Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? A recent Microsoft study found that 49 percent of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust employees to do their best work.” This lack of trust in worker productivity has led to what Microsoft researchers termed productivity paranoia: “Where leaders fear that lost productivity is due to employees not working, even though hours worked, number of meetings, and other activity metrics have increased.”.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As a newly minted manager of a venture fund, your initial response to the question “what are we busy about?” might be, “finding great companies, investing in them and waiting for big financial returns.” And, while your response would be directionally correct, it would be woefully incomplete. There is so much more to running a fund than leaping in, chasing companies and slinging cash around.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Now, its users will be able to do so all within the Female Invest platform. The Copenhagen-based startup announced the acquisition of fellow Danish fintech Gaia Investments this week with plans to integrate the trading platform, which focuses on investing in com

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Patience Is Required in Angel Investing. It is important to have realistic expectations on returns and timing when one begins the journey known as Angel Investing. One of those expectations is timing – shutdowns tend to come early and exits tend to come later. This was covered in an earlier ACA Data Insights. A deeper look at the distribution of TCA’s 95 exits out of 223 outcomes through 2021 shows the importance of being patient as an angel investor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside , which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Variety reported, and Fireside confirmed, it’s acquired the open streaming TV platform Stremium , which will allow Fireside’s shows to become available to a range of connected TV devices, including Amazon Fire TV, Roku, smart TVs and others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Today’s prize (a muted ‘hrmph!’ and a solemn nod) for best headline goes to Devin , and given that we’re sneaking up on Black Friday, we have some of the best tech deals collected for you. . I know we try our hands at gratitude every day, but here in the U.S. it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, and the two of us are giving thanks to all of you for following along with our

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Prof. Yanay Ofran, founder and CEO of Biolojic, spoke to i24NEWS about the exciting breakthrough in cancer treatment. Watch the interview here. The post [Biolojic on i24] Israeli company programs antibodies to fight cancer appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Dat Bike is on a mission to put more electric bikes on Vietnam’s roads. The startup said today it has raised $8 million led by returning investor Singapore-based firm Jungle Ventures, just seven months after its first round of funding was announced. GSR Ventures and Delivery Hero Ventures also participated in this round, along with Wavemaker Partners and Innoven Capital.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the “Company” or “Innoviz”), a Tier-1 supplier of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, today announced its participation in the following upcoming investor conferences: Read more here. The post [Innoviz in PR Newswire] Innoviz Technologies to present at upcoming investor conferences appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ramakant Vempati. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Data analyst and former COO of Goldman Sachs, Ramakant Vempati is the co-founder of 2022 FDA breakthrough device Wysa , an AI-based digital companion for behavioral health. Many years ago, oil from Chinese water snakes was successfully used to treat joint pain until peddlers made “snake oil” synonymous with fraud.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Shares of Delhivery hit an all-time low of 317 Indian rupees ($3.88) Wednesday, cutting its market cap to $2.8 billion, falling below the valuation at which it raised capital from private investors in 2021, as the Indian logistics firm grapples with the aftermath of a bulk deal sale and muted growth report. Shares of the Gurgaon-headquartered firm, which went public in May this year, went as low as 317 Indian rupees, considerably below its issue price of 487 and all-time high of 708.45.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Harvey , a startup building what it describes as a “copilot for lawyers,” today emerged from stealth with $5 million in funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, the tranche through which OpenAI and its partners are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Also participating in the round was Jeff Dean, the lead of Google AI, Google’s AI research division. and Mixer Labs co-founder Elad Gil among other angel backers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Here on the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, this column spent a good portion of the morning hunting up something to be thankful for in startup land. There are options: The world has never been more software-centric, meaning that the core startup product is well-aligned with long-term macroeconomic trends. That’s good. Consumers are also holding up better than some expected given the global backdrop of rising interest rates and hard-to-tame inflation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks , persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding Fizz is so reminiscent of Facebook that he was introduced to his investor and now-CEO Rakesh Mathur as “the next Mark Zuckerberg.” So, is it a good time to be building a buzzy new social app, or is it a complete mess?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. The cloud arm of the search giant said Thursday that as part of its partnership, it will offer the Pune-headquartered startup’s gaming engine to help developers worldwide to help them manage their live ops, matchmaking, player progressi

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last week, Ramp sent a message to crypto companies using its corporate card services saying that it is significantly lowering spending limits and mandating new requirements. Some users were temporarily suspended from spending altogether. “In light of recent unprecedented events in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFT and DeFi ecosystem, we are conducting a review of all businesses operating in this space, including yours, to determine whether we reverse or modify any of the changes listed above,”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Andrew Davis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andrew Davis is senior director of methodology at Copado. He is a Salesforce DevOps specialist focused on the next generation of DevOps on the Salesforce platform. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of enterprise applications will be built on low-code and no-code platforms such as Salesforce and ServiceNow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Many startups are overvalued. But because they are also well-stocked with cash, they haven’t had to raise new funding at a lower or flat valuation — yet. However, new data from Carta found that cracks are starting to show. Startup equity infrastructure platform Carta found that a record number of startup employee stock grants — which are stock option packages offered to individual employees — were repriced in Q3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Dan LeBlanc. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dan LeBlanc is the CEO and co-founder of Daasity , a data and analytics company built for omnichannel brands. For consumer brands, the holiday season is go time. The high-energy, two-month period that starts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) can account for as much as 19% of a brand’s total annual retail sales , according to the National Retail Federation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: My co-founder’s a green card applicant who just got laid off.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS , is getting a small financial injection that both speaks to that pressure, but also a chance to grow in what remains an opening in the market: selling cheaper and low-end, but ultimately still functional a

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The market for corporate training, which Allied Market Research estimates is worth over $400 billion, has grown substantially in recent years as companies realize the cost savings in upskilling their workers. One PwC report found that teaching employees additional skills can save a company between 43% and 66% of layoff costs alone, depending on the salary.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Ramani , a Tanzanian startup focused on consumer-packaged goods (CPG) supply chains, plans to introduce new financial services as it expands its operations in the East African country after raising $32 million in Series A debt-equity funding. The latest round, which follows an undisclosed seed funding round last year, was led by Flexcap Ventures, and serial entrepreneur Jared Schreiber, while debt was raised from undisclosed investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha interviewed Karla Monterroso, a long time leadership coach, racial equity advocate and the founder of Brava Leaders.

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