American Entrepreneurship

JULY 9, 2024

The New York-based company repurposes discarded fruits and recycled plastic into bags, backpacks, and wallets, reducing food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Jiang was one of five women-owned small businesses to be awarded grants in the annual competition. The four honorable mentions each received a $12,500 grant.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. New funds, partner changes, the funding rounds themselves — the list is long. But by their very nature, they tend to be small-cap funds, and there’s not that many of them in the U.K. funds with an angle on technology. I don’t get it!

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK is the goldilocks of financial services: big enough to be meaningful on a global scale, but small enough to make decisions much faster than the U.S. London combines elements of New York, Washington, and the Bay Area. In the UK, you can pay your tax bill with HM Revenue and Customs with an open banking initiated payment.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Joe Camberato – CEO National Business Capital. The Great Resignation has placed a particular hard burden on small businesses that often struggle to attract employees. Attracting new employees and retaining your existing ones has never been more important. Fortunately, there are methods to do both.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. Small business owners often need help writing effective job ads, he says, as well as the the flexibility to post opportunities in more places.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

However, we thought our initial focus on recruiting was a wedge – an important but small part of the enterprise communication market that we were going after. We also underestimated how little we would want to fracture our go-to-market to explore other business writing use cases as the company grew. The first one is simply focus.

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TechCrunch

JULY 24, 2022

Founded in 2016, New York–based Petal offers two Visa credit card products aimed at underserved consumers with little to no credit history. In March, Ramp confirmed that it had secured $550 million in debt and $200 million in equity in a new financing that doubled its valuation to $8.1

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

million in a combination of Series A equity funding and a credit facility to continue developing its technology and payments platforms for e-commerce businesses. As such, he intends to use the new funding to scale globally, expand the team, create a marketing budget and look for two small acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. A number of investors now call Austin home after relocating from the Bay Area and New York City. Doing so is a bit like trying to compare New York City with Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Data from FDI Markets * , the Financial Times’ cross-border investment monitoring service, indicates that London has attracted the highest number of foreign direct investments ( FDI ) into tech from international companies for the past few years, ahead of Singapore, Dubai, and New York. And why might the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Stripe competitor Checkout.com announced last month that Céline Dufétel was appointed as its new president. When announcing the New York-based executive’s appointment, the company had told me that the move was symbolic of Checkout.com “staking its claim in the U.S.” Congrats on your new role! We welcome them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Welcome to my new weekly fintech focused column. while it continues to serve startups or e-commerce companies that might be smaller businesses with higher growth, it is now adapting to serve mid-market to larger businesses, which have different financial needs as they grow. sign up here. and LatAm.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

She worked on Wall Street as an investment banker for a few years in New York before returning to Houston with a job in energy. The company Winters was working for sponsored her MBA to Harvard Business School, and it was there that she came up with the idea for Upgrade. “I The company, which raised $1.7 Remember Mary J.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

These successful business founders and Advisors in The Oracles share the most common mistakes they see from aspiring entrepreneurs and explain how to overcome those mistakes. For example, when we started Bluemercury, I wanted to create retail stores to complement the online business. They believe everyone’s advice. The result?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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Feedough

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Business tasks are not limited to just the core offering. Outsourcing is a business practice where a company hires a third-party to perform its tasks, operations, jobs, or processes, rather than doing the work in-house. This work includes business processes (like payroll, claim settlement, etc.), Types Of Outsourcing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. Africa as a whole has 24 startups in this new batch, a record besting S21’s 15. What it says it does : A platform for corporate expense cards and spend management for businesses in Africa.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. She wants to wade through the nineteen different permits that it takes to open up a business here in order to get it down to one. Property taxes.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 22, 2023

As an important source of financing for startups and small businesses, it's critical for current and emerging angel investors to understand the shifts occurring in the industry. Major angel groups like New York Angels and Golden Seeds wield considerable power in startup ecosystems.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . It has moved from its origins as a tax benefit and can be viewed as a feature that benefits founders. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? Of the Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

These changes will deal a blow to small producers with poor quality control, leaving the industry with a handful of established and compliant players, Fang Wang, head of marketing at Myst, told TechCrunch. E-cigarette companies will also need to pay tobacco taxes, an important source of tax revenue for the Chinese government.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

When starting a new business, it can be enticing to give clients and other business contacts your personal phone number because it’s convenient. However, there are a growing number of risks associated with using your personal phone number for business, and it’s essential to understand what those risks are.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

that has built a commerce engine for sellers around the world to help them sell products online without paying the exorbitant “Amazon tax.” The startup is aimed at small and medium businesses that already sell products online but are looking to upgrade their stores. That brought Mason to its reality.

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FundersClub

JUNE 29, 2017

This doesn't pose much of a problem when the data only has to function as expected in a relational database, where it's usually queried in small groups or by itself. "While all of these platforms are beneficial to the business, they are disparate systems, which can cause several issues from an analytical perspective."

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. legally for medical school, served in the Air Force and then was a productive, tax-paying contributor for nearly 40 years. So is Herb a Genius?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

My dad, after a 20 year career as a New York City firefighter, went back to school and became an accountant. He was an early adopter of technology in his practice, buying a computer in 1987 and getting some of the earliest versions of tax prep software. Maybe you retain some small portion of the equity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power. When Mike Morrison left his hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick, for Calgary, Alberta, he assumed he’d never go back except to visit. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and founding partner, Founders Factory New York. However, I predict more non-Latin American founders, investors, engineers and operators from cities like New York, LA and San Francisco, will also choose to build their businesses in Miami due to higher quality of life and more attractive tax rates.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

As an entrepreneur, you started your business to create value, both in what you deliver to your customers and what you build for yourself. You can implement numerous advanced planning strategies to minimize capital gains tax , reduce future estate tax and increase asset protection from creditors and lawsuits.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

These solutions are akin to short call options; a small gain now is exchanged for a large loss later. This essay will approach the financial response of one large country (China) and one small country (El Salvador) in an attempt to stress the function of f(x): in ways to inform us of the possible end game. in small and large ways?—?to

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Often times we see “success” and think that it was “overnight” We forget that most of the business success we see, was a slow and steady progression of mistakes, of learning. Living in a basement apartment on a small foldable cot. How to build a brand that will benefit your business? Transcription).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

13302), which expands the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) to a 30% tax credit for eligible projects including residential solar, solar water heating, fuel cell, small wind energy, battery storage and geothermal heat pumps. Early examples of an increase in consumer demand for these products include Maine and New York.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Right now I’m comfortable betting on innovation from small teams in the ‘approach,’ but if experimentation is gated by nine figures worth of licensing deals, we are doing a disservice to innovation. These business deals are a substitute for unclear copyright and usage laws. Incorporate here, pay taxes, create jobs?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2023

We disagree wholeheartedly with their negative characterization of our business, and Daylight is fully prepared to address these concerns in court.” Visa+ , as Visa’s new service is called, is designed to solve that problem.” Zamp offers a treasury management platform that enables businesses worldwide to invest surplus cash in U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

But CNBC reported that “the acquisition ranks among the top five asset management deals New York-based Goldman has done, according to the Financial Times.”. As fintech has exploded in recent years, so has Cross River Bank’s business — as well as investor interest. .” Mosaic wants to flip that ratio on its head. .

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