During the forum “The Net of Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, the municipal president of Huixquilucan, Enrique Vargas del Villar, made a commitment to the young attendees who next year will deliver a million pesos for the best 100 entrepreneur projects. He said that these 100 projects will be supported with 10…
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No two tech executives are quite as enigmatic and private as Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The two men, who started Google more than 20 years ago while computer science graduate students at Stanford University, have hardly been seen or heard from in the last half-decade or so,…
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2018 was a big year for venture capital. In 2018, venture capitals (VCs) invested $254 billion in 18,000 startups, increasing by 46% from the $174 billion that was raised in 2017. Yet, in this system where so many investors seem to want to provide the money to turn your big…
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Investment Opportunities The Five Metrics Startup Investors Are Most Likely to Get Wrong. My Twitter feed is always good for a laugh or two every morning. This morning was no different. “You need to be able to say what your startup does in 2-4 words,” tweeted serial founder David Sacks.…
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The platform helps free up customer reps and gives them the tools to upsell on Shopify-based stores If you’ve ever worked in retail or, more specifically, online ecommerce, you know how hectic it can be when dealing with a bunch of questions and live chat inquiries. As someone who’s been…
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Eight student teams received critical feedback and encouragement about their entrepreneurial ideas while making presentations before a panel of Rose-Hulman alumni during this year’s Techstars Startup Weekend on campus. There was no shortage of entrepreneurial ideas from teams of Rose-Hulman students that spent a weekend participating in the Techstars Startup…
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Language-learning company Duolingo said Wednesday it reached so-called unicorn status with a $1.5 billion valuation after raising $30 million in its latest funding round. Alphabet Inc. investment fund CapitalG led the Series F financing round that helped Duolingo become the first Pittsburgh technology startup to become a unicorn, or reach…
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Investing in startups is fashionable. For a long time now, not only “professional” full-time investors have been involved, but people who have earned money in the business are now investing in promising projects and are now thinking of how to deal with them. Usually they are called angel investors and…
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Each year, the Chinese Ali-Baba editor, owner of Ali Express, competes for rising startups called Create. Out of 1000 competitors, they finished 7th, including the Israeli Wise-Smoker. What is being tested in the competition is technology, business potential, and product adaptation to the Chinese market. This year, a white-and-white startup…
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British energy accelerator Energy Systems Catapult solves clever refueling of electric cars or low-carbon heating control in British homes. Not only the possibilities of crowdfunding and energy innovation were discussed in the video interview for Roklen24 server accelerator manager Eric Appleton. What is your Energy Systems Catapult doing? Energy Systems…
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