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Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round

TechCrunch

Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owner likes that. Egypt and Dubai-based auto tech startup Odiggo is a platform addressing this problem. It allows car owners to get the help they need by finding car services and parts suppliers from providers around them.

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Oklahoma entrepreneurs prove there is no monopoly on great ideas

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. There is no monopoly on great ideas. Capital begats capital. That’s the drumbeat setting the cadence for the i 2E Management Company, Inc. (iMCI). iMCI is a private for-profit investment and fund management firm operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E. iMCI manages more than $90 million across five venture funds. The company makes investment decisions and provides investment services as a general partner and managing member to a growing number of privately managed venture

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Blockchain startup XREX gets $17M to make cross-border trade faster

TechCrunch

XREX co-founders Winston Hsiao and Wayne Huang. A substantial portion of the world’s trade is done in United States dollars , creating problems for businesses in countries with a dollar shortage. Blockchain startup XREX was launched to help cross-border businesses in emerging markets perform faster transactions with products like a payment escrow service and crypto-fiat exchange platform.

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You'll Never Login the Same Way Again

Tomasz Tunguz

Visit any website today and you’ll likely be accosted from the front and mugged from the back. The first thing you’ll see, aside from the website’s masthead, is ubiquitous and maddening cookie declaration asking you whether you object if the website sells your data. The overt mugging. Meanwhile, third party data siphoned from your behavior on other sites catalog your preferences, your movements, and your purchases.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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What will they take with them? How building a product is like raising a kid.

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I had a conversation with Effie Epstein, a VC at Sound Ventures and co-investor of mine in Infinite Objects. I happen to mention that my wife and I are expecting our first child in November. She’s out on maternity leave with her second, so I asked her for tips. She told me a really great approach that her and her husband have taken. They asked themselves what they wanted their children to take with them from their home—and distilled each idea down to one word.

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[mPrest in i24 News] First US Army Iron Dome Battery completes live fire test

OurCrowd

The US acquired the missile defense technology from Israel with the Israel Missile Defense Organization and Iron Dome developers Rafael, IAI Elta and mPrest supporting the test. Read more here. The post [mPrest in i24 News] First US Army Iron Dome Battery completes live fire test appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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