NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. Kimer Med. “Talk to your potential customers as soon as you can.” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 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. It’s hot all over the world, and even hotter in today’s newsletter. We’ve procured a steaming pile of TechCrunch deliciousness for you to devour. If you can believe it, it is only Tuesday. — Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Tactics to master entrepreneurship, marketing and sales Building huge social audiences The defining qualities of successful entrepreneurs Let’s get into it. The introvert’s guide to entrepreneurship Rachel Greenberg graduated from unsuccessful attempted sales calls to running multiple businesses that make 6+figures for just a fe

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. It’s possible that your pre-seed, pre-revenue startup could similarly defy gravity, but in July 2022, it’s going to be difficult to find many investors who want to bet on a company with no traction.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2022

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fintonia Group (Fintonia), an entrepreneurial financial services company based in Singapore , announced today that it has secured a provisional virtual asset license granted by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The license allows Fintonia to participate in Dubai’s fast-growing digital assets ecosystem by operating crypto native services under full regulatory supervi

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

TX Zhuo. Contributor. Share on Twitter. TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures , focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities. More posts by this contributor. For startups choosing a platform, a decision looms: Build or buy? Strike first, strike hard, no mercy: How emerging managers can win. James Shecter. Contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2022

If you feel like you’re failing or getting nowhere fast, here’s the solution to right the ship Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Bloom , a Sudan-based fintech that offers a high-yield savings account and adjacent digital banking services, has raised a $6.5 million seed round. This investment is coming after the startup’s undisclosed pre-seed round last year. This financing welcomed participation from fintech giant Visa, Y Combinator, U.S.-based VCs Global Founders Capital (GFC) and Goodwater Capital and UAE-based early-stage firm VentureSouq.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 19, 2022

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

As AI-powered services like OpenAI’s GPT-3 grow in popularity, they become an increasingly attractive attack vector. Even shielded behind an API, hackers can attempt to reverse-engineer the models underpinning these services or use “adversarial” data to tamper with them. According to Gartner, 30% of all AI cyberattacks in 2022 will leverage these techniques along with data poisoning, which involves injecting bad data into the dataset used to train models to attack AI systems.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 19, 2022

“Maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all…They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can’t see and spaces we can’t cover.” — Robert Harbison, Professor of Architecture. Cancer, which uses genetic mutations to turn … The post Investing in Cartography Biosciences appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. Brands overproduce more than $500 billion of goods annually, and all of that excess inventory leads to retailers needing to do markdowns, which is what we recently saw both Walmart and Target have to do.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 19, 2022

What is the difference between web2 & web3, really? Yes, there are tokens and initial coin offerings and drops and discords. But, today, they resemble each other quite a bit. Here’s my mental model: Imagine a startup that sells sports cards. A web2 architecture for this app would have five parts. A transaction database: user 1 sold card ABC to user 3.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

While the venture capital world slows, climate tech is bucking the trend as startups in the space continue to ink deals at a record pace. In the process, the sector is climbing the ranks. In the first quarter of this year, five climate tech deals made it into CB Insight’s top 10 lists covering seed and venture capital rounds. In total, those five climate tech deals pulled in $1.4 billion in funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 19, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Pintarnya , one-stop digital platform for blue collar workers to find employment opportunities in Indonesia, today announced it has raised $8 million from East Ventures and Vertex Ventures SEA & India (VVSEAI), bringing the total seed funding to $14.3 million, one of the largest seed funding rounds in Southeast Asia to-date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The market for HR tech, which runs the gamut from workforce management to applicant recruitment and tracking systems, has proven remarkably resilient in the face of both pandemic and economic headwinds. In fact, some would argue that it’s precisely because of these headwinds that HR tech has attracted, and continues to attract, investors’ attention.

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Health Tech Capital

JULY 19, 2022

In July 2022, we migrated to a new platform powered by Dealum to provide a better experience to entrepreneurs and help them syndicate with other investor groups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

When you’re building a startup and thinking about what it’s going to take to raise your first dollars in a slowing capital market , perspective can be very helpful. In this case perspective, like any story worth telling, has two sides — founder and venture. Of course, we’ll cover both sides of the venture capital coin at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-10, and we’ve already announced the investors who will offer the venture perspective on the first fundraising question.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has emerged as a pan-industry force by just about every estimation. SaaS has been bucking many of the venture slowdown trends , while data from Gartner indicates that SaaS constituted the lion’s share ($123 billion) of cloud end-user spending ($332 billion) last year. But the pervasiveness of SaaS, and ease-of-access ushered in by the broader cloud movement, has created a beast that has come to be known as SaaS sprawl , with some companies accessing as many as

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Opendoor opened the door, so to speak, to the idea of applying technology to the concept of house flipping to both scale the opportunity and make it considerably more efficient. And while its share price is being hammered at the moment in a wider downturn for tech stocks overall, it’s a strong enough concept that it’s inspired a number of others to follow in its footsteps.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Increasingly, absent a federal framework, U.S. states are passing privacy and security laws aimed at protecting people’s data. The California Consumer Privacy Act is perhaps the best known, followed by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the New York Privacy Act and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. While the laws are a step in the right direction from a consumer standpoint, for startups, it can be tricky to navigate the patchwork of policies they’ve codified.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Crop One Holdings and Emirates Flight Catering announced this week they opened Emirates Crop One, what they say is “the world’s largest vertical farm.”. The over 330,000-square-foot facility is located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates near Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central. It has the capacity to produce over 2 million pounds of leafy greens annually.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

?. On this episode of Found Live, Chief co-founder and CEO Carolyn Childers joins us to talk about leading a company that is focused on good leadership. After a transformative experience with another woman business leader who is now her co-founder, Carolyn wanted to create a product that would connect women at the VP and C-suite level with the kind of excellent mentorship she experienced while providing virtual and in-person spaces to develop community.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6 million round of funding, bought the original patents for the world’s first electronic computer — the ENIAC — and is launching out of stealth this week.

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