Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They accused Musk of attempting to “rewrite history” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia , Europe , Africa , Latin America and elsewhere. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities. The story has been largely the same inside the United States, with Boston having a solid year, along with the Midwest and Atlanta.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. With new technology enabling better, faster and easier-to-use software to build better, faster and easier-to-use products, the market is becoming busier by the second.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Gone are the days when your A/C and washer/dryer were the movers and shakers (electrically speaking) in your house. These days, electric vehicle chargers, solar power and battery storage solutions set more electrons a-dancin’ Span is one of the companies running point on adding some smarts to the process. The company today launched the Span Drive, an EV charger that is making it possible to further empower your EV based on various rules.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

None require superhuman talent Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Japanese tech investor SoftBank has invested $25 million in OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture capital platform. OurCrowd said that SoftBank Vision Fund 2 will make the infusion via a convertible equity investment. In addition, OurCrowd will enter into a partnership with SoftBank Investment Advisers, a sub-adviser to SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Edtech unicorn Udemy priced its IPO at $29 per share, the upper end of its IPO range. Using a simple share count, the company was worth around $4 billion at its IPO price and a few hundred million more if a full -diluted share count is employed in our valuation calculations. For edtech, the Udemy IPO might seem like good news. After all, the company sold more than $420 million worth of its stock while going public at a price that surpassed its final private-market price.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Japanese tech investor SoftBank has invested $25 million in OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture capital platform. OurCrowd said that SoftBank Vision Fund 2 will make the infusion via a convertible equity investment. In addition, OurCrowd will enter into a partnership with SoftBank Investment Advisers, a sub-adviser to SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Is Southeast Asia about to hit an inflection point for tech startups? Four hundred million people in the region already use the internet, but by year’s end, one estimate suggests that 80% of the population over the age of 15 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be digital consumers. “As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 20

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 29, 2021

I backed this project this morning. The Tether Bike Light is “a bike safety device that projects a safe zone around your bike, responds to road users around you, identifying safe and unsafe roads in your city.” I like the idea that “locations of overtakes are recorded to identify safe and unsafe zones in your city to help plan safer routing.” That is very cool.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Salted , a Los Angeles-based startup creating digitally native quick-service restaurant brands, brought in a new round of $16 million in Series A funding to continue its nationwide expansion. The company was founded seven years ago by CEO Jeff Applebaum, but a focus on providing healthy QSR brands and going after the $325 billion food delivery space came about three years ago.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Managing a project is complex and requires extensive organisational and. Read more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Kurly , a South Korea-based online grocery startup that provides next-day delivery services across the country, will go public by June next year. . The startup, which declined to comment on how much it plans to raise via IPO, said it estimates the company valuation at approximately $5.9 billion after it goes public. . The announcement comes after its $200 million Series F at a $2.2 billion valuation in July. .

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Louis Krubich and Jeff Frommer discuss the launch and growth of MALKA Media.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Frost Li, the former head of growth at Wish, founded the company in May to create software that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence for personalization, recommendations and live customer service — all to enable brands to

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: ByondXR’s virtual retail boosts sales. SoftBank to invest $25M in OurCrowd. Opening doors in Abu Dhabi. Our latest exit: Renesas buys Celeno for $315M. BlueGreen brings clean water to half a million South Africans. Bizzabo buys TeeVid, third acquisition in five months. Cyabra raises $5.6M for fake news analysis platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Zeit Medical , which makes an early warning system for strokes during sleep, has raised $2 million in a seed round just after leaving Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. The company’s work suggests the brain-monitoring headband could save lives by alerting people to possible strokes hours before they might otherwise be noticed, and the new funding will help propel them toward commercial availability.

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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.

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Hello, and welcome to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And have a good time. This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (along with our amazing production team Grace , Chris , and Kell ) took on a host of topics from the public and private markets alike. In our wheelhouse this week: An IPO rush : Sure, IPOs are still not keeping up with unicorn births, but the current pace of public offerings has us nattering.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When online shopping, you’ve probably come across photos that spin around so you can see a product from all angles. This is typically done by taking a number of photos of a product from all angles, and then playing them like an animation. Luma — founded by engineers who left Apple’s AR and computer vision group — wants to shake all of that up.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Jim Mann. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jim Mann is director of acquisitions at Thrasio , a consumer goods company reimagining omnichannel commerce and consumer products. The toughest questions most entrepreneurs face will involve international expansion. Whether to, when to, where to and how to expand all involve a wealth of complex considerations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

David Karandish. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Karandish is founder and CEO of Capacity , an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. The global help desk automation industry is expected to grow to $11 billion by 2023 as support automation empowers companies to serve their customers more effectively. By automating repetitive tasks and FAQs, companies give employees more time to spend on more human tasks that involve building relationships and generat

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Matt Bivons. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Bivons is CEO and co-founder of Canopy Servicing , an API-first platform for personalized and transparent lending. He previously served as VP and GM at GreenSky, and head of growth at Earnest and VaycayHero. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is an old form of payment that is new again in a big way. And that could mean trouble for BNPL fintechs that are just getting to know the world of lending and the pitfalls associated with traditional banking infrastru

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Arc, a startup that launched 10 months ago with ambitions to electrify everything on the water, starting with a limited-edition $300,000 boat, has captured the attention and capital of some of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars. The startup, which closed a seed round in February led by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has brought on several new investors , including funds from Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures and Sean “Did

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