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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Contributed by Andrew Flint , a co-founder of Occupier , a transaction and portfolio management software helping commercial tenants and brokers manage their real estate footprint. Occupier’s software helps teams make smarter, more informed lease decisions by centralizing the way they work. In turn, teams ensure alignment between their real estate decisions and business successes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in 2005 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink that was about how our subconscious allows us to make fast decisions that are often as good or better than slow considered decisions. I was talking to someone yesterday evening about how the venture capital business has changed over the last decade and I explained that we used to have weeks, if not months, to make our investment decisions and now we have days or if we are lucky a week or two.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Having grown up in Karachi, childhood friends Ahmed and Aziz are aware of the challenges about the Pakistani education system, which is notably worse for those not living in large urban areas (the nation’s

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

How are customers, employees and investors able to connect with a business? Companies have a way of coming to life, and often, it’s through the power of brand storytelling. The best businesses have a story, and the best entrepreneurs know how to weave storytelling into their brand narrative. Do you? StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

At the September 2021 Board of Director’s meeting, five additional companies were approved to receive an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA. Emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners who are developing a new, product, process, or software application – and need startup funding, need to know about the Ben Franklin program.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Kai-Fu Lee. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kai-Fu Lee is a co-author of AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future. The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. We’ve all come to realize how archaic many of our health processes are, and that, if we really want to, we can move at lightning speed.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your startup idea is your golden child – and it should be. But keep blind enthusiasm in check and move forward strategically and realistically to avoid the mistakes that can derail your project. You know that feeling when an idea is so good it wakes you up? You fumble around in the dark for your phone to jot memorable notes. Fast-forward to the afternoon when you pull up your overnight notes and have no idea why you thought renaming your company Chumbawamba was mission-critical.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA is excited to announce that NOCD , a telehealth app focused on providing care to people with OCD, announced it raised a $33M Series B Round. The round was led by F-Prime Capital, an investor in digital health, and included participation from other investors such as Eight Roads and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Today Seattle fintech unicorn Remitly (NASDAQ: RELY ) begins its journey as a public company. This is obviously a huge milestone for the founders, not to mention the 1,600+ employees who have joined them along the way. It’s a different kind of milestone for me as an investor: 10 years ago I led the company’s Seed round and joined the board, where I served until the Series C.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. Razorpay said on Monday it has received a “strategic investment” from the venture arm of the American enterprise giant. The investment will help the startup “further strengthen its presence in the business banking space,” it said.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Copycats are thieves, not just in the literal sense but also figuratively when they steal another person’s work and present it as their own. You have put a lot of time, effort and your own money into designing and manufacturing a product, or creating your teaching or coaching course. You hope that it will become yet another hit product for you. But before you can get to market, your product or idea is stolen by someone who wants to beat you in the marketplace.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA is excited to announce that NOCD , a telehealth app focused on providing care to people with OCD, announced it raised a $33M Series B Round. The round was led by F-Prime Capital, an investor in digital health, and included participation from other investors such as Eight Roads and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. HPA first invested in the $4M round that NOCD completed in 2019 and invested again in the $12M Series A in 2020.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spoiler: this success story started from one cold email with a 100% match Photo by Belitsoft.com It was 17 years ago when me and my fellow students decided to create our own business. We had no money, strategy, or office. We had only 4 dorm beds, 4 computers, and the idea to start an IT outsourcing company. We were full of energy and were ready to code all night long.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Botch it and you risk looking unprofessional. Hire a traditional agency and you might be wasting time and money. Australian growth marketing agency Ammo , in contrast, wants to make sure that its clients aren’t overinvesting nor underinvesting.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

So me people are born into the world and are fortunate to happen upon a calling that ultimately shapes and defines their story. Others come into this world with a force that drives them from Day 1 to make sure the life they lead will be defined by the mark they’ve made. Such is the case with Carolyn Cassin. Cassin, through her work as president and CEO of Michigan Women Forward , a nonprofit organization, aims to achieve equality and empowerment for women and girls.

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HPA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

HPA is excited to share that Provi , a technology platform connecting restaurants, distributors and suppliers in the alcohol industry, today announced $100M in new funding on $750M valuation. The recent $75M Series C round was led by D1 Capital, a NY-based hedge fund with $34B AUM, and the $25M Series B round was led by CPMG earlier this year. In total, the company has raised $125M to date, becoming the industry’s largest B2B beverage marketplace.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And no, they don’t spend a dime on ads or even ask for the sale — yet they still make millions. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Niio , a Tel Aviv-based digital art platform featuring work ranging from contemporary artists and galleries through to NFTs, announced today it has closed $15 million Series A funding in the wake of a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays, announced last week. The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Are you looking for ways to add more value to your business? Are you in need of new, effective marketing techniques that will help you reach potential customers? If so, video marketing is the answer. Video marketing has many benefits over traditional forms of advertising. Video content can be highly engaging, especially when it includes images or videos along with audio.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

GitLab is the first fully remote software company to go public. More than 2000 employees work all over the world and have collaborated to build a massive software business. GitLab provides a suite of DevOps tools that enable engineering teams to build and deploy software, and then secure it. The breadth of the solution is hard to convey, unless you visit the features page ; when printed it’s more than 100 pages long.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By David Axler, VP, Books, Banking and Tax, Wave. It is true that business owners are facing countless challenges due to the current pandemic. But, still, many people are ditching their 9 to 5 jobs to start their own businesses, In fact, 4.35 million people in the U.S. submitted a new business application in 2020 alone – up 24% from 2019 – and over 500,000 new businesses have already launched this year.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “Companies are finding the shift to remote work is not a one-time aberration due to Covid,” Almanac CEO Adam Nathan tells TechCrunch. “Over the past several months we’ve seen pretty explosive revenue growth.” Almanac, which builds a doc editor

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about the results of a new survey from Microsoft on how working from home has changed businesses. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about the the survey findings on the impact of working from home on small businesses: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

You’ll rethink energy levels, millionaire status, calmness, your endgame, retirement, and happiness when you do. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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