Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Rebranding and expanding your target audience with a social business expert from Brazil. By Shannon Courtney. With the challenges presented to entrepreneurs and their businesses during the pandemic, it is crucial, now more than ever, to utilize this time as a moment of professional growth and self-reflection on the branding and marketing efforts of businesses.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As the diligence process proceeds towards conclusion, thoughts naturally turn to the terms of the deal. Regardless of whether there is an existing term sheet to review, or a need to negotiate and establish a set of terms for the deal, thought needs to be given to the terms of the deal. Just like the various risks reviewed in diligence, deal terms can have a huge impact on the outcome of an investment.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Finance teams worldwide emerged as strategic leaders for startups with the onset of the pandemic by recognizing ways to efficiently manage remote teams, their finances, company operations and associated cost-cutting mechanisms. Now more than ever, as the remote work landscape continues to change , startup leaders need to reevaluate whether they’ve enabled their finance teams enough to scale the excellent work. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to the digital world, many professional service firms are still working to get caught up — especially the smaller players. Today, B12 , a startup that is focused on helping those smaller professional service organizations such as law and accounting firms or mortgage brokerages more easily accept online payments and build a digital presence in general, announced it has raised $15.7 million in funding led by Tola Capital. .

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 21, 2021

YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches. We now have enough data to identify some interesting trends among our co-founder profiles and matches.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every cloud has a silver lining. With a bit of creativity, you can transform a crisis into an opportunity. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The round included Tresmonos Capital, Novus Paradigm Capital and XA Network, along with angel investors like Carousell chief executive officer Quek Siu Rui, Glints co-found

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It’s almost impossible to run a business these days without the help of technology. Not only do various software programs make it easier for small businesses to streamline their daily operations, but they also make it easier for customers to find and interact with them. Today’s customers expect a certain level of digital access to their favorite businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Mahendra Ramsinghani. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane Investments , investing in cloud infrastructure and security startups. When he is not investing, he is busy writing blogs and books. His third book “The Resilient Founder” will be released in 2022. More posts by this contributor. Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The 4th role of “player”creates successful side hustles. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Small and medium-sized exporters in India struggle to communicate their designs with buyers. They can’t list those designs publicly on their website or sell through popular business-to-business platforms such as Alibaba and IndiaMart, as doing so would risk giving away the proprietary property to rivals. So they have traditionally showcased their work to potential buyers — who in this equation, depending on the category, could be anyone from Zara to Armani — in PDF and PowerPoint pre

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Israeli biotech startup CytoReason announced Wednesday that it is collaborating with German multinational science and technology company, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, to profile one of its leading immuno-oncology drugs. Read more here. The post [CytoReason in No Camels] cytoreason teams up with merck kgaa on cancer drug development appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

If I went to Stanford and worked with some YC-backed startups, chances are that I’ll find it relatively easy to find one or two co-founders, get millions in funding and build a billion-dollar company. However, as someone who grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and studied at the University of Nigeria, those chances are much slimmer, and it’ll be hard to find the same resources to build a successful company.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 21, 2021

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Plenty, the flavor-first vertical farming company with a mission to improve the lives of people, plants, and the planet, today announced company VP of farm operations, Megan Gillespie, has been honored in the San Francisco Business Times 2021 ‘ Women of Influence’ List. The award recognizes women who demonstrate a strong record of innovation and leadership, achieved outstanding performance in business and who are changemakers across the Bay

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Three months after announcing a $4 million seed round , Venezuelan delivery super app Yummy is back with an $18 million Series A round that will accelerate the company’s proposed expansion throughout Latin America. Anthos Capital led the latest round, with additional participation from JAM Fund, whose founder Justin Mateen was an investor in the seed round.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On this episode of TechBytes, a new podcast series by StartupNation and Dell Technologies, Dell expert Allen Clingerman explains why it’s important for businesses to move from a peer-to-peer network to a more centralized server. That’s where Dell’s Hybrid Cloud environments come in. After you listen to the podcast, be sure to sign up for a StartupNation/Dell Technologies FREE LIVE webinar at 2 p.m.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

360Learning has raised a $200 million funding round from Sumeru, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Silver Lake Waterman. And this time, the name of the startup describes quite well what it does. 360Learning lets you learn from your peers with an easy-to-use platform that lets you create and share courses with your peers. Existing investors Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, XAnge and Educapital are also participating in today’s funding round.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Literally meaning ‘to convert’, evangelism in marketing means the conversion. Read more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Station F , the big startup campus located in Paris, is launching an online component called Launch by Station F. With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Launched in 2017, Station F is a massive building that used to be a rail freight depot. It has become a flagship entity for the tech community in France with hundreds of startups working from there.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’ve debated this one forever it seems. Should be overwhelm prospective employees with stock options and perks? Or concentrate our available resources on just plain money as an attraction? Well, here are rules to make money work for you in recruiting AND to better control its use after you’ve hired your candidate(s). Some obvious qualifiers. Salaries or hourly wages must be within reasonable limits set by the industry and matched by the competition, both regionally and for the same job clas

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Via Separations is a startup from a couple of MIT material science engineers who figured out a way to reduce the amount of energy required in a manufacturing process, resulting in lower carbon creation, lower energy usage and lower costs. Today, the company announced a $38 million Series B. The round was led by NGP ETP, a firm that focuses on investments that lower carbon emissions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How to thrive as a digital marketer by applying Zen principles. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Socratic , an early-stage startup that wants to bring data to bear on a developer-focused task management system, announced a $3 million seed investment today from Unusual Ventures, Overtime.vc and a couple of industry angels. The company is also opening up public beta of the software starting today. It’s worth noting that Socratic received the investment in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Parking can often feel almost laughably old-fashioned, with some lots still hiring an attendant to collect fees and check for valid tickets. Even when parking lot owners try to modernize — using an app, for example, or a credit card machine to take payment — they must deal with a whole array of providers to manage hardware, payment processing and marketing, all separately.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Founded by entrepreneur Parker Conrad in 2013, the HR company Zenefits was quickly anointed one of the fast-growing companies in Silicon Valley, with a valuation that soared to $4.5 billion within three years. Then it began to fall apart. The company was discovered to face compliance issues. Conrad was forced to resign. And Zenefits’s valuation was slashed in half, with more than 60% of the company’s employees laid off over numerous rounds afterward.

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