Signifyd raises $56 million for e-commerce fraud protection
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch E-commerce fraud is a growing problem, but Signifyd thinks it has a solution to save businesses money. Their company is growing fast and has closed a $56 million Series C investment led by Bain Capital Ventures. Menlo...
If You’re Not Learning, You’re Doing Something Wrong
Author: BizCast / Source: Entrepreneur TechNexus Venture Collaborative accelerates corporate engagement for entrepreneurs, developing faster market validation and a stronger, open innovation ecosystem. Terry Howerton, CEO, explains that living the life of an...
Should Your Product Be Perfect or Scalable? Can It Be Both?
Author: John Rampton / Source: Entrepreneur Editor’s Note: In the new podcast Masters of Scale, LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman explores his philosophy on how to scale a business -- and at Entrepreneur.com, entrepreneurs are responding...
Inside the Mind of New York Angel Investor: John Ason
Author: Bart Clareman / Source: AlleyWatch Welcome back to Inside the Mind of a NYC Angel Investor, a new series at AlleyWatch in which we speak with New York City-based Angel Investors. In the hot seat this time is John Ason, who has been investing in...
Guaranty Bankcshares Announces Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
Source: Ksst Radio In a press release dated May 1, Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. (“Guaranty”) today announced the commencement of its initial public offering of 2,000,000 shares of common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the U.S....
Whirlpool acquires Yummly, the recipe search engine last valued at $100M
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Some consolidation in the world of subject-specific search and social networks, as a legacy player from the world of white goods makes a play for a wider audience. The Whirlpool Corporation — the world’s largest...
YL Ventures closes $75 million fund to bring Israeli startups to the US
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Early-stage investors YL Ventures have raised a $75 million fund, their third, to back Israeli software startups seeking to enter the U.S. market. The firm maintains offices in Tel Aviv and Mill Valley, Calif. It is...
Exclusive: Realty-tech startup ZippServ gets seed funding
Author: Disha Sharma / Source: VCCircle ZippServ Founders – Sudeep Anandapuram(left) & Debashish Hota(Right) ZippServ, an online platform that provides risk assessment services for real estate investments, has raised Rs 2.5 crore ($390,000) from a clutch of...
8 Founders on the Turning Points that Changed their Businesses
Author: Entrepreneur Staff / Source: Entrepreneur Every entrepreneur has the moment -- that time when hard work finally pays off, when a long-desired opportunity presents itself and the entrepreneur has to decide how to react. The moment can be stressful,...
For Spam’s 39th Birthday, Here Are Some Things You Never Knew About Mass Email
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Although this may not be something most people want to celebrate, it does mark an iconic moment in history: On May 3, 1978, the first ever spam email was sent. Before the real internet was even born and people were...
Next Insurance raises $29 million to create customized policies for small businesses
Author: Catherine Shu / Source: TechCrunch Next Insurance, a startup that wants to make it simpler for small businesses to find coverage, has raised a $29 million Series A. The round was led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures, the venture capital arm of German...
Indonesia’s Uber rival Go-Jek raises $1.2 billion led by Tencent at a $3 billion valuation
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Go-Jek, the motorbike on-demand startup that is battling Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed a new round of $1.2 billion led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, two sources close the company told TechCrunch. The...
The Top 10 Big Cities to Launch Your Startup
Author: Rose Leadem / Source: Entrepreneur Today, more and more small cities and towns are becoming great places to start a business. However, for some of us, the pulse of a big city is what keeps us energized. For city-loving entrepreneurs, here’s some good...
Harness the Power of Stardom with Instagram
Author: Kim Walsh-Phillips / Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Kim Walsh Phillips’s book Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Obtaining celebrity status on Instagram isn’t about an...
3 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Turning Your Hobby into a Business
Author: Ben Warnick / Source: Entrepreneur We’ve all heard the famous saying “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” But, as the lines increasingly blur between doing what we love and making a living, this may be easier...
Using a 5-Step Model for Any Public Speech
Author: Jill Schiefelbein / Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Jill Schiefelbein’s book Dynamic Communication. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes How can you create persuasive presentations that help you connect with your target...
Ultrahaptics raises $23 million for its invisible ‘touchless interfaces’
Author: Lucas Matney / Source: TechCrunch As huge tech companies continue to dump money into VR and AR technology looking to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real, they’re still having a tough time figuring out how to make them feel...
Tesla’s Q1 revenue more than doubles year-over-year as Model 3 plan remains on track
Author: Matthew Lynley / Source: TechCrunch Tesla today re-affirmed that the production of its next car, the Model 3, would begin in July — and that the company had $4 billion in cash-on-hand heading into the second quarter this year. Both of those are going...