Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

On behalf of the Smart Hustle Team, I wish you a happy new year 2022. Business Strategies That Can Make Difference in 2022. In order to grow in 2022, you need to excel at the core business functions – team, finances, use of technology, marketing, operations, etc. What You Should Stop Doing in 2022.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead of late-stage opportunities, they’ll be focusing on early-stage venture in 2022. Across Series A to Series E rounds in the US, hedge funds participated in 63% of startup financings worth more than $200B in 2021. Amidst this gloomy backdrop, The Information published a story on hedge funds' strategy shift.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Every penny counts when you’re just starting out, and making a few simple adjustments can really save your startup some cash in 2022. Organize your personal and professional finances before launching your startup to make sure you hit the ground running. So what’s the key to not just surviving but thriving as a small business?

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The company now has North America’s largest parking network having also purchased Premier Parking’s 500+ locations in 2022. In 2022 the company raised a $167 million Series B for further expansion. The financing included $1.05 Billion in Financing appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Here are my predictions for 2022: Web3 consumer products go fully mainstream with more than 35% of Americans, about 100m people, engaging with them by 2023. Silicon Valley falls to below 20% in all venture financing. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions. MAU growing quickly.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. The post Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022 appeared first on StartupNation. DocNetwork. Bedestrian.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Investors believe the market correction, which caught up with the continent in the second half of 2022, will spiral into this year. Despite the challenges that emerged in the second half of the year, 2022 was another year of growth for Africa in terms of total funding raised, number of deals and number of investors involved.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As this year is expected to be record-breaking in terms of data breaches, data safety should be a top priority for businesses as we head into 2022. Growth of zero trust will undoubtedly occur in 2022. The post 5 Data Safety Trends for 2022 appeared first on StartupNation. Continued expansion of encryption. Over to you.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There’s a lot of fintech news out there and it’s my job to stay on top of it — and make sense of it — so you can stay in the know. — Mary Ann Storied venture firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) invested more in fintech than any other category in 2022, according to research from CB Insights.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. And while Nagpal agrees that there’s no “north star” company that has shown how to tackle finance literacy at scale, he’s hoping that Ocho’s 10-person team may just have a not-so-boring wedge that changes that. Image Credits: Ocho.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan Executive Director of Climate Tech There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to financing climate innovation. “Part of our job is advising entrepreneurs on what they should do based on where they would want to go…Find someone who’s knowledgeable in your sector, then ask a lot of questions”  — Ellen Pizzuto, J.P.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. This deep integration streamlines operations and provides business owners with greater visibility and control over their finances. It introduced a corporate credit card in 2022, which has quickly become the most-used card among its users.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Those looking to push ahead with their plans to go public will face another obstacle: Several global public funds including Invesco that ardently finance the pre-IPO rounds are retreating from the Indian market after getting hammered in China and other emerging markets this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. Founded in early 2021 by Randy Fernando and Andrew Dust, New York-based Power Finance announced last September that it had raised $16.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Let’s look at the three growth trends we saw in 2021 and how they will shape marketing in 2022. ” Predictions for 2022. This is a reality growth marketers live in everyday. What worked yesterday may not work today and likely won’t work tomorrow. Less data, more privacy and the return of growth hacking.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 3, 2022

If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur mixing personal and business finances to support your business, you’re not alone. Mixing personal and business finances in the long run may do more harm than good. Separating out your finances can help you avoid being personally liable for any business debt you take on.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Since emerging from stealth mode in early 2022, Island has scaled rapidly. A Platform for All Industries Islands product is already being used across a wide array of industries, including finance, government, higher education, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado, from 12-15 October 2022. It’s time to shout it from the rooftops: MyEO DealExchange 2022 is the can’t-miss EO event of 2022! While we have a couple of thousand MyEO DealExchange members now, it’s still a best-kept secret of EO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. In a session called “Making Money Move with Embedded Finance,” our panel will talk about how a new breed of finance infrastructure companies have the potential to turn any company into a fintech company. The promise?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high). This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. An estimated 24% of startups on the Secfi platform reduced their fair market valuations in 2022, according to an internal analysis. Frederik Mijnhardt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Where are you looking for opportunities in construction tech in Q3 2022? For example, we haven’t yet partnered with any companies in robotics, procurement and finance, and labor management, but we’re seeing a lot of interesting early players emerge.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 2, 2022

Department of State is supporting five outstanding 2022 YLAI fellows to travel as youth delegates to the Summit of the Americas, where they will serve as a voice for the YLAI fellowship program, their communities, and youth across the region. Department of State and implemented in 2022 by IREX.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If personal contacts are helping to finance the business, they, too, would benefit from seeing your business plan. Financing the business yourself? Investment and finance management. The post A New Business for 2022? How will you manage the day-to-day running of the business? Best of luck to you!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FlapKap , using its revenue-based financing platform (RBF), is helping these stores solve the growth-destructive challenges emerging online stores encounter when trying to meet customer demands. Ahmad Coucha and Khaled Nassef founded FlapKap in 2022; Sherif Bichara and Adel Hodroj are on the founding team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry. Obviously the funding environment has changed considerably in 2022 but as early-stage investors our daily jobs stay largely unchanged.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016, the bank has financed more than $430 billion worth of fossil fuel projects, according to the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report , far exceeding its peers. billion, and the total fell only slightly in 2022. But there’s some evidence to suggest the bank is turning a corner.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

How viable will these levers be for fintech companies in 2022 looking to defend their 2020-2021 growth rates? We’d like to think our 40-plus-year track record through some complex operating environments puts us in a position to help. Fintech companies often have multiple revenue levers – adding new product lines, building in payments, etc.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

The number of small businesses in the state grew by nearly 16% between 2016 and 2022, the fourth-highest percentage in the country. The state saw a nearly 16% increase in the number of small businesses between 2016 and 2022, one of the highest growth rates in the nation. Beyond taxes, Floridas business growth is impressive.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. You might see headlines of financings that don’t make sense to you but trust me, I have worse deals sitting in by inbox. 4) Are you struggling to get to unit profitability? VCs gonna VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Register Taiwanese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Term Structure , specializing in non-custodial fixed-income protocols for peer-to-peer borrowing and lending, has successfully raised initial funding of USD 4.25 Such products are currently absent in decentralized finance (DeFi). million in a series of seed fundraising rounds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

I was clueless about startup operations, financing and venture capital, but I didn’t need to be an economist to realize that most of the companies I worked for lacked solid fundamentals. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Nobody expects any of this to be smooth sailing.”

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 10, 2025

energy independence aligned with Washington policies to make domestic battery material production a centerpiece of its industrial strategy which has included more than $6 billion in grants and tax incentives since 2022. The funding is a catalyst for U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Gartner recently forecast that SaaS revenue worldwide could surpass $140 billion by 2022, which would represent a 40% increase over 2019’s roughly $100 billion. What is the impact of doing so on the cash position, profitability and financing needs of the business? How much costs do you need to cover such services?

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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