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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? Capture the emergent insights, answers, and solutions that are resonating and reverberating across the group.

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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? A great team.

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

TechCrunch

The gradual return of tourism and travel in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to see a wave of startups raising rounds of funding to meet new opportunities in the market. “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 Future of Prosumer: The Rise of “AI Native” Workflows

Andreessen Horowitz

Few people love the software they use to get things done. Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. And it’s no surprise why. And where are the highest points of leverage?

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How a Fashion Brand in Honduras Is Preserving the Country’s Traditional Culture

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

My sister, who had been working at the United Nations, noticed that ethnic groups in Honduras were particularly disadvantaged, many with limited access to economic opportunities,” Rafael says. On one visit to the city of La Esperanza, Rafael recalls stumbling upon a book of Lenca patterns. There is no one Honduran,” Rafael says. “We

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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. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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