TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Africa’s beauty and personal care market is growing accelerated by its growing young and fashion conscious population, increasing spending power, and urbanization. The market’s potential has in recent years attracted major brands, with Fenty Beauty by Rihanna and LVMH being the latest entrants. Niche local brands are also emerging to offer tailored beauty and skin care products.
AsiaTechDaily
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Password. Remember Me. No account yet? Register Startups asking for venture capital money should spend more time demonstrating how investors can be de-risked, says Weichang (Grant) Ge , senior investment analyst at HAX , the venture capital-based program of SOSV. According to Weichang, most startups, when facing venture investors, often present their grand vision of what they are going to achieve with the VC money.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
An automated status updater for Slack isn’t the only thing Mozilla acquired this week. On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.
Startup Blogpost
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Have you raised your prices this year? Please share your experience in raising prices, and how this has impacted your business either positively or negatively. From discovering your product is worth more to owning your value by raising prices, here are 10 answers to “Have you raised your prices this year and how has this impacted your business for better or worse?
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
One element of the 2021 venture capital apotheosis that doesn’t get enough attention is corporate venture capital. CVC boomed through last year, leading TechCrunch to interview a number of CVC investors last August to better understand the trend. As with other forms of venture capital, CVC has pulled back some this year. Accelerators also had a pretty good run through 2021: Recall that Y Combinator cohort sizes reached new records and the group boosted the amount of capital that it invest
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
So much software is dedicated to helping businesses improve interactions online, whether it be aimed at sales, marketing or customer service. But despite the prevalence of the internet and an increase in digital commerce, the fact remains that over 85% of commerce still happens offline in the United States. . Enter Rillavoice , a new startup with a niche focus: building speech analytics software for field sales teams that sell in person as opposed to via Zoom or over the phone.
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 1, 2022
NEW YORK — YAI Increases its Competitive Position in the Workforce by Implementing Popular On-Demand Pay Benefit. YAI–a New York-based organization dedicated to providing innovative services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD)–has partnered with DailyPay, the leading provider of on-demand pay. Through the partnership, YAI is among the first I/DD employers to implement DailyPay for its frontline, direct-care employees.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
One of the top problems facing device manufacturers today is overheating hardware. The chips inside PCs generate heat, which — when allowed to build up — majorly hurts performance. Cooling is less of a challenge when space isn’t at a premium. But as the marketplace pushes for ever-thinner notebooks and so-called ultraportables, manufacturers are being faced with a choice: compromise on design or on raw processing power.
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 1, 2022
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, MOD Pizza, the purpose-led, people-first brand, announced the significant expansion of its Journey Program to include a robust list of company-paid educational curriculums for its MOD Squad members. Through a new partnership with Guild, MOD’s 10,000+ Squad members in company-owned stores across the U.S. can now unlock life-changing opportunities for both personal and professional advancement.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Zoe , a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting Covid-19 app. Embraced both by consumers and researchers, it provided early data into how Covid-19 spread and the symptoms associated with the initial infection and its lingering after-effects (Long Covid) — insights that were hard to come by virtually anywhere else.
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Liquid Instruments, a leading global provider of software-defined test and measurement solutions for engineers and scientists working in research, industry, government, and education, has appointed Pathy Iyer as Director of Sales and Marketing for India starting 1 December 2022. Read more here. The post [Liquid Instruments in Electronic Design] Liquid Instruments’ appoints New Director of Sales and Marketing for India appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen , a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with privately held company shares that their owners — including founders, employees, and VCs — are looking to sell. It’s a tough business to be running right now, competing as it is with shares of publicly traded companies that are selling at fire-sale prices compared with a year ago and are
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 1, 2022
We live in a data-driven world. It powers critical decision-making in industries as diverse as healthcare, financial services and retail. But is data king when it comes to cybersecurity? Read more here. The post [Corelight in Info Security Magazine] Turning data into evidence to accelerate SecOps success appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A little over a year after buzzy coding bootcamp Lambda School rebranded as Bloom Institute of Technology , the venture-backed startup is conducting massive layoffs, according to sources. The workforce reduction, per people familiar with the matter, has impacted half of the company’s staff across content, product, data and engineering teams. The layoff is expected to have impacted around 88 employees, using metrics provided in BloomTech’s 2022 diversity report metrics. .
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Learn from a cofounder of Traction and Boast.AI Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today we have Lloyed Lobo, the cofounder of both Boast.AI and Traction. Boast.AI have raised over $100m and Lloyed has had a mini-exit by selling some of his stake to a PE firm.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine learning (ML) projects. “We’re acquiring Pulse for the incredible team they have built,” Mozilla chief product o
NZ Entrepreneur
DECEMBER 1, 2022
With inflation reaching a 30-year high, small businesses across the country will be looking for ways to reduce costs amid cost of living and rising price pressures. According to the latest MYOB SME Snapshot, a survey of over 500 local SME operators around New Zealand, most believe the economy will decline in the next year, putting further pressure on cashflow and margins.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Over the years, Mike Butcher has covered Hour One a number of times here on TechCrunch. The company is using AI to create text-to-video solutions with realistic-looking human avatars. The space seems to be exploding, and Hour One has been on quite the trajectory. The company raised $5 million back in 2020 , was taking on the language learning vertical and raised another $20 million in a round that closed in April of this year.
Feedough
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Imagine having the freedom to set your own hours and. Read more. The post 21 Best Businesses To Start With Little Money appeared first on Feedough.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 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. There is officially only 8.3% left of the year. You know what that means! Holidays, cheer, and daydreaming about what shenanigans we’ll get ourselves into in 2024. Yes, 2024, because clearly we’re just going to skip past all of 2023.
StartupNation
DECEMBER 1, 2022
With more economists forecasting a recession in 2023, some business owners are expressing concern about making it through… The post In Michigan’s tech sector, optimism shines through the clouds appeared first on StartupNation.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Two months ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had fined 16 Wall Street firms more than $1.1 billion for “widespread recordkeeping failures” regarding maintaining electronic communications, contravening federal securities laws. In addition, the SEC is now probing private equity firms on their employees’ use of messaging apps for work purposes, including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, as many of these apps have functions that support messages that disappear
StartupNation
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Is your business burdened by rising workers’ compensation costs? If so, you are not alone. Kapnick can help.… The post Five Steps to Lower Workers’ Comp Costs appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2022
X1 , a consumer fintech startup which recently launched an income-based credit card to the public, has raised an additional $15 million in funding. . This round caught our attention for a few reasons. For one, a consumer fintech raising in this environment is a bit counter to the narrative that startups in the space are generally struggling. (For example, digital bank Chime recently laid off 12% of its workforce , or about 160 people.).
OkDork
DECEMBER 1, 2022
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to Brian Smith, founder of UGG Boots — the well-known footwear brand. At the age of 29, Brian Smith wanted to find the “next big thing” in America and bring it back to Australia, but he soon realized the real opportunity was actually bringing a popular product from Australia to America.
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