TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Jessica Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jessica is on the growth marketing team at Zageno, a multi-vendor, online marketplace for life science products, and is head of content at Elpha, a Y Combinator-backed community of 40K+ women in tech. More posts by this contributor. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies. Fundraising is challenging, especially for deep tech founders who need to get investors excited about a complex technology, a complex sales cycle and a complex ri

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It kicked started my real estate career where I began earning 3X more than my job as a teacher. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 million in seed funding from Crowd Media Holdings , an Australia-based company focused on influencer-based ‘social commerce’ and marketing. It’s taking a 10% stake in Aflorithmic, per a press release , where it says the strategic investment is aimed at enabling it to offer FaceTime conversations with celebrities through “best-in-class voice cloning technology” Two year old Afl

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

An inside look at how successful VCs are courting the small world of big investors. Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from pre-seed to Series A. While we’re passionate about helping founders turn their ideas into flourishing businesses, we also recognize the massive challenge that VCs face when raising their own early funds by courting

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With more of us spending significant amounts of time at home because of COVID-19, our attention has turned increasingly to how and what we eat. Even for those who like to cook, but especially for those who might not have the time or inclination, it can be a challenge to come up with tasty, nutritious and new things to eat all the time. Today, one of the startups that has seen a lift in its business as a result of that is announcing a round of funding to expand its operations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Marketing software company HubSpot is acquiring The Hustle , the business and tech media startup behind the popular newsletter of the same name. Axios broke the news of the deal and reported that it values the startup at around $27 million. HubSpot declined to comment on the deal price, and while tweeting about the acquisition, The Hustle CEO Sam Parr wrote , “Early in my career I was transparent with money.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s the small details that propel you into the charts Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Flux , the London fintech that has built a technology platform for banks and merchants to power itemised digital receipts and more, has seen its lengthy pilot with Barclays bear fruit. Announced formally today — but actually quietly rolled out a few months ago — Flux-powered digital receipts are now available as an opt-in for all U.K. Barclays debit card holders within the bank’s main mobile banking app.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

All entrepreneurs work hard, but the ones who excel work smarter Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. Now, Rad Power Bikes is reaping those rewards and using them to double its workforce and scale globally. The Seattle-based startup said Thursday it has raised $150 million from institutional investors including Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global Fund, Fidelity Management & Research Company, TPG’s global impact investing platform The Rise

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like Shania Twain famously said, “That don’t impress me much.” Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Here in the U.S., we take for granted the ability to invest and trade in the stock market. So while we can get in an uproar about the various ways Robinhood may or may not be acting responsibly, it can be easy to forget that not everyone in the world has the same access to potentially making — or losing — money via trading as we do. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population hav

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

(Or at least, it should be) Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Latitude , a startup building games with “infinite storylines” generated by artificial intelligence, is announcing that it has raised $3.3 million in seed funding. The idea of an AI-generated story might make you think of hilariously nonsensical experiments like “Sunspring,” but Latitude’s first title, AI Dungeon , is an impressively open-ended (and coherent) text adventure game where you can choose from a wide variety of genres and characters.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I wrote yesterday about a couple of Zoom tricks I learned last week. Unfortunately, I messed up that post and conflated two different features and confused everyone. So I am going to try this again. If you are tired of looking at yourself on the endless Zoom meetings we are all doing all day long, you can click on the three little blue dots on the upper right of your own “box” in Zoom and select “Hide Self View.” Everyone else will continue to see you on their screens, bu

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Robotic process automation (RPA) has found a strong foothold in the world of enterprise IT through its effective use of AI and other technology to help automate repetitive tasks to free up people to focus on more complicated work. Today, a startup called Infinitus is coming out of stealth to apply this concept to the world of healthcare — specifically, to speed up the process of voice communication between entities in the fragmented U.S. healthcare industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Let’s dissect the buzz. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Today, two giants of the cannabis industry are announcing a partnership to create an improved retail experience for consumers and dispensaries alike. Through this partnership, Leafly and Jane’s technology solutions will offer dispensaries powerful tools to sync online e-commerce with in-store inventory — something that is sorely lacking in the cannabis world.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In food, there are few companies that parallel Peloton’s offering, combining an all-in-one tech-enabled experience with premium content and aspirational partnerships, all in the comforts of home. This is why investors have made another bet on Tovala, the meal company that pairs smart-oven technology with fresh meals delivered directly to consumers. Chicago-based Tovala – founded in 2017 – fuses ready-to-cook meal delivery with innovative kitchen technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Class, launched less than a year ago by Blackboard co-founder Michael Chasen , integrates exclusively with Zoom to offer a more customized classroom for students and teachers alike. The inaugural product, Class for Zoom, uses both management and instruction tools to bolster the video conferencing call experience. Formerly named ClassEDU, the startup announced today that it has added $30 million to its balance sheet, upping its total funding secured to $46 million.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

One of the credos at the Mike Morse Personal Injury Law Firm is to be the best law firm to work for in Michigan. We came up with that 13 years ago. But during these unprecedented times, I keep asking myself, what does it really mean? I do think we have been the best law firm to work for. I don’t need the Free Press awards to tell me that. I worked for other law firms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Genetics testing and genome research company 23andMe is set to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) VG Acquisition Corp., a vehicle set up by Richard Branson and his company Virgin Group. The transaction is expected to result in 23andMe having around $984 million in cash available at close to spend on product development, hires and other growth strategies, and will value the company at around $3.5 billion, close to the total cited by an earlier report detailing

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Brock Blake has a very disciplined life. His family, health, early morning routines, and his faith are a few of his daily habits and what’s important to him. Over the past year his company, Lendio , has been thrust into the essential role of processing thousands of transactions for small business owners. In the first round of PPP loans, Lendio processed 115,000 loans worth $8 billion dollars.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, Quadpay. These are some of the big global players in the buy now, pay later (BNPL) movement. They allow shoppers to purchase products online and pay in installments with nominal or no fees, and have become more prominent due to how the pandemic accelerated e-commerce market growth around the world. Credit card companies have filled in this gap for a long time.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Did you know that 75% of all new jobs in this country are created by small businesses? Or that 99% of all employers and approximately half of this nation’s GDP is driven by small businesses? On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff discusses the importance of our small businesses in America and the true impact on individuals who create and run successful small businesses.

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