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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

When Katherine, the co-founder of Stereomatic Estudios , discovered the profound impact of music as an instrument to achieve a brighter future for impoverished Colombian youth in Medellín, she began to utilize digital marketing and branding strategies to guide emerging artists in their musical careers.

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Fiberplane nabs € 7.5M seed to bring Google Docs-like collaboration to incident response

TechCrunch

Fiberplane , an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers) to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a ??€ Fiberplane collaborative notebook example with multiple people involved.

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - June 8, 2017

FundersClub

Le Tote announces the launch of Olivia Culpo x Le Tote, a summer capsule collection that marks a milestone for Culpo as the debut of her first-ever collection in " Olivia Culpo and Le Tote Launch Exclusive Design Collaboration. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. Talks About New Trustless Asset Portfolio Prism. " In Other News.

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Japanese Regulator Plans to Double Crowdfunding Investment Cap for Retail Investors

AsiaTechDaily

Since the launch of crowdfunding services in 2017, businesses have leveraged platforms like Fundinno and Ecrowd to secure funding from retail investors. billion yen from 2017 to August of the current year. Japan initiated its startup crowdfunding framework in 2015 through revisions to the financial instruments regulation.

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How To Grow Your Economy. Build It, Don’t Buy It!

Ecosystem Builder Hub

We need to shi f t our economic development strategies to startup community building, (also referred to as entrepreneurial ecosystem building), as the primary approach to rebuilding our cities’ economies. Building and nurturing a startup community takes a focused and collaborative effort. This focus needs to stop.

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Finding your target audience with help from a YLAI Fellow design expert

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

For businesses to have a successful marketing strategy, they must first have a defined target audience. Trying to reach everyone is “impossible and hard to do,” says 2017 YLAI Fellow Mariery Young, who recommends that “it is vital to work with a specific target audience in mind.” By Yarielka Arrieta Batista.

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Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth

TechCrunch

Whimsical , a startup creating tools for workplace collaboration, announced Tuesday its first funding round, a $30 million Series A investment led by Accel. In order to get to the next level, he needed partners to be able to invest more in the product and its go-to-market strategy. More companies should shift to a work-from-home model.