Feedough
MARCH 1, 2021
When it comes to startups, there’s never one size fits all. While all disruptive high-growth businesses can be termed startups, it’s still a heterogeneous group with subtypes characterised by the industry served, market disrupted, funding raised, motive, and valuation. Hence, while we have only one word for startup, there are different versions of this entity: Based On The Market.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
What if we no longer needed cameras to make videos and can instead generate them through a few lines of coding? Advances in machine learning are turning the idea into a reality. We’ve seen how deepfakes swap faces in family photos and turn one’s selfies into famous video clips. Now entrepreneurs with AI research background are devising tools to let people generate highly realistic photos, voices and videos using algorithms.
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Continuations
MARCH 1, 2021
Over the weekend I tweeted out a summary of my book The World After Capital in 64 theses. Here they are in one place: The Industrial Age is 20+ years past its expiration date, following a long decline that started in the 1970s. Mainstream politicians have propped up the Industrial Age through incremental reforms that are simply pushing out the inevitable collapse.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Bain Capital Ventures’ Matt Harris said that if you had asked him a year ago what would happen to venture capital during a pandemic lockdown, he would have replied “it would have fallen off a cliff.” Before the world changed so fundamentally, VCs and founders alike believed they needed to meet in person to build trust before signing paperwork that would financially and emotionally bond them together for years and years.
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This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 1, 2021
About a year ago, I wrote a post on the hub and spoke data model. The idea is that in the future SaaS applications would be built on a single database, instead of each SaaS application writing to its own proprietary database. I was wrong about the catalyst for this hub-and-spoke model. I thought it would be cloud-prem and customers driving SaaS products to use a single database.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 1, 2021
Negotiating is risky — but so is not negotiating Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
As the next Y Combinator demo day approaches, more startups from the current Winter 2021 batch are showing up in our inboxes. One of the most interesting from the mix is BrioHR , which is building human resources (HR) software for Southeast Asia. The company fits into a theme I’ve noticed amongst startups, namely a focus on taking proven software genre approaches to specific parts of the world, localizing them and building in-region winners.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 1, 2021
Meet the Pod Father, John Lee Dumas Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Zeta Global , the marketing technology company founded by David A. Steinberg and former Apple CEO John Sculley, is announcing an additional $222.5 million in new debt financing. The company has gone down the debt route before — a Series F raised in 2017 combined $115 million funding with $25 million in debt. BofA Securities served as lead arranger and bookrunner for the new financing, with participation from Barclays, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 1, 2021
The man who invented fact-checking shows how founder stories can’t always be trusted Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Kaltura , a software company focused on providing video technology to other concerns, has filed to go public. The Kaltura S-1 filing only partially surprised. TechCrunch previously covered the company as part of our ongoing $100 million ARR series focusing on private companies that have reached material scale. (TechCrunch has also covered its product life to a moderate degree.).
StartupNation
MARCH 1, 2021
To kickstart your week on a positive note, Jeff shares uplifting news about the drop in unemployment claims, boost in retail sales and overall optimistic outlook from local entrepreneurs. Tune in to this morning’s WJR Business Beat to hear more from Jeff! “Startup entrepreneurs I speak to regularly are indicating that investment into their companies is starting to flow more freely again, and that’s critical for the startup and entrepreneurial community in our region.”
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Known for its innovations in the payments sector, Square is now officially a bank. Nearly one year after receiving conditional approval , Square said Monday afternoon that its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations. Square Financial Services completed the charter approval process with the FDIC and Utah Department of Financial Institutions, meaning its ready for business.
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Founders Coop
MARCH 1, 2021
Aviel and I are thrilled to share the news that we’ve just closed a new fund, our fifth, and at $50M our largest yet. In most ways, this is just business as usual. Our LPs, many of whom are founders themselves, love our commitment to being first and fast, writing high-conviction pre-seed and seed checks to the best technical founding teams in the Pacific Northwest.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
The SPAC run is on for space startups, which have been relatively slow in their overall exit pace before the current special purpose acquisitions company merger craze got underway. Rocket Lab is the latest, and likely the most notable to jump on the trend, with a deal that will see it combine with a SPAC called Vector and subsequently list on the Nasdaq under the ticker RKLB, with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of this year.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 1, 2021
You can have a million-dollar business without making a single post Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
A startup by an Apple alum that has become home to millions of low-skilled workers in India said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $12.5 million, just five months after securing $8 million from high-profile investors. One-year-old Apna said Sequoia Capital India and Greenoaks Capital led the $12.5 million Series B investment in the startup. Existing investors Lightspeed India and Rocketship VC also participated in the round.
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GCUC
MARCH 1, 2021
Seriously y’all it’s out of control. Did the real estate industry have a secret meeting and decide that they were going to repackage everything. The post Is everyone a flexpert now? appeared first on GCUC Community.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Compass , the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding , filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one year after the New York-based company laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created by the global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Prior to the IPO, SoftBank’s Vision Fund holds slightly more than a one-third stake in the company.
OurCrowd
MARCH 1, 2021
The U.S.-based oil major Chevron is doubling down on its investment in geothermal power by investing in a Swedish developer of low-temperature geothermal and heat power projects called Baseload Capital. Read more here. The post [Dandelion Energy in TechCrunch] Geothermal startups get another boost from Chevron as the oil giant backs a geothermal project developer appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
According to an amended S-1 filing , South Korean e-commerce leader Coupang expects to price its initial public offering between $27 to $30 per share, potentially raising up to $3.6 billion. After the IPO, Coupang will have a total of 1.7 billion shares outstanding, including Class A and Class B. This means the means the pricing would give Coupang a potential market capitalization between $46 billion to $51 billion, a huge increase over the $9 billion valuation it reached after its last funding
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Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 1, 2021
It’s clear that filing taxes this year will be more complicated than is typical. Some individuals may have lost a job or worked more than one job at a time. Many have collected federal stipends along the way. Therefore, a good number of businesses will be on the receiving end of a tricky filing situation. And for the more than 4.1 million people who started a business in 2020, the process will likely prove even more confusing and intricate than ever.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
As building in public continues to gain popularity with early-stage startup founders, Murmur, coming out of stealth today, wants to leverage that natural transparency to a louder frequency. Founded by Aaron Dignan , Murmur helps startups create work agreements based on the policies of other startups. “Work agreements” is an intentionally broad phrase, but encapsulates everything that a team decides about how work works, from paternal leave strategies to strategic priorities to how hi
StartupNation
MARCH 1, 2021
On this new episode of “Everything Borrowed,” Andrew welcomes Randall Buchman. Founder and CEO of Emerald Growth Partners, Buchman joins the Everything Borrowed roster in episode 18! Emerald Growth Partners is responsible for the cannabis company, Pleasantrees. Buchman is committed to creating a premium cannabis brand that is focusing on erasing the negative stigma surrounding the rapidly growing cannabis industry.
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2021
Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero. Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero told TechCrunch that “COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of employment management software by roughly five years,” as teams adjusted to remote work.
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