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Family money: An emerging funding source for startups
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 23:33
GUEST: Startups are increasingly looking to an alternate source of equity funding and growth capital to close a significant round of private investment: the family office. There are currently more than 3,000 family offic...
The No. 1 'First World Problem' Only Mega Man And 'Legend Of Zelda' Gamers Understand
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 22:25
Their gripes may seem trivial to us, but how many worlds have you single-handedly saved? Hmm ... Cartoon by Steve Napierski.
Salesforce looks for a future beyond its walls with rising VC investments and acquisitions
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 21:10
When it comes to investments and acquisitions, Salesforce has made headlines lately for deals that didn’t happen. The company’s rebuffed $26 billion bid for LinkedIn last year and a run at Twitter that never got off ...
10 Tips To Find The Perfect Employee
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 18:53
Hiring top performers will help lay the foundation of your company's long-term success. Paying attention to these key factors will help you identify and hire top-notch employees.
Rumor: Call of Duty to return to World War II
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 18:10
Call of Duty is apparently returning to the familiar battleground of World War II in 2017, according to a leak. The move comes after a disappointing outcome for the science fiction version of the game, Call of Duty: Infi...
Inside The Googleplex: Ominous Hype Aside, It's Just A Company
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 17:08
A determined German college student networks his way into a personalized visit to the Googleplex
The creative spirit behind the disturbing What Remains of Edith Finch
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 17:02
Ian Dallas, the creative director at game studio Giant Sparrow, has a knack for describing his games in a way that makes you want to play them. His company’s next title is What Remains of Edith Finch, a collection of s...
5 Alexa skills to try this week
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 16:57
A lot of Alexa skills available today are designed to keep you healthy. WebMD can help you diagnose an illness, Track by Nutritionix can monitor your diet, and the American Heart Association‘s skill can tell you what t...
Subscription best practices: It's all in the timing (VB Live)
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 16:20
VB LIVE: Want to tap into recurring subscription revenue? Setting an effective pricing strategy and making payments seamless are your most important goals. To find out how industry leaders in subscription pricing marry s...
Smartphone App Hopes To Solve The Looming Retirement Crisis
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 16:01
The Stash app, available for both Android and Apple smartphones, lets you build your nest egg one twig at a time. With as little as $5 -- a Venti Mocha Frappuccino at Starbucks -- you can invest in the stock market via e...
Our Plastics Glut Is An Environmental Nightmare -- And An $80 Billion Opportunity
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 16:00
We love our plastics, but they're creating an environmental nightmare. Some entrepreneurs think they have a better way to handle the plastics life cycle.
The Best Loyalty Programs Go Beyond Rewards
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 15:14
Most people think of loyalty programs as an airline giving miles to frequent fliers, a hotel giving points toward a stay or a restaurant offering a punch card incentive. While these may be called loyalty programs, I'll a...
Meet The Man Changing How Cars Are Being Washed In India
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 14:00
India's water woes, dengue health concerns, and lack of car washing facilities got entrepreneur Chirag Shah thinking - what if he started washing cars for a living, but not in the traditional way?
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 08:44
Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 10 technology M&A transactions and 66 tech funding deals totalling €371 million in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free wee...
Japanese finance app Moneytree raises $9 million to grow enterprise business
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 05:45
Tokyo-based Moneytree, the Japanese startup offering an asset managing app and cloud-based accounting soutions, announced on Tuesday that it has raised a total of 1 billion yen (nearly $9 million US) in their latest fund...
Tradeshift Launches New AI Layer on Platform, Creating Simplified Commerce
Venture Beat - 25 Mar 2017 02:53
PRESS RELEASE: Tradeshift, the world's largest business commerce platform, today announced the release of Tradeshift Ada, the world's first smart interface for B2B commerce that offers new automation capabilities to help...
From Homeless Hair Braider To African Fashion Queen
Forbes - 25 Mar 2017 01:36
When Mariatu Turay was homeless after fleeing war-torn Sierra Leone with her mother at the age of 16, she fell back on the hair braiding skill she had learned at school where all the girls had to plait their hair. Now sh...