Long-time entrepreneur Amit Haller was frustrated with the traditional process of buying and selling houses and thought the real estate market was ripe for disruption. So in 2016, he and Ami Avrahami co-founded Reali. Today, the San Mateo-based company helps customers across California with everything from finding the right home…
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French propulsion startup ThrustMe unexpectedly made it into orbit early this month with its innovative propulsion system placed aboard a Chinese cubesat. Dianfeng, or Xiaoxiang-1 (08), a six-unit cubesat developed by privately owned Spacety, was a secondary payload on the launch of the Gaofen-7 civilian Earth observation satellite Nov. 2,…
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After a tough 17-months, in which Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd (Cradle) lost, not only its outstanding CEO, Nazrin Hassan in a tragic incident in June 2018 but also was in a state of flux over its own future, with a new government relooking the structure and relevance of various development…
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Controversial Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel has secured his largest contract to date with the British government for his secretive data mining company Palantir, after building a team of hundreds in the capital. The most valuable public deal The Ministry of Defence has spent £26m on Palantir this year, marking…
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Ambareen Musa said women are unlikely to scale businesses due to family responsibilities. Female entrepreneurs are “scared” to ask for funding and are less likely to scale their businesses, according to the CEO and founder of Dubai-based price comparison website Souqalmal. Speaking at the Arabian Business Startup Forum, Ambareen Musa…
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Recently, when Elliott Adams, author of “The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Technology Startup” signed up for i2E’s Venture Assessment Program (VAP), it was a great opportunity for us to gain perspective from an industry pro. Elliott’s book is based on his broad experience in…
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Recently, when Elliott Adams, author of “The Startup Mixtape: The Guide to Building and Launching a High-Growth Technology Startup” signed up for i2E’s Venture Assessment Program (VAP), it was a great opportunity for us to gain perspective from an industry pro. Elliott’s book is based on his broad experience in…
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Experts at the Arabian Business Startup Forum said that firms should avoid failures to plan and be prepared for rejection. Other common mistakes she finds include not knowing whether they need to register IP, as well as wanting to incorporate the “cheapest structure”, rather than the most effective structure. The…
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Crypt TV is a social video startup that creates horror shorts for mobiles. Here we tell you how its CEO kept her alive when it seemed she had reached the end of the road with her investors. “We will not get to that point” This is the diplomatic way in…
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Crypotcurrencies are always on a roller-coaster ride. In late December 2017, Bitcoin hit close to $20,000 and there were memes on social media about a missed chance at becoming an overnight millionaire. In no time, it lost over half of its value and then again shot up to over $15,000.…
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