Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 28, 2022
( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) The COVID pandemic, and most importantly, the global policy response to it, pulled forward decades worth of societal trends in a very short period of time.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
BlocPower founder Donnel Baird grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s. The area was so poor that buildings often lacked decent heating systems. People would turn on the stove or use electric heaters to compensate for ineffective central heating. It wasn’t safe or efficient, but it was reality for many families, most of whom were Black, living in these deficient buildings at the time.
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AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 28, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korean blockchain investment firm Hashed , a core backer in the web3 space who have raised over $320 million in the past 12 months, have led the way in investing in Apeiron , the hottest new blockchain game on the market. Developed by Foonie Magus , the game has now raised over $17 million at the close of their seed round for the new play-and-earn NFT god game Apeiron.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. But a pandemic later, amid unrest over gasoline prices across the globe, it’s time for a revisit. Nowports (YC W19) is a good starting point for comparison. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.” Fast-forward
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 28, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Ayu Health Hospitals , a fast growing healthcare start-up with a network of 70+ hospitals across India, has announced that it has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by The Fundamentum Partnership, an early growth stage fund founded by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 28, 2022
If you were relying on ads as your monetization strategy, the gold rush may be coming to a screeching halt. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Over on TC+ , I just launched a new series called Pitch Deck Teardowns! Astute readers may already have figured out what that is all about: You submit a pitch deck and we share it with our readers, highlighting things that are awesome, making suggestions for improvements and celebrating the fun, innovative and surprising things that we find. I am particularly interested in decks that fulfill these criteria: The fundraise was successful : This is just reasonable.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 28, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Singapore-founded e-scooter and e-bike operator Neuron Mobility , announced that it successfully raised $43.5 million in Series B funding, co-anchored by global venture firms GSR Ventures and Square Peg. The fresh capital will fuel Neuron’s unique international expansion strategy, which is laser-focused on winning highly prized competitive tenders, according to the announcement.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. DeltaX operates in the same space as Convoy , Loadsmart and Sennder – freight forwarding (plainly, helping companies move goods from point A to point B). But the startup focuses on a region of Latin America where trucking is still in dire need of a digital transformation, unlike other countries where this transition has already begun
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 28, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Venture capital (VC) firms Gobi Partners and Ozora Yatrapaktaja are partnering together to launch a US$10 million seed fund for women start-ups in Indonesia, called the Ratu Nusa Fund. Focusing on health tech, e-commerce/social commerce, future of work/education, prop tech, enterprise/SME tech and fintech, the Ratu Nusa Fund will be dedicated to supporting women-led seed-stage and pre-
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, April 28, 2022, and Haje’s blood pressure is slowly returning to what passes for normal after raging about Social Security numbers for a few minutes. Look, it’s hard to get used to the quirks and foibles of a new country, OK?
AsiaTechDaily
APRIL 28, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register FOTA: Flight of Ages , the play-2-earn blockchain-based project , has raised $8.3 million in its angel fundraising, according to an announcement. Despite the fluctuations of the market in these days, FOTA makes its way to flourish and thrive with a solid, profound roadmap.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Lemon Perfect founder and CEO Yanni Hufnagel didn’t know it yet, but his hydrating lemon water brand was about to go viral in 2020, all thanks to an unexpected appearance of the Dragon Fruit Mango bottle in the door of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s limo. “She had posted a photo with it in her limo, and all of a sudden my phone blew up,” Hufnagel said. “We came to learn that she was an authentic fan of the brand.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 28, 2022
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TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Madison Reed proved that women will buy hair color online, but over the years, the company, founded by Amy Errett, opened more than 60 hair color bars across the country, established a wholesale presence with Ulta and later got in on Ulta’s deal with Target while also operating website and Amazon sales. We last checked in on Errett two years ago , when she discussed Madison Reed’s hair color bars, how the pandemic affected the business and a possibility of creating a men’s color category.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
APRIL 28, 2022
How to identify and fix the root cause of most disagreements Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Symmetrical.ai , a payroll tech provider, today announced that it raised $18.5 million in financing led by Target Global with participation from Global Founders Capital, Finch Capital, Partech, Market One Capital, and Inovo. The proceeds will support Symmetrical ’s expansion into new European markets and enterprise clients, CEO Piotr Smole? told TechCrunch via email, as well as the growth of the core 65-person team.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
OurCrowd
APRIL 28, 2022
“Our vision at Quantum Machines is to accelerate the realisation of useful quantum computers by providing researchers and engineers with unique technology that allows them to extract the most out of their quantum devices.” So says Yonatan Cohen, co-founder and chief technology officer of Quantum Machines, in this video filmed at the 2022 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Movable Ink today announced that it secured $55 million in a Series D funding round led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from Contour Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and others, bringing the marketing software startup’s total raised to $97 million. The investment comes as Movable Ink — which is valued at $1.3 billion pre-money — plans to invest in “AI-driven” products and expand its over-550-employee workforce to more than 700 by 2023.
Gust
APRIL 28, 2022
Every early-stage startup has a unique set of constraints it must deal with and trade-offs that must be made along the way to launch its product into the market. From product development, to legal, to go-to-market strategy, even the most seasoned startup founder can make potentially business-crushing missteps. Luckily, there are some common product development […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that their spending climbed by more than 30%.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Andreessen Horowitz
APRIL 28, 2022
Imagine you’re running a marketplace startup — let’s call it ACo — that allows consumers to sell spare items they have around the house. You notice after a few months that only 25% of your new sellers are coming back each month, but they’re selling just as much as they did in that first month. Read More. The post Leaky Bucket or Layer Cake? Why You Can’t Ignore GMV Retention appeared first on Future.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Smallstep founder and CEO Mike Malone calls big, distributed systems his happy place, but these systems involve a lot of machine-to-machine communications, an area identity vendors haven’t been able to solve. The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place?
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 28, 2022
When I hosted this blog on Amazon Web Services, I used 5 products. I paid for them each in US dollars every month. One invoice. Suppose I wanted to rebuild my site on web3 using fully decentralized components. I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Tokens reward the validators and the stakers powering the decentralized networks.
TechCrunch
APRIL 28, 2022
Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt, committing to full-time remote work for most employees and a handful of perks like 90 days of international work/travel. It’s a strong, simple policy that so few large companies have had the guts to match.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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