Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. Should entrepreneurs be worried about the new COVID strains originating in the UK, South Africa and recently identified in the US and their implications on business? The media , medical experts , and government officials have focused on doubts about vaccine effectiveness. While some legitimate concerns exist that our vaccines might be 10–20 percenmt less effective against the new strains, this small difference shouldn’t make

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

On February 1st, the AppHarvest team?—?led by Founder & CEO Jonathan Webb ?—?rang the opening bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange, signifying the start of their new chapter in life as a public traded company after successfully completing a merger with Novus Capital Corporation. In that moment, it became the ~20th publicly traded company in Kentucky, the third in its corporate-office HQ of Lexington, and the first in our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund portfolio.

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Source Link

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Each quarter, we are proud to bring together our affiliates for conversations around industry trends or challenges; we share best practices and insights gained from the previous quarter and celebrate in each other's successes. Our affiliates gathered virtually in December for our last Quarterly Conversation of the year, and to celebrate entrepreneurship community building.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it’s planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year. Parts of this story might sound familiar to readers familiar with Good Eggs — when the startup raised its most recent, $50 million funding round in 2018, CEO Bentley Hall also mentioned plans for geographic expansion.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And what his approach can teach you about how to deal with “The Next Big Thing” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

New Roots. Access to capital and network is the most critical barrier to entrepreneurship for underserved communities. In April 2019, Impact Hub partnered with GoDaddy , an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, to create the New Roots program. The New Roots brand represents a startup program for entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities that started in London (Impact Hub King’s Cross) in 2019 and has now scaled to Munich.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Less than a year after we put out an initial temperature check survey , it’s clear that specialist investors are even more bullish on edtech. Bears are hard to find right now: the sector, once undercapitalized, has brought in $10 billion in venture capital funding globally in 2020. As investors told us last week , the biggest consumer opportunity in 2021 and beyond is lifelong learning (and portfolio companies have the profits to prove it).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Here’s what no one tells you about entrepreneurship Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Embedded finance — the idea of offering financial products where customers are already congregating via white label solutions and APIs – isn’t an entirely new concept. In fact, in one form or another, such as point of sale credit, the concept has existed for years and long before Silicon Valley venture capital firm and media company (ha!

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Feedough

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Businesses tend to have several sources of revenue. Take Apple Inc. , for example; the company generates its revenue from iPhones, iPads, MacBooks and other devices while also offering services like Apple TV+ and Apple Music. These sources of revenue are revenue streams of Apple. Businesses prefer to have more than one revenue stream as depending on just one revenue source may prove risky.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Beam has raised a $9.5 million Series A round. The company is working on a new web browser that completely rethinks the way you start a web session and browse the web. The startup is founded by Dom Leca and Sébastien Métrot. Dom Leca previously worked on Sparrow, an email app with an opinionated design. Pace Capital is leading today’s funding round.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

On pay-to-publish schemes and the limitations of thought leadership Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Services like video streaming, gaming, media-intensive advertising and marketing technology are putting more strain on bandwidth and backend latency than ever before due to the surge of online traffic in the last year. But for most organizations in today’s usage-based cloud world, that can represent a huge cost in compute power — or a major investment in a company’s own latency technology — to try to address that.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

How to get help, support, and favors without starting a negotiation Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding. In the latest development, New York video startup TouchCast — which has developed a platform aimed at companies to produce lifelike, virtual conferences and other events without much technica

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The Seraf Compass

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In the fall of 1998, Joe Mandato led an MBA class through a case study. The case was on a medical device company Joe grew to a successful exit using a novel go-to-market strategy. The lecture was in Professor Thomas Hellman’s Entrepreneurial Management class at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), located on the east side of Stanford’s beautiful, palm studded campus.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Scratchpad is an early stage startup that wants to make it easier for sales people to get information into Salesforce by placing a notation layer on top of it. Today, it announced a $13 million Series A led by Craft Ventures with participation from Accel. The company has now raised a total of $16.6 million including the $3.6 million seed round we covered in October.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

After almost a year of being on Zoom all day, I am sick and tired of looking at myself on the screen. But I don’t love going off video and then everyone seeing a black box with a profile picture of me. So I learned a new Zoom trick in a board meeting last week. If you check the box in the Zoom video settings called “hide non-video participants”, then you can turn your video off and nobody will see your profile hanging out there with video off.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The venture capital market has skewed later and larger in recent quarters, something you might have felt in the rapid recent pace of new unicorn formation. December was a hot month for new unicorns, for example. So was January. February likely will be more of the same. Powering those unicorns births are huge rounds led by large funds. In 2020, for example, there were at least 97 global fintech rounds worth $100 million or more.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

NEW YORK, Feb. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bizzabo, a leading Event Success Platform, today announced it has joined the Adobe Exchange Partner Program. This collaboration brings together the unique positioning of both technologies and further strengthens Bizzabo’s mission of enabling B2B marketers to manage, measure and grow professional events across the globe in any format — virtual, in-person or hybrid.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Many founders only know their own experience fundraising and don’t hear much about what other founders went through. On Extra Crunch Live today, we’re going to remedy that. Grafana Labs has raised upward of $75 million since it launched in 2014. Lightspeed Venture Partners, and partner Gaurav Gupta to be specific, led both the startup’s Series A and Series B rounds.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Friend, writer, teacher, podcaster and history buff are just a few words to describe today’s guest. On this episode of “Everything Borrowed,” Jason Hundey joins host Andrew Blake to discuss the evolution and history of rock and music as a whole. Hundey has taught a university-designed Music History course for 10 years, been one of the hosts of Requiem Metal Podcast for 13 years and has researched and compiled a 4,500 plus song History of Heavy Metal Countdown that sequentially

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Making and keeping the web accessible is a full-time job, and like any other development role, accessibility tools need to evolve to keep up with the times. Evinced is a startup that promises both richer and faster checks of websites in production or in progress, and it just raised $17M to take its tools to the next level. Because accessibility problems can happy in so many ways, it often takes a lot of manual code review to catch the errors.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Meet Cajoo , a new French startup that has raised a $7.3 million (€6 million) funding round. The company wants to make it easier to order groceries from your phone and receive them 15 minutes later. It is launching in Paris today. “I left Bolt around mid-August and I’m launching a company with two co-founders focused on 15-minute deliveries,” co-founder and CEO Henri Capoul told me.

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