StartupNation
OCTOBER 30, 2020
For years, I’ve been a firm believer in creating multiple streams of income. While in college, I can remember trying to learn how to start a business while also getting paid by a company to take notes in class (I guess I already believed in various streams of income). Fast forward to the present: after five years of running multiple projects at any given time, I began to question the strategy.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 billion — $950 million plus potential earnouts of up to $550 million based on future growth. Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak wreaked havoc on most small businesses. Disrupted supply chain, reduced customer demand, and dried cashflow were just a few of the many implications of COVID-19. Though small businesses are now recovering, it was a bumpy ride for the first few months - during and post lockdowns. Keap Going Small Business Grant Contest encouraged many small businesses to stay afloat in such an unprecedented crisis.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
It wasn’t the lingering exhaustion that made Christine Huang, a New York public school teacher, leave the profession. Or the low pay. Or the fact that she rarely had time to spend with her kids after the school day due to workload demands. Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York City handled the coronavirus pandemic in schools.
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Impact Hub
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Climathon is one way in which the Impact Hub network is being active in tackling climate challenges. Each year entrepreneurs, students, lateral thinkers, and policymakers in more than 140 cities across 56 countries are invited to participate locally in the global climate change hackathon “Climathon” and to develop solutions to challenges related to climate change. .
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
OCTOBER 30, 2020
This project has a bunch of things that interest/excite me: 1/ Entrepreneurs committing to building new things in NYC during the pandemic. 2/ Young chefs going out on their own. 3/ Brooklyn. 4/ Jelly donuts. I backed this project just now and took the jelly donuts reward because how could I resist? The video is great and the project has one more day and is about 10% away from its goal.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Coronavirus cases in the United States are reaching new peaks. E-commerce is continuing to boom. And b8ta , a San Francisco startup that is betting on the future of physical retailers, is doubling down on its in-person footprint. B8ta offers shelf space to unique digital products, such as electric skateboards or a coffee alarm clock, on behalf of brands that want a physical presence.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Social Venturers is hosting a series of Fireside Chats to discuss what makes ecosystem builders effective. Every two weeks from September 10th until December 3rd, they are hosting peer-to-peer knowledge sharing sessions and you are invited! #5 Connect people top-down, bottom-up, inside-out etc. (November 5th, 2020, noon & 2. p.m. EST). “Change creates tension.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle
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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
OCTOBER 30, 2020
¿Cuándo? Martes 3 de noviembre de 2020 a las 3:00 PM hora de El Salvador. Tema : On-Brand! Descripción : ¿Cómo mantener la escencia de tu marca? Actualmente ha habido una pequeña variante en cómo consumimos las marcas y éso impacta directamente la experiencia del usuario. En esta charla abordaremos varios consejos de cómo mantenernos fieles a la identidad de nuestra marca aun en la distancia.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
For years — decades, even — there was little question about whether you could become a venture capitalist if you weren’t comfortable financially. You couldn’t. The people and institutions that invest in venture funds want to know that fund managers have their own “skin in the game,” so they’ve long required a sizable check from the investor’s own pocket before jumping aboard.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
OCTOBER 30, 2020
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The world of enterprise software and cybersecurity has taken multiple body blows since COVID-19 demolished the in-person office, flinging employees across the world and forcing companies to adapt to an all-remote productivity model. The shift has required companies to rethink not only collaboration software, but also the infrastructure that powers it and the best way to protect assets once their security perimeters have been destroyed.
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StartupNation
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Tomorrow is Halloween, and even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, people are still planning to celebrate. More than 148 million Americans still plan to celebrate Halloween this year, with 53 percent of consumers planning to decorate their homes, 46 percent planning to carve a pumpkin, spending an estimated $8 billion while doing all of it. Haunted houses attract around $300 million in revenue each year, supporting hundreds of other local businesses across America, as vendors that supply these haunte
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
UK-based Fertifa has bagged a £1 million (~$1.3M) seed to plug into a fertility-focused workplace benefits platform. Passion Capital is investing in the round, along with some unnamed strategic angel investors. The August 2019-founded startup sells bespoke reproductive health and fertility packages to UK employers to offer as workplace benefits to their staff — drawing on the use of technologies like telehealth to expand access to fertility support and cater to rising demand for reproducti
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The wide range of utility that drones offer is sure to make them a popular instrument in the coming years. As a testimony to this, Israel-based agricultural drone manufacturer Tevel Aerobotics Technologies Ltd. is completing its third round of funding – a $20 million financing round raising its valuation to a cool $45 million. Read more here.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
What do you call the grey area between a Series A and a Series B? In 2020, when the money is taken on opportunistically, you call it a Series A-1 extension, according to Teampay. Even if the new capital was raised at a new, higher valuation. At least that’s what Teampay CEO Andrew Hoag has done with his company’s new $5 million investment, adding it onto its September, 2019-era Series A.
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OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Data.world is a social platform for finding and sharing data sets. It allows you to create projects that use publicly available data. It also has a ton of integrations that allow it to work with many popular tools. On top of all that, it has a very generous free tier for personal use. Read more here. The post [data.world in Make Use OF] How to Find Data for the Best Music of the Past appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Yesterday’s earnings deluge made plain that tech shares are not rocketing higher as 2020 comes to a close. Indeed, in pre-market trading this morning, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are all down. Alphabet is the only member of the Big Five that is worth more today than yesterday. Strong advertising and cloud results helped the search giant post a return-to-form quarter.
Continuations
OCTOBER 30, 2020
I have been blogging very little, as I have been swamped with a big and exciting work project. As the peak effort on that is now past, I look forward to writing more on Continuations again, as well as taking another turn revising my book The World After Capital. In the meantime, here are some observations on the most recent iteration of the debate around regulating large tech companies generally, the role of Section 230 specifically and how these relate to speech on the Internet.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
VC firm e.ventures is expanding its footprint in Europe with a new office in Paris as well as a new Paris-based partner. Jonathan Userovici, who previously worked for Idinvest Partners , is joining e.ventures as partner and head of Paris office. Originally founded in the U.S. 20 years ago, e.ventures has been expanding to new geographies over the past few years.
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OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The Mumbai-Pune Hyperloop and the hyperloop corridor from Bengaluru city to the Kempegowda International Airport could be ready by 2029 based on approvals, a spokesperson of American technology transport company Virgin Hyperloop One informed CNBC TV 18. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop in CNBC-TV18] Hyperloop in Mumbai-Pune, Bengaluru may be ready by 2029, says Virgin Hyperloop One appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Here’s an example of ad targeting that’s actually good for public health: In a campaign encouraging people to wear masks, the Illinois state government has been focusing its digital ad dollars on the counties with the highest COVID risk. To achieve this, the government’s been working with Civis Analytics , the data science company founded by Dan Wagner , who was previously chief analytics officer for Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
OurCrowd
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Urban Outfitters has expanded its partnership with CB4, an artificial intelligence (AI) software company, by rolling its software out to all 200 North American stores after a successful pilot. Read more here. The post [CB4 in Fashion United] Urban Outfitters expands partnership with AI company CB4 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Any upgrade options for E-2 visa holders interested in changing jobs?
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