Feedough
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
You not only have to be an innovator but also a leader if you want to succeed in the startup ecosystem. For a startup to exist, you should have a disruptive idea, the right investor, and unique positioning. But more than that, you need to be an exceptional leader to lead the startup and make it stay in the market for long. Startup leadership is a unique art that not everyone possesses.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Sponsored content. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, stress was already costing Australian businesses upwards of $10 billion every year. Anxiety levels have worsened, with COVID-19 proving to be hugely disruptive to corporate wellness. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to workplace stress and other related health problems. However, it could potentially be beneficial to implement a workplace wellness program with the goal of improving health and wellness, as well as productivity, at your company
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Contributed by Erik Kruger , founder of Modern Breed , an international learning and development firm cultivating a new breed of leaders and teams. As a speaker, writer and thinking partner for entrepreneurs and business leaders, Erik shared his expertise with Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) members during learning events about the future of leadership. .
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez took a turn on Web Summit’s stage in December to announce the introduction of the forthcoming Startup Act — and to trumpet a new role, a high commissioner, tasked with bringing o
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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.
Impact Hub
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The Global Impact Hub network condemns the recent actions of the Myanmar military undermining the democratic process and institutions of Myanmar, as well as the human rights of its citizens. Throughout its network, Impact Hub supports peaceful, participatory and democratic structures and upholding of the rule of law. The actions of the military – neglecting the results of the November 2020 election, arrests of elected government officials and arbitrary legislation violating human rights ar
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
ByondXR powers Lancôme virtual stores. FDA nod for BrainQ’s breakthrough stroke therapy. No, we are not going back to the future. SALT Talks, Feb. 24: Israel’s Vaccine Rollout Tech. Otonomo heads for SPAC. Edgybees raises $9.5M Series A for video augmentation. Cyabra warns on public attitudes to Texas storm. HUB Security merges with ALD. Singapore’s SpeQtral and QuantLR confront quantum attacks.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. In Africa, a handful of startups have launched in the past three years to provide such services. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Fundraising takes a long time. I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. I don’t have enough traction. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k. I committed to the round, but I wanted to see her raise a bit more—at least $750k, but perhaps up to $1.5mm.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s a myth that only the top startups and the best startup jobs are in Silicon Valley or New York City. As a Midwest company built for Midwest startups, we know that’s just not true. In 2020, Glassdoor came out with a list of the top 25 U.S. Cities for jobs. And guess what—most of the cities on the list were in the Midwest. Detroit ranked number 10.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)’s purpose is to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential by enabling life-enhancing connections, designing shared experiences and providing collaborative learning. EO’s quarterly Impact Day events, as part of the sustainability plan, including “Reimagine Success” and “Designing Your Future,” focus on our planet and the vital role businesses play in building a sustainable future.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The GitHub for music producers ranging from Hook N Sling , Mr Hudson SLY, and Steve Solomon to TechCrunch’s own Megan Rose Dickey , Splice gained a following for its ability to help electronic dance music creators save, share, collaborate and remix music.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
I remember meeting Zach Sims and his co-founder Ryan Bubinski back in 2011 when they started Codecademy. Zach was still in college and thinking of dropping out to focus on the Company. I just realized this morning that it has been ten years since then. Wow. Time does fly. Like many great companies their idea was simple, but powerful. build the easiest way to learn to code.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
On this morning’s WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares details of the Motown Musician Accelerator Program , an education and grant initiative designed to help local aspiring musicians and music managers break into business. The program takes in 10 aspiring artists and 10 aspiring managers who will begin a six-week program and work toward earning a slot for the 12-week intensive workshop program.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Do you want to start or grow your business? Let’s do a spot check and see if you have these 10 key pillars of a successful business: 10 Small Business Pillars. Target audience. Are you getting clients and serving your audience? Business solution. Does your business solve a specific problem? Pricing. Do you have pricing down? Capacity. Are you built to the right scale?
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The murder of George Floyd last May ignited many things in the United States last year — one of which that was perhaps unexpected: a rise in the number of digital banks targeting the Black community. Some members of the Black community took their belief that big banks are not meeting their needs and turned them into startup concepts. One of those startups, First Boulevard (formerly called Tenth), has just raised $5 million in seed funding from Barclays, Anthemis and a group of angel invest
HPA
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
We are excited to share that Hyde Park Angels participated in K4 Mobility’s $5.6M equity round, which was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners and included other notable investors. K4 Mobility is a digital platform that provides Off-Grid Internet (OGi) solutions with an initial focus on the maritime market. In-flight WiFi maker Gogo brought the internet to the skies and K4 Mobility is providing internet connection to ships.
StartupNation
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The following is excerpted from “Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success” by Charlene Walters (McGraw Hill, February 2021). One day, you will be happily working for someone else: exceeding monthly goals and growing their profits. And then, another day, you’ll realize that you’re not getting the recognition or opportunities that you deserve.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Economics tend to favor the bold and the innovative. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Burrow , a startup that first launched with a modular sofa , eventually aims to sell you furniture for every room in your home. Today, it’s announcing that it’s raised $25 million in Series C funding. Burrow participated in the Y Combinator accelerator in 2016 with an initial aim of building sofas that, by virtue of being modular, were easier to move and adapt to a variety of living spaces.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
How ecosystem builders stay motivated and avoid burning out. Ecosystem building work is often thankless, tiring, and even demoralizing at times. How do ecosystem builders stay motivated to keep doing the work? What specific practices do ecosystem builders use for self-care, to keep going, and avoid burning out? This was the question I put to a group of participating ecosystem builders as part of the Insights from the Field campaign.
Smart Hustle Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
The world as a whole is facing the most challenging time in recent history. The health and economic effects of COVID-19 caught most countries off guard. We have known one thing for certain: staying home would save lives. However, staying home also had major negative effects on the economy and our businesses. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 14.5 percent in April, slowly recovering to 10.2 percent in July.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Lessons from EdTech founder David Rogier. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Over the past year or so, voice transcription startup Otter.ai doubled down on the future of remote work by integrating its product with meeting apps like Zoom and Google Meet. With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
By Scott Meacham. It is sometimes remarkable the lessons about entrepreneurship that we can learn from reading about the life of just one person. Wiley Post is such a man. Wiley Post offers lessons. Wiley Post was a man of curiosity and adventure born into a working family of cotton farmers who bounced around Texas and Oklahoma, finally settling near Maysville, OK.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Medisafe, a startup developing a personalized medication management platform to help patients stay on top of their prescriptions, today announced it has raised $30 million. The company says this new investment will enable it to expand its solutions while accelerating revenue. Read more here. The post [Medisafe in VentureBeat] Medisafe raises $30 million for predictive AI that reminds people to take their pills appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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