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5 Revolutionary Business Ideas Changing the Startup Landscape

StartupNation

While the pandemic has shaken the world from every corner, it’s also motivated new businesses to think smarter. . From automating mundane processes to satisfying changing customer demands, startups count on agility and creativity to see them through. The fruits of that labor are finally clear as we witness revolutionary business ideas changing the startup world as we know it. .

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Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics

TechCrunch

Misty has had a hell of a journey of it. After raising $11.5 million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. Furhat is tight-lipped about the financial details of the deal, but tells TechCrunch that the acquisition was designed to give Furhat a leg up on the hardware side

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How to Keep Flight-Risk Employees From Joining the Great Resignation

StartupNation

Throughout the last year, a myriad of U.S. employees quit their jobs, leaving many positions unfilled. And today, companies are still struggling to fill positions as we enter the new year. The reasons for the mismatch between labor offering and demand are multifold: People are increasingly handing in their notice because they want a better work-life balance , greater benefits, and a more flexible approach to their work.

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Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into industry leader

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. By Scott Meacham. i2E first wrote a column about Crossroads LED back in 2011. At the time, the company wasn’t yet a year old. Dana D. Stefanoff, Crossroads president, and her husband Buddy, Crossroads LED Vice President and chief engineer, had developed a patented high-output, multicolor LED lighting control system that offered exciting effects while reducing power consumption and operating costs. ‘We had been in business forty-f

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.

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Pros and Cons of Setting Up Your Business Up as An S Corporation

StartupNation

Whether you’re just starting out or if you’re thinking about expanding, you need to consider which legal structure is best for your business. No one option is best for every type of business. In fact, the right choice depends on several factors, including your business goals, the number of owners, and taxation. There are many legal structures you can choose from – including sole proprietorship, general partnership, Limited Liability Company (LLC), or corporations (C Corp and S Corp).

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Warehouse robotics system Exotec raises $335 million

TechCrunch

French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of $2 billion. Exotec sells a complete end-to-end solution to turn a regular warehouse into a partially automated logistics platform. It’s a hardware and software solution that replaces some human tasks. 83North and Dell Technologies Capital also participated in the funding round.

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Investor Jarrod Dicker on how “the emergence of NFTs has brought provable digital ownership to the internet. This evolution can’t be overstated.”

Hunter Walk

And Why He Abandoned a Career in Web Ads for Leading Crypto Investing at The Chernin Group. Even before my Jarrod Dicker starting tweeting in his “web2 vs web3” style, I gave him s**t about his thought leadership which seemed to be 80% “that’s smart” and 20% “what did you just smoke because I have no idea what this means?” Sometimes I’d just DM him the latter with “20” written alongside.