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.
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.
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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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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
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
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. .
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
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
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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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.
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
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
Alex Song. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Song is the CEO and founder of Proxima , a data science company that helps brands better reach consumers across all major platforms. More posts by this contributor. 5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech. Why D2C holding companies are here to stay. For those on the sidelines, the story of digital advertising over the past couple of years has been as entertaining as a binge-worthy TV series.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 1, 2022
A true story with a moral for all of us. A friend recently told me a story that had nothing to do with business, but unintentionally had a great lesson for all of us. He had asked his arborist if he could move a mature tree from one part of his property to another – to make room for an addition to his home. “Yes,” replied the professional. “And how much would it cost?
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.).
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
Badili , a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, and SOSV, participated in the round, as did family offices and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India.
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
Car rental delivery startup Kyte said it’s on a mission to disrupt the auto industry by making people think twice about buying a car. Starting Wednesday, Kyte will now offer a car subscription service, following what the startup says was a successful subscription pilot with Teslas. The three-, six- and 12-month subscription plans will be available to all 14 markets in which Kyte operates, such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Boston and, most recently, Fort Lauderdale, the company
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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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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