Fri.Jan 14, 2022

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7 EO members explore the impact of core values

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Kym is fascinated by entrepreneurs and their journeys, so he asked EO members from various chapters to share their experiences. Read his earlier posts on what EO members wish non-entrepreneurs knew about entrepreneurs and how they define success.

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Fresh round of $355M lifts online checkout company Bolt into decacorn territory

TechCrunch

Checkout technology company Bolt continues to make quick work of attracting new capital. The company announced Friday $355 million in Series E financing to give Bolt an $11 billion valuation, according to sources close to the company. Bolt’s one-click checkout product aims to give businesses the same technology Amazon has been known for since 1997, and at the same time, incorporates payments and fraud services meant to ensure transactions are real and payments can be accepted.

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The 10 Tools That Turn My ADHD Into an Entrepreneurial Superpower

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How I beat back the demons of distraction Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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LG and the hunt for the next-gen corporate incubator

TechCrunch

Whatever you do, don’t refer to LG’s incubator program LG Nova as a corporate venture capital (CVC) outfit. LG Nova is the pointiest tip of the spear for LG, the company’s experimental playground to work with startups to explore spaces where the corporation has spotted areas ripe for future growth. Backed by a relatively large — and rapidly growing — team and a healthy budget, LG Nova is rolling up its proverbial sleeves and exploring versions of the future.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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A Fight With My Business Partner Exposed Her Major Flaw?—?And It Has Nothing to Do With Credentials

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There’s one type of partner no entrepreneur has time for and another you desperately need. Which one are you? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Virtual Team: Meaning, Elements, Types & Examples

Feedough

The word virtual means ‘not physically existing,’ and team means. Read more.

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Singapore-based Sesto Robotics targets international expansion with $5.7M raise

TechCrunch

Singapore-based industrial robotics firm Sesto this week announced a $5.7 million raise, featuring TRIVE, WTI GmbH and SEEDS Capital (Enterprise Singapore’s VC wing). The round follows a similarly sized $4 million Series A, back in 2018. Sesto has had a busy few years since that round — as have many in the industrial robotics category, as more companies have looked toward automation during the pandemic.

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Enjoy the Best of Uber for Your Business Without Hurting Your Bottom Line

StartupNation

Simplify business travel for your employees, your clients, and yourself. With just a tap, your team can request a ride in over 70 countries around the world. We make it easy to set permissions and track spending. Ordering meals for delivery on Uber Eats? Create a meal program and let your employees and clients get local favorites delivered right to their doorstep.

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Daily Crunch: One-click checkout company Bolt ushered into decacorn territory on $355M Series E

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 14, 2022! I suppose that this has been the week of Wordle, in that everyone and their dog are tweeting their scores and results. A small bit of camaraderie for those of you out there who are not good at the game: I am also trash.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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WJR Business Beat: America’s Best Companies To Work For in 2022 (Episode 346)

StartupNation

On today’s episode of the Business Beat, Jeff suggests using Glassdoor’s list of the Best Places to Work in 2022 as inspiration as you go about hiring or looking for work during the Great Resignation. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to hear who topped the list: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Lawtrades aims to change how your company utilizes legal resources

TechCrunch

Similar to other industries embracing contract work, Lawtrades is giving legal professionals a way to become independent and run their own virtual law practices. Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the company in 2016 with an initial focus on startups and small businesses, trying to find product-market fit (as one does), but finding that legal usage among companies of that size was often project-based, infrequent and short-term if the company folds.

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[Remilk in FoodNavigator] ‘Real dairy, no cows’: Remilk scales up animal-free dairy production

OurCrowd

Fresh off of closing a $120m Series B funding round, Remilk is scaling the production and availability of its dairy-identical milk protein (minus the cows) while engaging with high-profile CPG brands looking to develop alternatives to conventional dairy products. Read more here. The post [Remilk in FoodNavigator] ‘Real dairy, no cows’: Remilk scales up animal-free dairy production appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Allocating equity, unicorn traffic jam, blockchain gaming survey

TechCrunch

Early-stage startup founders have just a few ways to recruit and retain employees: Offer a competitive salary. Create a role that harnesses their interests/talent. Give them a stake in the company. In most cases, equity will not leave employees with substantial wealth. But even the most embittered worker will think twice about walking away from a job before they’re fully vested.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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LG reveals the first shortlisted startups for its LG Nova incubator

TechCrunch

Korean technology giant LG makes everything from televisions ( they announced some new ones at CES ), washing machines and fridges, to, well, it’ll probably take less time to list the things they don’t get involved in. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company has a robust interest in innovation, then, and LG Nova is its relatively new North American Innovation Center.

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The friends with benefits of the financial world

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday episode, a run-down of key news headlines, startup funding rounds and whatever else is popping in the worlds of startups and tech. Happily this week, we did not talk about NFTs, and I don’t think that we even said “token” a single time.

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NFT volume, DAOs and the curious case of LooksRare

TechCrunch

Like you, I check NFT marketplace volume a few times each day to keep tabs on the burgeoning market for buying and selling digital signatures on various blockchains that point to images and the like. We’re very cool. Mostly, the data is steady. OpenSea volumes tend to lead the space , with other, smaller NFT exchanges and some crypto games filling in the list.

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Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds

TechCrunch

Brazilian instant payment system Pix ended 2021 having powered more than 8 billion transactions, according to statistics from the country’s Central Bank. This is quite an impressive figure for an offering only launched in November 2020 and goes to show how ubiquitous Pix has become in the country. You could describe Pix as “a government-built version of Venmo,” as João Pedro Thompson, founder of fintech Z1, told TechCrunch.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa

TechCrunch

FinDev Canada has injected $13 million into Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund ( EEGF ), which invests in early and growth-stage energy startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the funding will go toward increasing access to clean energy for off-grid households and businesses in the region. The $120 million EEGF, which was founded in 2019 by the Shell Foundation — and co-funded by UKaid and the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank FMO, extends financing in the form of debt (catalytic or mez

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