StartupNation

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

New businesses often find it challenging to get financing. Many lenders prefer to lend to businesses that are at least a year or two old and that have strong financial profiles. But if you wait until your business is a couple of years old, you may find yourself missing a key piece of your credit profile: good business credit. Trade references can help you jumpstart the process of building business credit while helping your startup improve cash flow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Craig J. Lewis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Craig J. Lewis is the founder and CEO of Gig Wage , a simplified fintech payroll platform built for contract workers. I’m a Black man in America — that’s hard. Black founders, and uniquely Black founders in tech, are facing insurmountable odds. As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Why Lebanese diasporas outperform the rest everywhere they go. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Tens of thousands of students and professionals move out of India each year to pursue higher education and for work. Even after spending months in a new country, they struggle to get a credit card from local banks, and end up paying a premium to access a range of other financial services. Banks in the U.S., or in most other countries for that matter, rely on local credit scores to determine the worthiness of potential applicants.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Building strong relationships with your customers is one of the most crucial aspects of starting and running a successful business. Without a clear understanding of who your customers are, what they’re looking for, and how you can inspire them to purchase again, you’ll constantly be stumbling around in the dark, searching in vain for growth strategies that actually work. .

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HPA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We are proud to announce our participation in Rheaply’s $8M Series A round, which was led by High Alpha. Other investors included Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Salesforce Ventures, 100 Black Angels & Allies Fund, M25 and an impressive list of other high value impact funds. “Today stands as a momentous day in Rheaply’s history, as this funding demonstrates a commitment from the venture community to fighting climate change and actively supporting Black-led and founded companies,” sa

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. Today, it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Spero Ventures. CEO Bryan Moore founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018. Moore previously led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television, and he said he was inspired to launch Talks

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Know the basics of how money is exchanged. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After working as a general manager for Uber in Nevada, Jason Radisson realized the need for a way to connect blue-collar workers to companies looking to employ them. So in late 2018, the idea for Shift One — a marketplace aimed at pairing workers and employers — was born. The startup is focused on last-mile logistics and delivery, e-commerce fulfillment and large-scale event management.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We are in the middle of one of the great asset bubbles of modern times. It has been brought on by the easy money policies of central banks around the world aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic. Interest rates are near zero or negative in most developed economies and asset prices have gone way up as a result. When interest rates are zero or negative, the value of future cash flows is huge and that is how you get PE and EBITDA ratios of over 100 and price/revenue multiples approaching

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Krisp , a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. TechCrunch first covered Krisp when it was just emerging from UC Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator, and co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan was relatively freshly out of his previous role

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Lessons from the founder of Naked and Kosan Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale. And while there are a number of such startups based in the U.S. and Europe, none had emerged in the Latin American market. Until now. Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Keith Harrington of Novel Growth Partners and Founder, RBFNetwork , is hosting an interview with me February 23rd at 1pm ET. We’ll talk about revenue-based investing and other alternative investment approaches, and my recent work with Jamie Finney and Jonathan Bragdon about the concept of Flexible VC and how and when that approach works. Register NOW.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst. A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. .

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Kryon®, the pioneers of full-cycle automation with an innovative approach to robotic process automation (RPA), process discovery and analytics, today announced the success of its Full-Cycle Automation Suite in assisting Brazil’s Ministry of Health to collect, process validate, refine, and distribute data relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Founded in late-2014, Salt Lake City-based Zencastr has become a kind of lifeline for many podcasters, as the pandemic pushed formerly in-person podcasts online. The startup is hardly a household name, but the company says it’s used by around 6% of all podcasts, based on an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million active shows in the world. I can certainly say, anecdotally, that just about every podcaster I’ve spoken to has tried the service, which offers a more specialized solution than video chat prog

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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.

Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Make this one shift and improve your effectiveness. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This morning Citadel ID announced a combined $3.5 million raise for its income and employment verification service. The startup provides an API to customer companies, allowing them to rapidly verify details of consumer employment. The capital came from a blend of venture firms and angels. On the firm side, Abstract and Soma VC were in there, along with ChapterOne.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Advanced Logistics Development (ALD), a publicly-traded company on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, plans on merging with OurCrowd backed cyber company HUB Security. The cyber firm, which is also supported by global insurance leader AXA, announced that the merger will lead a $65 million cash injection to the company. Read more here. The post [Hub Security in Geektime] Israeli Cyber firm HUB Security merges with TASE traded ALD appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Knoq (formerly known as Polis) was a startup that recruited representatives to go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, talking up client products and services. So for obvious reasons, it faced challenges in 2020. “We stopped knocking on doors in February, and this summer, we were trying to figure out what the path forward was,” founder and CEO Kendall Tucker told me.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The future of e-commerce is closer than you may think Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

If we are not careful, every entry of this column could consist of SPAC news. Special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, whatever you prefer to call them, are enormous business today. But they aren’t the only thing going on, and we’ll get to other things shortly. Consider this an apology for having written about SPACs twice in two days.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Tetavi, a world leading volumetric technology, officially announced its latest cooperation with Adways Group to assist in the launch a new content partnership enabled by Tetavi’s cutting-edge, AI volumetric library platform strategically designed to transform the industries of entertainment, film, music, fashion, and more. Shooting at Crescent Studios, Tetavi has built an end to end platform that is set to revolutionize the way the world experiences, participates in, and socializes through 3D te

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The creator movement has exploded in the last few years as platforms ranging from Substack to Clubhouse have made it easier than ever to reach an audience of willing readers and listeners. Yet the key to building sustainable creator businesses is the economics of these enterprises themselves. Get enough subscribers, and what often starts as a side hobby can quickly become a full-time job.

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