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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

A friend and I dined last night at a restaurant that opened in our neighborhood last summer, in the middle of the pandemic. For the first six months of its existence, they could not welcome diners into the space that they had spent time and money creating. They carried on, figured out how to make money serving customers outside. As the NYC economy starts to recover, they are still standing.

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Fusing hearts and minds: A new leadership model

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by John Sanei , a futures strategist who conveys smart, effective strategies to business owners and entrepreneurs to help build the courage and clarity they need to forge the future they want. Sanei is Africa’s first Singularity University faculty member who served as a panelist during EO’s future of leadership event with moderator Winnie Hart.

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Nigerian fintech of the unbanked Bankly raises $2M led by Vault and Flutterwave

TechCrunch

Nigeria remains a largely cash-dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians, of which more than half have little or no access to financial services. . Today, Bankly , a Nigerian fintech startup digitizing cash for the unbanked, announced that it has closed a $2 million seed round. Founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams in 2018, Bankly is digitizing the informal thrift collections system known with different names such as esusu or ajo in Nigeria.

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Taking the Pulse: Private 5G

StartupNation

We asked IT decision-makers what would drive them to deploy private 5G. In the process, we discovered that many are already exploring this nascent technology. To take the pulse of technology and business trends, Dell Technologies has been regularly surveying 800 IT decision-makers (ITDMs) across six countries (U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Brazil and China).

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Plaid accelerator announces inaugural cohort of fintech startups

TechCrunch

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The equity-free and capital-free program has chosen five early-stage fintech startups out of 100 applications to join its cohort, working on issues central to the financial services industry such as simplifying payments and access to credit.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. The U.S. banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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How Hiring a Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

For a small business owner, there’s temptation to handle every aspect of your business by yourself. This happens in most cases whether you are starting or have been running the business for a while. Letting go of different aspects of your business is not easy. However, hiring a virtual assistant could be just what you need to take your business to the next level. .

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Y Combinator’s biotech startups incubate a new generation of therapies and tools

TechCrunch

Medical and biotech had a strong showing at Y Combinator’s latest demo day , with nearly a dozen companies in the space catching my eye. The things a startup can accomplish in this space are astonishing these days, so don’t be surprised if a few of these companies are headline news in the next year. Startups take on big pharma. Atom Bioworks has one of the shortest timelines and highest potential impacts; as I wrote in our second set of favorites from demo day , the company seems to

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The Startup of the Future Contains Only One Person (You)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You don’t need to be a startup founder anymore. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Feedzai raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for AI tools to fight financial fraud

TechCrunch

On the heels of Jumio announcing a $150 million injection this week to continue building out its AI-based ID verification and anti-money laundering platform, another startup in the space is levelling up. Feedzai , which provides banks, others in the financial sector, and any company managing payments online with AI tools to spot and fight fraud — its cornerstone service involves super-quick (3 millisecond) checks happening in the background while transactions are being made — has ann

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How to Take Effective Control of Your Calendar and Catapult Your Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A simple system for managing your hours and days from a deadline expert Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Berlin’s Blacklane raises $26M to expand its high-end chauffeur-driven sustainable car service

TechCrunch

As the Ubers of the world continue to scale, a smaller on-demand transportation startup has raised some funding in Germany, underscoring the opportunities that remain for startups in the space targeting specific service niches. Blacklane — the Berlin startup that provides on-demand black-car chauffeur services in Berlin, London, Dubai, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Singapore and 16 other cities — has closed a round of €22 million ($26 million at current rates).

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Deep Dive Mini Series: Prepping an Entrepreneur for a Deep Dive Meeting with Investors

The Seraf Compass

If you are helping an entrepreneur raise money, there is no way you are going to avoid one or more “deep dive” meetings. Whether you are working with the company’s very first investors, or trying to build out the syndicate for a round, once a founder makes a successful pitch to an investor or group of investors, the next step is always more involved.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Dual-event ticket prices to TC Early Stage 2021 increase this Friday

TechCrunch

We’ve all heard the adage, less is more. But when it comes to learning all the complex ins and outs of building and launching a successful startup, more is definitely the way to go. Enter not one, but two bootcamp experiences for the early-stage crowd: TC Early Stage: Operations and Fundraising on April 1-2 and TC Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising on July 8-9.

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3 Dangers of an Unincorporated Business (and How Incorporation Can Resolve These Problems)

StartupNation

Often, one of the first pieces of advice an entrepreneur receives when they start a business is to incorporate or form a limited liability company (LLC). When you incorporate a business, you are able to select an entity formation that provides structure to the business. This ultimately impacts everything about the company, from how much you pay in taxes to the personal liability you face as the owner.

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

TechCrunch

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. The round was led by Gojek’s investment arm Go Ventures, with participation from returning investors AC Ventures and East Ventures.

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A Weird and Wacky Approach To Angel Investing

OnStartups

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. I started my first company at around the age of 24. It was called Pyramid Digital Solutions and it was a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) company in the financial services vertical. I bootstrapped it, ran it for about 10 years and then sold it to a large software company in an all cash, no attachments deal. Now, I had something I’d never had before -- liquidity.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Equity crowdfunding is making the private markets public

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive, the Equity team brought on Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia and Hustle Fund General Partner Elizabeth Yin to talk about equity crowdfunding. It’s been about a week since the SEC increased the equity crowdfunding cap from $1.07 million to $5 million, creating the perfect opportunity to go beyond the dollar amount and understand how the change impac

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[Dandelion Energy in PR Newswire] Dandelion Energy Expands Geothermal Heating & Cooling Service to All Connecticut Homeowners

OurCrowd

HARTFORD, Conn., March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dandelion Energy, the country’s leading residential geothermal company, is expanding sales and service to the full state of Connecticut. The expansion is in response to the positive response the company has received since launching its unique Home Geothermal Systems in Fairfield County last year.

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Australian lidar maker Baraja collects $31M B round to illuminate the future of autonomy

TechCrunch

Lidar companies across the planet are going SPAC , but Baraja isn’t in a hurry to go public. The Australian lidar maker has raised a $31M B round to continue the deployment and development of its “unique and ingenious” imaging system, with participation beyond the usual VC suspects. Baraja’s lidar uses what the company calls SpectrumScan, letting physics do the hard work of directing the light.

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You Can't Build Relationships If You Can't Remember Their Names. This Entrepreneur Is Solving That.

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

Are you always in a scramble to remember details about your last meeting?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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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Motosumo scores $6M to spin up a challenge to Peloton

TechCrunch

Denmark-based Motosumo has scored a $6 million Series A raise led by London’s Magenta Partners, alongside existing investors. The new funding will go on doubling its network of spin class instructors across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, expanding its tech team and upping its marketing. The 2015-founded fit-tech startup has developed a system for measuring cycling cadence without additional sensors — users need only affix their existing smartphone or tablet to a stationar

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Cryptocurrency Now Going Mainstream as Accepted Payment (Episode 197)

StartupNation

On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses the rise of cryptocurrency as a mainstream form of payment. According to a 2020 survey by HSB, 36% of small- to medium-sized businesses in the U.S. now accept Bitcoin. Listen to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about cryptocurrency and why your business might want to consider accepting it as a form of payment: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Hong Kong-based viAct raises $2M for its automated construction monitoring platform

TechCrunch

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. The startup announced today it has raised a $2 million seed round, co-led by SOSV and Vectr Ventures. The funding included participation from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, Artesian Ventures and ParticleX.

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[Zoomcar in The Hindu Business Line] Uri Levine joins Zoomcar as Board Chairman

OurCrowd

Personal mobility start-up Zoomcar on Wednesday announced that Israeli entrepreneur Uri Levine will be joining its Board of Directors as the Chairman. Levine co-founded Waze, a community-based driving traffic and navigation app, with more than 250 million drivers around the globe, which was acquired by Google in June 2013 for more than $1.1 billion.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.