Feedough
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Usually, during the initial stages of the startup, the money comes from the pockets of founders and cofounders. But soon, as the startup grows, this money inflow isn’t able to keep up with the startup’s growth. It is when the founders need to make a tough decision of whether to raise money by diluting ownership ( equity financing ) or by taking loans (debt financing).
Entrepreneurs' Organization
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Contributed by Alexis Maness, contributing editor at 365businesstips.com. Nearly 100,000 businesses have permanently closed due to COVID-19. And with no end in sight for returning to business as usual, that number can be intimidating to anyone who’s considering opening their own business or entrepreneurs hoping to survive the next year.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
I was talking to a group of education entrepreneurs (on Zoom naturally) last week and was advocating for the “direct to learner” approach that defines our eduction investing strategy at USV. For the most part, we do not like to back companies that sell learning tools to educational institutions. We like to back companies that use software to go directly to learners, wherever they may be.
Venture Well
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Christine E. King developed a virtual reality immersion course that helps engineering students create solutions to real-world healthcare challenges. The post sparking innovative student-led solutions to healthcare challenges: a Q&A with Christine E. King of University of California, Irvine appeared first on VentureWell.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
New research looking into how U.K. VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings.
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. The shift has urged venture capitalists to pour money into the sector accordingly, ushering a number of startups into the unicorn club. But maturation doesn’t just mean bigger checks and high-flying unicorns — it also brings exits.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Most entrepreneurs are familiar with Small Business Saturday. The holiday, which falls on the Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, celebrates shopping locally at small businesses throughout neighborhoods and communities. It gives small businesses the chance to boost their holiday sales and allows customers to learn more about local businesses and embrace the #ShopSmall mentality.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Aeva, a Mountain View, California-based lidar company started by two former Apple engineers and backed by Porsche SE, is merging with special purpose acquisition company InterPrivate Acquisition Corp., with a post-deal market valuation of $2.1 billion. The deal with InterPrivate, which is led by private equity investor Ahmed Fattouh, is expected to close by early 2021.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Why is Google My Business (GMB) important for startups and small businesses? In today’s COVID-19 world, getting visibility online as a small business is more important than ever. Though there are a wide variety of SEO tools out there that can help you, I’ve found that setting up a Google My Business (GMB) is one of the best free ways of growing your online presence.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. The New York City startup started by measuring traditional TV viewing, using webcams to determine whether viewers were actually paying attention to the ads. More recently, it’s launched a solution focused on connected TVs, where co-founder and CEO Yan Liu said there’s no standard measurement. “What I
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
There’s a trick to every trade, and all the best traders seem to know the same “trick” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The last few quarters did not play out as as expected for venture capitalists or entrepreneurs; instead of a pandemic-fueled recession that cauterized the flow of private investment into startups, the economic shifts brought on by COVID-19 have given many companies a tailwind. Venture capitalists ramped up their spend in Q2 and Q3 , pushing private investment totals higher as software demand shot up as work went remote, e-commerce boomed and schools shuttered.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Why you don’t actually need a thousand fans to hit six figures Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans , subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free financial content. “It can be the wild wild west out there for small business owners,” Hecht said in a statement.
Smart Hustle Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
5G is still a very burgeoning technology for most of us. However, there's a few small businesses, thanks to Verizon, who are dipping their toe in the water of 5G success! Verizon and TechUnited are teaming up with small businesses to find ways that 5G technology can help solve some of their operational pain points brought on by the pandemic. Some of the participants include: Elysian Café: As the oldest continually operated bar/restaurant in Hoboken, the restaurant offers a French Bistro style m
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and don’t forget to check out last Friday’s episode that was honestly very good fun.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
There’s a new FinTech startup in the real estate industry, and it’s just secured $40 million in seed funding. Tomo , founded by former Zillow executives, Carrie Armstrong and Greg Schwartz, aims to change the way that Americans buy homes. “Mortgage is a massive distributed, important market, and we’re going to delete it. We plan to address the messy and cumbersome process of buying a home all the way from when an offer is made and submitted to the process of moving into the ne
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
It was barely a month ago we began hearing rumors that Twilio was interested in acquiring Segment. The $3.2 billion deal was officially announced three weeks ago , and this morning the communications API company announced that the deal had closed, astonishingly fast for an acquisition of this size. While we can’t know for sure, the speed with which the deal closed could suggest that it was in the works longer than we had known, and when we began hearing rumors of the acquisition, it could
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Armory, the enterprise software company commercializing Spinnaker, the open source continuous delivery platform from Netflix and Google, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Competency status. Read more here. The post [Armory in EIN Presswire] Armory Achieves AWS DevOps Competency Status appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Stensul , a startup aiming to streamline the process of building marketing emails, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. When the company raised its $7 million Series A two years ago, founder and CEO Noah Dinkin told me about how it spun out of his previous startup, FanBridge. And while there are many products focused on email delivery, he said Stensul is focused on the email creation process.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
DailyPay, the recognized gold standard of the on-demand pay industry, has been named winner of the 2020 QSR Applied Technology Awards Crew-Facing Category. The award speaks to DailyPay’s unwavering commitment to providing first-class full service to 7 of the top 10 restaurant chains in the U.S including and more. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in 69 News] DailyPay, A Sought-After Benefit For Quick Service Restaurants, Wins 2020 QSR Applied Technology Award appeared first on OurCrowd B
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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
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
When it comes to using algorithms and other formulae to determine what kinds of services you might offer to specific customers and at what price, the insurance industry is one of the oldest in the book. But that legacy position masks the fact that some of its determinations might leave a lot to be desired, with customers who don’t fit typical profiles unable to get competitive rates.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Last month, a Silicon Valley start-up called Varo Money achieved something it had worked three years to accomplish: it started accepting federally insured customer deposits. Read more here. The post [Varo Money in Financial Times] Fintechs take on banks at their own game appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Indonesia’s logistics industry is very fragmented , with several large providers operating alongside thousands of smaller companies. This means shippers often have to work with a variety of carriers, driving up costs and making supply chains harder to manage. Logisly , a Jakarta-based startup that describes itself as a “B2B tech-enabled logistics platform,” announced today it has raised $6 million in Series A funding to help streamline logistics in Indonesia.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
10 percent of fruit worldwide rots on the trees. Tevel Aeorobotics combines aeronautics, robotics and artificial intelligence to pick it. Read more here. The post [Tevel in Times Of Israel] Fresh fruit picked from the tree by Israeli robots appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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