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ShipBlu bags $2.4M for its e-commerce and fulfilment service in Egypt

TechCrunch

African e-commerce fulfilment startups backed by Y Combinator seem to be piquing investors’ interest this year for their niche e-commerce play. Summer batch graduate ShipBlu is the latest on that list and confirmed to TechCrunch that it has raised $2.4 million in seed funding. The company, founded by Ali Nasser , Ahmed ElKawass , Abdelrahman Hosny in 2020, operates a delivery and fulfilment model.

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How Small and Medium-sized Businesses Can Transition Into a Hybrid Workforce with Ease

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Eric Yu, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President and General Manager. Remote work is becoming a prevalent norm for the future. In fact, according to a recent Lenovo study , 60 percent of small to medium-sized business (SMB) employees prefer working from home some of the time. The study also says, 70 percent of employees think work flexibility makes them more satisfied with their job.

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It’s hard work building a technology business from ground up

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. As Dirk Spiers knows, it’s really hard work building a technology business from the ground up. From 50,000 feet and the hindsight of 20/20, building a startup can look smooth with just a few blips. But down on the ground, the reality is always something else. Spiers New Technologies (SNT) — an exemplary success story — has been in the news these last few weeks as the firm, which literally created an industry, was acquired by Cox Enterprises, a billion dollar privately help glob

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Mashable] Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes! Virgin Hyperloop accelerates plans to launch high-speed cargo delivery

OurCrowd

The super quick service will now be introduced to the UAE in five years instead of the next decade. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Mashable] Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 12 minutes! Virgin Hyperloop accelerates plans to launch high-speed cargo delivery appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Harnessing Your Emotional Intelligence as a Female Entrepreneur

StartupNation

Women in the workforce hear it all the time: “You’re so emotional.” It’s a criticism levied at women (usually from men who are afraid to express their own feelings). The subtext is: “You’re too emotional to lead, to make levelheaded decisions, to be a grown-up.”. It’s infantilizing, damaging and, worst of all, aims at our core strength. Because our ability to feel, sense and manage our emotions is actually our superpower. .