StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Each new generation brings something different to the table and tries hard to paint the social norms in their colors. Nowadays, it’s millennials’ turn to make the world a better place and they truly managed to bring some extremely sensitive issues under the spotlight. . Let’s take the workplace as an example. What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Robert Young, an EO Nashville member, who is the founder and CEO of Covert Results , a private investigation and security firm. He’s also the founder of Operation Rose , a non-profit focused on solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking. Robert’s sister, Angela Proffitt , is an EO Nashville member who encouraged him to start his own company.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dave’s note: This is a reprint of a 2015 insight that seems to have struck a chord with investors and entrepreneurs. None of this advice has changed… Let me tell you a few short hair–raising stories of entrepreneurs who have raised money and regretted it later. Here are some rules that entrepreneurs almost always ignore to their future peril.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Maryland-Based Startup Offers a Fix Now, Pay-at-Closing Solution for Optimal Sale Outcomes Say hello to Curbio ?—?the proptech company seizing an untapped opportunity within the $85B pre-sale home improvement market and the latest addition to the Revolution Growth portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Today’s consumers want a move-in-ready home. However, current inventory is in short supply due to an aging housing market and slow renovation timelines.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2022

Software consultants come in many forms, but if you cannot write your own code, finding a developer who meets your needs can be a stressful process that involves much trial and error. To narrow down good consultancies, we polled experts across the world about the best software development consultants through our TechCrunch Experts program. One of the most-recommended firms we learned about is WolfPack Digital.

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FundersClub

JANUARY 21, 2022

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds and events: GitLab , the SaaS DevOps platform, completed an IPO (NASDAQ: GTLB). We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D. Embark Trucks , an autonomous trucking company, completed a public listing (NASDAQ: EMBK).

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 16, 2022

Founders ‘bootstrap’ Crossroads LED into an industry leader. By Scott Meacham. i2E first wrote a column about Crossroads LED back in 2011. At the time, the company wasn’t yet a year old. Dana D. Stefanoff, Crossroads president, and her husband Buddy, Crossroads LED Vice President and chief engineer, had developed a patented high-output, multicolor LED lighting control system that offered exciting effects while reducing power consumption and operating costs. ‘We had been in business forty-f

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Parallel Systems, a company founded by three former SpaceX engineers to build autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles, came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with a $49.55 million Series A raise. The company, which has raised $53.15 million to date, including a $3.6 million seed round, is working to create a more efficient, decarbonized freight network that flows on top of existing railway infrastructure.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 17, 2022

Standing out as a startup or small business just got tougher. You can thank an upsurge in entrepreneurial activity ostensibly spurred by the pandemic. The U.S. Census Bureau’s business formation data shows that more than four million people became founders in 2020 alone. That’s a record number of launches in a 12-month span—and all the more reason for your team to get creative.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 19, 2022

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the global economy experienced its worst crisis in decades and the Nigerian and Ghanaian economies were not exempt from its negative effects. With businesses closing down and jobs shrinking, may investing in small businesses be the key to economic recovery in these countries? The goal of the New Economy Booster accelerator program was to support the regrowth of the Nigerian and Ghanaian economies by supporting impact-driven ventures and businesses in the key areas

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

I didn’t know Jake Millar, save for a few emails swapped with our editor when he was just getting started with Unfiltered. As for so many others though, the news of his death by suicide last year still came as a shock and with a deep sense of sadness. Sadness for the loss of a bright young New Zealander who had so much going for him, for the terrible loss for Jake’s mother and his whanau and friends, and for the loss of an up and coming innovator and entrepreneur to our business comm

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Shanea Leven. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Shanea Leven is co-founder and CEO of CodeSee , a developer platform that helps developers and development teams better understand codebases. “Raising money is catastrophically challenging for female founders, and even harder for Black female founders.”. It’s a bold, even damning statement — one I made in a recent discussion speculating what’s to come in 2022 for women leading startups, like myself.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Are you the one-person show behind a thriving virtual business? If so, you likely handle all of your company’s sales outreach, customer service inquiries, order fulfillment, social media marketing, budgeting … and the list goes on. Are you overwhelmed by all of the daily tasks you need to do to keep your enterprise running smoothly? Would you really like others to take some of your daily duties off your plate?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 20, 2022

Image courtesy of Ryan Duffy Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Today’s guest is Ryan Duffy, who is currently Head of Operations + Creator Partnerships for Audio at Medium. He co-founded the audio education platform, Knowable, which was acquired by Medium and features lessons from people such as NBA All-Star Chris Paul and Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 16, 2022

And Why He Abandoned a Career in Web Ads for Leading Crypto Investing at The Chernin Group. Even before my Jarrod Dicker starting tweeting in his “web2 vs web3” style, I gave him s**t about his thought leadership which seemed to be 80% “that’s smart” and 20% “what did you just smoke because I have no idea what this means?” Sometimes I’d just DM him the latter with “20” written alongside.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Among many of the entrepreneur catchphrases out there, the one that annoys me the most is: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” The phrase may be meant to make people with imposter syndrome remember the importance of a simple cold emails, but it often comes off as a rebranded way to remind people that exclusive networks rule the world.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

Throughout the last year, a myriad of U.S. employees quit their jobs, leaving many positions unfilled. And today, companies are still struggling to fill positions as we enter the new year. The reasons for the mismatch between labor offering and demand are multifold: People are increasingly handing in their notice because they want a better work-life balance , greater benefits, and a more flexible approach to their work.

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GCUC

JANUARY 20, 2022

We asked and you said… You need more time to collaborate and learn with your peers. You need more structured time to learn what. The post Thursdays are for the Community appeared first on GCUC Community.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 20, 2022

Alpha Tau Medical Ltd. (“Alpha Tau”), the developer of the innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy Alpha DaRT™, announced today that it has signed a sponsored research agreement with investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (“MD Anderson”) to evaluate potential immune stimulation by combining Alpha DaRT™ with DNA-repair inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of breast tumors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

A Canadian startup working at the cutting edge of satellite imaging has raised $4.5 million across a combination of a $2.25 million seed round, and $2.25 million from a combined pre-seed and government funding. Wyvern , which is working specifically on hyperspectral imaging (imaging that captures light across many different wavelengths, including non-visible ones) is also joining Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

Have you ever recommended a restaurant to your friends or traveled to a city solely because your neighbor couldn’t stop talking about it? If you answer yes to any of these questions, you have experienced the buzz —hyping something so much that people start talking about it. . The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2022

For many growing businesses, a rebrand is part of the cycle. While there are many reasons a business may choose to rebrand, it’s not always easy to see them from the inside. Choosing to rebrand isn’t easy , but it’s necessary when your business hits a wall and needs a refresh for continued success. What is a rebrand? A rebrand is the process of redesigning how a business or product is perceived by consumers.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 19, 2022

This profile is the third in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors. Liz Leahy is the Founding Partner of Purple Sage Ventures, Board Member of the Columbia Business School Lang Entrepreneurship Center and Chairperson of the Georgetown Angel Investor Network (GAIN).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Working remotely has become the norm for a lot of desk-based employees, and there have been a number of tech companies that have seen their business explode in catering to that shift. But today comes news of a different kind of startup called Turing Labs , which is addressing the same challenges, but as they apply to people who work in laboratories.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 20, 2022

There are more startups than ever before post-pandemic. As the e-commerce industry continues to boom and work from home remains a trend amongst the corporate sector, more entrepreneurs are using their funds to create new digital startups in a number of niches. However, from staffing to manufacturing, starting a business does not come without its costs. .

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