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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Back in the early 2000s, it was exciting to blog and use social networks to create our own media and move away from the traditional media outlets. That was the pull that got me into blogging and got me investing in Twitter. It was a powerful feeling. But a decade and a half later, it is obvious that we just replaced one type of media company for another and that we don’t really control our own media yet.

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In the race for tech talent, the US should look to Mexico

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Gustavo Parés. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Gustavo Parés is CEO of NDS Cognitive Labs , a leader in cognitive computing and AI business solutions. A professor at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), he's partnered with Microsoft, IBM and Google to deliver digital transformation and cognitive technology services. More posts by this contributor.

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Food Insecurity: Two Ways of Approaching it

Impact Hub

Food insecurity has plagued the African continent for years, with Nigeria being one of the hardest hit countries. The good news is that local entrepreneurs are creating innovative solutions to address this challenge. Annual food inflation in Nigeria reached 22.95% in March 2021 – the highest reading since October 2005 – according to a recent report by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics.

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factory14 raises $200M to jump into the Amazon marketplace roll-up race

TechCrunch

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. In the latest development, a startup called factory14 is coming out of stealth mode in Europe with $200 million in funding to snap up smaller businesses and help them grow through better economies of scale.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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The ACA 2021 Innovation Funders Showcase Pre-Summit Kick-Off and Deeper Dive Feature Groundbreaking Companies

Angel Capital Association

Chiara Renella-Brooks, ACA Partnership Director Incredible Companies Built by Women Highlighted During the Innovation Funders Showcase Deeper Dive This year’s ninth Annual ACA Summit Innovation Funders Showcase opened ACA Summit week with many exciting new twists! Fresh for 2021, the Innovation Funders Showcase Company Flipbook provided a sneak peek of all the companies presenting, along with critical information such as market strategy, opportunities and more.

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Running a Business? Give Yourself a Pay rise

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Do it before investing back into your business. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Eano’s Stella Wu is not your typical construction tech startup founder

TechCrunch

Renovating a home is an exciting, yet often fraught-filled, endeavor. One startup that aims to help make the process simpler, cheaper and less stressful by helping people manage the home renovation process has raised $6 million to help it grow even faster. Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang.

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The 11 Worst Mistakes Rookie Entrepreneurs Make?—?and How to Avoid Them

Entrepreneur's Handbook

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Telemedicine startups are positioning themselves for a post-pandemic world

TechCrunch

Telemedicine, in its original form of the phone call, has been around for decades. For people in remote or rural areas without easy access to in-person care, consulting a doctor over the phone has often been the go-to approach. But for a large swath of the world used to taking half a day off work just for a 15-30 minute doctor’s appointment, it may seem like telemedicine was invented only last year.

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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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[Dandelion Energy in VBM] GMP customers save thousands by choosing geothermal for home heating and cooling

OurCrowd

Vermont Business Magazine Green Mountain Power (GMP) is offering customers an instant rebate worth thousands of dollars when they purchase and install a qualified geothermal whole-home heating and cooling system from Dandelion Energy, an innovative company dedicated to making renewable technologies more accessible for all. The highly efficient system is fossil-fuel-free and combats the second-largest source of carbon pollution in Vermont – how we heat our homes and businesses.

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Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M seed funding in farm-to-table startup Secai Marche

TechCrunch

Farmers and food businesses, like restaurants, deal with the same issue: a fragmented supply chain. Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Bloomberg] The Hyperloop May Change More Than Just Travel

OurCrowd

Elon Musk coined the term Hyperloop back in 2013 when he released his vision for a fifth mode of transport. Since then, engineers around the world have been working to make his idea a reality sooner than you might think. Virgin Hyperloop has successfully tested the technology with human passengers and in Europe Hardt Hyperloop is working on the technology and international coalition building needed to create entire Hyperloop networks.

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Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed

TechCrunch

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. This means people in smaller cities or rural areas need to deal with longer wait times for deliveries. Social commerce company Mio is taking advantage of that gap by building a reseller network and logistics infrastructure that can offer next-day delivery to tier 2 and 3 cities.

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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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[TytoCare in Yahoo] May 26 at 1PM ET: IPO Edge & Latham & Watkins Host Parenting and Digital Health Roundtable with Owlet, TytoCare, Kinsa

OurCrowd

While the Covid pandemic turbocharged digital health like nothing else, other areas including parenting and childcare are also seeing new ways of doing things. The digital transformation unfolding in these sectors is building up a new crop of companies and attracting major investment dollars. Read more here. The post [TytoCare in Yahoo] May 26 at 1PM ET: IPO Edge & Latham & Watkins Host Parenting and Digital Health Roundtable with Owlet, TytoCare, Kinsa appeared first on OurCrowd Blog

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Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform

TechCrunch

There may be billions of IoT devices in use today, but the tooling around building (and updating) the software for them still leaves a lot to be desired. Esper , which today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round, builds the tools to enable developers and engineers to deploy and manage fleets of Android-based edge devices. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and Haystack.

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How Companies Can Support Bilingual and Multilingual Children

The Startup Blog Market Brief

There are steps that organizations can take to build their cultural awareness in helping bilingual and multilingual students, explains Emily Guo, who is working with Cognitive ToyBox. The post How Companies Can Support Bilingual and Multilingual Children appeared first on Market Brief.

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Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

TechCrunch

Workrise , which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announced today that it has raised $300 million in a Series E round led by U.K.-based Baillie Gifford that values the company at $2.9 billion. New investor Franklin Templeton joined existing backers — including Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Moore Strategic Ventures, 137 Ventures and Brookfield Growth Partners — in putting money in the round.

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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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What is a DBA? Benefits of Filing for a Doing Business As Name

StartupNation

As states start to transition tiers amid COVID-19, storefronts are beginning to increase indoor capacity and ease into doing business in the “new normal.” Some brick-and-mortar business owners may be using this time to file paperwork for additional assets that can provide great benefits to their business. One such asset is a Doing Business As name, or DBA name.

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Dooly raises $80M more for its AI tools to help salespeople manage their busywork

TechCrunch

Salespeople have more tools than ever these days to help them with their work, whether they are tools to source new leads, keep those leads interested or informed about what’s being sold, track how the sales process is going, manage those relationships once they are secured, or accounting tools to manage how and where sales are actually coming in.

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Here’s 9 Ways You Can Become Financially Smarter (That I Wish More People Knew)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Complexity can stop normal people like us from building any wealth (by design). Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Pitch, a platform for making and sharing presentations, raises $85M on a $600M valuation

TechCrunch

PowerPoint may still dominate the landscape for presentations in many people’s minds, but some might say that legacy status also makes Microsoft’s software ripe for disruption. Now, a startup out of Berlin called Pitch has just picked up a substantial Series B of $85 million to take it on with what it believes is a more dynamic approach.

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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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Your time is as valuable as your money.

Berkonomics

Enterprise time as a measurable commodity. Let’s examine the challenges to a CEO in making use of enterprise time, one of your most valuable and often misused assets. Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working.

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Ex-Square execs launch Found to help the self-employed, raise $12.75M from Sequoia

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever been self-employed you know what a pain it is to keep up with the hassles of running a business. From bookkeeping to invoicing to paying taxes — it’s one big headache. Freelancers and self-employed people often turn to a number of different solutions to try and address different aspects of running their business. It can be a lot to keep up with.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: New Survey by Sage Indicates Rising Small Business Optimism (Episode 226)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a hopeful look for the future of small businesses, as a recent survey from Sage reveals that small business optimism is growing, which could potentially create millions of new jobs. Tune in to Business Beat, below, to learn more about this rising small business optimism: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Chasing hype is human nature: The tyranny of startup trends

TechCrunch

Victor Echevarria. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Victor Echevarria is a partner at Jackson Square Ventures , where he invests in early-stage software businesses. I think it’s important that we explicitly discuss something that every VC instinctively knows: The hype around a given business or category has become a form of bias for investors and founders when vetting ideas to pursue.

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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.