HPA
MARCH 16, 2023
Congrats to HPA Member Hardik Bhatt for being appointed as CEO at SDI Presence ! Hardik joined SDI in June 2021 as the firm’s President and Chief Growth Officer. In this role, Hardik will leverage his key partnerships with global corporate leaders, public sector leaders, startup leaders, investors, and academia to provide strategic direction to help modernize SDI clients.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Writer’s note: We’re breaking from our usual formatting this week because there was a once-in-a-generation collapse of one of the biggest banks in the country. Today’s space has been dedicated to our coverage on the matter, but we will be back to broader programming next week.
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Founder Bounty
MARCH 16, 2023
So your using Canva and your looking for alternatives to creator tools while you are building your business. We have put a few together you guys below. Adobe Creative Cloud : This is a suite of software products that includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and more. While it's more expensive than Canva, it offers more robust design capabilities.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
A year or two before launching Actuator, someone on staff floated the idea of my writing a weekly robotics newsletter. I balked at the suggestion. Surely, I suggested, we would be struggling to fill the pages by week two. It’s not so much that I doubted whether there was enough robotics content to keep the engine running; it was more a question of whether there would be enough relevant robotics content.
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Berkonomics
MARCH 16, 2023
Why should we ask this question? As an early-stage investor, the first test for me is whether “my” entrepreneur is flexible in both the plan and execution of their vision (since from experience almost everything about a business plan changes over time), and whether that person, no matter what age or experience, is coachable. Doctoral theses have been written on this subject.
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AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 16, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Asia’s largest digital stationery service for tablet users, WeBudding , has announced a content partnership agreement with GoodNotes 5, the popular digital paper app used by millions worldwide. Under the partnership, WeBudding will offer digital note templates, planners, sticker images, and more for use within the GoodNotes 5 app.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. In the wake of the bank’s collapse, founders in Africa have been forced to review their banking options to cushion their startups from such eventualities.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 16, 2023
The contractor payroll market is massive. Roughly one-third of US workers have performed freelance work in the last year, and $1.4 trillion is paid out to contract workers annually. In many ways, contractors are the backbone of the U.S. economy. … The post Investing in Wingspan appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent weeks despite the market slump, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart. Walmart, which owns the majority of PhonePe, has invested $200 million into the startup.
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OurCrowd
MARCH 16, 2023
WALTHAM, MA and PETAH TIKVAH, ISRAEL / ACCESSWIRE / March 16, 2023 / Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS) (“Ondas” or the “Company”), a leading provider of private industrial wireless networks and commercial drone and automated data solutions, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Airobotics, Ltd. (“Airobotics”) is collaborating with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. on leveraging Airobotics’ Optimus Drone Infrastructure and Rafael’s new
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! An agreement among a group of the nation’s largest banks to deposit some $30 billion with First Republic Bank could save its bacon, Christine reports, and over on TC+, Ram breaks down everything you need to get caught up on the SVB crisis.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 16, 2023
I’m watching public company earnings to identify early trends in the software market to inform startups’ plans for 2023. Earlier, Mongo DB announced earnings. I’m adding Mongo to the list of tracked companies for this series. The economic slowdown which started one year ago has reduced growth rates by 31% across this group from 46% annually to 31% annually.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
With inflation sparking an increase in the cost of repairs, labor and claims, fees for insurance are similarly spiking across the board. Car insurance premiums rose 13.7% nationally over the past year, according to a study from Bankrate.com. Home insurance, meanwhile, climbed 12.1% year-on-year, Policygenius found. But Jonathan Matus argues that it doesn’t have to be that way.
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StartupNation
MARCH 16, 2023
One of the most important things you can do as a small business owner is to hire and… The post 5 Easy Ways to Attract New Employees and Increase Retention Rate appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Cloud costs remain a top concern for organizations. According to a recent Anodot survey , 50% of businesses are struggling to control them, in part because they lack visibility into their cloud usage. Unsurprisingly, reducing those costs has become a top priority. A report from Wanclouds finds that 81% of IT leaders have been directed by their C-suite to reduce or take on no additional cloud spending.
Y Combinator
MARCH 16, 2023
We're hosting a small reception at our office in San Francisco, on April 11th at 5pm PT , for people who are interested in the growing trend of Open Source Software startups. We've funded over 75 OSS companies to date and we’re especially excited about them. If you’re interested in maybe starting an open source company someday, this is a good opportunity to get to know some of the top founders in this area and hear the latest best practices.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Parker , a startup offering a corporate credit card for e-commerce businesses, emerged from stealth Thursday with $157 million in equity and debt funding, much of which closed in 2022. The company touts itself as “the first charge card for e-commerce” with raised limits that are on average 10 to 20 times higher than traditional business credit cards, like CapitalOne, American Express and Brex.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 16, 2023
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TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Dr. James Coates Contributor Share on Twitter Dr. James Coates is the Health and Human Performance principal at Decisive Point , a venture capital and advisory firm that invests in and supports startups with emerging defense technologies. More posts by this contributor 3 tips for biotech startups seeking non-dilutive capital to weather the downturn Founders in the biotech industry are no strangers to challenges.
OkDork
MARCH 16, 2023
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify In today’s episode, I talk to 19-year-old business student and entrepreneur, Leif Rasmussen ! I met Leif and his dad randomly because I was staring at his car…and they thought it was weird, turns out the dad knew AppSumo and we’ve been friends since. Then Leif hit me up recently to ask life and business questions… And it worked out perfectly because y’all ask me all the time: “Noah—how do I start a business as a teenager?!
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
On Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced that it had taken over Silicon Valley Bank , and as we rushed to plan coverage, one of my colleagues succinctly described the situation: “This is historic s**t.” A week later, we can all agree they were right. But a lot has happened, and unless it’s your job to edit the news, it’s possible you missed a slice of the saga, if not the entire story.
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OurCrowd
MARCH 16, 2023
New partnership extends data.world’s integration to dbt Cloud to surface metadata about data assets and transformations Read more here. The post [data.world in GlobeNewswire] data.world partners with dbt Labs to deliver greater visibility and discoverability of data transformations appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
In the wake of the pandemic, more and more companies are relying on independent contractors to sustain and grow their businesses — and more people are turning to freelancing. According to a Fiverr poll, 45% of businesses are using more freelancers than before the pandemic. And Fiverr rival Upwork found that 39% of the U.S. workforce, or 60 million Americans, performed freelance work in the past year — a three-percentage-point increase from the year prior.
OurCrowd
MARCH 16, 2023
NASA on Wednesday demonstrated a prototype of new spacesuits developed by Axiom Space. The suits are designed for astronauts on the 2025 Artemis III mission, which NASA said would mark humanity’s first return to the moon in more than five decades. Read more here. The post [Axiom Space in The Wall Street Journal] Watch: NASA unveils spacesuits for astronauts on next moon mission appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 billion, has cut 15% of staff, or 42 people – its first round of layoffs in 17 years, TechCrunch has learned from numerous sources. A spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, saying that “the layoffs are happening as a part of a strategic effort to set Course Hero business line up for future growth.” The company says it does not anticipate future layoffs. “Part of this transition support includes providing sever
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