StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2021
You’ve probably heard it countless times: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” While it’s always a great idea to think about your long-term personal goals, this adage is even more applicable if you’re venturing into entrepreneurship. Smart planning can go a long way in making your startup bankable. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only about 25% of new businesses will last more than 15 years.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart , which recently hit uniciorn status , announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft. The deal is a combination of both cash and stock and is in the seven-figure range, but the exact terms aren’t being disclosed. Picsart today offers a range of digital creation and editing tools aimed at both consumers and professionals alike that make photo and video editing more fun and approachable.
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StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing can be an extremely valuable strategy for any business, but particularly startups trying to get their foot in the door. The problem is that as a new business, you likely don’t have a large budget for potentially expensive projects such as online advertising, and may not have the knowledge to develop an effective strategy that’s going to give you the ROI you need. .
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. Existing backers Tiger Global, Thayer Ventures, JLL, Trinity Ventures, Sound Ventures and Cooley LLP, among others, also participated in the financing, which brings the company’s total raised since its 2017 inception to just over $100 million.
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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Image courtesy of Regina Joseph Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Today’s guest is Regina Joseph. She was a pioneer of digital publication with the first-ever digital magazine, Blender, at a time when no one believed anyone would ever read online. She also created prototypes for the early forms of digital ads.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Whether you’re making 6-figures, 7+figures, or 0-figures, this re-prioritization can drastically transform your journey. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Launching today in beta, Playground is a social platform that seeks to help people discover and develop community while empowering creators to monetize their audience. Already, the website has a wide variety of users like the Museum of Modern Art , comedy host Alexis Gay , the Abolitionist Teaching Network , activist Nupol Kiazolu , and a Malaysian virtual dance club.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 2, 2021
The story of Target’s billion-dollar mistake in Canada Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Meta’s (formerly, Facebook’s) experimental app division, the NPE team, is shifting gears. The group, which first launched in mid-2019, has been focused on building consumer-facing apps that would allow the company to test out new social features and gauge people’s reactions. Over the years, the largely Menlo Park-based team launched and retired a number of experiments, ranging from dating and calling apps to meme-makers to TikTok , Twitter and Clubhouse rivals to apps for coupl
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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.
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Milestone and Briefcam bring premium forensic analytics to XProtect customers. With the introduction of XProtect® Rapid REVIEW, Milestone’s customers will be able to accelerate investigations and find what they are looking for with speed and accuracy. Powered by BriefCam’s video analytics technology, hours of video recordings can now be reviewed in minutes, bringing enhanced decision-making and momentum to any investigation.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers. The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers. Shiftsmart , a New York-based labor management resource, is the latest to see some love from investors, bringing in $95 million in Series B funding for its workforce management software that matches h
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 2, 2021
As the need for more innovative and fresh technology becomes more and more crucial in pushing forward applications like autonomous driving and AI, many startups are hitting the scene, hoping to shake up the industry. One such startup is Arbe, an Israeli startup company founded in 2015, which is recently making waves in the world of ADAS. The company provides solutions and services to push forward innovation in next-generation vehicles.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Kueski , a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has secured $202 million in equity and debt funding. StepStone Group (which recently acquired Greenspring Capital) led the $102 million equity round and Victory Park Capital led the $100 million debt financing. StepStone was joined by other new investors including One Prime Capital and Glisco, as well as existing backers Altos Ventures, Cathay Innovation, Richmond Global Ventures, Rise Capital, Tuesd
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StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Is there such a thing as the “best” time of year to start a business? There are 30.2 million small businesses in the United States, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). While these businesses certainly didn’t start up at the exact same time, I do wonder if there are certain times of year where it’s more ideal to launch a business than others.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
If you’re trying to get a mortgage or an auto loan, banks will put on their judging glasses and look into your past. Makes sense; it’s a reasonably reliable indicator as to whether you’ll be able to repay your loans or not. Student financing is a little different. Sure, your past plays a role, but for a lot of education, having a degree dramatically changes your earning potential, and hence your ability to repay.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 2, 2021
A business trick that will make you a better person, owner, and employee. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
The life of a tech journalist can be soul-sapping. I talk to so many founders — capable, smart, well-connected, experienced founders — who are working on problems that genuinely just don’t matter. They might have successfully raised money. Perhaps they even rounded up a team of smart people like them. They are solving problems that even if they execute everything A++ and they change the world exactly in the way they envision, even if they make their board and VCs happy, it’s ultimate
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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.
StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2021
On today’s Business Beat, Jeff reports on record Small Business Saturday sales and more good news for local businesses. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more: . Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share?
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
With the pandemic heading into its second year, people all over the world are traveling more for work again. If you’ve flown anytime in the past few months, the packed planes are in part evidence of that. Further evidence that travel is rebounding lies in the number of people staying in hotels, and the money going into startups that serve the industry as well as travelers.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Here’s the argument: Many people believe that bottom-up budgeting leads to waste and misdirection. The advocates of top-down budgeting are strong in their belief that if you give each person or department no guidance, they will budget to their wants or specific needs, not to those that support a corporate goal. Why some CEO’s argue to budget from the top.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
IRL, the SoftBank-backed social app and recent unicorn , is today announcing its first acquisition. The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. AaBeZe’s founders Michael Phillips Moskowitz, the former “Global Chief Curator” of eBay, and former Medium Product Lead Brad Artizinega, along with other member
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Derek Sivers
DECEMBER 2, 2021
See it all. Touch it all. Hear it all. Taste it all. Do it all. Appreciate this wonderful physical world. If you knew you’d go blind tomorrow, how intensely would you look at the world today? If you knew you’d go deaf tomorrow, how intensely would you listen? Fill your senses as if this was your last day on Earth. One day that will be true. Maximize your inputs.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for December 2, 2021! There’s a lot going on. More fintech in Latin America. Actuator launching. App Store Awards. The week’s software selloff. It’s a lot, so buckle in. Maybe the news slowdown will come next week?
OurCrowd
DECEMBER 2, 2021
A risk-based approach to secure against digital fraud requires putting in the correct security controls in proportion to the organizational risk, which is determined by understanding the customer’s subconscious habits, says Australia-based Tim Dalgleish, senior director, a global advisory, at BioCatch. Read more here. The post [BioCatch in Info Risk Today] Using Behavioral Biometrics to Secure Against Digital Fraud appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2021
If you bring up bad news about the price of technology stocks on Twitter , very helpful people will send you multi-year charts that put recent declines into historical context. Yes, thank you; I was not aware you could zoom out. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.
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