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Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors

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What sets Staax apart, though, is that it allows for peer-to-peer payments in stock. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

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The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. Join a CEO peer group. If you are in a peer group with other CEOs , it’s much easier to get perspective on what’s happening to you. Contributed by Rizwan Virk , author of S tartup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School.

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From ideation to accolades in 10 months: An EO Accelerator’s successful pivot

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Annie Cheng is active in the Seattle chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ‘s Accelerator programme, which empowers entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow their businesses. Why did you join EO Accelerator? But in early March 2020, they were not yet common.

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Chipper Cash gets $2B valuation with $150M extension round led by FTX

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Serunjogi founded Chipper Cash with Maijid Moujaled in 2018 to offer a no-fee peer-to-peer cross-border payment service in Africa via its app. With that said, Serunjogi says peer-to-peer money movement from the U.S. With that said, Serunjogi says peer-to-peer money movement from the U.S.

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What does it take to go carbon neutral as a business?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

At the beginning of 2020 we decided to finally kick off our GREENAMBER initiative and go public with it. As a global network of successful entrepreneurs , EO is proud of its members’ commitment to doing business for good. Who better to move our world forward toward greater sustainability than today’s greatest innovators?

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Lydia raises another $86 million to build a European financial super app

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Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo. PayPal later acquired Braintree and Venmo — Jhawar stuck around until early 2020 to scale Venmo to the huge fintech consumer app that 52 million people use in the U.S.

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Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020

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The prospect of more women writing checks was viewed as a positive for female founders, a cohort that has struggled to attract more than a fraction of the funds that their male peers manage. Then COVID-19 arrived and scrambled the venture and startup scene, creating a risk-off environment during the end of Q1 and the start of Q2 2020.

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