StartupNation

DECEMBER 18, 2020

You could be building the greatest company in the world, but if no one knows you exist, your efforts won’t be worth much. For this reason, good old-fashioned public relations is a key component in many startup success stories. However, COVID-19 has impacted nearly every industry, including public relations. The constant COVID-19 news cycle has left significantly less room in the news media for coverage of non-pandemic subjects.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The rest of the world may be slowing down as we prepare for Christmas and the new year, but we are not taking our foot off the gas. Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8 billion. “Selling

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Entrepreneurship doesn’t happen overnight — but here’s how you can strategically begin Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While there’s been plenty of recent debate around the gig economy, Jarah Euston argued that it’s time to rethink a bigger part of the workforce — hourly workers. Euston, who was previously an executive at mobile advertising startup Flurry and a co-founder at data operations startup Nexla , told me that although 80 million Americans are paid on an hourly basis , the current system doesn’t work particular well for either employers or workers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Building and maintaining a worthwhile business has always been a monumental task. The march of technology has given entrepreneurs many opportunities to prove themselves and make a profit, but also made it an ultra-competitive endeavor that required a lot of dedication and commitment. The advent of COVID-19 upped the difficulty of the game by an order of magnitude, introducing heretofore unimagined challenges.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 18, 2020

There are some careers where you simply can’t get rich. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

V7 Labs , the makers of a computer vision platform that helps AI teams “automate” and future-proof their training data workflows as advances in AI continue, has picked up $3 million in funding. Leading the seed round is Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Partech, Nathan Benaich’s Air Street Capital and Miele Venture. Founded in 2018 by Singularity University alumnus Alberto Rizzoli and former R&D lead at RSI, Simon Edwardsson (the same team behind “seeingR

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s no surprise that 2020 was a monster year for mobile phone engagement, driven largely by the COVID crisis. Mobile usage increased 25% this year over 2019, according to App Annie’s 2020 End of Year Mobile Report. While all app categories in the report saw respective lifts in time users spent on them, here are the biggest gainers: Social media platforms up 20%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. But the complications around getting airline credits and refunds have since turned into a customer service crisis for the airfare prediction and ticket booking startup, which had been valued at $750 million back in 2018 before reaching unicorn status thanks to an undisclosed round it closed amid COVID lockdowns this year.

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Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 18, 2020

John Guy, Manager, Emerging Companies Section Policy at Biotechnology Innovation Organization Five years ago today, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act was signed into law. This important piece of legislation included several provisions helpful to start ups like small biotechs, including permanently extending both the R&D Credit and the Small Business Stock Gains Exclusion (Tax Code Section 1202), providing both investors and the companies they invest in security without worry

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their friend, the founders of Safesight were inspired to launch the platform to digitize safety programs for construction. The data from that gave birth to a new insurtech startup this year, Foresight , which covers workers’ compensation. The startup has now released, for the first time, news that it raised a $15 million funding round back in May this year, with participation from Blackhorn Ventures and Transverse Insurance Group

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Do you have insights about ecosystem building that you’d like to share and contribute with other ecosystem builders? Want to participate in a campaign to collect and publish those insights from the field? I’m looking for experienced ecosystem builders to take part in a campaign to collect and publish your insights and experience. Participants will respond to a monthly email where you’re asked to answer one question related ecosystem building.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Creditas , the Brazilian lending business, has raised $255 million in new financing as financial services startups across Latin America continue to attract massive amounts of cash. The company’s credit portfolio has crossed 1 billion reals ($196.66 million) and the new round will value the company at $1.75 billion thanks to $570 million raised in outside financing over five rounds.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As we get to that time of the year when we look back and take measure of 2020, it will be one for the ages, and not in a good way. I saw this photo book project on Kickstarter today and thought “it would be good to have this book to remember the early spring in NYC.” So I backed it. Photos like this really take your breath away, particularly if you’ve been a NYer for a long time, like we have.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Space Force’s Lt. Gen. John Thompson spoke at TC Sessions: Space earlier this week. Throughout the wide-ranging interview, General Thompson explained the various ways and means for how private companies like startups should interact with Space Force. Gen. Thompson knows what he’s talking about. As the commander of the Space and Missiles Systems Center, he oversees research, design, development and acquisition of satellites and their associated command and control systems for the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2020

An eight-minute film to celebrate all women? If it doesn’t seem possible, you haven’t watched “She’s that Woman.” The film was created by two men who felt personally compelled to express respect and admiration for the women in their lives and around the world. Eitan Chitayat and Dana Satterwhite are two multidisciplinary creatives who focus on storytelling and communication.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Today Bumble, a popular dating-focused startup, was reported by Bloomberg to have filed IPO documents, albeit privately. The news that Bumble is pursuing an IPO is not a surprise. TechCrunch covered the story in September , noting the huge revenues that its rival Tinder has managed to accrete, possibly indicative of a sufficiently large market to support two public dating players.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The holiday season is around the corner, finally! You’re all set to do everything lying on your Christmas bucket list this holiday season. And you have already made a plan for Christmas gifts. Have you decided how you’re going to wish your dear ones? Well, my friend, why don’t you create a video holiday greeting to send this year? Video greeting messages are more personal, and you can send them from anywhere.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Tap Network is providing a new approach to loyalty rewards programs that it describes as “rewards as a service.” You may recognize the Tap Network name, as well as its co-founder and CEO Lin Dai, from Hooch, a startup that offered a drink-a-day subscription service before shifting focus to a broader rewards program. Dai told me he “learned a lot from the Hooch experience” but ultimately “decided that Tap is a much bigger opportunity, we’re really looking at re

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Here’s how they did it Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I was made aware of Surrogate.tv’s work earlier this year when the site released a Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit tournament. Nintendo’s IRL take on its popular racing title was a great showcase for the technology — though, admittedly, there was enough lag in the remote operation to make control something of an issue. Of course, Mario Kart is just one of the experiences the platform offers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We’ve seen a big wave of proptech startups emerge to reimagine how houses and bought and sold, with some tapping into the opportunity with distressed property , and others exploring the “ iBuyer ” model where houses are bought, fixed up and resold by a single startup to homeowners who don’t want to invest in a fixer-upper. But the vast majority of homes are still sold the traditional way, by way of a real estate agent working via a broker.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Roger Hurwitz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Roger Hurwitz is a founding partner at Volition Capital. He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. More posts by this contributor. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? The don’ts of debt for fast-growing startups. The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition

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