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Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change

UBI Global

Purpose-driven Entrepreneurship and Climate Change Startups from the World Benchmark Report 2019 – 2020 Unless there is hope, no one takes it upon themselves to address catastrophic situations such as climate change. The post Startup Discovery: Disruption in Climate Change appeared first on UBI Global.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

TechCrunch

I edited hundreds of stories in 2020, so choosing my favorites would be an exercise in futility. “Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

TechCrunch

With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. billion while Disrupt Africa, $496 million for the same year. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. billion and $1.8

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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has affected nearly every industry globally.

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My Pandemic Pivot: From 0 to 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. The disruption impacted my business negatively in a significant way. I am very proud to say that, since March 2020, we have produced over 130 virtual events. The entire industry ground to a halt. Going from 0 to 130.

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Ripe For Disruption: The Asset Management Business

David Teten VC

Joe Reilly , CEO of Circulus Group and a longtime contributor to Family Wealth Report , interviewed me to share views on disruption in asset management, my research into the field, and where the industry needs to be headed. Reilly: What do you find is most disruptive in the industry right now? What prompted you to explore this space?

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EO members on the Inc. 5000 list share how they start their day

Entrepreneurs' Organization

3,901 on 2020 Inc. 1,124 on 2020 Inc. 4,827 on 2020 Inc. 3,467 on 2020 Inc. 4,761 on the 2020 Inc. Jacob Baadsgaard, EO Utah, founder and CEO, Disruptive Advertising , No. 2,036 on the 2020 Inc. 2,463 on the 2020 Inc. 4,906 on the 2020 Inc. 1,610 on 2020 Inc. 622 on the 2020 Inc.

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