StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2021

Business plans are created for various reasons. Sometimes a plan is prepared for a strategic partner. In this case, the partner might want to better understand your strategy, milestones and staffing to determine whether to work with you. Sometimes a business plan is created to convince prospective employees to join you. And oftentimes plans are developed to brainstorm and assess strategic options.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Healthcare startup Color has raised a sizable $167 million in Series D funding round, at a valuation of $1.5 billion post-money, the company announced today. This brings the total raised by Color to $278 million, with its latest large round intended to help it build on a record year of growth in 2020 with even more expansion to help put in place key health infrastructure systems across the U.S. — including those related to the “last mile” delivery of COVID-19 vaccines.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2021

On today’s episode of “Everything Borrowed,” Andrew sits down with Anthony LaVerde, CEO of Emagine Entertainment. LaVerde believes in doubling down on your investments during times of uncertainty and fear. Andrew chats with the young and successful driver of one of the most innovative theaters in the country, who sees hope and opportunity in the midst of a 10-month pandemic forced shutdown.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Joe Procopio. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Joe Procopio is a multiexit, multifailure entrepreneur. Joe is currently building Spiffy , and previously sold Automated Insights, sold ExitEvent and built Intrepid Media. More posts by this contributor. How startups fill the gap between revenue and investment. How startups close their first big sales. The lure of subscription pricing is the guarantee of recurring revenue for your business.

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

When you think about small business marketing and automation by ActiveCampaign, a good insight can be had just by looking at your email inbox, says Maria Pergolino. The chief marketing officer says that there are emails that you're excited to read and ones that are just noise. The company is helping companies activate their entire customer experience.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2021

Find out what happens when entrepreneurs forget to consider the consequences of their actions Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Bangalore-based CRED is kickstarting the new year on a high note. The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 million (about 90 million Indian rupees) from employees. The Series C financing round, as first reported by TechCrunch in late November , was led by DST Global.

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Red Rocket

JANUARY 4, 2021

COVID-19 has impacted the business world in many ways. Some industries thrived (e.g., healthcare) and other industries got clobbered (e.g., hospitality). But, one thing that was consistent across most companies, is many of them were forced to have their employees work from their homes for the first time. And, a very interesting thing happened. it worked!!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Welcome to 2021, a year that could extend 2020’s startup market disruptions and excesses — or change patterns that previously performed well for early-stage tech companies and their investors. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. As we turn the page, I have a number of questions worth raising as we muck into 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2021

There’s a fine line between ‘Dropshipping’ and ‘Scam’ Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Steel production accounts for roughly 8% of the emissions that contribute to global climate change. It is one of the industries that sits at the foundation of the modern economy and is one of the most resistant to decarbonization. As nations around the world race to reduce their environmental footprint and embrace more sustainable methods of production, finding a way to remove carbon from the metals business will be one of the most important contributions to that effort.

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GCUC

JANUARY 4, 2021

The cat is out of the bag. We have been working on something big. Real big. Check out our interview with the details here. The post Coming Soon: GCUC Places appeared first on GCUC Community.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 4, 2021

It seems that many of us took most of the last two weeks off. I did as well. I paid attention to the things that needed to get done but not to much else. Instead, I spent a lot of time with my family, long walks with our dog, and watched a ton of movies and dove into a couple of books. I also watched a decent amount of NBA basketball, which I am glad to have back.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ve long heard that small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. And with 31.7 million such businesses, they are indisputably a powerful economic force. Yet, just as the stock market is a composite of tech, healthcare, consumer and other companies with very different stories to tell, I’ve long believed that the statistics and data about the Small Business economy is lacking the granularity to better understand what is really going on. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Slack did its best to ease the working world back into their jobs this morning by breaking, ensuring that everyone’s return to the grind would be as chaotic and unproductive as possible. Precisely when the downtime began is not clear, though problems amongst the TechCrunch staff began a little after 10 o’clock in the morning. Slack itself posted at 10:14 a.m.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 4, 2021

Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. These advisors bring valuable insights and recent operational experience to YC early stage companies. Throughout the batch, they take on a subset of YC Group Partner responsibilities, including application reading, interviews, group office hours, individual office hours, demo day prep, and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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Continuations

JANUARY 4, 2021

I just finished and highly recommend “ The Biggest Bluff ” by Maria Konnikova , which is our USV book club selection for January. It is nominally a book about Poker, but it is really about learning to live in a world where skill is confronted with luck again and again. An no, I don’t mean the world of poker, I mean the world at large. Each chapter does a wonderful job of tightly weaving together an episode of Maria’s journey to becoming a poker pro with a much deeper discussion of a topic, such

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

Actions Broadly Supportive of Employer-Based Models; Compliance Concerns and Considerations Raised for Wage Deductions, Debiting and Other Practices. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in PR Newswire] CFPB Weighs in on Earned Wage Access Industry appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

TMYTEK recently raised a Series A+ round of about $10 million for products that make it easier to test 5G millimeter wave equipment. So far, the company’s clients include KDDI, NTT DoCoMo and research institutions. But the Taiwanese startup has aspirations to sell its own base stations, too, competing with well-established players like Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung and Huawei.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

HoneyBook’s co-founder and CEO talks about how his company that provides financial services to small businesses managed to thrive despite the blow of Covid-19. Read more here. The post [Honeybook in CTech] “2020 was the year we learned how to take risks” appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

Researchers analyzed the activity of five popular English- and Russian-speaking Dark Web forums and discovered exponential membership growth. Read more here. The post [Sixgill in Information Week] Dark Web Forum Activity Surged 44% in Early COVID Months appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

Influitive CEO Mark Organ was feeling haggard. He’d just raised a seed round for the 12-person marketing technology startup and was rapidly building out his sales department. Read more here. The post [Influitive in First Round Review] Why You Need Two Chiefs in the Executive Office appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

Much has been touted about the intelligent SOC, particularly from security vendors hawking their latest wares. Read more here. The post [Stellar Cyber in Forbes] Is The Intelligent SOC A Smart Idea? appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 4, 2021

A medical gun that shoots a protective web to cover wounds and injuries is being used by doctors in India, Europe and Israel in a bid to help patients heal without the painful experience felt while changing bandages. Read more here. The post [Nanomedic in Wion] A medical gun that treats injuries, burns appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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