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Zombie startups

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus can be a sign of a larger issue. This was one of the takeaways I had when chatting with Continuum CEO and co-founder Nolan Church about a recent spree of CFO resignations, including but not limited to OpenSea,

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Indonesian fintech startup Ayoconnect raises $13m more in Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian open finance platform Ayoconnect has raised an additional $13 million in its Series B funding round, bringing the total amount it raised to date to $43 million. The Series B extension financing round was anchored by SIG Venture Capital and backed by CE Innovation Capital and PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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The best side hustles for college students to earn extra income

Founder Bounty

Even while being a student there are plenty of ways and things you could to try to get yourself a passive income as a side hustle. Founderbounty has put together a few ideas. Whether your looking to pay off your student debt or try to get yourself money to eat, students have more time and are more flexible with it so get out there! Start a youtube channel Easier said than done and it takes time to build an audience - youtube could definitely get you some extra income.

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Thai proptech startup PropertyScout scores $5m Series A funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Thailand-based property technology ( proptech ) startup PropertyScout is expanding further in the country after raising $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Singapore-based venture investor Altara Ventures. In a statement, PropertyScout said the round was also backed by Partech, Hustle Fund, AngelCental, Asymmetry VC, among others, and brings its total funds raised to date to

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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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Are CFOs OK? (Answer: Yes, but CEOs? That’s complicated)

TechCrunch

There’s no one who knows a company’s inner workings like a chief financial officer. So, when three high-profile CFOs leave their jobs at richly valued, late-stage startups in quick succession, we notice it. This week, OpenSea CFO Brian Roberts left the web3 company less than a year after taking the job. Days later, Brex CFO Adam Swiecicki left the expense management company to join Rippling, another company that recently expanded into the expense management space.

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Antifragility as a Competitive Advantage in 2022

Tomasz Tunguz

“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.” A friend recommended rereading Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile given the macroeconomic backdrop, which I did this weekend. How does a software company become stronger throughout this volatility? One way is to ensure a healthy customer base.

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AC Ventures co-leads $5m funding in waste management tech Waste4Change

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesia-based waste management technology firm Waste4Change announced that it secured a $5 million Series A funding round, co-led by AC Ventures and PT Barito Mitra Investama. The round was joined by Basra Corporation, Paloma Capital, PT Delapan Satu Investa, Living Lab Ventures, SMDV, and Urban Gateway Fund.