You Want to Start a Business — How Should You Finance It?
Author: Mark Abell / Source: Entrepreneur Getting a small business off the ground is a huge achievement, but establishing financing on a solid footing is critical to whether an enterprise ultimately succeeds or fails. As a banking officer dealing with...
Benchmark-Backed Stitch Fix Said to Mull Initial Public Offering
Author: Alex Barinka / Source: Bloomberg.com Katrina Lake, founder and chief executive officer of Stitch Fix Inc. Stitch Fix Inc., the online personal-styling service backed by Benchmark, is considering an initial public offering, people with knowledge of...
Raise the Bar – What is Next in the Sales Enablement Industry?
Author: Nick Frost / Source: Mattermark The Top 25 Y Combinator Winter 2017 Demo Day Startups (the list) Yesterday and today, Y Combinator’s Demo Day for the Winter 2017 batch is taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Out...
5 Business-Funding ‘Rules’ to Break
Author: Sherry Gray / Source: Entrepreneur Securing funding for a startup business is undeniably tricky, but alternative methods give today's entrepreneurs more options than ever before. Most businesses haven't really kept pace with the new options. Let's...
Pitch@Rashtrapati Bhavan helps 12 startups get Rs 85cr funding
Source: InToday New Delhi, Mar 7 (PTI) Pitch@Rashtrapati Bhavan, a programme to connect investors with startups, has helped 12 new ventures get funding of about Rs 85 crore. Industry body CII in partnership with Rashtrapati Bhavan organised the event to provide a...
Why I Traveled to 47 Countries While Building a Startup
Author: Jay Meistrich / Source: Entrepreneur Three years ago, I left San Francisco, sold and gave away everything I owned, and moved into a 40-liter backpack. I traveled to 47 countries, went to every Disneyland in the world, saw the Aurora Borealis in...
German cybersecurity watchdog raises attack alert level
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat Image Credit: Bernd Juergens/Shutterstock (Reuters) – Germany has raised its alert level against cyber attacks to “heightened readiness” ahead of parliamentary elections, saying government websites are already subjected...
Nested, a London startup that guarantees to sell your house within 90 days, raises £8M
Author: Steve O'Hear / Source: TechCrunch Nested, the London ‘proptech’ startup that guarantees to sell your house within 90 days or offer you a cash advance instead, has raised a further £8 million in funding. Passion Capital have led the round, with...
Vodafone India confirms it is merging with Idea Cellular to form India’s largest telco
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Vodafone India has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to acquire rival Idea Cellular. The deal, which is being painted as a merger, will create India’s largest operator with some 377 million customers. The...
Tech In Asia is raising $6M to double down on its recruitment business
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Regional media startup Tech In Asia is close to raising as much as $6 million in new funding, three sources with knowledge of the round told TechCrunch. Singapore-based Tech In Asia’s most recent raise was a $4...
Uber president Jeff Jones quits, deepening turmoil
Author: Reuters / Source: VentureBeat (Reuters) – Ride services company Uber Technologies has been thrust deeper into turmoil with the departure of company president Jeff Jones, a marketing expert hired to help soften its often abrasive image. Jones quit...
Why the startup accelerator is failing robotics
Author: Fady Saad / Source: VentureBeat Just like humans, companies have life cycles and undergo distinct developmental phases. While every company is unique, almost all go through certain stages with specific challenges and needs. As a result, organizations...
4 Home Security Startups Disrupting the Smart Home Industry
Source: tgdaily.com The home security industry has been dominated by big companies that provide whole-home security systems and 24/7 monitoring. If you wanted to go with a more DIY approach, the market was dominated by industry giants like Honeywell that produce...
Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building ‘robot factory’ tech to apply
Author: Lora Kolodny / Source: TechCrunch Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross today announced that the accelerator-turned-venture-fund will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups. YC gathers founders from different industries together in...
How Parkopedia became a parking data powerhouse
Author: Paul Sawers / Source: VentureBeat “It didn’t take a genius to realize that if I couldn’t find any useful online information for finding parking in San Francisco, then drivers in Paris, Shanghai, and thousands of other cities around the globe were...
4 Realistic Ways to Fund Your Next Business Project
Author: Alan Rita / Source: Business 2 Community If someone tells you money isn’t always the answer to business-related problems, they’re straight-out lying. You need money to check off any objective from your to-do list – whether it’s to found a startup,...
How Magic Leap’s gaming wizard sees the future of mixed reality games
Author: Dean Takahashi / Source: VentureBeat Graeme Devine is one of the wizards of gaming, having started at age 14 in the heyday of Atari in the 1970s. He brought us CD-ROM games like The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. He labored on early Quake games at id...
5 Things Developers Don’t Share About Making Successful Apps
Author: Ayodeji Onibalusi / Source: Entrepreneur With total app revenues projected to grow from $45.37 billion in 2015 to $76.52 billion in 2017, almost anybody would be interested in becoming a developer and tapping into that kind of growth. While we all...