6 Practical Tools to Help Monitor Your Online Reputation
Author: Alexa Matia / Source: Entrepreneur If people are talking about you and your business online, wouldn’t you want to know about it? As a small business, it’s important to monitor your online reputation. Gaining the trust of consumers can make or break...
Peer-to-peer travel agency TRVL raises $2.7m to crowd-ify travel planning
Author: Haje Jan Kamps / Source: TechCrunch Through Lyft and Uber, the sharing economy has taken a charge at cabs. Airbnb is making hotels palpitate in their pants. If TRVL has its way, it’s the travel agencies’ turn to tremble. Armed with 2.7 million...
How to price your IPO
Author: Alex Wilhelm / Source: TechCrunch 2017 is miles ahead of 2016 when it comes to IPOs. Instead of the mere two tech IPOs we had this time last year, there have been at least 10, depending on what you count as a tech shop. In late May 2016, only...
Instagram Analytics: Which Metrics Really Matter?
Author: Nathan Chan / Source: Entrepreneur With more than 100 million daily active users, Instagram has become nearly impossible for brands to ignore. That said, not every brand using Instagram is doing it well. To evaluate whether your Instagram activity is...
Flat is the new up
Author: Duncan Davidson / Source: TechCrunch The startup ecosystem has a painful year ahead. Nearly half of Series C fundraising rounds were down or flat in 2016. Series B startups are next in line to feel the pain. [A] flat [round] is the new up [round]. If...
Epic! raises $8 million to keep kids reading in a digital age
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch The makers of Epic!, one of many apps jockeying to become a “Netflix for books,” have raised $8 million in a round led by Reach Capital, the education-specialized venture firm. Additional investors in the Series C...
When Faced With a Busy Signal, One Activist Turned a Music App Into a Tool for Democracy
Author: Nate Schweber / Source: Entrepreneur Just after the inauguration in January 2017, Nathaniel Teichman, chief operating officer of an audio sharing app, went to a rally for Planned Parenthood in Washington Square Park in New York City. He saw a...
3 Leadership Qualities You Need When Facing a Big Challenge
Author: Aytekin Tank / Source: Entrepreneur This is a talk I gave at the Entrepreneur 360 Conference. Before I started my company, I had zero experience with leadership. I’d never even managed a single person. So, it was a long journey filled with lots of...
24 Digital Marketing Agencies That Specialize on Entrepreneurship
Author: Serenity Gibbons / Source: Entrepreneur With the ever changing landscape of digital marketing, it is important to know which digital marketing agencies are making waves in their industries. These entrepreneur led agencies know what it takes to...
Google Says It Would Cost Too Much to Gather Wage Gap Data
Author: Mariella Moon / Source: Entrepreneur The Department of Labor will have to keep bugging Google for the salary records it's been asking for, because the tech titan keeps refusing to hand them over. Those records might be able to prove once and for all...
India’s ed-tech industry to grow eight-fold to $2 bn by 2021: Google-KPMG study
Author: Arti Singh / Source: VCCircle India’s online education industry is expected to grow almost eight times to hit $1.96 billion by 2021, with the number of paid users rising six-fold from 1.6 million now to 9.6 million, says a joint report by search...
CrowdJustice, the crowdfunding platform for public interest litigation, raises $2M and heads to U.S.
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch CrowdJustice, a startup that brings crowdfunding to “public interest” litigation, has raised $2 million in seed funding for U.S. expansion. First Round Capital, and Venrock led the round, with participation from...
Naspers gobbles up another food delivery startup with $80M round for Swiggy
Author: Jonathan Shieber / Source: TechCrunch Naspers has taken a bite out of yet another food delivery startup, with its commitment to lead and $80 million investment in the Indian online ordering and food delivery startup, Swiggy. The global internet and...
How data analytics will help us understand chatbots
Author: Nitin Donde / Source: VentureBeat Bots can augment human interaction, create greater business efficiencies, and remove friction from customer interactions. It’s also a market that’s attracting impressive investment dollars, with 180 bot companies...
PlayStation tops ranking of the game industry’s most-watched TV ads
Author: Eleanor Semeraro / Source: VentureBeat On TV, “PlayStation Vue” had a whole new meaning between April and May, as the console brand captured 16 percent of the gaming industry TV ad impressions in the last 30 days GamesBeat has partnered with...
3 Things Business Owners Need to Know About BI
Author: Sheila Eugenio / Source: Entrepreneur Business intelligence, or BI, is changing the way small to mid-size companies are making decisions, and it is creating significant advantages for those that do it well. If you are an entrepreneur, you know how...
Where are the rest of the tech IPOs?
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch When Snap went public in early March, it opened up the floodgates after what had been a stagnant period for tech IPOs. The warm investor reception for the Snapchat parent helped pave the way for MuleSoft, Alteryx,...
Why Your Startup Content-Marketing Strategy Isn’t Working
Author: Nathan Chan / Source: Entrepreneur Today, almost every big business you've ever heard of has some kind of content-marketing strategy. By "almost every," I refer to estimates of 94 percent of small businesses, around 77 percent of B2Cs and 93 percent...