Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Lessons from EdTech founder David Rogier. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez took a turn on Web Summit’s stage in December to announce the introduction of the forthcoming Startup Act — and to trumpet a new role, a high commissioner, tasked with bringing o

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a myth that only the top startups and the best startup jobs are in Silicon Valley or New York City. As a Midwest company built for Midwest startups, we know that’s just not true. In 2020, Glassdoor came out with a list of the top 25 U.S. Cities for jobs. And guess what—most of the cities on the list were in the Midwest. Detroit ranked number 10.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Burrow , a startup that first launched with a modular sofa , eventually aims to sell you furniture for every room in your home. Today, it’s announcing that it’s raised $25 million in Series C funding. Burrow participated in the Y Combinator accelerator in 2016 with an initial aim of building sofas that, by virtue of being modular, were easier to move and adapt to a variety of living spaces.

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This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The following is excerpted from “Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success” by Charlene Walters (McGraw Hill, February 2021). One day, you will be happily working for someone else: exceeding monthly goals and growing their profits. And then, another day, you’ll realize that you’re not getting the recognition or opportunities that you deserve.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I wrote this in yesterday’s post : Remote learning is here to stay. I got a bunch of emails and tweets from parents saying that they want their kids back in school. So do I!!! I think getting kids back in school is the single biggest thing we can do to put the pandemic in the rear view mirror. I should have been more clear about what I meant by that line.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After going over four years without raising any capital, coding class platform Codecademy has raised a new tranche of money: a $40 million Series D round led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Prosus and Union Square Ventures. The startup is the latest edtech business to bring on capital after years without it, a list that includes ClassDojo , CourseHero , Quizlet and Udacity.

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long. Startup leadership is a unique art that not everyone possesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Much of our daily lives have been transformed in one way or another by technology – and often through intentional efforts to innovate thanks to the advent of new technology. Now more than ever, we rely on shared collaboration platforms and digital workspaces in our professional lives, and yet most of the changes wrought by tech on our home and family lives seem like the accidental effects of broader trends, rather than intentional shifts.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Business has forever been changed by the COVID pandemic, and business owners are now challenged to learn about best practices and tools to help us conduct our businesses in what is now a digital-first world. To help us get up to speed, our friends at Dell have partnered with Microsoft to host a free webinar this Wednesday, February 24 at 4 p.m. ET. Tune in to this morning’s WJR Business Beat to hear from Dell’s Megan Shadle on what attendees can expect from the upcoming webinar: R

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Lucid Motors reached an agreement to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital IV Corp., in the largest deal yet between a blank-check company and an electric vehicle startup. . The combined company, in which Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will continue to be the largest shareholder, will have a transaction equity value of $11.75 billion.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Empowering people with context is superior to imposing limits Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The last year of life under a global health pandemic has seen a massive surge of people working from home — a shift that has thrown a stark light on the iffy quality of our broadband networks. Today a startup called Plume — which has built a mesh-Wi-Fi platform that helps optimize broadband connectivity and then uses it to deliver a range of smarter home services to some 22 million homes globally — is announcing a major funding round of $270 million that underscores the opportu

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Here’s how I’m building a business from zero (it might not work) Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

What is working in the office going to look like in a post-COVID-19 world? That’s something one startup hopes to help companies figure out. Saltmine , which has developed a web-based workplace design platform, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Existing backers Jungle Ventures and Xplorer Capital led the financing, which also included participation from JLL Spark, the strategic investment arm of commercial real estate brokerage JLL. .

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Jerusalem-based venture investing platform OurCrowd today released the first installment of the quarterly OurCrowd Jobs Index showing that the number of open positions listed by OurCrowd’s portfolio companies rose from 350 in June 2020 to 912 in December 2020. The startups surveyed by OurCrowd predict that job growth would continue through 2021 and they expect to maintain a mix of in-person and remote working.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on. Contra is a platform that wants professionals to create profiles that show project-based identities, versus a role-based identity that one would show on LinkedIn.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While Israel struggles with unprecedented unemployment levels due to the coronavirus pandemic, the hi-tech sector is flourishing. OurCrowd, a global venture investment platform, said Tuesday that the number of tech jobs available in Israel for its portfolio companies rose by 400% during the last six months. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in The Jerusalem Post] OurCrowd: Tech hiring in Israel up 400% in last six months appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spreadsheet software — led by products like Microsoft’s Excel, Google’s Sheets and Apple’s Numbers — continues to be one of the most-used categories of business apps, with Excel alone clocking up more than a billion users just on its Android version. Now, a startup called Rows that’s built on that ubiquity, with a low-code platform that lets people populate and analyze web apps using just spreadsheet interfaces, is announcing funding and launching a freemium o

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Bill Gates is in the news lately with his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” One of the tools he’s using to address the climate problem is investing in the venture fund he spearheaded called Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Read more here. The post [Dandelion Energy in Wall Street Journal] VC Daily: Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures Looks for Co-Investors appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This morning the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index is off 2.34% after falling yesterday. Shares of Tesla are off more than 6% today, now mired in a bear-market correction after reaching new all-time highs earlier this year. Apple stock is worth $122.02 per share, down from over its recent highs of more than $145. After a long period of time when it felt like tech stocks only went up, the recent correction is starting to feel material.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

LOD, Israel, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Nanomedic Technologies, a leader in Electrospun Healing Fiber (EHF™) technology for wound healing and skin regeneration, today announced the appointment of two new members to its Advisory Board: Prof. Jan Plock, MD, an international authority in microsurgery, burn reconstruction, and wound healing; and Mark Darty, a serial entrepreneur with over three decades’ experience in technology innovation, commercialization, and operations manag

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. The announcement comes two months after the formation of the Urban Air Mobility Partnership, a one-year initiative between Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and Urban Movement Labs to develop a plan for how to integrate urban aircraft i

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Songe LaRon didn’t have experience working in the barbershop world when he first had the idea for Squire , a business management and point-of-sales software focusing on barbershop owners. He did, however, have firsthand knowledge of the customer experience. Beginning at the age of six or seven, LaRon started frequenting the barber with his dad. Twenty years later, he realized the industry hadn’t evolved much.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The onset of the pandemic has led to increased demand for digital banking options across customer income groups around the world. We’ve seen how digital banks like Zolve and Nubank have raised money in recent months to fill this need. This time, a startup from Africa has joined the party. TymeBank , a South African digital bank, announced today that it has secured an R1.6 billion (~$109 million) investment from new investors in the U.K. and Philippines.

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