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A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem

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Toni Eliasz is the program manager of the Disruptive Technologies for Development Program (DT4D) that supports the innovation and adoption of technology-driven solutions in World Bank Group operations. Toni Eliasz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. So, how did Singapore’s startup ecosystem come to be?

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Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners

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Personal finance is hard – and that’s a tale as old, and difficult to disrupt, as time. Nagpal thinks he can nail early adoption through smart education material and outreach, referring to personal finance trends on TikTok as an example of consumer demand for more information. Image Credits: Ocho.

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Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe

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As a point of reference, Thrasio is now valued at about $5 billion; Razor Group out of Berlin was valued at over $1 billion last week ; and Perch also is now in the nine-figure range. E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

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Impact enterprises refer to SMEs (small-medium enterprises), SGBs (small growing businesses) and micro enterprises operating at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and social and/or environmental impact. Real-world examples Impact Hub’s work is grounded in real-world initiatives and draws from our learning across local contexts.

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Top 10 Post-Pandemic Tech Trends

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Lab-produced and plant-based food is disrupting a $6 trillion global food industry. They call data ‘the new oil,’ and the reason is because information lets us understand the engine of our world, and how it works,” said Stav Erez, a partner at Jerusalem-based incubator Labs/02. Science is for Dinner”: The rise of FoodTech.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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In an ecosystem, there should be multiple entrepreneurial support organizations, coworking spaces, incubators/accelerators, investors, etc.communicating about the resources they have to support entrepreneurs. The startup world asks founders to disrupt their industries with data. Ellen Bateman. Eric Parker. Beth McKeon.

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Mistaking performance for competence

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Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. I would toss in some jokey reference about how “life comes at you fast,” but maybe the moral here is life actually travels a lot more slowly than any of us expect. Drone Fund led the raise, which also features HAX (SOSV), Incubate Fund, SBI Investment and DBJ Capital.