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Framework raises $2M seed to create an ‘on-demand business school’ aimed at startups

TechCrunch

Business education is, let’s face it, finding it hard to keep up with a $3 trillion global tech startup economy that’s booming right now. Framework has spun out of Founders Academy, the nine-month “free alternative-MBA” born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world’s elite tech entrepreneurs, largely drawn from Europe.

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Validate Your Startup Idea Like a Pro: My 4-Step Framework

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I’ve gone through this discovery process for dozens of startup ideas, potential features, and market opportunities. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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Corelight secures $75M Series D to bolster its network defense offering

TechCrunch

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . While it’s raised plenty of capital in the past few years, the startup isn’t planning its exit just yet.

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Breaking Barriers: Japan’s Startups Embrace Cryptocurrency Capital

AsiaTechDaily

Register Japan has relaxed regulations to permit startups to raise investment funds through cryptocurrencies. With this, the Japanese government now allows startups the flexibility to secure capital using crypto assets in addition to conventional stocks. Japan’s Five-Year Development Strategy unveils KANSAI Startup Night Vol.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Draw from Frameworks. Improving startup productivity ? How to network better ?

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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .”

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

TechCrunch

That’s what Microsoft is saying after some of its services, like Outlook, Xbox Live and Teams, went down during a “change made to the Microsoft Wide Area Network,” Ivan reports. Harry Stamper would be proud : Asteroid mining startup AstroForge will test its metal refinery tech in space this year , reports Aria. by Sophie Alcorn.