Josiah
@Josiah
434 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Hulda
@Hulda -
over 2 years ago
Europe’s quick-commerce startups are overhyped: Lessons from China
Alexander than 10 companies currently compete across Europe with an instant grocery delivery business model. Half of them were established in 2020, the year of the pandemic. These companies have raised more than $2 billion to date.Existing and well-funded online food-del...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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Mariano
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over 2 years ago
Can't move forward without embracing technology, says Kipchoge - Reuters
Aug 25 (Reuters) - Marathon world record holder and Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge hopes that technology will take "centre stage" as athletes strive for improvement and chase faster times in the future.The Kenyan, who overcame humid conditions in Tokyo earlier this month...continued
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Devin
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over 2 years ago
Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: “It’s definitely a crazy time”
Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — as long as they don’t involve hardware or FDA approval.The firm’s investors app...continued
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Pablo
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over 2 years ago
OnlyFans Creators Will Not Be Deterred
It is hard to overstate the degree to which OnlyFans reversed the general downward trajectory of being an adult entertainment performer.Before the subscription service arrived in 2016, so-called tube sites — video platforms that aggregated stolen pornographic content, dis...continued
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Torey
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over 2 years ago
CEO Secrets: 'Tear up the business plan'
Brooklyn Brewery is a craft beer company based in New York. It exports beers all over the world. CEO Eric Ottaway says the one piece of business advice he wishes he had known when joining the firm in the 1990s is to be flexible and not to be wedded to any one particular b...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Jany
@Jany -
over 2 years ago
Why OnlyFans Creators Will Not Be Deterred
It is hard to overstate the degree to which OnlyFans reversed the general downward trajectory of being an adult entertainment performer.Before the subscription service arrived in 2016, so-called tube sites — video platforms that aggregated stolen pornographic content, dis...continued
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Josiah
@Josiah -
over 2 years ago
The Road less Travelled | History Today
Mary Wollstonecraft, by John Opie, c.1797 © National Portrait Gallery, London.Women travellers performed remarkable feats in the 19th century. Marianne North criss-crossed the world, painting flora in the Middle East, Asia, Australasia and the Americas. Isabella Bird roam...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
Discover the Digital Marketing Strategies to Make Your Brand Stand Out
Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners.During the Covid-19 pandemic, e-commerce experienced...continued
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Minnie
@Minnie -
over 2 years ago
Business Updates: A Fed Meeting and a Key Inflation Reading
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older, making it the first to move beyond emergency use status in the United States.The decision will set off a cascade of vaccine requirements by h...continued
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Angus
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over 2 years ago
Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses
Givz, which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding.Eniac and Accomplice co-led the financing for the New York-based startup. Additional investors include Supernode Ventures, ...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Meggie
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over 2 years ago
Business Updates: Facebook Calls for ‘Fair Shot’ in Crypto Payments
Daily Business BriefingAug. 18, 2021Updated Aug. 19, 2021, 12:41 p.m. ETAug. 19, 2021, 12:41 p.m. ETVlad Tenev, right, and Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood’s founders, in New York last month.Credit...Sasha Maslov for The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO — Robinhood, the stock trading ap...continued
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Moises
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over 2 years ago
When it comes to diversity in hiring, businesses are their own worst enemy
Jonathan McBride is the former global head of inclusion and diversity at BlackRock and previously served as director of the Presidential Personnel Office in the White House. Rasheed posts by this contributor Over the past year, companies have continued t...continued
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Bart
@Bart -
over 2 years ago
Enable bags $45M for B2B rebate management platform
Enable, a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management, announced Wednesday a $45 million Series B funding round.The round is led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures and Sierra ...continued
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Marie
@Marie -
over 2 years ago
GSK and R/GA Ventures are launching a health studio for startups
GSK Next, the innovation arm of GlaxoSmithKlein, is launching a new mentorship and business development program. Called the Re/Wire Health Studio, the program will eventually select six startups who will win access to nine weeks of mentoring, business development expertis...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Iva
@Iva -
over 2 years ago
For British agency Ascendant, growth marketing is much more than a set of tactics
Growth marketing is often misconceived as a set of tactics when it’s much more: It is a process that startups need to put in place in their early days that will scale as their customer base and internal teams grow.This is where British growth agency Ascendant shines, Roby...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Torey
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over 2 years ago
A leaked bill for Nigerian startups reveals a theme of licenses, fees, fines, and sentences
For a while, there have been talks about revamping the outdated 2007 Act of Nigeria’s information and technology body, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).The bill which established NITDA as the agency to oversee Nigeria’s technological transfor...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
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over 2 years ago
New EU marketing rules — implications for fund managers - Reuters
File photo: European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Yves HermanAugust 11, 2021 - On 2 August 2021, the EU's cross-border distribution of funds rules (Directive (EU) 2019/1160) amending the EU's Alternat...continued
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Alexzander
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over 2 years ago
Link-in-bio monetization platform Snipfeed raises a $5.5M seed round
The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beac...continued
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Hulda
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over 2 years ago
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on inspiration
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on Oleg Stavitsky and his co-founders started Endel, they didn’t necessarily expect for it to become a venture-backed business with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa Fund as investors. Stavitsky and his f...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Giovanni
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over 2 years ago
Growth roundup: Storytelling for startups, early-stage influencers, retail media spend
“I like to think of successful brand-building as creating a company that customers would be upset to separate from their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they’d cease to be the man with Slack stickers all over his ...continued
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Oren
@Oren -
over 2 years ago
There could be more to the Salesforce+ video streaming service than meets the eye
There could be more to the Salesforce+ video streaming service than meets the Salesforce announced its new business video streaming service called Salesforce+ this week, everyone had a reaction. While not all of it was positive, some company watchers also wondered if the...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post over 2 years ago:
Delia
@Delia -
over 2 years ago
Lee Jae-yong: Samsung heir released from prison on parole
He was accused of paying 43bn won ($37.7m; £26.7m) to two non-profit foundations operated by Choi Soon-sil, a friend of Park's, in exchange for political support - alleged to include backing for a controversial Samsung merger which paved the way for Lee to become eventual...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Barry Richardson
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almost 3 years ago
Why You Should Be Using Computer Monitoring Software
If you want to be aware of what activities someone performs on a computer, you can install computer monitoring software. Such a program is able to track everything that the computer operator does on the device. Parents, employers, schools and offices may decide to use thi...continued
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Josiah
@Josiah -
almost 3 years ago
Training camp position battles to watch for all 32 teams: Who will start at QB for the Pats,...
7:17 AM ETNFL NationESPN Whether you are a fantasy football hawk, a super fan of your favorite NFL team or prepping to place bets in 2021, figuring out who will come out on top of key position battles is an important part of the preseason.The New Orleans Saints, New Engla...continued
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Josiah upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Ezequiel
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almost 3 years ago
Upscribe, raising $4M, wants to drive subscription-first DTC brand growth
Upscribe founder and CEO Dileepan Siva watched the retail industry make a massive shift to subscription e-commerce for physical products over the past decade, and decided to get in it himself in 2019.The Los Angeles-based company, developing subscription software for dire...continued
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