Immigrant-entrepreneurs: America’s Greatest Asset
Author: Vincent Kitirattragarn / Source: Entrepreneur Immigrants: We get the job done. -- Alexander Hamilton Last year, when I was lucky enough to see the Broadway hit Hamilton, this line delivered by the show's star character ignited raucous applause by the...
Orbital Insight closes $50M Series C led by Sequoia
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch This morning Orbital Insight, a geospatial analytics startup, announced that it had completed raising a $50 million Series C round of financing from Sequoia. The fresh capital brings the company’s total fundraising to...
YayYo, Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering
Source: Business Wire LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--YayYo, Inc. (www.YayYoIpo.com), the first app providing smartphone metasearch applications for ridesharing services, announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission, as of March 17, 2017, qualified the...
The 6 Most Underrated Qualities in a Content Marketer
Author: Sujan Patel / Source: Entrepreneur If you're hiring a new content marketer, there are a few obvious qualities you already know you need to look for. Your new hire needs to be a good writer. He or she needs to love data -- both reviewing it and acting...
Meet Relive, a startup that uses data to turn your outdoor activities into 3D animated videos
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Relive, a Dutch startup that has been flying a little under the tech media radar until now, might just be onto something. Inspired by the experience of its founders during a cycling trip whilst on holiday in Tenerife...
7 Ways to Build Consumer Trust Naturally
Author: Jayson DeMers / Source: Entrepreneur Before customers make a purchase from you, they need to be able to trust you. They need to trust that your messages are accurate, that what you’re selling matches up to what you say it is and that if anything goes...
Bitfusion raises $5M for its AI lifecycle management platform
Author: Frederic Lardinois / Source: TechCrunch When Bitfusion launched at Disrupt NY 2015, its focus was on helping developers speed up their applications by giving them pre-compiled libraries that made better use of GPUs, FPGAs and other co-processing...
Angie’s List will merge with HomeAdvisor after finally accepting IAC’s acquisition offer
Author: Catherine Shu / Source: TechCrunch After two years of wooing, Angie’s List has finally agreed to be acquired by IAC. After the deal closes, Angie’s List will combined with HomeAdvisor, IAC’s home services marketplace, into a new public company called...
Yeh hai Mumbai meri jaan—there’s always a silver lining for startups here
Author: Sindhu Kashyap / Source: YourStory.com With the collapse of Tinyowl, Housing, Purple Squirrel and Doormint over the past year, many seem to have a pessimistic view of the Mumbai and the Powai startup ecosystem, but is that really the case? “They say...
Why I Don’t Work Gary Vaynerchuk’s Schedule and Neither Should You
Author: Kimanzi Constable / Source: Entrepreneur When you log into your Facebook account, you’ve probably seen at least one of your friends share some quote, video or article from entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. It seems like he’s everywhere. What Vaynerchuk...
What You Can Learn From This Angel Investor’s 5 Rules of Investing
Author: Mathew Myers / Source: Entrepreneur Throughout history, startup capital has driven the growth of major brands we’ve come to know and love today. Take Google for example -- this giant controls over 68 percent of searches made on the internet, employs...
Arianna Huffington Joins Propelify Innovation Festival
Author: Entrepreneur Media Corporate Communications / Source: Entrepreneur Join Propelify on May 18 in Hoboken, New Jersey and meet in-person with some of the most innovative minds in the Northeast. Entrepreneur readers can purchase special discounted...
6 Strategies Smart Brands Use to Satisfy and Retain Their Customers
Author: Toby Nwazor / Source: Entrepreneur Smart brands know that customers are the lifeblood of their business. Customers, in fact, are the core reason you can open up shop (whether that means online or brick and mortar) every day and generate a profit. But...
With Series A funding from Benchmark, Prefer takes the wraps off its new marketplace
Author: Connie Loizos / Source: TechCrunch Between Thumbtack, Yelp, Angie’s List and Amazon, it wouldn’t appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That’s not the way Julio Vasconcellos sees it, clearly....
Zymeworks raises US$58.5M in IPO
Author: Glen Korstrom / Source: Business In Vancouver Ali Tehrani impressed early investors as being a quick study | Zymeworks One of B.C.’s brightest biotech stars started trading on the Toronto and the New York stock exchanges simultaneously on April 28,...
6 Ways to Understand SEO Impacts Sooner
Author: Sastry Rachakonda / Source: Entrepreneur SEO is a great marketing tool for an entrepreneur. It is scalable when you don’t have a big budget -- you don’t have to pay for every click as you have to in paid marketing programs. It also has a great brand...
How This Founder Scaled Globally and Found Sustained Success
Author: Amanda Lewan / Source: Entrepreneur Strategic Staffing Solutions in Detroit just celebrated its 25th anniversary this past year. When Founder Cindy Pasky first became a computer programmer in the 1970’s she quickly realized that technology would be...
Collaboration software company Jive to be acquired by Aurea for $462 million
Author: Ron Miller / Source: TechCrunch Jive, a community collaboration software company that was one of the biggest Enterprise 2.0-era success stories, going public in 2011, announced today it had agreed to be acquired by ESW Capital’s Wave Systems for $462...