Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A lesson about PR from the founder who hosted one of the most “epic” launch parties in history Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
StartupNation
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Many new entrepreneurs start their businesses with funds from their own personal savings, or by getting friends and family to help them get off the ground. But that’s not an option for everyone. What do you do then? Your first inclination is probably to try to get a bank loan. But it can be very difficult for a brand new business to get a small business loan from a bank.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
DECEMBER 1, 2020
The season of giving is upon us. In fact, consumer behaviors are continuing to change in favor of giving businesses that stand for something. For instance, 73% of Americans make buying decisions based on companies’ charitable giving. Additionally, employees are more engaged and have more job satisfaction when they work for companies that prioritize charitable giving. 73% of Americans make buying decisions based on companies’ charitable giving.
UBI Global
DECEMBER 3, 2020
The startup game-changing newsletter Our Corporate Matching article outlined the three categories of collaboration that UBI Global is opening for startups to meet corporate innovation seekers. After reading the Corporate Calls vs. #savetheunicorns article, you are now familiar with two of the three categories, and we’ve saved the most intriguing for last.
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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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Ultimate.ai , a virtual customer service agent builder, has closed a $20 million Series A round of funding, led by Omers Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and existing investors HV Capital, and Maki.vc — bringing its total raised to date to $25M+. The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions.
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Smart Hustle Magazine
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Chris Donan works for AT&T Business as the VP of Business Sales. His job is to serve small, medium-sized businesses across the United States. He has the responsibility of leading and working alongside 1,300 solutions and technology specialists that work directly with small businesses. They also support their needs through the COVID-19 crisis. Small businesses are a golden thread across AT&T — they were a small business once too.
Impact Hub
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Gender inequality is a global problem. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women Entrepreneurship Report 2018/19 shows that the average rate of women’s overall entrepreneurial activity is 10.2%, which is more than three-quarters of the overall rate of men’s entrepreneurial activity. Women are already experiencing the economic and social consequences of the pandemic.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. The round was led by Coatue, with returning investors from Stripe, Crosslink Capital, Collaborative Fund and Will Smith’s Dreamers VC. The startup also added some celeb investors to this round, including Charli D’Amelio, Justin Timberlake and The Chainsmokers, as well as big names from the world
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Artificial Intelligence: Digital Health’s Secret Weapon. Sky News: Startups solving global challenges. Al-Binali: UAE-Israel partnership can help the world. INSIGHTEC: UK NHS approves funding for focused ultrasound treatment. Zebra: UK trials for AI-driven osteoporosis detection.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one. The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. You get, if you’re lucky, a Powerpoint and some financials once a quarter.
Venture Well
DECEMBER 1, 2020
VentureWell Faculty Grants recipient, John Hadjimarcou from The University of Texas at El Paso encourages his students to take the risks on their innovation and entrepreneurship journey. The post teaching students the power of innovation and courage: Q&A with John Hadjimarcou of The University of Texas at El Paso appeared first on VentureWell.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. WaveOne hopes to change that by taking the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and making them AI-powered — while somehow avoiding the pitfalls that would-be codec revolutionizers and “AI-powered” startups often fall into.
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
Startup of the week: Diagnostic Robotics. Sushi, Samurai and the Startup Nation. Artificial Intelligence: Digital Health’s Secret Weapon. Sky News: Startups solving global challenges. Al-Binali: UAE-Israel partnership can help the world. INSIGHTEC: UK NHS approves funding for focused ultrasound treatment. Zebra: UK trials for AI-driven osteoporosis detection.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
DECEMBER 3, 2020
I have written about stablecoins a bunch here at AVC. I believe cryptocurrencies that are not highly volatile are important for use cases like e-commerce. I explained why here. So we need crypto assets that are price stabilized and one of the best ways to do that is to peg a crypto asset to a fiat currency like the dollar. You do that by fully reserving the asset with dollars.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . “Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give. It’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” ? Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa. When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Floww — a data-driven marketplace designed to allow founders to pitch investors, with the whole investment relationship managed online — says it has raised $6.7 million (£5 million) to date in seed funding from angels and family offices. Investors include Ramon Mendes De Leon, Duncan Simpson-Craib, Angus Davidson, Stephane Delacote and Pip Baker (Google’s head of Fintech U.K.) and multiple family offices.
StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The story of my company, White Spider, began when I rented out the guest bedroom of my San Francisco apartment. I initially did it to make some quick cash to buy a used bike, but that weekend turned into many, and the bedroom became a mainstay on Airbnb. Eventually, I quit my high-paying job as a salesperson, and my side hustle grew into a successful design and guest management firm for vacation rental properties.
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Innovation 2 Enterprise
NOVEMBER 29, 2020
By Scott Meacham. In the venture capital industry, “unicorn” is a term used to describe a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. The idea being, that unicorns are a rare mythical breed, more likely imagined than seen—but in the venture capital business, they do sometimes appear and, when they do, it is a very special occurrence.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Free lessons from the worlds best entrepreneurs Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020 , our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Buy your pass and join us on December 16-17 for two days packed with all the right stuff, including untapped opportunity. Still looking for a reason to initiate your launch sequence?
Feedough
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Economies around the world witness a combination of different market structures. While there’s a lot of competition in most industries, some industries witness just one seller. There exists no competition in such industries as there are virtually no other players. Such market structures are termed as monopolies. But what exactly is a monopoly and how does it work?
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StartupNation
DECEMBER 2, 2020
The story of my company, White Spider, began when I rented out the guest bedroom of my San Francisco apartment. I initially did it to make some quick cash to buy a used bike, but that weekend turned into many, and the bedroom became a mainstay on Airbnb. Eventually, I quit my high-paying job as a salesperson, and my side hustle grew into a successful design and guest management firm for vacation rental properties.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Inside the mindmeld between the two billionaires. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Welcome to a special Thanksgiving edition of The Exchange. Today we will be brief. But not silent, as there is much to talk about. Up top, The Exchange noodled on the Slack-Salesforce deal here , so please catch up if you missed that while eating pie for breakfast yesterday.
Source Link
DECEMBER 2, 2020
When it comes to building an entrepreneurial ecosystem, a collaborative and supportive network is worth more than a listing of organizations in a directory – a lot more.
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