Will Flipkart’s funding lead to April showers for Indian startups?
Author: Athira A Nair / Source: YourStory.com The e-commerce leader’s latest round of funding matters to startups not jut in terms of further investment inflow. Flipkart Group CEO Binny Bansal and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella On 12 April, Zestmoney Co-founder...
A Springtime Bouquet Of B2B FinTech Funding
Author: PYMNTS / Source: PYMNTS.com Spring has sprung, and with it comes promising news about the U.S. venture capital space: Data released this week from KPMG found $17.3 billion worth of venture capital (VC) funding landing at U.S. startups in the first...
How Two Luxury Brokers Handle Their Relationship and Business
Author: Jessica Abo / Source: Entrepreneur If you are considering working with your significant other, Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon of Douglas Elliman have some advice. The duo has been named among the top 1,000 real estate professionals in the United...
5 Low-Cost Franchises You Can Start for as Little as $4,000
Author: Entrepreneur Staff / Source: Entrepreneur As an entrepreneur, you are done working for other people. You want to follow your dreams, set your own goals and dive into projects you are passionate about. But starting a business can expensive, risky and...
Failure and Authenticity: Why Millennials Succeed At Marketing
Author: Oren Boiman / Source: Entrepreneur Business leaders who have come of age in the context of a connected social world have a drastically evolved perspective on everything from news and education to sports, relationships and advertising. There is a new...
20 Unforgettable Moments in Space Exploration
Author: Nina Zipkin / Source: Entrepreneur This spring marked the 55th anniversary of the dawn of the space race, when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in April 1961. While the Soviet Union’s accomplishment spurred the...
Is Your Brand Name Limiting Your Business Prospects?
Author: Jordan French / Source: Entrepreneur Choosing a brand name is one of the first steps in creating your business and certainly among the most crucial -- strong, memorable names are a key ingredient to the success of your product, service or company....
The DeanBeat: Silicon Valley, sci-fi, and games are coming together
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Last year, I started writing stories about the uncanny melding of science fiction, real-world technology, and games in mainstream entertainment such as HBO’s Westworld. The sci-fi in games and other entertainment...
What One CEO Learned From His Old Coach, Tom Izzo
Author: Tracy Byrnes / Source: Entrepreneur 37-year-old Mat Ishbia is CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), and while that may sound impressive enough, he also played basketball at Michigan State University for three years and went to three Final Fours....
4 Tips for Creating a Strong Franchise Infrastructure
Author: Rick Grossmann / Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Rick Grossmann's bookFranchise Bible. Buy it now fromAmazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Following are some tips and strategies you can apply to build a thriving franchise...
As VC funds dry up, male-grooming start-ups look to FMCG firms for investments
Author: Purvita Chatterjee / Source: The Hindu Business Line FMCG players understand the male grooming space better than venture capitalists More acquisitions in the segment are likely, say players Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are likely to...
Rakuten invests $2.8M in ‘Airbnb for business travel’ startup MetroResidences
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Rakuten is getting into the Airbnb for business sector after it invested SG$4 million ($2.8 million) in Singapore-based MetroResidences. MetroResidences was founded in 2014 by James Chua and Lester Kang and it matches...
Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a U.S. startup focused on computer vision
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Baidu is acquiring xPerception, a US startup specialized in computer vision, according to Reuters. Details are sparse, but we know the startup has its own module for object recognition and depth perception that can be...
Yext finishes the day up 21% as IPO window remains wide open
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch Yext, the company which helps businesses power their location data, went public on the New York Stock Exchange today. After pricing shares above the expected range at $11, the price rose 21% to $13.29 by the end of the...
Oxford University Researchers to Explore the Potential Benefits of Medical Marijuana
Author: dispensaries.com / Source: Entrepreneur You know studies into the uses of marijuana have hit the big time -- academically speaking, at any rate -- when the University of Oxford in England gets involved. Oxford, about as far removed from the...
How Small Companies Can Cultivate Homegrown Senior Development Talent
Author: Cahlan Sharp / Source: Entrepreneur Following the disruption theories of Clayton Christensen, in business, as it is in life, if we wait too long to invest in something, a last-minute dash might come too late to move the needle in the right direction....
How to Get a 6-Figure Audience for Your Live Video
Author: Salma Jafri / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Salma Jafri interviews Katya Varbanova, a livestream strategist who has over 22,000 followers on Periscope and who makes a full-time living from her video content....
Elmodis raises a $4.9M round to find the soul of a new machine
Author: John Biggs / Source: TechCrunch Like the boy in Iron Giant, Elmodis watches massive machines to ensure they don’t break or, worse, hurt people. The company recently raised $4.9 million to manage this task in addition to their $250,000 in seed capital...