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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

When you relate your metrics to broader, industry-level trends, you enable investors to gain a sense of the larger picture and the potential for market disruption and growth. The key innovation was connecting operational metrics directly to customer emotional states throughout the relocation journey.

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: 7 Strategies for Small Businesses

StartupNation

According to the weekly pulse data collected by the U.S. Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption. You got this!

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Over the last few years, we’ve seen many entrepreneurs begin to tackle challenges in the construction world using robotics and AI, ranging from data-collection to completion of actual construction tasks like electrical wiring, drywall installation, concrete pouring, pad leveling and much more.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

Congressional committees have held scores of hearings, lawsuits have been filed and legislation has been introduced to regulate privacy and data collection. Ultimately, the bills from Klobuchar and Hawley would disrupt an important part of our nation’s startup ecosystem.

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock

TechCrunch

Retail analytics unicorn Trax expects that this openness to tech innovation will continue even after the pandemic. Other participants included new investors OMERS and Sony Innovation Fund by IGV. Trax’s co-founders, Joel Bar-El (left) and Dror Feldheim (right), and Trax’s CEO, Justin Behar (center).

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Newsletter: Future of FinTech + Indoor wireless done right

OurCrowd

The FinTech revolution has brought disruption to banking, insurance and stock exchanges. We believe that the next big opportunities will be with innovative startups which can exploit the huge potential in neglected niche markets, from migrant workers to fertility finance. Learn More. Join us for the future of FinTech investing.