The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Have you ever been disappointed by someone or by some product that you purchased? Nine times out of ten it’s due to not having the right expectations for one reason or another. Investments are no different from other purchases. If you are not clear on what you are getting yourself into, buyer’s remorse usually results. In early stage investing, we use a term to describe setting expectations… it’s called “Goal Alignment”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maximilian Fleitmann , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member primarily based in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, is the CEO of BaseTemplates and Partner at Richmond View Ventures. He has raised venture capital for his startups, helped hundreds of founders craft their pitch decks and fundraising strategy, and invested as a business angel. We asked him how founders can create the perfect pitch deck for their company.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Our final SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation of the year was packed with great information and fun. First, we congratulated affiliates selected to participate in the SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program including National Urban League , Nicolet Area Technical College , New Bedford Economic Council , Rochester Economic Development Corporation and Forward Cities.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the year comes to a close, it’s important for marketers and small business leaders alike to get a sense of what their consumers will be expecting from them in the future. So, what’s to come in 2022? Will technology continue to grow, with businesses using it to communicate more effectively with their consumers providing them with more value?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance examinations. Edtech platforms such as Edukoya have sprung up with the intent to take these models online and maintain affordability for students. Today, the Lagos- and London-based startup, which builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From celebrating local history to encouraging visitors, art can have a profoundly positive impact on our public and corporate spaces. For startups wishing to build their brand and cement their place in the local community, employing the skills of artists and supporting public art projects can be an excellent means of doing so. Shutterstock. While art is primarily considered to provide social and cultural benefits to the society it exists in, it also has commercial advantages.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX. During a TC Sessions: Space 2021 panel discussion on the growth-stage investment outlook for startups, Bessemer’s Tess Hatch, Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire and Hemisphere Ventures’ Lisa Rich shared their thoughts on the active year that just passed and on what’

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Data-driven marketing is one of the hottest topics every marketer is raving about. But, what is it? Which are the most sought-after data-backed marketing strategies to watch out for in 2022? Clive Humby, the genius mathematician and data science entrepreneur, said, “Data is the new oil.” Since then, countless marketers, data experts and entrepreneurs have repeated his phrase.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Electric vehicle startup Canoo is ending its deal with Dutch automotive manufacturing company VDL Nedcar to serve as its contract manufacturer in Europe, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Wednesday. A separate filing reveals that Canoo will also be exploring a new deal with VDL Groep, another Dutch auto manufacturing company, to produce vehicles in the U.S.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“I went for a job at KFC; they said I was no good” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Olist , a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, confirmed it is now valued at $1.5 billion after securing $186 million in Series E funding, led by Wellington Management. The new round follows quickly behind a $23 million Series D extension the company announced in April, led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management to bring its total Series D financing to $80 million.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

According to the Migration Policy Group, migrant entrepreneurship has received increasing attention from policy makers, stakeholders and scholars. As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Prellis Biologics , a company developing the tools to create 3D-printed organs, announced a $14.5 million Series B round on Wednesday. Prellis has spent years developing tissue engineering capacity, but has focused recently on developing one type of structure in particular. Up until this point, Prellis has focused on 3D printing vascular scaffolds that would allow companies to grow healthy and oxygenated human organs (or miniature versions, called organoids) for drug testing, and eventually tran

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

According to the Migration Policy Group, migrant entrepreneurship has received increasing attention from policy makers, stakeholders and scholars. As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Less than a year after raising an $80 million Series C round, Anchorage is announcing that it has raised a $350 million Series D round. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $3 billion. Anchorage offers a custody solution for big institutions, such as publicly traded companies or funds. On top of that, Anchorage lets you trade crypto assets, stake assets to earn returns and participate in protocol governance if you own a lot of tokens for a specific protoco

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Bionaut Labs, a company focused on revolutionizing the treatment of central nervous system disorders (CNS) with its Bionaut™ precision medicine treatment modality, and Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CADL), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel oncolytic viral immunotherapies, today announced a strategic collaboration to investigate the use of Bionaut’s remote-controlled microscale robots for precision delivery of Candel’s oncolytic viral immunotherapy agents

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Almost three million Americans a year are denied a mortgage. Most don’t even know where to start or understand what would qualify them. The system has become complex and confusing, causing people to never make it onto the housing ladder at all. This is in contrast to the mortgage industry, which is leaving these people on the table by being geared only to those who are ready and qualified to buy, a relatively small percentage of those who’d actually like to.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Get good at a few things and you could make millions. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

South Korean startup Kakao Entertainment announced today it has acquired Wuxiaworld , an Asia fantasy fiction platform, via its serialized fiction app subsidiary Radish to bolster the mobile storytelling business. The transaction size is $37.5 million. . Wuxiaworld, which has grown through word-of-mouth, claims it is now the largest English-language Asia fantasy platform in the U.S. in terms of the number of users.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When talking about online music streaming, one cannot ignore the. Read more.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The trend that is instant grocery delivery — online ordering of essentials with your purchases being delivered to you in under an hour — continues to proliferate across multiple markets, and in the latest development, Sequoia is leading an investment in one out of Australia. Voly , a five-month-old Sydney-based startup that offers thousands of SKUs and promises deliveries in 15 minutes at a flat fee of A$2.99 ($2.14), has raised A$18 million (just under $13 million at today’s r

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the Great Resignation and whether it means Americans are unhappy with their jobs. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about a study on the reasons behind the Great Resignation: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After months of NFT mania and Facebook’s recent name change to Meta, it’s fair to say that “metaverse” chatter has reached a fever pitch. And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital universe will spring up around these projects, it’s unclear which projects — if any — will stand the test of time.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SOP is a written term that has been used for. Read more.

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