Feedough

MAY 26, 2022

It is always thrilling to start a business. However, most. Read more. The post Private Investors: Definition, Types, Where To Find Them appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

A group of former executives from Binance , one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges globally, has created a $100 million venture fund, the team told TechCrunch on Thursday. Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

Stop creating something that’s not going to sell Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash Many creators want to sell online courses. At first glance, it seems to be the best way to make passive income while sleeping. But let me tell you this: The “real world” often doesn’t turn out that pretty. The truth is that most course creators struggle to sell their online courses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. (There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). A few things have remained true since that time. There are typically 10 or so companies that present and not many more. A lot of top firms show up, including from NEA, Lux Capital and Sequoia Capital.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Convizit, making user experience a snap Letter from Davos: FoodTech steps up to the plate Why Oprah loves Tovala’s smart oven Forbes reveals Mermade’s cultivated seafood secret Stream now: Investing in the Circular Economy Microsoft picks Maolac and Trellis for AI program Can Profuse transform the costs of lab-grown meat?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Although we’ve long understood that asteroids are not simply the rubble of the universe, but potentially profitable stores of precious minerals, humanity has never been able to unlock this value. Y Combinator startup Astroforge wants to succeed where other companies have failed, by becoming the first to mine an asteroid and bring the material back to Earth — and it’s aiming to do so as early as the end of the decade.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Jay Steinfeld, the founder and CEO of blinds.com, spoke with Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com on the power of diversity and how he led Blinds.com to be so successful. He started his billion-dollar brand working with his wife and selling blinds out of the back of a trunk! Check out the podcast and Check out the video. Key points discussed. Jay was early in using technology, like having a website, to grow Blinds.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations , European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. U.K.-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 26, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register edotco Group , one of Asia’s leading integrated telecommunications infrastructure companies , reiterated its commitment to enhancing equitable connectivity in Asia. The group seeks to achieve its goal by expanding its operations and leveraging its pioneering Network and Planning Analytics (NaPA) and Digital Twin tools to facilitate the impending 5G rollouts in its nine markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Todd Olson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Todd Olson is the co-founder and CEO of Pendo , a software platform that helps product teams and application owners improve their users’ experience. More posts by this contributor. How startups outside the Bay Area can fundraise in a big way. In today’s digital economy, you can tell a lot about a company by looking at how well they leverage their product.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

Spoiler alert: This isn’t a get-rich-quick story. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, the rate at which organizations create data has accelerated as it becomes cheaper to store, access, and process data. But as data continues to grow in scale and complexity, it’s becoming scattered across apps and platforms — often leading to problems where it concerns data quality. According to a 2020 O’Reilly survey, more than 60% of companies believe that they have too many data sources and inconsistent data, while over a third said that they have too fe

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

Throw the towel and run away may be your first reflex Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Assembled , which bills itself as a workforce management platform for customer support teams, today announced that it raised $51 million in a Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Emergence Capital and Basis Set Ventures. CEO Ryan Wang says that the new capital will be put toward product development, including schedule optimization algorithms and integrations with HR software, and launching an initiative, CX Scholars, that’ll commit a percentage of

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

Learn from the founder of MaestroQA Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Vasu Prathipati, the founder of MaestroQA. Vasu didn’t have an easy journey to where he is today. He struggled to get a job after University and then build a business that for many years didn’t quite seem that it was ever going to take off.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Early-stage proptech startups have a potential new source of capital in 1Sharpe Ventures , which recently closed its $90 million inaugural fund. Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. The pair say the fund was “oversubscribed.” For the unacquainted, Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes that in March raised $240 million at a $1.9 bi

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 26, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Lumos Labs , previously an innovation management firm with expertise in running over 45 technology-focused open innovation programs, announced the launch of a developer-centric Metaverse platform where developers can learn, earn and explore developer-centric opportunities after raising over $1.1 Million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of ide

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Digital transformation has probably brought a lot of changes to your small business: increases in efficiency, speed, and hopefully revenue. But with those benefits has also come some risk: cyber risk. And while many of the cybersecurity conversations revolve around the government and enterprise business level, with SMBs also depending more and more on digital as a means to conduct their business, SMB owners and employees are just as susceptible to cyber threats as any other business or organiza

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Longtime engineer and product designer Michael Sayman has been building apps since he was a kid, landing him roles at Facebook , Google , Roblox, and most recently Twitter , where he’s often been tasked with developing products aimed at a teenage audience. Sayman was only 17 when he joined Facebook, but had already built several apps — an experience documented in his book “ App Kid.” Over the years, Sayman contributed to high-profile products like Instagram Stories, Whats

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2022

We seem to be back to 2019 in the trade show world. Shows that shuttered during COVID have reopened, even if traffic and attendance seems smaller so far, but rising. So, let’s spend a cycle on trade shows for the first time in years. Wouldn’t it be magic if we could find one (unique to us) question to ask people passing the booth or table as they pass in the aisle of the trade show?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 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. It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today. Here are the gems sparkling in the spotlight of our journalistic gaze. For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, where VCs will discuss how you can raise money when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

Venture capital (VC) investors have bet big on zero trust, pouring nearly $3 billion in funding to equip legacy security models with zero trust from 2018 to 2021, GlobalData found. Jumpcloud, Netskope, and Illumio were among the startups that banked more than $100 million in VC funding. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in SDX Central] Netskope, Illumio, Jumpcloud Pace Zero Trust Fund Parade appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Joby Aviation — the publicly-traded electric air vehicle company with a current market cap of $3.1 billion — has received the necessary certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin on-demand commercial air taxi operations, the company said on Thursday. While it’s a significant milestone that puts Joby closer to its stated goal of launching its electric aerial ridesharing service commercially in 2024 , the startup still has a ways to go until it can ferry pass

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

Cloud PC solutions company Workspot recently released The State of Remote Work 2022 report. Workspot analyzed the remote working trends necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges that arose, how IT decision-makers dealt with them and the way forward in terms of budget allocation to support remote work in the future. Read more here. The post [Workspot in ToolBox] 71% of Employees Are More Productive Since the Switch to Remote Work, Finds Industry Survey appeared first on OurCrowd Blog

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