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Fresha raises $100M for its beauty and wellness booking platform and marketplace

TechCrunch

Fresha — a multipurpose commerce tool for independent wellness and beauty businesses such as hair, nail and skin salons, yoga instructors and more, based first and foremost around a completely free subscription platform for those businesses to schedule bookings from customers — has picked up $100 million.

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The Book that Reveals 10 Steps to Solving Any Complex Problem

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Why did you write this book? Chemical reactions happen when substances mix. What do they usually get wrong?

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear.

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Easol raises $25M for its experiences and event marketing, booking and payments platform

TechCrunch

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.” ”

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Erich Joachimsthaler , founder and CEO of VIVALDI envisions a new business model—one that creates shared value for all. In your book, The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society , you write that the future is about creating value for everyone. That’s 1.3

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7 EO members share how to mitigate rising transportation costs and shipping delays

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Utilized lesser-used ports, other modes of shipment (air, rail), or a mix—to diversify the risk. We strategically put redundancy in the US in case of China lockdowns. Eric Griffin, EO Philadelphia, Co-founder and CEO, Mobile Outfitters. . In 2020, we paid US$6,500 for a container to be shipped and delivered.

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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch

First, it is snapping up Blinkist , a startup out of Berlin that had built a platform to discover and read abbreviated versions of longer non-fiction books — “Blinks” that typically take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen to. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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