Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

By Jewelle Saunders. Having an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace has many benefits. Some of the common best practices to keep in mind when building an inclusive workplace, according to Ideal , include fair treatment and equal access to opportunities; a focus on teamwork and collaboration; representation at all levels; diversity, equity and inclusion training, and education; and effective and consistent communication.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2021

Contributed by John Sanei , a futures strategist who conveys smart, effective strategies to business owners and entrepreneurs to help build the courage and clarity they need to forge the future they want. Sanei is Africa’s first Singularity University faculty member who served as a panelist during EO’s future of leadership event with moderator Winnie Hart.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. I started my first company at around the age of 24. It was called Pyramid Digital Solutions and it was a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) company in the financial services vertical. I bootstrapped it, ran it for about 10 years and then sold it to a large software company in an all cash, no attachments deal. Now, I had something I’d never had before -- liquidity.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 24, 2021

A friend and I dined last night at a restaurant that opened in our neighborhood last summer, in the middle of the pandemic. For the first six months of its existence, they could not welcome diners into the space that they had spent time and money creating. They carried on, figured out how to make money serving customers outside. As the NYC economy starts to recover, they are still standing.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

By Jewelle Saunders. “Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities, rights, and benefits,” says Marí?a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It is time for everyone to fight for what is right and fair.”. María, who was born and raised in El Salvador, is the founder of Masshii. She dedicates herself to creating wearable art and ethical jewelry using unconventional materials and creating fair employment opportunities for at-risk groups in El Salvador.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

“We always say unapologetically: we’re here to win, we’re here to win big, and our opportunity is big.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. There’s no denying that women have made many strides in closing the gender gap in tech, but those trends haven’t necessarily been true for female founders.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 25, 2021

I have a Samsung Frame in my home office. I think I posted a photo of it here at AVC once before. But for those who did not see that post, here it is: I’ve had it for something like three years and I change the digital art on it from time to time. Digital Art has been tricky to purchase and own and the business models around it are a bit challenging.

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Revolution

MARCH 23, 2021

The New Startup Geography: VCs used to view the heartland as an investment desert. But the pandemic has altered the whole idea of place. Read more in the March/April issue of Inc. about Revolution’s Rise of the Rest and our efforts to get more capital flowing to startups outside the coastal tech hubs here. The New Startup Geography: VCs used to view the heartland as an investment desert. was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighti

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer new ways for consumers to collect, wear and trade fashion online, and now that most fashion shows have scaled back or gone virtual , they may become an important tool for the industry. Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 22, 2021

The YLAI Alumni Advisory Board is excited to invite you to an upcoming virtual event entitled “ Challenging Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship “, presented in honor of YLAI4All and International Women’s Day. The event was inspired by the 2021 International Women’s Day theme, “I Choose to Challenge.” The event will focus on the importance of women’s businesses around the world in an effort to eliminate gender bias in entrepreneurship.

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StartupNation

MARCH 26, 2021

If you think you’ve missed out on the e-commerce boom and should have started an online business long ago, here is some reassuring news: the industry’s rapid growth isn’t slowing down any time soon, and selling your products online has never been easier. Online sales were increasing steadily before the pandemic, but 2020 saw incredible growth. E-commerce sales grew more than 30% year-over-year in Q4 of last year, with U.S. sales reaching nearly $250 billion by Q4 of 2020.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

FourKites , the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a new $100 million Series D financing round. The growth financing is led by Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The equity-free and capital-free program has chosen five early-stage fintech startups out of 100 applications to join its cohort, working on issues central to the financial services industry such as simplifying payments and access to credit.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 23, 2021

Today is our 32nd Demo Day, and 319 companies are presenting virtually. You can see a list of the companies that presented on-the-record in the YC Directory. Below are some stats about the YC Winter 2021 batch. YC W21 categories : B2B Software and Services – 46%. Consumer – 14%. Education – 4%. Financial Technology and Services – 15%. Healthcare – 12%.

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StartupNation

MARCH 24, 2021

We asked IT decision-makers what would drive them to deploy private 5G. In the process, we discovered that many are already exploring this nascent technology. To take the pulse of technology and business trends, Dell Technologies has been regularly surveying 800 IT decision-makers (ITDMs) across six countries (U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Brazil and China).

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2021

Leaf Trade , the leading wholesale cannabis ecommerce platform, announced their Series A financing. Hyde Park Angels participated in the $5.5 million round, which was led by Artemis Growth Partners. Leaf Trade connects licensed wholesale cannabis retailers and suppliers and standardizes operational practices that enable them to scale in a rapidly-expanding industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator is slowly growing its stake in education companies, as the sector balloons with newfound demand from remote learners. In its latest batch, the famed accelerator had its highest number of edtech startups yet: 14 companies from around the world, working on everything from teacher monetization to homework apps to ways to train software engineers in an affordable fashion.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

An disruptive idea marks the start of a startup. But not all ideas convert into real businesses. Some are discarded during the course and some fail. But to make sure that the startup idea can result in a profitable business, an entrepreneur needs to validate it. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. It is where pre-seed capital comes in.

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StartupNation

MARCH 22, 2021

You’ve decided to take the plunge and start your dream business. You’ve decided what your new company is going to do and have formulated your overall strategy. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here. Now it’s time to complete a checklist of necessary tasks to set up and structure your business: Name your business.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

If you run a profitable business and you’re looking to expand, how about going global? T he thought might be daunting. How do you start and what if things don’t go according to plan? These are common concerns, however, it might be easier than you think. We talked to Tony Shan, the head of Alibaba’s cross-border B2C platforms in North America. He shed some light on how to get into global trade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

In an Extra Crunch Live this past week, Cleo Capital founding partner Sarah Kunst broke down what founders can learn from Supreme, a sought-after streetwear brand. She argued that founders, similar to Supreme, should build a brand around themselves that is so well-respected and has clout that whenever they start something new, investors will line up.

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Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

When starting a business, an individual has to make many key decisions. A business owner might choose to branch out, establish different departments and ultimately hire employees. Or they might go solo. Solopreneurship at its core work on a very simple principle – grind and hustle alone. But what makes it different from entrepreneurship ? What dimensions an individual must be aware of before venturing into this field?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 26, 2021

Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise , had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part — and not always for good. In the labor force and the environment sector, she’d seen technology replace jobs, relegating janitors and receptionists to contract work. In the music industry, she’d seen artists’ content devalued with advances in digital innovation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2021

Developer tools and business-to-developer companies are among some of our favorite category of startup. We’ve had the privilege to partner with many of the leaders like Stripe, Twilio, Hashicorp, LaunchDarkly, SourceGraph, and Heroku, among many others. Developer documentation is one of the differentiators in developer community building efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and Ugochukwu is quite familiar with currency devaluation. . Currency devaluation is a common economic nightmare faced in most African countries and other developing countries worldwide.

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