in so-called deep tech, such as health, sustainability and advanced manufacturing!
What are your thoughts ❓
Do you think EU is on the road to be able to compete with the US and Assia startups markets ❓
🇪🇺The European Union, for the first time, will become a direct shareholder in startups through the creation of one of Europe’s biggest investment funds expected to total about 3 billion euros ($3.7 billion)!
By directly financing scientific breakthroughs until they become viable for traditional investors, EU officials say the funding will derisk the investments and thereby attract other investors.
💰The new European Innovation Council Fund, will combine grants and equity stakes to finance early-stage companies in so-called deep tech, such as health, sustainability and advanced manufacturing!
What are your thoughts ❓
Do you think EU is on the road to be able to compete with the US and Assia startups markets ❓
🕵️♂️5️⃣ essential tips on how to protect your startup from fake investors!
📰While this topic is severely undervalued by mass media, seems that the activity of fake investors has increased during the pandemic!
These scammers usually pretend to be investors and try to screw startup founders with illusional investment opportunities. Be aware that they are proactively hunting for startups' money!
📣On the InnMind YouTube channel we have compiled 5 essential tips that might help you protect your business and your money from scammers and con-investors!
▶️Watch: https://bit.ly/38oW7iE
📰While this topic is severely undervalued by mass media, seems that the activity of fake investors has increased during the pandemic!
These scammers usually pretend to be investors and try to screw startup founders with illusional investment opportunities. Be aware that they are proactively hunting for startups' money!
📣On the InnMind YouTube channel we have compiled 5 essential tips that might help you protect your business and your money from scammers and con-investors!
▶️Watch: https://bit.ly/38oW7iE
YouTube
How Fake Investors Trick Money out of Startups. 5 Tips How to Spot Con Investors Online.
#innmind #fakeinvestors #antiscam
In this video, we want to address a very dangerous topic: investors’ scams. Nelli Orlova and Anton Rodionov from InnMind are digging deeper into this topic, underlying the necessity of paying attention to the quality of…
In this video, we want to address a very dangerous topic: investors’ scams. Nelli Orlova and Anton Rodionov from InnMind are digging deeper into this topic, underlying the necessity of paying attention to the quality of…
📰🚀Everything you need to know about startup PR, InnMind interview with Trevor Clawson!
Who should you contact to be featured in media ❓
How and when should you contact them ❓
Should you use “template E-mails” when cold-contacting journalists or editors ❓
👤Trevor Clawson is a finance and business journalist, copywriter and author, specialising in start-ups, fast growth companies and corporate finance. He has written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian & Startups.com, among others, and is the perfect person to answer any startup’s pressing questions about public relations!
👇Find out the answers to these and many other questions in the latest InnMind Interview by Nelli Orlova with Trevor Clawson on the official InnMind Youtube channel!
▶️InnMind YouTube: https://bit.ly/38vVCU0
Who should you contact to be featured in media ❓
How and when should you contact them ❓
Should you use “template E-mails” when cold-contacting journalists or editors ❓
👤Trevor Clawson is a finance and business journalist, copywriter and author, specialising in start-ups, fast growth companies and corporate finance. He has written for a wide range of magazines and newspapers including Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian & Startups.com, among others, and is the perfect person to answer any startup’s pressing questions about public relations!
👇Find out the answers to these and many other questions in the latest InnMind Interview by Nelli Orlova with Trevor Clawson on the official InnMind Youtube channel!
▶️InnMind YouTube: https://bit.ly/38vVCU0
YouTube
How to get featured in Forbes? Effective PR tips for Startups from @Trevor Clawson
#startups #PRtips
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Every startup founder dreams of getting featured in Forbes. But the majority of startups fail with PR efforts. We decided to start 2021 with the topic: "PR for Startups", aiming to upgrade and improve your public relations…
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Every startup founder dreams of getting featured in Forbes. But the majority of startups fail with PR efforts. We decided to start 2021 with the topic: "PR for Startups", aiming to upgrade and improve your public relations…
💰📈The European Startup Market Profiting from the New Bitcoin Boom!
It’s been difficult not to obsess over bitcoin’s price since the middle of December. It topped $40,000 last week, bringing back sweet memories of the 2017’s spectacular cryptocurrency boom. Some even predict that the price could rise to $146,000 if it becomes established as a safe-haven asset. But it’s not just public investors profiting from the sudden increase, plenty of European startups are also profiting from the boom.
💬🚀Sifted has talked to leading European startup market players (Wirex, Copper, CryptoCompare, Bitpanda & Bitstamp), to learn, first-hand, how this cryptocurrency boom is playing out for them!
It’s been difficult not to obsess over bitcoin’s price since the middle of December. It topped $40,000 last week, bringing back sweet memories of the 2017’s spectacular cryptocurrency boom. Some even predict that the price could rise to $146,000 if it becomes established as a safe-haven asset. But it’s not just public investors profiting from the sudden increase, plenty of European startups are also profiting from the boom.
💬🚀Sifted has talked to leading European startup market players (Wirex, Copper, CryptoCompare, Bitpanda & Bitstamp), to learn, first-hand, how this cryptocurrency boom is playing out for them!
👀📰 How to avoid inefficiencies in the corporate scouting process and find the desired solutions faster?
💰💼Corporate Venture Capital (also known as ‘CVC’) and Corporate Innovation Hubs face multiple challenges on their way to find perfect-fit innovative solutions. In most cases startup scouting is a time and resource consuming process which needs many attempts before finding a good fit.
To make the lives of startups much easier, the InnMind team delved deep & collected feedback from tens of corporate partners in order to analyze the most common challenges organisations can face and possible facilitators!
📖Read about the most common challenges corporates face while scouting innovative startups in the InnMind blog!
✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/38wpbVn
💰💼Corporate Venture Capital (also known as ‘CVC’) and Corporate Innovation Hubs face multiple challenges on their way to find perfect-fit innovative solutions. In most cases startup scouting is a time and resource consuming process which needs many attempts before finding a good fit.
To make the lives of startups much easier, the InnMind team delved deep & collected feedback from tens of corporate partners in order to analyze the most common challenges organisations can face and possible facilitators!
📖Read about the most common challenges corporates face while scouting innovative startups in the InnMind blog!
✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/38wpbVn
InnMind Blog
Common Challenges Corporates Face While Scouting Innovative Startups
How to avoid inefficiencies in the corporate scouting process and find the desired solutions faster with no bottlenecks on the way?
🚀💡Having the initial idea for your startup is just the beginning! In so many cases, that idea had to be changed and pivoted during the development of the product!
Take for example, Android, which started out as an operating system for cameras and made the opportunistic pivot to focus on the smartphone market!
👉What famous startup pivots do you know of?
Take for example, Android, which started out as an operating system for cameras and made the opportunistic pivot to focus on the smartphone market!
👉What famous startup pivots do you know of?
🚀🦈The January Edition of the VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon!
📆We are happy to announce that the next edition of our monthly VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session will be held on 28th of January at 17:00 CEST! This time, Series A-B, SaaS & b2b startups from the EU, UK & Israel are welcome to join!
💼💸InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Sessions are a great opportunity for pro-startups in our community to increase their networking, gain experience with investors, and most importantly have the chance to get funded!
🎓Don't miss your chance to pitch LIVE in front of investors and VC firms, receive feedback and most importantly - get funding!
❗️APPLY NOW: https://bit.ly/3oIMbX4
📆We are happy to announce that the next edition of our monthly VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session will be held on 28th of January at 17:00 CEST! This time, Series A-B, SaaS & b2b startups from the EU, UK & Israel are welcome to join!
💼💸InnMind Shark-Tank Pitching Sessions are a great opportunity for pro-startups in our community to increase their networking, gain experience with investors, and most importantly have the chance to get funded!
🎓Don't miss your chance to pitch LIVE in front of investors and VC firms, receive feedback and most importantly - get funding!
❗️APPLY NOW: https://bit.ly/3oIMbX4
➕➗Have you tried the InnMind Startup valuation Calculator? Leave us some feedback!
Startup Valuation Calculator, a simple and efficient tool to estimate the value of your startup business just in a few minutes! Here is what Anton Antich, COO at Intento, Inc., board member at InnMind and a serial #techpreneur & #investor had to say about the tool:
👤💬“A lot of the startup founders are interested in estimating what potential valuation their startup can get in the market. And even though it's impossible to say with much certainty without knowing the details of the team, the market and traction, some reasonable estimates can still be made. InnMind team created a great and easy to use tool that helps you do just that!”
🛠💻Our calculator has been developed in consultation with venture capital analysts and serial investors to help startup founders understand what their business is worth today! Try it out! And if you do, don’t forget to leave us some of your feedback. It will help us improve and make the tool even better than before!
✒️Startup Valuation Calculator: https://bit.ly/3qg3vCX
Startup Valuation Calculator, a simple and efficient tool to estimate the value of your startup business just in a few minutes! Here is what Anton Antich, COO at Intento, Inc., board member at InnMind and a serial #techpreneur & #investor had to say about the tool:
👤💬“A lot of the startup founders are interested in estimating what potential valuation their startup can get in the market. And even though it's impossible to say with much certainty without knowing the details of the team, the market and traction, some reasonable estimates can still be made. InnMind team created a great and easy to use tool that helps you do just that!”
🛠💻Our calculator has been developed in consultation with venture capital analysts and serial investors to help startup founders understand what their business is worth today! Try it out! And if you do, don’t forget to leave us some of your feedback. It will help us improve and make the tool even better than before!
✒️Startup Valuation Calculator: https://bit.ly/3qg3vCX
InnMind Blog
Startup Valuation Calculator by InnMind
Free Startup Valuation Calculator to estimate a fair valuation of your startup just in minutes. Trusted by VCs and angel investors networks.
🦈👤Get insight from leading VCs about what investors want to see in your pitchdeck!
The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - on 28th of January at 17:00 CEST and in the meantime why not listen to some of the feedback startups received from the VC’s last time around?
👉Learn what Oskar Stachowiak (Managing partner at the Untitled Ventures), Mikhail Shatrov (Head of marketing and scouting at Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) & Vadim Kazinets (Investment manager at Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) had to say at the end of last session and what kind of advice they gave to the participating startups!
✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/3oLYhyv
The next InnMind VC Shark-Tank Pitching Session is coming soon - on 28th of January at 17:00 CEST and in the meantime why not listen to some of the feedback startups received from the VC’s last time around?
👉Learn what Oskar Stachowiak (Managing partner at the Untitled Ventures), Mikhail Shatrov (Head of marketing and scouting at Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) & Vadim Kazinets (Investment manager at Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) had to say at the end of last session and what kind of advice they gave to the participating startups!
✒️InnMind Blog: https://bit.ly/3oLYhyv
InnMind Blog for Startups
How to make a remarkable pitch to Venture Capital funds
Get insight from leading VCs about what investors want to see in your pitchdeck
🇰🇷🚀South Korean Startup and VC Ecosystem. How to enter Korean market?
The Korean Startup Market is a very dynamic, fast-growing & known to be very open to adopting new technologies. But, there are certain challenges faced by startup founders from outside Asia, who want to expand to the Korean market, but don’t know where to start.
🤔🌐It’s hard to find relevant market data in English, difficult to analyze competitors, understand local rules and regulations, and it is especially hard to get in touch with local partners and investors if you don't know anyone in Korea.
So in order to inform ourselves and YOU on all the intricacies of this market, InnMind invited an expert from South Korea, a startup advisor and mentor, CEO at Terminal Korea - Riso Dongok Ahn, to answer the questions from the global startup community and share practical advice on how to enter the Korean market!
▶️Watch the Interview: https://bit.ly/3nHbFTd
The Korean Startup Market is a very dynamic, fast-growing & known to be very open to adopting new technologies. But, there are certain challenges faced by startup founders from outside Asia, who want to expand to the Korean market, but don’t know where to start.
🤔🌐It’s hard to find relevant market data in English, difficult to analyze competitors, understand local rules and regulations, and it is especially hard to get in touch with local partners and investors if you don't know anyone in Korea.
So in order to inform ourselves and YOU on all the intricacies of this market, InnMind invited an expert from South Korea, a startup advisor and mentor, CEO at Terminal Korea - Riso Dongok Ahn, to answer the questions from the global startup community and share practical advice on how to enter the Korean market!
▶️Watch the Interview: https://bit.ly/3nHbFTd
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South Korean Startup and VC Ecosystem. How to enter Korean market?
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🔝🚀Want to learn about the freshest investment opportunities? Here is InnMind’s December 2020 Startup Digest!
November & December for InnMind Team were marked as one of the most productive and event-rich months of this year, bringing more than 600+ quality startups who joined InnMind platform from all over the world.
👇Let’s take a look at the featured startups for the past month:
Spirulinka® (Ukraine)
XperiencEra (Lithuania)
Spadrone (Spain)
ENHANCED INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Russia)
Revain (UK)
Tokenplace (UK)
and more...!
✒️Read the December 2020 Startup Digest: https://bit.ly/2XKUxkM
November & December for InnMind Team were marked as one of the most productive and event-rich months of this year, bringing more than 600+ quality startups who joined InnMind platform from all over the world.
👇Let’s take a look at the featured startups for the past month:
Spirulinka® (Ukraine)
XperiencEra (Lithuania)
Spadrone (Spain)
ENHANCED INVESTMENTS LIMITED (Russia)
Revain (UK)
Tokenplace (UK)
and more...!
✒️Read the December 2020 Startup Digest: https://bit.ly/2XKUxkM
InnMind Blog for Startups
December 2020 Startup Digest: Top Startups on InnMind Platform
Top innovative and inspired startups of December on InnMind platform