Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2022

One important question every successful entrepreneur can ask themselves is, “Who taught you what you needed to know to get where you are?” Another interesting question you might consider is: “Who had the tools or knowledge you clearly needed but for whatever reason did not offer it to you?”. At some point in life, almost everyone has collaborated with people who don’t share knowledge, don’t give advice, and don’t help others out with their experience.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This profile is the eighth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting fund investors. Ashim Egunjobi is the Managing Partner of Octerra Capital, a venture capital fund with a mission to transform Africa by investing in visionaries that are challenging the status-quo and helping to build the Africa of tomorrow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Chelsea Goddard. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Chelsea Goddard is an early-stage investor based in San Francisco excited about the future of software and space technology. Over the last few years, cloud computing has grown more expensive than ever. Initially drawn to the promise of cutting costs on infrastructure spend, companies far and wide flocked to behemoths like AWS and Google Cloud to host their services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Freight is quite literally one of the backbones of the U.S. economy. Every year, shippers spend $800 billion dollars moving goods across the country, and as everyone learned firsthand over the past two years, one small hiccup—such as a stalled … The post Investing in MVMNT appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A world-class tech conference like TechCrunch Disrupt — coming to you live and in person in San Francisco on October 18-20 — doesn’t just happen. It’s an all-hands-on-deck situation, and we want to direct your attention to an essential group of deck hands — our partners. Building a startup is no easy task — not exactly a newsflash, we know. One of the things our partners do best is provide their expertise and educational resources.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Spotify this morning announced it’s acquiring Dublin, Ireland-based content moderation tech company Kinzen, which had been working in partnership with the streamer since 2020. Deal terms were not disclosed. At Spotify, Kinzen’s technology will be put to use to help the company better moderate podcasts and other audio using a combination of machine learning and human expertise — the latter which includes analysis from local academics and journalists, the company says.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Jimmy Lin is CSO of Freenome, which is developing blood-based tests for early cancer detection, starting with colon cancer. He is a pioneer in developing computational approaches to extract insights from large-scale genomic data, having spearheaded the computational analyses of the first genome-wide sequencing studies in multiple cancer types. Lin talked to Future about the.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

French startup Gourmey just raised a Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital. In total, the company banked $48 million (€48 million). The company has been working on cultivated meat, and more specifically lab-grown foie gras. It is part of a new wave of companies that want to turn cell-cultured meat products into mainstream products.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Building a software is hard enough, but getting people to. Read more. The post Developing A Software Marketing Strategy [Detailed Guide] appeared first on Feedough.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined make up 83.1% of all corporation employees in the country, totaling about 17.1 million people, according to OECD data. To help meet SMEs’ financial needs in the country, Seoul-based fintech startup Korea Credit Data (KCD) said Thursday that it has raised $24.7 million in Series D extension financing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-focused venture capital firm East Ventures announced that it has co-anchored, along with Init-6, the pre-Seed funding round in Product-as-a-Service startup Bioma. The amount raised was not disclose but according to East Ventures’ announcement, Bioma will used the fresh capital to further expand its services.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Months after Sendy laid-off 10% of its workforce , the Kenyan logistics startup is at it again after sending more staff home, while announcing the decision to wind down its Supply service. Sendy confirmed to TechCrunch that discontinuing the supply service affected 20% of its remaining 270 staff, which is about 54 employees – the latest casualties of the funding slowdown fueled by macroeconomic headwinds.

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Founder Bounty

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A lot of people ask what kinds of stuff can you do in Ljubljana as a tourist or digital nomad so we have put together a list of things you could do while you visit or stay. If your staying around as a digital nomad or your just visiting on a tourist guide be sure to check these things out. Do a bar hopping and a pub crawl - you can do this on: BarhoppingLjubljana.com !

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Neeva , an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business , is about to land in Europe. The Mountain View, California-based company officially launched a subscription-only search engine in its domestic U.S. market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Or the great productivity paradox of our modern times Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

On paper, the federal government looks like an ideal customer for an enterprise startup: Its seemingly endless budget doesn’t fluctuate with market conditions and it’s always in the market for new tech. But it’s a slog to break into, and for a long time, startups and VCs didn’t seem to want to associate with it. That’s rapidly changing.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 5, 2022

I had the pleasure of interviewing Avishai Shoham, the Co-Founder and CEO of Zing , a startup that is shaping the next generation of suburban commerce. From leading Via ’s product organization and autonomous business?—?which deliver optimized transit solutions to public transportation?—?to founding Evoz , which provides parents with advanced baby monitoring products and services; and multiple companies in between, Avishai has spent the last 25 years building consumer experiences that solve real

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

GraphQL company Apollo today announced the launch of GraphOS, a new end-to-end platform that is meant to help businesses build, connect and scale what the company calls “supergraphs.” For Apollo, these supergraphs have recently been a major focus. The basic idea here is to allow businesses to integrate data from a wide variety of sources into a single supergraph that developers can then easily use in their applications.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

IriusRisk , a threat modeling platform, today announced that it raised $29 million in a Series B funding round led by Paladin Capital Group with participation from BrightPixel Capital, SwanLab Venture Factory, 360 Capital and Inveready. In a conversation with TechCrunch, CEO Stephen de Vries said that the proceeds will be put toward growing IriusRisk’s U.S. and Europe, Middle East and Africa sales and marketing teams as the company’s total raised nears $40 million.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Wednesday! Haje is enjoying a well-deserved day off, but I’m here to dive into some news with you. Let’s join hands and jump in at the same time, shall we? — Christine. The TechCrunch Top 3. Cloudy day : Google’s first cloud region in Africa launched in South Africa.

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