Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 18, 2021
Are you thinking about starting your own business but putting off the idea because you just crossed fifty? If yes, then you’re making a big mistake. According to the latest Hiscox report, 68% of encore entrepreneurs (who start at fifty) earn more than what they used to do in their previous job. ‘When to leap in the business world’ always attract different opinions.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Offerpad is the latest proptech company to go public via a SPAC merger. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based company announced Thursday its plans to go public by merging with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company in a deal valued at $3 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second, or early third, quarter of 2021. The combined company will be named Offerpad Solutions and trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “OPAD.”.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
MARCH 18, 2021
Rodney Sampson and Cate Luzio spoke at the Survive and Thrive Summit , hosted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media. The first two Summits were held earlier in 2020 and the next one will be in the spring of 2021. Registration is free. If you don’t want to miss when the event date is announced and when registration opens up, sign up for our newsletter.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Laura Crabtree spent a good chunk of her childhood watching rocket launches on television, and her entire professional career launching rockets, first at Northrup Grumman and then at SpaceX. Now, the former senior missions operations engineer at SpaceX is the co-founder and chief executive of a new LA-based space startup called Epsilon3 , which says it has developed the operating system for launch operations. “The tools I had wanted did not exist,” said Crabtree.
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StartupNation
MARCH 18, 2021
If you’re looking for Pinterest tips that will explode your traffic, you have landed in the right place. If your new website is struggling for traffic, it’s time to leverage this powerful marketing tool. Most people don’t realize that Pinterest is a place where shoppers go to find things to buy. It’s a visual search engine, and a largely untapped resource for many brands.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 18, 2021
Be the person people want to follow Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Fort Robotics today announced a $13 million raise. Led by Prime Movers Lab, the round also features Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub and Mark Cuban. The Philadelphia-based company was founded in 2018 by Samuel Reeves, who previous headed up Humanistic Robotics. That fellow Pennsylvania startup is focused on landmine and IED-clearing remote operating robotic systems.
GCUC
MARCH 18, 2021
The day has come. We knew it was on its way. Coworking and flexspaces are headed into the spotlight as many companies begin to. The post The Fundamentals of Flexible Workspace appeared first on GCUC Community.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Saleor , a Poland and U.S.-based startup that offers a “headless” e-commerce platform to make it easier for developers to build better online shopping experiences, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round is led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures , with participation from various angels. They include Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO and inventor of Next.js), Chris Schagen (former CMO of Contentful) and Kevin Mahaffey (co-founder of Lookout).
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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.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 18, 2021
A declining IMV (intellectual market value) is a pretty good indicator. Here’s how you can spot it and nip it in the bud. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Across the street from Suzhou North, a high-speed railway station in a historic city near Shanghai, a futuristic M-shaped building easily catches the eye of anyone passing by. It houses the headquarters of the five-year-old Chinese autonomous driving startup, Momenta. Like other major Chinese cities, Suzhou, which is famous for its serene canals and classical gardens, offers subsidized offices and policy support to attract high-tech firms.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 18, 2021
What if one insight about successful startups, creativity, and rapid growth was all it took to move the needle for you from “someday one day” aspiring entrepreneur to becoming the next Sara Blakely or Steve Jobs? One lightbulb moment. One brilliant idea. One second of one day in which you finally connect two puzzle pieces that make all the difference.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
OpenReel , a startup that makes it easier for teams to record videos remotely, has raised $19 million in Series A funding. CEO Lee Firestone told me that he and CTO Joe Mathew first started a video agency together, but when they were given “a pretty significant project” that involved remote production, they weren’t satisfied with any of the existing solutions and ended up “spending over a year to build this technology.” Of course, there are plenty of teams that have
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 18, 2021
Here’s what I learned from the experience Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. Today, the company announced a $180 million Series E. The round includes new investors Silver Lake Waterman, T. Rowe Price, Kayne Anderson Rudnick, and Fitch Venture along with existing investors Evolution Equity Partners, Accomplice, Riverwood Capital, Intel Capital, NGP Capital, AXA Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures)
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MARCH 18, 2021
I have written many times here that it is important to me that I control the platform that I publish on. I use the open-source WordPress software for my content management system and run that on a hosted server. I use my own domain, AVC.com, to locate my writings on the Internet. That has served me well. No matter how horrible I become, nobody is going to take me down.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Vega , a startup that is building a decentralized protocol for creating and trading on derivatives markets, has raised $5 million in funding. Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW co-led the round, which also included participation from Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Signum Capital, CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Three Commas and a slew of others. The new investment brings Vega’s total funding raised to over $10 million, according to Crunchbase data.
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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.
OurCrowd
MARCH 18, 2021
DailyPay, the recognized gold standard in the on-demand pay industry, is empowering managers and human resources professionals to recognize employees for a job well done with an innovative new solution launching later this year, REWARD by DailyPay. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in AiThority] DailyPay Continues to Innovate Its Gold Standard, Industry-Leading Platform With a New Rewards Solution Enabling on-the-Spot Payments appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
The B2B payments space has been on fire for a while, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only fueled mass adoption of digitizing finances. In regions like Latin America, the need for innovation in the sector is even more paramount than in the United States with so many people still relying on outdated processes. One Mexico City-based startup, Higo.io , is out to transform B2B payments for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) in Latin America, starting with its home country.
GCUC
MARCH 18, 2021
The day has come. We knew it was on its way. Coworking and flexspaces are headed into the spotlight as many companies begin to. The post The Fundamentals of Flexible Workspace appeared first on GCUC Community.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Cubyn , the Paris-based logistics startup that lets e-merchants outsource fulfilment and delivery logistics, has raised another €35 million in funding. The round is led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture, with participation from First Bridge Ventures and Fuse Venture Partners. Existing backers DN Capital, 360 Capital, Bpifrance Smart Cities fund and BNP Paribas Développement followed on.
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OnStartups
MARCH 18, 2021
MBAs have had a bad rep in the startup world for a while now. This short, fun video I did captures the sentiment -- and also answers the question: Does hiring an MBA into your startup reduce its chances of success? The video shares a story from the early days of HubSpot. Here's my advice: Don't shy away from hiring the right kind of MBAs in your startup.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
In February, London-listed telecom, Airtel Africa , said it was looking to sell a minority stake in its mobile money business in a bid to raise cash and sell off some assets. The firm seems to have found an investor as it announced that The Rise Fund , the global impact investing platform of investment firm TPG , will invest $200 million in its mobile money arm. .
Berkonomics
MARCH 18, 2021
Well, of course it is. So, let’s dig a bit deeper. Sometimes, you can reduce your personal risk by taking in other people’s money in various ways, perhaps starting with a consulting contract with a customer, purchasing a going business where profit or loss is known, or spinning off an existing revenue-generating portion of an existing business. But the risks don’t stop there.
TechCrunch
MARCH 18, 2021
Asteya , a Miami-based disability insurance startup that is geared toward small business owners and gig workers, launched today with a seed round of $10 million. Co-founder and CEO Alex Williamson, who was Bumble’s chief brand officer, describes Asteya as an “income insurance” startup. . The announcement comes on the heels of Bumble’s IPO last month , signaling that former executives are already taking their cash and betting that they themselves can build the next unicorn.
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