Startups

Startups launch, operate and sometimes succeed. Track the lifecycles of the newest companies with this topic.

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Mulling over whether to join a big multinational company or a start-up? Do you really have to pay your dues with long hours?
channelnewsasia.com - Adrian Tan
SINGAPORE: When a former colleague, Eliza*, who has dedicated years in tech start-ups, quit and joined a government-linked company (GLC), it came as …
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Facebook
Does Facebook Survive Because Of Its Size Or Because We Gave Up On Privacy And Security?
Forbes - Kalev Leetaru
Reflecting on the shear egregiousness of Facebook’s latest security breach, from demanding users hand over their email passwords to silently harvesting their contact lists without their permission to to
Billings Gazetteadded this to Montana
Montana
Startup gets record venture capital investment to alleviate Montana's childcare shortage
billingsgazette.com
There's such a shortage of affordable, high-quality childcare in Missoula and Montana that sometimes people spend years on a wait list, then decide …
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Business
KSA Startup Lucidya Wants To Empower Businesses By Providing Real-Time Social Media Analytics With Its AI-Powered Tools
Entrepreneur - Pamella de Leon
Noticing a gap in the growing market of social media analytics with respect to a solution catered toward the Arabic language, KSA-based startup Lucidya aims to offer a solution. Opinions expressed by contributors
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Coinbase
Four Olympic Gold Medals Winner Tennis Player Serena Williams Invests in Coinbase
cointelegraph.com - Adrian Zmudzinski
World famous tennis player Serena Williams revealed in an Instagram post that she invested in cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase.World famous tennis …
TechCrunchadded this to News about startups from TechCrunch
Technology
From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are serving up
TechCrunch - Joanna Glasner
In a foodie’s ideal world, we’d all eat healthy, minimally processed cuisine sourced from artisanal farmers, bakers and chefs. In the real world, however, most of us derive the lion’s share of calories
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Technology
Startups Weekly: Zoom CEO says its stock price is 'too high'
TechCrunch - Kate Clark
When Zoom hit the public markets Thursday, its IPO pop, a whopping 81 percent, floored everyone, including its own chief executive officer, Eric Yuan. Yuan became a billionaire this week when his video
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IPOs
Acquisitions, more than IPOs, will create Africa’s early startup successes
TechCrunch - Jake Bright
Africa has made its global IPO debut. Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia—a $1 billion-valued company—began trading live on the NYSE last week. The stock offering made Jumia the first upstart operating
James Blackadded this to Business & Startups
Tech Industry
Tech companies are having a quiet stock bonanza
Axios - Mike Allen
Consumer-focused businesses (Pinterest) have more cachet, but tech startups (Zoom) that cater to companies are the hotter stock offerings, The Wall …
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Homelessness
Can A Startup Solve Homelessness? (#63, Samaritan) | The Pitch
gimletmedia.com
Jonathan Kumar pitches his startup, Samaritan, which aims to help people who’ve lost their homes. But can he convince the investors it’s OK to earn a …
Doug Sandlinadded this to Blockchain Unbound
Business
releases startup platform and launches first project with CNNS
yahoo.com - Scott Thompson
18th April 2019 – Blockchain assets exchange platform, Gate.io, has today announced the release of Startup, a platform that aims to provide its users …
Etymology
Word of the Day: Propitious
merriam-webster.com - www.merriam-webster.com
Definition 1 : favorably disposed : benevolent 2 : being a good omen : auspicious 3 : tending to favor : advantageous Did You Know? Propitious, which comes …
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Mumbai
Unlocking the Potential of Mumbai's Startup Ecosystem
Entrepreneur - Aastha Singal
The third largest home for startups in the country, Mumbai has many hidden gems You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. Mumbai - the city of dreams. Thousands
Doug Sandlinadded this to Technology Unbound
Portugal
AI Startups That Enable AI with Daniela Braga (DefinedCrowd), Ali Farhadi () and Daryn Nakhuda (Mighty AI)
TechCrunch - TC Video
Building AI is a difficult task on its own, and building a startup around building it is even harder. Mighty AI, Xnor, and DefinedCrowd have shown that it’s possible to create powerful AI tools as well
Business (South Africa)
With driverless cars late, a startup tries remote-control trucks
fin24.com - Ira Boudway, Bloomberg
For four days in February, Ben Shukman showed up to his office at Phantom Auto in Mountain View, California, sat down in front of a bank of computer …
Angelo Santiagoadded this to Personal Dev
Agile Development
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
oreilly.com
“Haste Makes Waste” In the late 1990s there was a rush for Internet real estate reminiscent of the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1890s. At high noon the …
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Design
No one knows how to hire, plus brand design and African tech
TechCrunch - Danny Crichton
Editor’s Note: No one knows how to hire Hiring is the lifeblood of the world. Few people do truly singular work; instead, nearly every facet of our civilization is built by groups of humans (and increasingly
A. "Dean" Khairuddinadded this to CAREER & WORK LIFE BALANCE
Business
Do you think you deserve a raise? If you have all 8 of these traits, you probably do
Ladders - Nicolas Cole
If you have these 8 traits, then chances are, your next raise is right around the corner. Everybody wants to know when they can expect their next …
MarketWatch
MBA
Opinion: This technology entrepreneur’s career advice is to skip the MBA and go work at a startup
MarketWatch - By Vivek Wadhwa
A question that students and parents put to me most frequently is whether it is worthwhile to pursue an MBA as a ticket to success in the business …
Jairo H Venegas added this to Strategy for Value Creation
Business
SaaS Products: How To Get Your First Users
Forbes - James Parsons
Products, platforms and apps: Moving to the cloud and providing a centralized service for your company is increasingly the way to go for many entrepreneurs. Clients and customers don’t need to worry about
Lee Stogneradded this to Innovation / Venture Capital / Startups
Sequoia Capital
Bird CEO explains why his electric-scooter startup needed $300 million
Ad Age
As word spread that an electric scooter rental company called Bird Rides was amassing $300 million from investors just months after its first …
Doug Sandlinadded this to Technology Unbound
College & University
Building A Startup In College: How To Juggle Academics With Entrepreneurship And Fundraising
Forbes - Young Entrepreneur Council
Post written by Jack Tai CEO & Co-Founder of OneClass. Getty The success stories of college entrepreneurs are inspiring. After all, college students founded Facebook, Microsoft, FedEx, Kinko’s, Reddit,
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Technology
How do you hire a great growth marketer?
TechCrunch - Julian Shapiro
Editors Note: This article is part of a series that explores the world of growth marketing for founders. If you’ve worked with an amazing growth marketing agency, nominate them to be featured in our shortlist
Business Insideradded this to Markets
Markets
A start-up that's building a 'one-tap' mortgage application tool is now jumping into the auto-loan market
Business Insider - Alex Morrell
For the past seven years, the start-up Blend has been moving toward an ambitious goal: simplify the mortgage-application process to the point that prospective buyers can find out whether they qualify a
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Technology
Fastly, the content delivery network, files for an IPO
TechCrunch - Jonathan Shieber
Fastly, the content delivery network that’s raised $219 million in financing from investors (according to Crunchbase), is ready for its close up in the public markets. The eight-year-old company is one
Doug Sandlinadded this to Technology Unbound
Business
Startup Commercializing Lockheed Nanocomposite
aviationweek.com - Apr 19, 2019 Graham Warwick | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
THIS CONTENT REQUIRES SUBSCRIPTION ACCESS You must have an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) account or subscribe to this Market Briefing to …
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Airlines
Airlines May Start Weighing You Before You Board Your Flight
iheart.com - Sisanie
How would you feel if every time you went to get on an airplane, you had to step on a scale so they could weigh you?Yeah, I don't love the idea …
Doug Sandlinadded this to Technology Unbound
Columbus, GA
Find CEOs in the basement: How CSU, StartUp Columbus is empowering young entrepreneurs
ledger-enquirer.com - By Allie Dean
Business Find CEOs in the basement: How CSU, StartUp Columbus is empowering young entrepreneurs April 19, 2019 02:42 PM Can CEOs be born in a …
Doug Sandlinadded this to Blockchain Unbound
Tech Industry
Report: blockchain funding this year has already surpassed the whole of 2017
siliconangle.com - Duncan Riley
Despite the precipitous drop in cryptocurrencies in 2018, venture capital has continued to flow into the blockchain market with $850 millon being …
Aberdeen
Aberdeen university launches new start-up to fund creative projects
eveningexpress.co.uk - by Jamie Hall
Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter An Aberdeen university has launched a new project to support start-up teams in creative industries. The …