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The Changing Venture Landscape

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The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.”

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013.

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Disrupting Finance From Above: Wealthfront

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Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” This supposedly “electronic” network enables people to transfer funds from one bank account to another. In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions. The basis of this argument is really two fold.

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Dropbox to acquire secure document sharing startup DocSend for $165M

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He even ran the idea for the company by Houston prior to launching in 2013, who gave it his seal of approval, and the two companies have been partners for some time. It’s worth noting that Box offers a similar secure document sharing capability enabling users to share a link instead of using an attachment.

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Uganda’s Tugende closes $3.6M Series A extension to meet the demand for its asset finance products

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Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . million in a Series A extension round. Image Credits: Tugende.

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Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

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The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Ascend Money considers going public after hitting $1.5

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AI cybersecurity provider SentinelOne files for $100M IPO

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SentinelOne, which was founded in 2013 and has raised a total of $696.5 The world is full of criminals, state actors, and other hostile agents who seek to exfiltrate and exploit data to disrupt our way of life,” Weingarten said in SentinelOne’s SEC filing. “Our Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies?