Tech Unicorn Okta Ready For Its Debut As IPO Market Heats Up
Author: BRIAN DEAGON / Source: Investor's Business Daily Identity management company Okta (OKTA) is set to debut this coming week, as the IPO market prepares for another tech unicorn. Other initial public offerings this coming week include trucking company...
No-frills Frontier Airlines files for initial public offering
Source: Dallas News Frontier Group Holdings Inc. filed for a rare U.S. airlines initial public offering. The no-frills carrier filed with an initial offering size of $100 million, according to a filing Friday, which is a placeholder amount used to calculate fees and...
Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing
Author: Kate Conger / Source: TechCrunch Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that’s received significant backing from Intel, has unveiled its much-anticipated IPO filing. In the S-1, we get a glance at their financials. Revenue is growing, bringing in...
Women in tech are still an undervalued pipeline for innovation
Author: Allyson Kapin / Source: TechCrunch Craig Newmark is the founder of craigslist. His latest venture, craigconnects, helps drive peer-to-peer, grassroots civic engagement and philanthropy to support veterans and military families; trustworthy...
Values, vendor capital, venture capital: 20 PR tips for startups from industry experts
Author: Madanmohan Rao / Source: YourStory.com When does PR become important for a startup? How should PR firms be engaged? How is social media changing the way a startup pitches its story? How does PR differ for B2C and B2B sector startups? A range of...
Venture debt is a viable alternative to VC funding, and it is getting hotter in Southeast Asia
Author: NK Naginlal Modi / Source: e27 47631580 - business people handshaking It might sound like an obvious statement that entrepreneurs don’t want to give up equity in their business. But the challenge remains — how do they raise the necessary capital...
Build A Startup And Sabotage Competitors In Control Alt Deceit
Author: Matt Mitchell / Source: popwrapped.com Build your business and sabotage the competition to win in the new card game, Control Alt Deceit. From Aidan Price and first time designer Étienne Garbugli, Control Alt Deceit simulates the growth of technology...
This Real Estate Startup Is Exploiting Zillow And Airbnb’s Blind Spot
Author: Julian Mitchell / Source: Forbes Revestor is a real estate search engine that lets users run investment calculations over live listings. The evident dominance of Airbnb and Zillow has transformed the way residential real estate is discovered,...
Why Exceeding Expectations Is Essential to the Long-Term Success of Your Business
Author: Glenn Llopis / Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Glenn Llopis’s book The Innovation Mentality. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble Editor's Note: With competition growing increasingly harsh, business owners can no longer offer...
6 River Systems unveils warehouse robots that show workers the way
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch When Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in 2012, other retailers and third-party fulfillment centers panicked. The e-commerce giants took Kiva’s robots off the market, leaving their competitors without an important...
20 Digital Nomad Retreats, Spaces, Communities and Conferences Around the World
Author: Hailley Griffis / Source: Entrepreneur It’s amazing to know that recent stats show 50 percent of the U.S. workforce holds a job that lets them telecommute at least partially. Some remote workers also choose to travel while they work, falling under...
3 Ways to Follow a Greedless Road to Success
Author: Erik Huberman / Source: Entrepreneur Everyone knows fictional trader Gordon Gekko’s infamous refrain in the film Wall Street: “Greed is good.” These days, however, a different class of entrepreneur is dismantling and disproving that concept. Consider...
Echo raises $7.5 million for its hybrid microscope
Author: Bérénice Magistretti / Source: VentureBeat Microscopes used for life sciences exist in two configurations — either upright, typically used for glass slides, or inverted, to view live samples in petri dishes. Labs will usually have both for their...
Looker catches the fancy of CapitalG, Goldman and Geodesic with $81.5M Series D
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Business intelligence platform Looker is announcing a wholesome $81.5 million Series D today led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s cleverly named growth investment arm. Goldman Sachs and Geodesic Capital helped fill out the...
JoyRun, a food delivery app with a twist, raises $8.5 million
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch A Santa Clara, Calif. startup called JoyRun has raised about $10 million in Series A and seed funding for its peer-to-peer food and drinks delivery app. Floodgate led the $8.5 million Series A round in JoyRun, and...
CEO: When Job Hunting, Money Should Be Your Last Consideration
Author: Bryan Elliott / Source: Entrepreneur In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Bryan Elliott sits down with Rebel Mouse CEO and founder Paul Berry, who explains why his best advice is to think about money last when choosing which jobs to pursue....
Revised Fund of Funds guidelines will double startup funding: DIPP
Author: Aparajita Choudhury / Source: YourStory.com According to the Startup India Action Plan status report, Rs 500 crore out of Rs 10,000 corpus has been released to SIDBI (the fund manager of ‘Fund of Funds for Startups’) in FY 2015-16 and an additional...
Startup Which Created A Regional Operating System Gets Funded
Author: Press Trust of India / Source: NDTV New Delhi: Indus OS, a startup which has created a regional operating system, today said it has raised an undisclosed amount from new investors JSW Ventures and VenturEast in recently-concluded financing round....