TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. The undisclosed investment comes two months after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced the tech giant’s intentions to commit $1 billion over the next five years in “tech-led initiatives”, which includes a $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at early- and growth-stage startups on the continent.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

According to the weekly pulse data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau Small Business Pulse Survey , domestic supplier delays were reported by 46% of small businesses at the end of November, up from 27% reported a year ago. Further, those reporting the challenge to find alternate domestic suppliers more than doubled from 11% to 23%. Wherever your business sits on the spectrum, you’ll want to follow these tips to navigate supply chain disruption.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Our final SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation of the year was packed with great information and fun. First, we congratulated affiliates selected to participate in the SBA Community Navigator Pilot Program including National Urban League , Nicolet Area Technical College , New Bedford Economic Council , Rochester Economic Development Corporation and Forward Cities.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

By turning rivals into partners, we can find strength in numbers Today’s world looks a bit like Wonderland: what seemed impossible just yesterday will be old news tomorrow. New companies, products, and markets appear faster than we can say the word “change”. In these circumstances, it’s no wonder that most of us agree with the saying, “competition drives the market”.

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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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance examinations. Edtech platforms such as Edukoya have sprung up with the intent to take these models online and maintain affordability for students. Today, the Lagos- and London-based startup, which builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 14, 2021

21-23 MARCH 2021 | TEL AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE. Fintech Week Tel Aviv 2022. 21-23 MARCH 2021 | TEL AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE. finechweektelaviv.com. Fintech Week Tel Aviv is an annual conference bringing together players from a host of global fintech hotspots and financial services world to look at the very latest issues, deliberate, share ideas and look at ways to collaborate and do business, all under the Tel Aviv sun.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

It’s practically impossible to run a business today without technology. Take just a sliver of business?—?say, a Marketing team. At Draftbit, we have separate systems for planning, designing, writing, and analyzing just our social media output. Multiply that across every function that the Marketing team performs, and we manage 20+ pieces of technology to reach potential customers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Food waste is a $2.6 trillion problem globally as some 40% of food is wasted annually. Full Harvest believes this is a distribution problem that can be solved by digitizing the produce supply chain. The San Francisco-based company’s produce business-to-business marketplace provides a way for produce buyers and sellers to quickly close deals on surplus or imperfect crops in just a few clicks.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Shutterstock. As businesses of all sizes approach the end of the year, retailers are pushing hard to grasp their customer’s attention with effective holiday marketing campaigns and hit their end-of-the-year targets. This year is no exception, presenting a huge opportunity for retailers. In the U.S. alone, retail sales are expected to reach $859 billion toward the end of the year, representing an increase of 10.5% from 2020 results of 8.5%.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 12, 2021

By Scott Meacham. It is exciting to see all that Tulsa is pouring into minority founders through ACT Tulsa. ACT Tulsa, Oklahoma’s unique six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating and driving innovation for underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is accepting applications for cohort #2. In just a few short months, we have reached the point where the work of ACT Tulsa can speak for itself.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

According to the Migration Policy Group, migrant entrepreneurship has received increasing attention from policy makers, stakeholders and scholars. As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Just two and a half months after emerging from stealth , weight care management startup Found announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $600 million. WestCap — a growth equity firm founded by former Blackstone and Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi — led the investment, with participation from IVP, The Chernin Group, G9 Ventures and Able Partners.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As the year comes to a close, it’s important for marketers and small business leaders alike to get a sense of what their consumers will be expecting from them in the future. So, what’s to come in 2022? Will technology continue to grow, with businesses using it to communicate more effectively with their consumers providing them with more value?

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: Edgybees, connecting the metaverse to the real world FAA says Flytrex drone delivery can go further Candel aims Bionaut micro-robots at brain cancer WSJ: OurCrowd ahead of the curve in UAE ties Meet OurCrowd’s mobility startups at CES Brodmann17 brings revolutionary ADAS vehicle to CES 2022 Orbital Insight upgrades GO satellite data platform CB Insight names Sweetch to top innovative health startups European banks adopt HUB Security’s cybersecuri

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2021

According to the Migration Policy Group, migrant entrepreneurship has received increasing attention from policy makers, stakeholders and scholars. As the specialists indicated, “In both the Action Plan for the integration of third-country nationals and the 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan , the European Commission emphasises that entrepreneurship represents an alternative form of decent and sustainable employment for migrants” ( 2019 ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As advertising and marketing become increasingly automated and thus commoditized, design has emerged as a savior to help brands stand out. And today, a startup that’s helping companies connect with a wider range of designers and other creatives to meet that demand is announcing a round of funding to fuel its business growth. Superside , which operates a network of freelance creatives that are tapped by companies to work on logos, display ads, packaging, bigger marketing campaigns and other

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business. Whether you’d like to focus more on marketing, sales, training or profitability, there’s always room for improvement in your business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky , an internationally-renowned thought leader in future-proofing and cognitive bias risk management and an EO 360° podcast guest. We asked Dr. Tsipursky to explain how companies can help employees adapt and thrive to hybrid return-to-office scenarios. Here’s what he shared: Organizations will need to pivot their corporate cultures if they wish to survive and thrive in the world of virtual collaboration after the pandemic.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Starting a business is easy – you just have to submit a few forms, get the required permit or license, and offer legitimate products/services. But making your business a success is altogether a different story. Leading people, making mistakes, feeling overwhelmed, and being criticized are a few of the many business challenges you have to overcome to turn your business into a success.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. Also participating was PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado and Google’s ex-director of product, Andrey Doronichev. StudyFree has now received a total of $3.6 million in funding.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

From celebrating local history to encouraging visitors, art can have a profoundly positive impact on our public and corporate spaces. For startups wishing to build their brand and cement their place in the local community, employing the skills of artists and supporting public art projects can be an excellent means of doing so. Shutterstock. While art is primarily considered to provide social and cultural benefits to the society it exists in, it also has commercial advantages.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Hailo, the leading edge Artificial Intelligence chipmaker today announced its partnership with NXP® Semiconductors, an automotive market innovator, to launch a number of joint AI solutions for automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs). The joint solutions will combine NXP’s safe and efficient automotive processors (S32G and Layerscape) along with the high-performance Hailo-8™ AI processor.

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Derek Sivers

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Live in the world of tomorrow. Surround yourself only with what’s brand new and upcoming. That’s where life is made. It’s the most optimistic environment, full of hope and promises. It’s the smartest way to live. You’re moving forward in time, so you should watch where you’re headed. Go where things are going. It’s the most exciting way to live. Every day will be like a child’s birthday, with surprising new breakthroughs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. But even as other technology rapidly evolves, basic web infrastructure has remained largely unchanged since the turn of the millennium. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Fishbone diagrams are tools used to help diagnose the cause of problems. They are also called cause-and-effect diagrams, fish disease, fish snap method, and Ishikawa diagrams. Additionally, these diagrams are typically used in the problem-solving process to understand what could be causing an issue. They help determine possible root causes of a problem by looking at many factors that may influence the situation.

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