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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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

TechCrunch

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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Since writing that post, we have watched a bunch of our portfolio companies close financings, some on the same terms as provided before the pandemic and some on slightly adjusted terms. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 18, 2020 A Plan for Rapidly Ramping COVID19 Testing. But our experience doesn’t match that scorn.

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6 traits that make an entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Whether it’s securing investment capital, marketing a concept, recruiting new talent or leaning on peers for support and advice, having a solid network can seriously work to your benefit. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 2020, it’s that you really can’t be overprepared. A passion for connection. Not sure how to network?

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Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Open finance grew out of open banking, the same framework that Plaid and Tink are built on.

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Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E

TechCrunch

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital.

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

TechCrunch

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.