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6 Tips to Help Find Empowerment Through Embracing Failure

StartupNation

Launching a business is an exciting, and challenging, prospect. Unfortunately, there will always be times at which you experience unexpected roadblocks as an entrepreneur. It might be misplaced trust in an unreliable partner, lost revenue, or economic upheaval that puts your venture on shaky ground. Regardless of the specifics, you must understand that mistakes and failures are inevitable in the startup world.

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Expand E-Rate To Low Income Households

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

E-Rate is a program put in place in the 1996 Telecommunications Act to expand Universal Service Fund fees to schools in order to help them upgrade their telecom infrastructure. Telcos charge customers Universal Service Fund fees so that they can provide “universal service”, originally aimed at rural and other locations that were/are not profitable to service otherwise.

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Uber sells self-driving unit Uber ATG in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

TechCrunch

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment last year from Toyota, DENSO and SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

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Save Time By Automating Your Financial Process (Interview & Bonus Tips from Bill.Com Founder)

Smart Hustle Magazine

Are you struggling to grow your business? The ongoing pandemic has hurt most small businesses. And many of these affected businesses are still finding it difficult to stay afloat. However, there are some entrepreneurs whose grit never let them give up. Ramon Ray recently interviewed René Lacerte , the founder of Bill.com - one of the nation’s leading business payments networks.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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.

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Tecton.ai nabs $35M Series B as it releases machine learning feature store

TechCrunch

Tecton.ai , the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a $35 million Series B today, just seven months after announcing their $20 million Series A. When we spoke to the company in April, it was working with early customers in a beta version of the product, but today, in addition to the funding they are also announcing the general availability of the platform.

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Quell raises $3M to turn home fitness into a game

TechCrunch

Do people want their at-home fitness to come in video-game form? The incredible popularity of games like Ring Fit Adventure suggests yes. London-based startup Quell thinks it’s just the beginning for this genre, and they’ve raised a $3 million seed round to help prove it. At the core of Quell’s gameplay is the “Gauntlet” — a harness, of sorts, that the player slips on to control Quell’s games.

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Save on Workspace Wish Lists with Dell’s Days of Deals

StartupNation

Shop high-performance tech that keeps everyone connected and collaborating during Dell’s biggest sale of the year! StartupNation readers can save an extra 5 percent to 10 percent off Dell-branded solutions during Dell’s Days of Deals, running Dec. 7 through Dec. 20. . Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off.

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Don’t miss the university research showcase at TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

We are T-minus one week until TC Sessions: Space 2020 lifts off on December 16-17. Join the global space community’s leading experts, brightest visionaries and rising stars for two days dedicated to space technology and exploration — and the opportunities they offer. Speaking of opportunity, you don’t want to miss our University Showcase sessions featuring the latest research from top universities, hosted by The Aerospace Corporation.

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How $100k From Peter Thiel Helped A Dropout Become The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Luminar founder Austin Russell is revolutionizing self-driving car technology Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

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.

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E-commerce fulfillment platform Shippit raises $22.2 million led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

Shippit , a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2 million USD) Series B led by Tiger Global, with participation from Jason Lenga. Founded in 2014, Shippit’s technology automates tasks related to order fulfillment, including finding the best carrier for an order, tracking packages and handling returns.

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[Rewire in EKMH Innovators] Interview: Rewire Co-Founder / CEO Guy Kashtan on Innovation, Fintech, Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship and Digitalization

OurCrowd

Rewire is becoming a global player in the cross-border banking arena. The innovative cross-border international banking platform serves the migrant community and seeks to offer a seamless way to make cross-border money transfers and international financial services for migrants. Read more here. The post [Rewire in EKMH Innovators] Interview: Rewire Co-Founder / CEO Guy Kashtan on Innovation, Fintech, Financial Inclusion, Entrepreneurship and Digitalization appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Getsafe, the European digital-first insurance startup, scores $30M Series B

TechCrunch

Getsafe , the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round. Existing investors , including Earlybird and CommerzVentures, also participated. Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015.

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Hustle Culture Has Mass Casualties

Entrepreneur's Handbook

And how to ensure you don’t become one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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Eco-conscious car subscription platform finn.auto raises $24.2M, with White Star and Zalando founders

TechCrunch

Finn.auto — which allows people to subscribe to their car instead of owning it, and offsetting their CO? emissions — has raised a $24.2 million / €20 million Series A funding round. White Star Capital (which has also invested in Tier Mobility), and the Zalando co-CEOs Rubin Ritter, David Schneider and Robert Gentz, are new investors in this round. All previous investors participated.

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Save on Workspace Wish Lists with Dell's Days of Deals

StartupNation

Shop high-performance tech that keeps everyone connected and collaborating during Dell’s biggest sale of the year! StartupNation readers can save an extra 5 percent to 10 percent off Dell-branded solutions during Dell’s Days of Deals, running Dec. 7 through Dec. 20. . Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off.

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The cloud can’t solve all your problems

TechCrunch

Jon Shanks. Contributor. Jon Shanks is CEO and co-founder of cloud-native delivery platform Appvia. The way a team functions and communicates dictates the operational efficiency of a startup and sets the scene for its culture. It’s way more important than what social events and perks are offered, so it’s the responsibility of a founder and/or CEO to provide their team with a technology approach that will empower them to achieve and succeed — now and in the future.

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6 Tips to Help Find Empowerment Through Embracing Failure

StartupNation

Launching a business is an exciting, and challenging, prospect. Unfortunately, there will always be times at which you experience unexpected roadblocks as an entrepreneur. It might be misplaced trust in an unreliable partner, lost revenue, or economic upheaval that puts your venture on shaky ground. Regardless of the specifics, you must understand that mistakes and failures are inevitable in the startup world.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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

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Fitness startup Aarmy reinvents itself for a remote fitness world

TechCrunch

Like a lot of startups, Aarmy faced some big challenges when the pandemic forced widespread shutdowns in March. Up until then, Aarmy was offering in-person fitness classes from its locations in New York and Los Angeles. Trey Laird, who founded the startup with trainers Akin Akman (chief fitness officer) and Angela Manuel-Davis (chief motivation officer), told me that within 48 hours, the strategy shifted online, starting with fitness classes via Instagram Live — something it continues to offer,

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He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Angel Capital Association

By: Elaine Bolle, RTP Capital Associates Rob Neville is a serial entrepreneur, and his story is a powerful testimonial about the importance of angel funding. Savara Pharmaceuticals, Rob’s 4th startup, is an orphan lung disease company working on inhaled investigational therapies. Rob’s personal philosophy and growth strategy involves leveraging the expertise, relationships, and capital of angels around the world.

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Lemonade launches its renters insurance in France

TechCrunch

Lemonade is launching its renters insurance in France. This is the company’s third European launch after the Netherlands and Germany. Originally from the U.S., Lemonade is now a public company with a current market capitalization close to $4 billion. Lemonade will compete directly with a local competitor called Luko. Both companies share a lot of similarities.

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What Is Peer-To-Peer?

Feedough

The IT world witnesses two significant types of network architectures: the client server-network and the peer-to-peer network. The internet revolves around the client-server network where a single central computer acts as a server, stores all data, and handles all the interaction with the internet users. But this model has raised many eyebrows as, usually, a third-party handles and stores data.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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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Jeli.io announces $4M seed to build incident analysis platform

TechCrunch

When one of AWS’s east coast data centers went down at the end of last month , it had an impact on countless companies relying on its services, including Roku, Adobe and Shipt. When the incident was resolved, the company had to analyze what happened. For most companies, that involves manually pulling together information from various internal tools, not a focused incident platform.

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The IPO market looks hot as Airbnb and C3.ai raise price targets

TechCrunch

So much for a December slowdown— this morning, Airbnb and C3.ai raised their IPO price ranges and we got early pricing information from Upstart and Wish. This gives us a good amount of ground to cover. So, we’ll dig into Airbnb’s new price range first, working to understand how richly investors are valuing the American home-sharing unicorn.

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Berlin’s Wonder raises $11M for a new approach to video chat where you wander and join groups

TechCrunch

If this year has taught us a lesson about the world of work, it’s that collectively, we weren’t very well-equipped in terms of the technology we use to translate the in-person experience seamlessly to a remote version. That’s led to a rush of companies launching new services to fill that hole — cloud computing and data warehousing startups, collaboration platforms, sales tools and more — and today one of the latest startups in the area of videoconferencing is announ

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3 questions to ask before adopting microservice architecture

TechCrunch

Madison Friedman. Contributor. Madison Friedman is an investor intern at Vertex Ventures US and an MBA candidate at the Wharton School of Business. As a product manager, I’m a true believer that you can solve any problem with the right product and process, even one as gnarly as the multiheaded hydra that is microservice overhead. Working for Vertex Ventures US this summer was my chance to put this to the test.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.