StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Like many entrepreneurs, I knew I wanted to run my own company from early on. I received an MBA, then spent several years in management consulting, which helped me learn how top executives think, what works in strategy and how to run a business. I planned to use this experience to seize future entrepreneurship opportunities, but I also dabbled in entrepreneurship along the way and actually helped start a company while I was still in grad school.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. In one of the latest developments, Domestika — a popular site that creates and sells online video tutorials and courses covering a range of visual arts and related skills, building a larger community around that content where members can also interact and learn from each oth

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

America truly is the land of opportunity, especially to people who grow up in third world countries and fight adversity every day while seeking to create a better life for themselves and their loved ones. Creating Popongo was one such opportunity, a chance to challenge myself as well as fill a need and connect people. As a Jamaican native, I dreamed of going to America to do something meaningful with my life.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. More posts by this contributor. The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2022

Why is this important advice? Because the first rule for raising money is to do it on good news – right when sales are increasing at an accelerating rate. Or when a major customer signs a significant deal. Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. What if you have no good news to offer? Unfortunately, the longer you wait without significant upward news, the harder it is to get attention.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 27, 2022

And subsequently built a host of successful ventures with 7+ figure clients. Here are 5 key takeaways from that first failure. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Censys , a search engine for Internet of Things devices and internet assets, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO. The internet security startup, based in Michigan tech hub Ann Arbor , which started as an open source research project at the University of Michigan seven years ago, claims to provide a “complete database” of all devices hooked up to the internet in a bid to help organizations locate poorly protected assets.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 27, 2022

Photo courtesy of Adam Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Adam Erhart, he’s built a million-dollar business on his own terms from his YouTube channel. He has over 100k subscribers and nearly 5 million views. He’s an expert in marketing and shares his views on his channel with an emphasis on being ethical.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Vets , a tech-enabled pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, has raised $40 million in seed funding led by Target Global, PICO Venture Partners and Bolt Ventures. Founded last year as part of co-founder Target Global’s venture building program, the team of co-founders including CEO Daniel Sagis, COO Dori Fussmann and Target Global aims to transform pet care by combining technological innovation and at-home care.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 27, 2022

Perception Point, a leading email and cloud collaboration channel security company offering fast interception of content-borne attacks as a service, announced today that its researchers have uncovered a zero-day flaw in macOS. CVE-2022-22583, now fixed in macOS Monterey 12.2, reveals a vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass Apple’s SIP (System Integrity Protection) mechanism, and thus take full control over the system, provided that they already managed to achieve code execution wit

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

If you keep up with financial technology, you likely know that the fintech community is a tight-knit, large (yet small) group of enthusiasts that includes all sorts of people — from founders, to investors, to fintech-focused employees at startups or large companies to journalists like me. Over the years, a few players have emerged with a special kind of knowledge and expertise in the space.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 27, 2022

Pocus and First Round Capital published the 2021 Product-Led Sales (PLS) report earlier this week. Product-Led Growth (PLG) and PLS are important advances in SaaS growth that have existed for a while , but are coming to the fore more recently because startups who master PLG/PLS enjoy terrifically capital efficient growth because technology supplies leads rather than human effort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

A startup with the easy-to-remember name of The.com aims to modernize website building while also ensuring that web creators get credit for their work. The company, which is today emerging from stealth with $4.4 million in seed funding in tow, has created what it calls a “low-code, website building platform” that aims to ditch the template-based approach that’s become an industry standard.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

As we embark on a new year, developing efficient marketing strategies to drive sales is crucial for your business’ growth. Although consumer buying habits changed significantly over the past 18 months, new tools and approaches also emerged to address those changes in behavior and conquer new and existing challenges. Starting the year off strong will dictate the future of your sales and overall success.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

New data from Kruze Consulting shows just how much the venture capital fundraising market has changed for startups in the last few quarters. Kruze, which provides accounting, tax and venture capital-related services to private tech companies, has access to hard data regarding startup performance. Healy Jones , vice president of financial planning and analysis at Kruze and a former venture capitalist, put some of that information to work, using aggregated, anonymized data from startup funding rou

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Feedough

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Internet has made networking a lot easier than before, Read more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The son of Iranian immigrants, Arman Hezarkhani spent his senior year of high school brainstorming a three-part thesis on what he wanted to dedicate his career to. First, he said that education is the most high-leverage way to make an impact on an individual, community and world. Second, he thinks that technology is the most scalable way to spread that impact.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

If you missed our webinar with Dell Technologies on hardware that won’t hold your business back, it’s not too late to learn what upgrades you need for optimal efficiency and cybersecurity. Watch the webinar with Dell complex solutions specialist Katy Drozd to learn more about Enterprise IT products and how they can improve and protect your business: For more on beefing up your cybersecurity, check out this episode of TechBytes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The rise of remote instruction left many parents freshly aware of (and annoyed by) the shortcomings of Zoom school, but for Letha McLaren , COVID-19 brought an epiphany: the importance of a headset. McLaren’s son, who deals with executive dysfunction, was better able to focus through the screen because he used a headset that blocked out some other noises.

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Secure Docs

JANUARY 27, 2022

2021: The year of the Merger (And the Spinoff). While record-breaking M&A activity has dominated headlines, it has also been a big year for spinoffs, especially among some of the largest corporations. Major spin-off stories this year include: GE’s announced spinoff into three distinct companies, focused on aviation, energy and healthcare technologies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

When Finmark founder Rami Essaid built a previous startup, he saw firsthand how hard it is to build accurate financial models. When he sold that startup, Distil Networks, to Imperva 2019 , he decided to build a new company that could help. Finmark, which launched in July 2020, helps companies build sophisticated financial models without having to use Excel. “We had a thesis around helping startups from pre-revenue to pre-IPO build out financial models and get out of Excel,” Essaid ex

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 27, 2022

ERIC MCCARTER REMEMBERS the first time he operated a forklift truck in France—while sitting behind a desk in California. McCarter used the forklift to move a stack of pallets into a waiting truck using a setup resembling a video gaming rig. He sat behind a steering wheel and pedals that transmitted commands to the forklift thousands of miles away; large screens offered views in front, behind, and to the sides of the vehicle.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances. Like many other tech employees, the two software engineers held equity in startups they had worked for, cryptocurrency investments and other illiquid assets. They wanted to track their assets and get help with investing and paying taxes, but they felt that traditional financial institutions and roboadvisors didn’t provide simple or holisti

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 27, 2022

As the adoption of the metaverse approaches, one factor that seems like an inevitability is toxic behavior. Such behavior is unfortunately prolific in online communities now. The behaviors will likely carry forward to the metaverse, if not always in the same way. Several experts on online safety spoke about the topic at GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming’s Into the Metaverse 2 event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. The seed round is coming almost three years after NALA secured a seven-figure pre-seed round led by Accel in 2019. In that time, NALA built a mobile money service in East Africa and scaled it to more than 250,000 users.

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