OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whereas traditional computers–from enterprise servers to the smartphones in our pockets–operate by computing bits that can either be a 1 or a 0, a quantum computer operates by computing qubits, which can be a 1 or 0 or both at once. Read more here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Microsoft found that from February 2020 to February 2021, time spent in meetings on its Teams platform more than doubled , and the average length of meetings rose from 35 to 45 minutes. Here are two key strategies that can help you and your teams break out of the silos you’ve been stuck in: 1. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

I often publish tables within these blog posts. I write posts in markdown , a language that requires making tables in a unique format that looks like this | Column 1 | Column 2 | | 2021 | 140m | There’s a nifty little plugin for my text editor called Gen that converts data in nearly any format into these tables.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

percent by February 2021. Since the launch of Elenteny Imports, we have helped over 400 clients grow their sales from coast to coast and import over 1 million cases of wine, beer and spirits every year. The post From sales to CEO: A female entrepreneur’s journey in the beverage alcohol industry appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The use of animated videos in marketing hit an all-time high in 2021. The post 4 Trending animation styles to level up your marketing in 2022 appeared first on THE BLOG. Statistical analysis of video marketing. 4 effective animation trends for 2022. 2D animation.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2024

Chai currently offers $1 million in cash prizes. The two plus year old startup founded by William Beauchamp in 2021 just announced that CoreWeave , the leading specialized GPU cloud provider, is investing in Chai. This brings total capital invested to date to $10 million, giving Chai a $450 million valuation.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Adapted from a blog by Christina Gwira of NOYADESIGNS. Below are the top three ways to optimize your e-commerce site for better sales, from 2021 YLAI Fellow Christina Gwira of NOYADESIGNS. 3 ways to optimize your e-commerce site for better sales. We all want to make more sales. It just doesn’t work like that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to Gallup research from 2021, nearly three-quarters of all employees report sometimes feeling burned out. Here are three engagement strategies that could help your frontline workers avoid burnout: 1. and more articles from the EO blog. Employee burnout figures are on the rise, a fact that no company should ignore.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The lessons we have learned include: 1. For example: 1. We have tasked ourselves to be 90 percent paper free by 30 June 2021. The post 3 steps toward agility and resilience appeared first on THE BLOG. I often regard financial services as the infantry of an army. Covid has been no different.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 31, 2022

based companies invested in Germany in some way in 2021, almost matching the pre-pandemic total. and more articles from the EO blog. The world is a big place, and companies wishing to invest have many domestic and foreign options. For example, 1,806 U.S.-based Create a strategy. Kevin is co-founder of the Human Heritage Project.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

I was extremely fortunate to be accepted into EO’s Entrepreneurial Masters Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with 68 fellow members who are the owner, founder, co-founder or controlling shareholder of a company that grosses US$1 million or more annually. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

1 is to help them see their dragon. People are going to be shocked when things don’t “normalize” in 2021. and more articles from the EO blog. . The post How my business was saved by the stage—and how it can save yours appeared first on THE BLOG. We didn’t sell the ambulance, we sold the accident.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

The latest attracting investor attention is e-commerce video platform Videowise , founded by Romania-born product designer Claudiu Cioba in 2021. The company now has a cash infusion of $3 million in a round that closed earlier this year. One of Videowise’s customers is handmade soap company Dr.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Pajani Singah’s company, Amazonia Impact Ventures , was named Top Innovation Winner of the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people through an innovative finance company that works directly with indigenous communities in the rainforests.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The consumer fintech company is focused on helping people build credit and raised $30 million in June 2021. In June of 2021, the company raised $150 million at a $2.17 The B2B payments company raised $200 million at a unicorn valuation in 2021. Collective raised its latest round , a Series A, in May 2021.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

and more articles from the EO blog. and more articles from the EO blog. Since February 2022, the UN High Commission on Refugees reports that nearly 14 million people have been displaced from their homes in Ukraine—most of them seeking safety and shelter in other countries.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

1 Other groups, including Boston’s Launchpad, have also confirmed the positive impact on returns from Launchpad members participating on Boards. Investor Organizations Writing the Largest Checks Are Preferred for Directorships As Figure 1 suggests 2 , larger rather than smaller round investors are typically awarded Board seats.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

billion in private investment in 2021, can’t be realized without carefully labeled data sets that tell machines what exactly they’re looking for. As the authors of a 2021 paper in Frontiers in Radiology note, it takes human labelers as long as 24 years’ worth of work to label a data set of about 100,000 images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3.0 Here’s a hint: Image Credits: Backblaze S-1 filing. Prior to issuing $10.0 million in outside equity since our founding in 2007.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 31, 2023

31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Domestic cargo plays a key role in US trade, reaching over 20 billion cargo revenue ton miles in 2021[1]. The post [Freightos in PR Newswire] JetBlue Cargo, operated by AeroNex Cargo, to offer real-time cargo pricing, eBooking and payment for US forwarders via WebCargo appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Our team worked tirelessly to expand and cover a large surface area,” the duo wrote in a blog post addressing the layoff. In 2021, we launched ODX, our accelerator. ” Accelerator startups are offered $25,000 for 1% or up to 2.5% However, this broad focus also caused substantial tensions.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ride Vision also unveiled an AI-driven safety alert system called Ride Vision 1 that will go on sale in several European countries in early 2021. The post [Ride Vision in Venture Beat] Ride Vision raises $7 million for AI that alerts motorcycle riders to collision threats appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Carta said that it is not disclosing any details beyond what it wrote in a blog post, meaning that the price of the deal will remain unknown. The company also manages over $1 billion in invested capital, according to its new corporate parent. billion has been invested into funds and syndicates, according to its 2021 year in review.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 2, 2021

I wrote a blog post last fall asking for advice for headphones that don’t go into my ear and allow me to hear ambient noise around me. I got a ton of responses and that led me to bone-conducting headphones. I have been using AfterShokz bone conducting headphones for the last six months and they work well.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 1, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Varo Bank, the first all-digital nationally chartered bank in the US, today announced that it is sponsoring the EVERFI Financial Literacy Bee taking place April 1-15, 2021. Read more here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2022

It suggests that disruptive technologies go through 5 key phases: 1. Ex: 2021 Bubble) 3. In the speculative NFT bubble of 2021, @beeple sold a collage of his artwork called “Everydays: the First 5000 Days” for $69 MILLION. Real Estate Tokenizing real estate has multiple benefits: 1. But what about non-transferrable NFTs?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

billion worth of crypto in 2021. Crypto is used for less than 1% of total money laundered every year. Only an estimated 0.05% of all crypto transaction volume in 2021 was involved in money laundering. Protecting Citizens In 2021, $14B was lost to crypto scams. Wen regulation? What kind of regulation can we expect?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

By the way, I didn't add social media as a tip because, if you're reading this blog, you probably already use it. and if you don't understand the value of Twitter, blogging, etc. 1) Be Discerning. The 2021 Forbes Midas List--the up and comers who are in the process of making their mark, but haven't gotten there yet.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 13, 2021

Our people and company culture have landed us the Number 1 spot in Forbes’ Best Startup Employers in Colorado, and Number 115 across the entire U.S.! . The post [JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] Forbes Names JumpCloud a Best Startup Employer 2021 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Findings from a September 2021 survey conducted by Digital.com revealed that online retail grew by 5.5% In the September 2021 Digital.com survey, survey respondents were polled to share why their business doesn’t have a website. Every small business should have a working website, especially brick-and-mortar storefronts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2021

Although one PwC survey published in January 2021 reported that 83% of employers said the remote shift was successful, 63% still think most employees should be in the office at least three days a week. The post What work-life balance looks like for entrepreneurs post-Covid appeared first on THE BLOG. The answer remains uncertain.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Lime said it was both operating cash flow positive and free cash flow positive in the third quarter — a first — and is on pace to be full-year profitable, excluding certain costs (EBIT), in 2021. Perhaps the most bullish data point from Lime is that it expects to be full-year profitable in 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

So when I quit Netflix in May 2021, everyone thought I was crazy. Here are 4 variations of the button they tested on the home page (from the Netflix Tech Blog) There was no doubt that engineering could execute for Netflix, but I felt the better question was whether a particular project was a good use of engineering resources at all.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

. “As we engaged with Marvell, it became clear that our data center optimized portfolio combined with Marvell’s scale, leading technology platform and complementary portfolio, can accelerate our growth and vision of delivering breakthrough switch silicon for the cloud and edge,” he wrote in a company blog post announcing the deal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO. I started writing for TechCrunch on February 1, 2021.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2021

10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pizza Hut and Beyond Meat® have reunited, and it tastes so good. The two innovation leaders are entering another milestone in their partnership with the debut of Beyond Pepperoni™, a delicious plant-based version of Pizza Hut’s #1 selling pizza topping, and a first for both brands.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Robinhood did not comment directly on the latest layoffs, pointing TechCrunch only to a blog post by CEO and co-founder Vlad Tenev. In the post, Tenev took responsibility for Robinhood’s apparent over-hiring in the frenzy that was 2021. TechCrunch’s weekly fintech newsletter, The Interchange, launched on May 1!

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