Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 14, 2021

By Bryce Kelly. While we know the L in YLAI stands for “leaders,” do we know what our leaders in YLAI stand for? In recognition of International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, 2020, YLAI Network members joined a conversation with nine YLAI Fellowship alumni from a variety of countries and specialties on the YLAI Network Facebook page to discuss what leadership and integrity means to them.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 14, 2021

While Bitcoin is the gold standard in crypto, Ethereum has been the innovator, bringing new ideas, particularly smart contracts, to the table. Smart contracts allow developers to easily build things on a blockchain and we have seen a proliferation of new things built on the Ethereum blockchain as a result. But what if you could do all of that on Bitcoin?

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UBI Global

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our guide to developing innovation intelligence in any corporate environment As we move further into 2021, many of us have a lot to be thankful for, having seen some amazing examples of innovation amid the pandemic across industries of all sizes. From new ways to order, deliver, and pay in retail outlets and restaurants to […]. The post Innovation 2021 – How Corporate Innovation Will Succeed this Year appeared first on UBI Global | Innovation Intelligence Company and Community.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. The round was led by an unnamed party, but round participants included Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania. Sources say Hedosophia may be the unnamed growth investor, although Sennder declined to comment. To date, Sennder has raised more than $260 million, allowing it to lay claim to a potential $1 billion valuation.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 14, 2021

Dell’s Quarterly Business Sale runs Jan. 14 through Feb. 1 and includes exclusive savings on the Dell XPS family of solutions. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Premium materials, expert craftsmanship and product innovation. High-quality and meticulously crafted from premium materials like machined aluminum and carbon fiber, XPS laptops are durable and beautiful.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 14, 2021

Apple has just announced that it is opening its first U.S. Developer Academy in downtown Detroit. According to a press release posted on the Apple website , the Detroit Academy is part of a hundred-million-dollar racial equality and justice initiative to help dismantle systematic barriers to opportunity and to combat injustices faced by communities of color.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Parents with kids stuck learning at home during the pandemic have had to look for alternative activities to promote the hands-on learning experiences kids are missing out on due to attending class virtually. The New York-based educational technology startup Thimble aims to help address this problem by offering a subscription service for STEM-based projects that allow kids to make robotics, electronics and other tech using a combination of kits shipped to the home and live online instruction.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here are 5 questions to ask yourself before sharing equity Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

CFOs are the supposed omniscient owners of a company. While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Where is revenue coming from, and when will it arrive? How much will new headcount cost, and when do those expenses need to be paid? How can cash flows be managed, and what debt products might help smooth out any discontinuities?

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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.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 14, 2021

Increasing your chances of success. If you seek funds from an organized investment group such as an angel fund, venture capital entity, or even an investment club, the first thing you want to do is to find one person to buy into your vision, become excited by your enthusiasm and be willing to become the internal champion for your fund-raising effort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Short, snappy, entertaining videos have become an increasingly common way for young people to receive information. Why not learn English through TikTok-like videos too? That was what prompted Angelo Huang to launch Blabla. Originally from Taiwan, Huang relocated to Shanghai in 2019 to start Blabla after working in Silicon Valley for over a decade. A year later, Blabla was chosen as part of Y Combinator’s 2020 summer cohort.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s 47 years old and not even about business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Medium is acquiring Paris-based startup Glose for an undisclosed amount. Glose has been building iOS, Android and web apps that let you buy, download and read books on your devices. The company has turned reading into a multiplayer experience as you can build a bookshelf, share notes with your followers and start conversations in the margins. Sure, there are social platforms that let you talk about books, such as Goodreads.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 14, 2021

How do your current actions affect your long-term goal? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Healthcare systems are always looking for ways to save money, and a startup called Lumiata has just raised $14 million to continue building out its service that aims to help them do it. . The company, already backed by Khosla Ventures and Blue Venture Fund , raised its latest round from Defy.vc and AllegisNL Capital. . The company’s software cleans up healthcare data sets and then analyzes them to look for underwriting risks and cost savings for healthcare payors and providers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 14, 2021

NOT the multitaskers Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management , the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75 billion in capital commitments

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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.

The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 14, 2021

Over the past twenty years, I’ve heard thousands of entrepreneurs present product ideas that will change the world in ways both small and large. In the end, only a tiny percent of these entrepreneurs are able to fulfill their vision for the product while meeting the customer’s needs. What sounds like a great idea upon first blush often ends up on the scrap heap of failed ideas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

DecisionLink , an Atlanta-based company that provides software for cost-benefit analyses of business services from a customer’s perspective, has managed to woo one of Silicon Valley’s top venture firms to invest in its latest $18.5 million round of funding. Accel Partners has a longstanding reputation as one of the Bay Area’s premier investment firms, and it’s leading DecisionLink’s latest round.

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Source Link

JANUARY 14, 2021

I have been given hope this last year by our SourceLink network’s ability to rise to the extraordinary challenges of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Only a few weeks after its SPAC IPO , Porch today announced that it has made four acquisitions, worth a total of $122 million. The most important here is probably the acquisition of Homeowners of America for $100 million, which gets Porch deeper into the home insurance space. In addition, Porch is also acquiring mover marketing and data platform V12 for $22 million, as well as home inspection service Palm-Tech and iRoofing , a SaaS application for roofing contractors.

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Source Link

JANUARY 14, 2021

A review of all the amazing things the SourceLink network was able to accomplish in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Harness , the startup that wants to create a suite of engineering tools to give every company the kind of technological reach that the biggest companies have, announced an $85 million Series C today on a $1.7 billion valuation. Today’s round comes after 2019’s $60 million Series B , which had a $500 million valuation, showing a company rapidly increasing in value.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 14, 2021

We want to better support founders by giving them access to YC whenever it’s best for them, regardless of our batch timeline. While it has always been an option to apply year-round to YC, we’re now formalizing it with an early deadline. Now, founders can apply for an early interview to the Summer 2021 batch. If we receive your application by Thursday, January 27 at 8pm PT , we will consider you for an early February interview (instead of regular interviews, which begin in late April).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

As expected, shares of Poshmark exploded this morning, blasting over 130% higher in afternoon trading from the company’s above-range IPO price of $42. The enormous and noisy debut of Poshmark comes a day after Affirm, another IPO, was treated similarly by the public markets. Both explosive debuts were preceded by huge December debuts from C3.ai, Doordash and Airbnb.

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