Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

No voodoo, no animal sacrifices and no cosmic ordering: just 12 things that I wish I’d known sooner Photo by Miguel Bruna on Unsplash Gather round and let me teach you how to manifest millions in the bank, super-yachts, and a diamond-encrusted banana hanger. Just kidding: this isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme or some woo-woo-workshop. Instead, here’s a list of 12 things that have directly or kinda-directly helped me go from living paycheck-to-paycheck, to hiring my first ever financial advisor (be

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 billion in new capital in what appears to be a close of its seventh fund, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). . The new fund, dubbed Ribbit Capital VII LP, is believed to be the final close of the fund. The amount is significantly higher than the $750 million the firm was said to be raising in March of 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Doing what you love is a romanticized nightmare. That’s why we don’t do it. Let’s fix it permanently. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

In retrospect, the rise of software as a service (SaaS) is obvious. But for years, the idea that software would not only be hosted by providers instead of purchased by customers, and rented, instead of owned outright, was far from anyone’s mind. SaaS has cemented its place in the epicenter of startup and Big Tech life, but it’s already being disrupted by the usage-based pricing movement.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Your startup won’t be able to take down a company like Google, but you can still build something incredible with the right strategy. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2022

Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (“Alpha Tau”), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, announced today that it has been notified by HekaBio K.K., its clinical trial partner in Japan, that recruitment has been completed in its open-label multi-center pivotal study evaluating the Alpha DaRT in Japanese patients with recurrent Head & Neck cancer after radiotherapy.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 3, 2022

On this week’s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff speaks with Corey Gerhart and Greg Marquardt of Hydrocinch about how they turned an idea for a kiteboarding harness into reality. During the interview, they discuss: How their love of kiteboarding became a business venture. Their aha moment. Why their partnership works. The steps that got their product off the ground.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Abstra, which has developed a no-code tool for designers and programmers to build professional apps, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Bruno Vieira Costa founded Rio de Janeiro-based Abstra in March of 2020. Costa graduated from college in 2018 and already has one startup sale under his belt. The serial entrepreneur, who says he’s been programming since he was seven years old, previously co-founded and served as CTO to an edtech startup, PaperX.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 3, 2022

On this week’s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff speaks with Carolyn Espinoza and Alex Vandervert, the mother and son team of Quiker , a mobile mechanics operation that brings onsite automotive services to you. During the interview, they discuss: How the pandemic and burnout launched their business. Their most valuable asset: People. How the business is purpose driven.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs. Smarter Health , a Singaporean-based startup, develops technology that allows smoother exchange of data between different parties in the healthcare system, improving patient care and reducing administrative costs. The company announced today it has raised a $5.15 million SGD (about $3.8 million USD) Series A led by East Ventures for product development and to expand

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2022

Pulmonary Fibrosis News brought you daily coverage throughout 2021 of the latest scientific findings, treatment developments, and clinical trials related to pulmonary fibrosis (PF). As a reminder of what mattered most to you during the past year, here are the top 10 most-read articles of 2021, with a brief description of what made them interesting and relevant to the PF community.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s the new year! Yes, welcome to 2022 from the Equity team. We hope that our holiday episodes kept you entertained, and warm. But it’s now back to work, so let’s get into the news: Global stocks are generally higher today, while cryptos are mostly flat.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2022

Binah.ai, the leading provider of general health and wellness video-based monitoring solutions powered by artificial intelligence (AI), announced today the availability of Blood Pressure measurements added to its robust Health Data Platform, already commercially available to businesses. Through the use of virtually any smartphone or laptop, blood pressure measurement can be extracted within just one minute, simply by looking at the device’s camera.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Germany’s Delivery Hero is set to become Glovo’s majority shareholder following a deal to acquire an additional 39.4% stake of the Spanish delivery startup, of which it already held 44%. We learned of the deal over the holidays, but you’ll be excused if you missed the news when it broke — the deal was announced on December 31 after 11 p.m.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2022

Pulmonary Fibrosis News brought you daily coverage throughout 2021 of the latest scientific findings, treatment developments, and clinical trials related to pulmonary fibrosis (PF). As a reminder of what mattered most to you during the past year, here are the top 10 most-read articles of 2021, with a brief description of what made them interesting and relevant to the PF community.

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GCUC

JANUARY 3, 2022

The last couple of years has truly tested businesses, but ultimately made the industry resilient. In a new series, Fireside Chats, brought to you. The post GCUC Podcast – Jonny Rosenblatt appeared first on GCUC Community.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Israeli company, which has developed a method of producing animal-free dairy products through microbial fermentation, has seen its valuation surge tenfold in just one year. Read more here. The post [Remilk in Calcalist] Animal-free dairy startup Remilk raises $120 million Series B at $325 million valuation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Mandy Andress. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mandy Andress is the chief information security officer at Elastic , an enterprise search company, and has more than 25 years of experience in information risk management and security. More posts by this contributor. Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic). Critical thinking and problem-solving are considered vital attributes for the cybersecurity professional — so it’s time our industry applied those capabiliti

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

We’ve been gifted another episode of “Tech versus Tech: Crypto Edition” today. The argument among the tech elite about just who owns what in the Web 2.0 and web3 worlds continued this weekend. And once again the dustup featured former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and a16z, the investing firm best known in recent years for its capital deployments into the blockchain domain.

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