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Gift Guide: 9 Excellent Back-Up Gifts For All The People You’ll Undoubtedly Forget
Every year it’s the same. You shop, you cross name after name off of your list, only to be handed a perfectly wrapped present by that one person you never expected to exchange gifts with. You’re empty-handed, palms sweating, with nothing to offer in return. It would put a damper on any happy holiday. So this year, take a different route. We’ve rounded up nine gifts that are… Read More
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Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company Sher.ly
With Disrupt London right around the corner, we thought it’d be a good idea to check in with participants from past Startup Battlefield competitions to see what they’ve been up to since the show.
Sher.ly is a SaaS-based software that essentially gives teams and telecommuters a private, project-centric cloud with the goal of giving users full control over their data. The company… Read More
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London’s Delivery Cube Lets Take-Outs And Restaurants Outsource Delivery
No sooner did I out Valk Fleet, Delivery Hero’s new B2B startup that lets take-outs and restaurants outsource delivery, another London competitor lands on my radar.
Delivery Cube, which is currently operational in part of South London and launched before Valk Fleet, pitches itself as “B2B technology driven logistics solution”. Read More
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Zenefits Launches Its Own Payroll Platform
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad danced around a question about building out payroll services at Disrupt SF 2015. “I can’t announce anything about new products specifically, but you know payroll’s a very important spoke,” Conrad said at the time. But the cloud-based HR unicorn has built a payroll product, launching out of beta today. Read More
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What To Do If Your Lead Investor Asks For ESOP
As valuations continue to rise, early stage VCs are getting more “creative” with their deal structuring. In particular, I’ve seen a rise in requests for ESOP shares to be allocated to lead investors for their “value added services.” It’s common to give ESOP to advisors for their value add, so why not investors? Read More
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2016 Will Be The Year Of The Sales Stack
Selling is a competitive sport, and quota-seeking salespeople are the athletes of that sport: They are scored and compared, there are frontrunners and underdogs and there are winners and losers. Confronted by today’s more informed customer who has readily available competitive, pricing and rating data, salespeople are facing unprecedented pressure to perform — they are expected to… Read More
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Review: Brilliant Bicycle, A Bike That Thinks Outside The Box
When my Brilliant Bicycle arrived in the mail last week, I had a minor epiphany: I’ve never actually purchased a bike on my own before. When I was young my parents chose my bike, and though I spent a few months on a borrowed bike in Europe, I have very little knowledge when it comes to making bike-based purchasing decisions. Sure, some folks have been cyclists since before the… Read More
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Tech Infrastructure In The Developing World
More than a billion people do not have access to cellular networks, three billion people live without phones and five billion people do without Internet access. While billions became connected to phone and Internet networks over the past decade, huge numbers of people are still underserved by these networks. The existing telecom and Internet infrastructure faces a tremendous challenge in… Read More
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Influencer Marketing Startup Mavrck Raises $5M
Mavrck, a startup that helps marketers recruit customers to create promotional content, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. There are plenty of other companies working on influencer marketing, but Mavrck co-founder and CEO Lyle Stevens said they usually identify influencers without helping brands “activate” them, or they’re focused on how to “rent”… Read More
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How “Failing Forward” Can End In A Lawsuit
Can you imagine a world where an entrepreneur could be sued for refusing to give up? A world where starting over could attract a lawsuit? We live in that world. It has happened before, and it will happen again. Startups die, but the entrepreneurial spirit dies hard. After a failure, some founders may want to work on an entirely new project, but others refuse to let go, and give the same… Read More
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