Raising funds major challenge for internet startups: Study
Author: Gautham Shenoy / Source: FactorDaily Even though the Indian government has been trying its best to ensure sustained funding for startups, a large number of internet-based startups are yet to get any formal funding in the form of business grants,...
How to Build a Successful Brick-and-Mortar Startup
Author: Kelsey Humphreys / Source: Entrepreneur Online entrepreneurship is understandably all the rage, but for the many readers who still dream of opening that quaint cafe, launching a one-of-a-kind boutique or joining the increasingly popular co-working...
How These 2 Offbeat Online Lenders Could Help You Land Funding
Source: Entrepreneur The following excerpt is from Entrepreneur's book Finance Your Business. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes If you’re investigating online loans, take a look at two of the more unusual (yet legitimate) online lenders, peer-to-peer...
8 Things to Consider to Find the Right Funding Option for Your Startup
Author: Patrick Henry / Source: Entrepreneur You have busted your hump to get your product concept fleshed out and gained customer feedback about the importance of your solution. Maybe you even have a prototype and have been engaging with customers in...
Consumer food brand Licious raises $10M in Series B funding led by Mayfield and Sistema Asia Fund
Author: Sindhu Kashyap / Source: YourStory.com The online meat brand Licious today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Mayfield India and Sistema Asia Fund. The round also saw participation from existing investor 3one4 Capital...
3 Ways to Help Creative Employees Thrive — Even If That Means They Leave the Job
Author: Kuty Shalev / Source: Entrepreneur While pushing employees to the limit might work when tasks are mechanical and monotonous, it’s absolutely the wrong approach for highly skilled, creative positions. In fact, according to Yale School of Medicine...
12 Israeli Firms Rocking Financial Technology
Author: Abigail Klein Leichman / Source: jewishvoiceny.com Yaron Saban, CEO of CreditPlace. Photo credit: Osnat Krasnansky Fintech is strong and growing in Israel. Tzido Sun/Shutterstock.com “Slings” enable cashless, credit-card-free payments to...
With New Ventures Challenge & Accelerator, Winston-Salem Investors Hope to Fund 30 Startups in Five Years
Source: ExitEvent Just over a year ago, 44 successful Triad area entrepreneurs pooled $355,000 to make a big bet on North Carolina startups. By funding the New Ventures Challenge and accelerator in Winston-Salem, they hoped to ensure innovation would continue to come...
What You Should Know Before You Offshore Your Startup’s Engineering Team
Author: Yarden Tadmor / Source: Entrepreneur "Everything now, everything fast" is the way of a startup. It's a race against competitors, what's still interesting and getting users to care. Offshoring engineering teams has become a popular solution for large...
The One Trend Impacting All Companies This Year
Author: Ben Judah / Source: Entrepreneur Ten years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage and changed the world. He took all information ever created and put it in our pockets, along with a mobile telephone and a music player. And it blew our minds. The launch of...
4 Sales Tactics to Grow an Ecommerce Company
Author: Nathan Resnick / Source: Entrepreneur For a business like FRESHeTECH, which created the first bluetooth shower speaker, going retail wasn’t an option due to cash flow constraints. Instead, the college company started by three friends in a dorm room...
Udemy co-founder Eren Bali just raised $6.5 million for his newest startup
Author: Connie Loizos / Source: TechCrunch It’s no secret that communications between patients and their doctors and pharmacists is anything but seamless. The same is true for communications between doctors and the labs and insurance companies with which...
Raise.me grabs $12 million to fix how colleges provide financial aid
Author: Jonathan Shieber / Source: TechCrunch Preston Silverman got the idea for Raise.me, a startup that has created a clever new way for students to receive financial aid, while working as a volunteer at a school for untouchables in India called Shanti...
Rover and DogVacay merge to dominate the pet-sitting market
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch Putting an end to a fierce competition to dominate the pet-sitting business, Rover and DogVacay have agreed to join forces. Rover will be acquiring DogVacay in an all-stock deal. DogVacay’s investors, including...
GE invests $2 million in Alchemist Accelerator to back industrial IoT startups
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Alchemist Accelerator has raised $2 million from GE Digital to start a new program for industrial IoT startups. Stanford lecturer Timothy Chou, formerly President of Oracle On Demand, will chair Alchemist’s new IIoT...
Aiden closes $750,000 seed round in its quest to amplify marketers
Author: John Mannes / Source: TechCrunch Aiden, a London-based startup building a machine learning-powered personal assistant to save mobile marketers time and money, closed a $750,000 seed round today from Kima Ventures and a number of angels including...
A Dearth of I.P.O.s, but It’s Not the Fault of Red Tape
Author: STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON / Source: New York Times The confirmation hearing last week for Jay Clayton, who has been nominated to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, focused on the continued sluggishness of the market for initial public...
Schneider anticipates IPO of between $18 and $20 per share
Author: | @MattColeRR / Source: Commercial Carrier Journal Schneider National is set to sell nearly 29 million shares with its initial public offering. (Photo by 365 Trucking) Some details have emerged about Schneider National’s proposed initial public...