Revolution
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
In 2013, Sweetgreen had 22 locations in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Boston, and New York?—?the first a 560-square-foot shack in our backyard. Fast forward to today, the tech-forward company spans more than 140 stores nationwide; partners regularly with chefs , artists , and cultural icons ; caters to millions of app users; and has officially debuted as a public company on the NYSE.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Joe Hellerstein. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Joe Hellerstein is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Trifacta and the Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In February 2010, The Economist published a report called “ Data, data everywhere.” Little did we know then just how simple the data landscape actually was. That is, comparatively speaking, when you consider the data realities we’re facing as we look to 2022.
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Source Link
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Congratulations to all the grantees awarded funds to participate in the SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program. You are embarking on work that is critical to building back inclusive and more resilient communities. We are excited to see so many in our SourceLink? network become hubs and/or spokes, and eager for this program roll out as it mirrors our own philosophy of building collaborative networks of entrepreneurship and small business owner support.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. Of course, every VC dreams of investing in a business that can grow into a billion-dollar unicorn company, but these instances are few and far between. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
HPA
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Stagetime announced raising a $1.5M Series Seed round , which was led by HPA. M25 and IU Angel Network also participated in the round. Stagetime is a networking platform for the performing arts industry. Stagetime empowers creatives to create a comprehensive professional story about their past performances and skill sets. Stagetime is an online network where artists, agents, and artistic administrators can grow as professionals and maintain relationships by engaging with industry connections, sh
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Impact Hub
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Africa, 15 November 2021 – Deep Dive Africa, an initiative by Impact Hub and the GrowthAfrica Foundation, is back for the second year of connecting early-stage investors and African startups. The program is funded by Make-IT in Africa, a project implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fu?r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Creativity is essential for any organization if you want to keep your business moving forward. There are numerous organizations that have designed a cool, funky, creative environment for their employees to help them relax and spark creative thinking to get their projects moving forward. Some organizations go as far as having regular brainstorming sessions when working on a project to allow employees to contribute and build on a project.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Designed by Rawpixel.com?—?Freepik.com Expanding into a new market is always a risk, especially if your niche in this market is already a red ocean and the market itself is very different from those you’ve already mastered. The Chinese market has always been a tough nut to crack for Western and European companies. The probability of bringing a successful EdTech company here is very small since this market in China is already occupied by local players.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Homebase , a Ho Chi Minh City-based proptech startup that helps people buy homes, announced today it has raised $30 million in equity and debt (the ratio was undisclosed). The company’s business model is similar to Divvy Homes and ZeroDown in the United States and, in fact, Divvy Homes co-founder and former CEO Brian Ma and Zerodown chief operating officer Troy Steckenrider III are investors in Homebase.
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Impact Hub
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
For the launch of our global Environmental Strategy , we spoke to Anne Merkle, Environmental Lead at Impact Hub Network. Q: First things first, tell us, why do you do what you do? A: Simply put, because I carry a deep love for our planet in me and want to know that I did everything possible for future generations to have the chance for a vibrant, peaceful and content life.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Top investment opportunities. Startup of the Week: Flytrex drones deliver to your backyard. The chip that stole Christmas. El Al showcases IntellAct at Dubai Airshow. Sniffing out Covid-19. Breaking OurCrowd news at FinTech Abu Dhabi. Life lessons from a venture visionary. OurCrowd Global Investor Summit returns to Jerusalem. Superpedestrian partners with Moovit to improve urban mobility.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
SEO can be a revenue goldmine, but as fruitful as it can be, it is not an easy undertaking. SEO requires consistency and a multidirectional approach. While most companies are investing the time and effort to get their SEO game right, most of them are not yielding the desired results. As per an Ahrefs study, just 5.7% of all studied pages ranked in the Top 10 search results within one year.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get things done, and startups building these tools are raising a lot of money as they see a surge of business. In the latest development, EasySend — a Tel Aviv startup that has built a platform for people to build customer interactions using drag-and-drop interfaces that do not require knowing any coding languages — has raised $55.5 millio
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David Teten VC
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area.
Smart Hustle Magazine
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Did you know you can grow your small business, if you’re into trucking, by becoming an Amazon freight partner ? During an interview with April Taylor of Opulent Transport, Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com learned how Taylor’s partnership with Amazon has helped her trucking business grow. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Want to partner with Amazon?
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Top brand consultancies and naming agencies charge five- or even six-digit fees to develop company names. What’s behind those price tags, and what’s a less expensive approach to finding the perfect name for your company? In 1999, Salon published “The name game,” a 5,000-word hit job on “big-league corporate naming.” The article portrays a late-’90s brand consulting industry full of pettiness, delusions of grandeur, faux-Latinate names like Agilent and Naviant, and price tags ranging from $
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
SnapAttack , a threat hunting startup that was this week spun out from IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton , has secured $8 million in Series A funding. The startup, which claims to hold the “largest library of labeled threat data in the world,” was created within Booz Allen DarkLabs, a team of researchers, threat hunters, analysts and data scientists that focuses on preventing cyberattacks.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
The act of creation rewires your thinking. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Words like Loaded Pistols. What an arresting title for a book. I decided to read it just based on its cover. In the first few pages, I learned that it’s a book about rhetoric. What is rhetoric? I met a few people in college who studied it, and I thought it had to do with logic or philosophy. I was wrong. It’s the art of convincing others with words.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
There are many small business loans available for startups. Learn more about the different financing options and how you can get a startup loan for your business. There’s a bit more that goes into running a business than a million-dollar idea and an endless supply of Red Bull. Profitability is the metric of success and it takes money to make money – especially when you’re first starting out.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Netlify came early to the idea of separating front-end design and back-end business processes on websites. It embraced Jamstack and microservices when those technologies were not well understood. It’s a fairly common way to build a website today, but it wasn’t always the case when they started. Perhaps that knowledge and understanding is what attracted investors to the company.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
??You shouldn’t have to onboard a technical co-founder just to test a business idea. Bubble is a no-code platform that enables you to build web apps. Here’s my simple definition of a no-code platform: A platform that allows you to build an interactive web app through a “drag and drop” user interface and easy-to-implement logic. Working on a no-code platform is almost like writing in plain English.
HPA
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Cohesion , a leader in smart building and digital twin SaaS technology, announced raising $15M in a Series A round co-led by HPA and Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund. By creating one of the world’s largest repositories of commercial real estate data, Cohesion will lead the industry’s transformation to autonomous buildings. The company will use the new funding to focus on strategic channel growth and for product and market expansion including its digital twin technology for optimizing building envi
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Excerpt from Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing by Ilana Preuss.Copyright © 2021 Ilana Preuss. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. The Secret Sauce: Small-Scale Manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses create a tangible product—in any material—that can be replicated or packaged; my catch all is “hot sauce, handbags, and hardware.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Zoom is great and all, but talking to a lot of two-dimensional humans on computer screens is hardly the future we were all dreaming of. PORTL agrees, and under the catchy slogan “if you can’t be there, beam there,” has carved out a new slice of the market, where you can holographically teleport your image to anywhere in the world. The company just announced that it teleported a 220-foot stack of $20 bills from a number of investors’ bank accounts to its own.
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