Feedough
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Acquiring new customers isn’t easy. It not only requires sales efforts but there’ also a monetary cost involved. This monetary cost could be as low as $1 for a $500 offering or as high as $1500 for the same product. Hence, it’s really important to calculate how much it will cost to get a new customer on-board to keep the business profitable for the long run.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
AllRight is a platform for English language learning, aimed at children four years or older, which combines lessons with real teachers and homework with “AI-powered” tutors. It’s now raised a $5 million Series A round led by Genesis Investments, with participation from TMT Investments, TerraVC and existing investors Flashpoint and Misha Lyalin.
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StartupNation
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
As entrepreneurs and business owners, we do our best to plan for the future. But no matter how much we try to prepare ourselves for the unexpected, none of us could have predicted, nor prepared for, the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding economic crisis it has created. Roughly eight months into the pandemic, our plans—both in business and in life—have drastically changed.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
“Space, the final frontier…” You can probably recite the “Star Trek” opening monologue in your sleep. But we’re talking science fact, not fiction, and TC Sessions: Space 2020 provides real opportunity to connect with the people, information and funding you need to boldly build the future of space technology. Go boldly, yes. But why pay full price? Early bird pricing ends — in Gene Roddenberry’s parlance — on Stardate 98489.04.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Fail, fail, and fail again until you succeed is the story of the company behind the Angry Birds Franchise. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
More than 100 friends, family members, and community partners tuned in via ZOOM on November 19, 2020 to see the six finalists in Ben Franklin’s BIG IDEA Contest make their pitch to a panel of independent judges. This contest, which targeted the counties of Indiana, Jefferson, Clearfield, and Cambria, attracted dozens of emerging innovators, tech startups, and small manufacturers with a BIG IDEA who wanted to win up to $50,000.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
This morning Wish , a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm , Airbnb , and Roblox in filing this week as many well-known and valuable private companies look to debut before the year ends and the holidays start. Wish’s S-1 (which is filed under its corporate name ContextLogic) is of particular interest given that COVID-19 and the global pandemic have changed consumer behavior around the world in 2020.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Tokyo/Jerusalem – Nov. 19, 2020 – OurCrowd today announced that ORIX Corporation (“ORIX”) invests a strategic $60 million in OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investing platform. This is ORIX’s first collaboration with Israel’s startup sector, with OurCrowd planning to provide the diversified financial services giant access to a wide variety of innovative technologies and companies.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone. Today, Kea is announcing that it has raised a $10 million Series A led by Marbruck, with participation from Streamlined Ventures, Xfund, Heartland Ventures, DEEPCORE, Barrel Ventures and AVG Funds, as well as angel investors Raj Kapoor (chief strategy officer at Lyft), Craig Flom (who was on the founding team at Panera Bread), Wingstop franchisee Tony Lam a
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Contributed by Noelle Fauver, community outreach manager for Trust & Will. This post originally appeared on the Trust & Will website and has been modified here with permission. You’ve heard the terms “will” and “trust” from an estate planning perspective, but do you understand the difference between each? And, do you know which plan will best protect your family and assets?
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
You wait ages for foot scanning startups to help with the tricky fit issue that troubles online shoe shopping and then two come along at once: Launching today in time for Black Friday sprees is Xesto — which like Neatsy , which we wrote about earlier today, also makes use of the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to generate individual 3D foot models for shoe size recommendations.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
I was on a zoom board meeting in early July and one of the board members started whipping out cards instead of interrupting. I captured the moment because I thought it was awesome. Since then, I have wanted my own set of zoom meeting cards, but never took the initiative to make them. So when I saw this Kickstarter project , I backed it immediately and went for the reward (which I rarely do) of the complete set of cards.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
The only thing more rare than a unicorn is an exited unicorn. At TechCrunch, we cover a lot of startup financings, but we rarely get the opportunity to cover exits. This week was an exception though, as it was exitpalooza as Affirm , Roblox , Airbnb , and Wish all filed to go public. With DoorDash’s IPO filing last week , this is upwards of $100 billion in potential float heading to the public markets as we make our way to the end of a tumultuous 2020.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Running your own business is not all it’s cracked up to be Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can look like, say, cats, and even cats can wear festival-chic flower crowns. Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound. The company appears to have acquired Voisey , a U.K. startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians uplo
Smart Hustle Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Over the last few years my wife has made amazing, glittery, handmade wreaths from ornaments. The kind of ornaments you might see on a Christmas tree. These wreaths are used to decorate the door of a home, the wall of a kitchen or living room or to spruce up a drab hallway. Like so many who I’ve advised and helped over the years, she’s struggling with moving from hobby to business.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Onit , a workflow software company based in Houston with a legal component, announced this week that it has acquired 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield alum McCarthyFinch. Onit intends to use the startup’s AI skills to beef up its legal workflow software offerings. The companies did not share the purchase price. After evaluating a number of companies in the space, Onit focused on McCarthyFinch, which gives it an artificial intelligence component the company’s legal workflow softwar
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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 20, 2020
Bringing to small businesses across the U.S. the buy-now pay-later model that transformed companies like Klarna and Affirm into billion-dollar businesses has netted the payment and lending company Credit Key another $33.85 million in funding. The Los Angeles-based company raised its latest cash from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, Loeb.nyc and other, undisclosed investors, the company said.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
With Roblox joining the end-of-year unicorn stampede toward the public markets, we’re set for a contentedly busy second half of November and early December. I hope you didn’t have vacation planned in the next few weeks. This morning we need to get deeper into the Roblox S-1 so we can better understand the nature of its revenue generation.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
DoorDash, Affirm , Roblox , Airbnb , C3.ai and Wish all filed to go public in recent days, which means some venture capitalists are having the best week of their lives. Tech companies that go public capture our imagination because they are literal happy endings. An Initial Public Offering is the promised land for startup pilgrims who may wander the desert for years seeking product-market fit.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Leading on-demand digital freight platform Loadsmart has raised a $90 million Series C funding round, led by funds under management by BlackRock, and co-led by Chromo Invest. The funding will be used to continue to build out its platform to offer even more end-to-end logistics services to its freight customers, and the company says that it will be doing that in part through new collaboration with strategic investor TFI International, a leader in the logistics space, which also participated in th
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