TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Brett Lovelady. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios , now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure are well known: Undercapitalization, scaling challenges, lack of a competitive advantage or realistic IP.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

By Jenn Fulmer, a content writer for TechnologyAdvice , IT Business Edge, and Baseline. There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. If employees constantly worry about keeping their green light on, they can’t focus on their actual work. Many managers are worried about the productivity of their remote workers and want a good way to measure it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has built technology to make that process move faster and more efficiently is announcing a round of funding to address those enterprises’ evolving needs.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Despite the recent radical economic changes, entrepreneurs have been resilient and adapted their business models to cope and sometimes even go public. However, entrepreneurs often make costly, avoidable errors in their funding strategies. Entrepreneurs can optimize their fundraising strategy by learning to avoid cash management pitfalls and how investors evaluate startups.

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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year. Hanwha Solutions of South Korea led the funding round and was joined by existing investors SOSV’s IndieBio, TechU Ventures, ff VC and Siddhi Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 billion — and conversely, the viral interest we’ve been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can “buy” a share of a limited-edition digital asset, are two examples of how the tech world today revolves around — and values — catchy ways of engaging with visual media online.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

You’ll be able to fundraise once you understand what investors really want to see. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When sister duo Claudia and Carolina Recchi were first building EdSights , they used a big guiding question. “In a perfect world [where] we somehow had a magic wand that allowed us to collect the data on whatever we want on our fingers, what would we want to know to prevent [college] students from dropping out?,” Claudia said. The co-founder’s first few years were spent understanding data points, whether it was helping connect students to the right resources or simply hearing their concerns and

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I made $102,578 in a year after I fixed it. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

German startup Dance has raised $19.4 million in new funding (€16.5 million). The news comes just weeks after the company started rolling out its e-bike subscription service in Berlin. Eurazeo is leading today’s funding round. HV Capital and BlueYard are also investing, as well as Dave Morin and James Higa from Offline Ventures, Nicolas Berggruen, Roxanne Varza and Verena Pausder.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

don’t be that creepy person who invites a stranger on a holiday abroad. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Customer service is one of the most important relationships between a business and its customer, and that was made even more clear during the global pandemic. Though Thankful AI CEO Ted Mico and his co-founder Evan Tann didn’t start out with experience from the business side, they started the Venice, California-based company in 2018 out of frustration as customers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If you have employees working remotely, you should make sure that they change their passports more frequently to keep business data safe. According to the Psychology of Passwords report from LastPass, only 35% of business owners make their remote employees change their passwords regularly. This simply means a whopping 65% of business owners don’t ensure that remote employees update their passwords frequently.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Mobile spyware is one of the most invasive and targeted kinds of unregulated surveillance, since it can be used to track where you go, who you see and what you talk about. And because of its stealthy nature, mobile spyware can be nearly impossible to detect. But now one Y Combinator-backed startup is building an app with the aim of helping anyone identify potential mobile spyware on their phones.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

I used to ride a Vespa around NYC. I rode it to work and back for about ten years, from roughly 2003 to 2013. I stopped riding it when Bloomberg’s Traffic Enforcement people starting towing it when it was parked between cars on the street (something I had been doing since I started riding it). A few visits to the tow pound will do that to you.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The decarbonization of the planet will be the next major disruption of the 21st century, according to SOSV managing general partner Sean O’Sullivan and Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. A disruption of such magnitude will bring about changes that will touch every industry and corner of daily life, and as a result, a complex web of challenges and resistance.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses new data that shows nearly one-third of U.S. businesses don’t have a website. Nearly one-third! Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about why every small business needs a website: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE.

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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.

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When businesses can connect more personally with their customers, those customers in turn are more loyal. However, as consumer behavior changes, especially as it did over the past 18 months, it is more difficult to establish that connection amid all of the messages put in front of them. Optimove , specializing in customer relationship management marketing, wants to help brands “delight” their customers and keep them coming back.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Food and beverage products are a big part of any. Read more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Investor and entrepreneur Anshu Sharma — formerly a partner at Storm Ventures, now CEO of privacy-focused SkyFlow — asked on Twitter today about the connection between interest rates and technology valuations: Ignore the compliments; Sharma was merely trying to bait Jeff and me into engaging with his question. Which worked, as you can tell.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Dubai: US futuristic transporter Virgin Hyperloop will showcase a full-scale hyperloop cargo pod and a cutaway passenger pod as part of DP World’s pavilion at Expo 2020. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in Gulf News] Super-speed transporter Virgin Hyperloop to showcase passenger and cargo pods at Expo 2020 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

For many financial institutions in Southeast Asia, verifying new customers takes a week or two, said the founders of Verihubs. The startup cuts that time down to as little as five seconds, using AI-based identity authentication technology and APIs that let companies continue verifying returning customers through SMS, WhatsApp or flash calls. Verihubs announced it has raised $2.8 million in seed funding for its goal of becoming “the one-stop for verification in Southeast Asia.” The ro

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

BriefCam, the provider of video content analytics and VIDEO SYNOPSIS® solutions, announces availability for BriefCam video content analytics on Axis deep learning cameras in December 2021. Read more here. The post [BriefCam in Security Informed] BriefCam Announces Availability Of Video Content Analytics On Axis Cameras appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has announced the close of a $60 million Series B that the company will use to help set up manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as scale up its retail capabilities. “We are in the process of implementing initiatives to scale the business, structuring and laying the base for rapid growth,” said Stefan Ytterborn, founder and CEO of Cake, in a statement.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Smart imaging company Zebra Medical Vision landed an FDA 510(k) clearance for its cardiac-focused imaging tool called HealthCCSng. Read more here. The post [Zebra in MobiHealth News] Zebra Medical Vision lands FDA clearance for tool to detect cardiovascular disease appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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