VentureFriends closes €20M fund to invest in Greek software startups
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch A tiny bit more VC money sloshing around Europe. This time it’s the turn of Greece-based VC fund VentureFriends, which is announcing the final closing of a €20 million fund to invest in Greek software and “high tech”...
3 Ways to Make the Most of Your Tax Refund
Author: Brittany Castro / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Brittney Castro explains three good ways you can spend the money you get from your tax refund. The first way is to fund an IRA, so you can invest your money into...
Abundant Robotics rakes in $10 million for apple harvesting robots
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch GV (formerly Google Ventures) is leading a $10 million investment in Abundant Robotics, a company building apple-picking robots that could eventually be adapted to harvest other fruits. Joining GV in the round were...
Expedia CEO Shares the Critical Traits to Develop by Age 30
Author: Sina Chehrazi / Source: Entrepreneur Dara Khosrowshahi was born in Tehran, Iran, in May of 1969. Less than a decade later, Khosrowshahi and his family would emigrate to the United States in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. “We sure didn't feel...
Without A Special Visa, Foreign Startup Founders Turn To A Workaround
Author: Asma Khalid / Source: NPR.org Paulo Melo is a global entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. This visa workaround allowed Melo, originally from Portugal, to legally stay in the United States and build his business in...
Adventure Travel Startup Deyor Camps Raises Pre-Series A Funding Led by Venture Catalysts
Author: BW Online Bureau / Source: BW Disrupt In a move that heralds an imminent disruption within the high-potential adventure travel industry, angel investors from Venture Catalysts, Indian seed investment and innovation platform, have led the pre-Series A...
Tech Companies Are Thriving in Austin–the Hard Way
Author: Tom Foster / Source: Inc.com AddImage CREDIT: Getty Images In honor of Small Business Week, Inc. reporters deployed to several cities where they spent one day talking to owners and entrepreneurs in a particular sector about their challenges. Joah...
Insider reveals possible SpaceX IPO, Tesla shareholders will reportedly have early access
Author: Christian Prenzler / Source: TESLARATI.com SpaceX is preparing to IPO this year, according to a leaked report posted to a trading forum and tipped off to Teslarati. A user by the name of Jushuatree provides very specific detail in what will likely be...
Venture Catalysts, Japan’s REAPRA back campsite aggregator Deyor Camps
Author: Shruti Jain / Source: VCCircle Gurgaon-based Deyor Adventures Pvt. Ltd, which runs and operates campsite aggregator Deyor Camps, has raised pre-Series A funding from Mumbai-based seed investment platform Venture Catalysts and Japanese venture capital...
Yieldify raises another $6M, appoints adtech vet John Giuliani as chairman
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch As the web becomes an ever more crowded landscape of things battling for your attention, we’re seeing an increase in marketing spend from companies to help capture it, and that in turn is leading to a rising tide...
5 Good Reasons for Being Frugal Entrepreneurs Need to Remember When They Succeed
Author: Howard S. Dvorkin / Source: Entrepreneur Over the past two decades, the companies I have run have helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs pay off their credit cards, pay down their student loans and in total have saved them millions of dollars...
Millennials Can Bridge the Generation Gap With Boomers
Author: Brittany Larsen / Source: Entrepreneur If I had a dollar for every time I've heard/read/discussed/been frustrated about the topic "working with millennials," I would have enough money to just travel the world making a difference. I know that's a...
Nation’s First Cannabis Drive-Through Opens In Colorado as Cannabis Sales Boom
Author: dispensaries.com / Source: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs did it for burgers and beer, coffee and daiquiris. So, it was just a matter of time before they did it for marijuana. That is, offer it for sale at a drive-through. The first drive-through...
The 5 Lessons I’ve Learned From 5 Years as an Entrepreneur
Author: Jess Ekstrom / Source: Entrepreneur I recently celebrated the five-year anniversary of my college startup, Headbands of Hope, which gives a child with cancer a headband for every one sold. I was inspired to start my company after an internship with a...
Airbnb acquired its React Native partner Deco Software, Deco IDE goes open source
Author: Ingrid Lunden / Source: TechCrunch Airbnb — the peer-to-peer platform where people rent accommodation and now do other travel-related business — has made an acquisition to expand its platform and how it works with developers to build services on it....
A new venture firm focused on real estate has raised $212 million from real estate industry giants
Author: Connie Loizos / Source: TechCrunch It isn’t easy to find white space in the world of venture capital, where every venture firm must have a specific vision to sell to the universities, pension funds and family offices that tend to fund them. But...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Live-Video Branding
Author: Andre Lavoie / Source: Entrepreneur In January, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown violated team policy by using Facebook Live to stream his teammates' post-game locker room banter following the AFC divisional playoff win over the Kansas...
Top 10 Kansas City startups spread across two states
Author: James Gaskin / Source: Geektime A big area stretching across big cities and big farmland has started hatching some companies with big ideas. The Kansas City metropolitan area spreads across 15 counties and two states, Kansas and Missouri. Kansas City...