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Six South African startups have been selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa: Black Founders programme, securing access to ZAR1 million (US$50,000) in non-dilutive funding and up to ZAR3.6 million (US$200,000) in Google Cloud credits. Google, which recently announced the eighth cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme and also backs African […]
In the face of ongoing legal and political threats toward programs addressing inequality, a global VC firm opened a new fund to support underresourced entrepreneurs — and chose DC as the place to do so. Portfolia, a San Mateo, California-headquartered firm, on Tuesday launched its 14th fund that specifically caters to founders investors typically overlook, […]
Fashion Valet founders Vivy Yusof and Fadzarudin Anuar were told to report to the MACC office at 10am tomorrow to continue providing their statements. PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has frozen several personal and company bank accounts, valued at around RM1.1 million, belonging to Fashion Valet Sdn Bhd founders Vivy Yusof and Fadzarudin […]
Founding a startup can be a risky business, often requiring founders to juggle multiple roles. So, many entrepreneurs will take all the advice they can get to navigate these challenges — and spread it to other up-and-coming leaders, too. Events like Fireside Chat: How to Build a Startup, hosted by nonprofit InnovatePGH on Wednesday, showcase […]
Through his consulting work, Tyler Sinclair has had several clients ask for help figuring out their company’s total market size, which makes up the total number of possible buyers and the total revenue sales to those buyers may generate. Those numbers exist, but can be hard for the average person to find, compile and understand, […]
With two seasoned beauty industry veterans at its helm, five-year-old skin-care brand Innbeauty Project isn’t focused on following trends or pigeonholing its age demographic. “If you’ve got a skin concern, we’ve got a high-performance solution for you, whether you’re 16 or 60 or 70 and everywhere … Continue reading Source link
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of wasted time, money, resources, and a demoralized engineering […]
Startup Snapshot, a data-sharing platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem, recently released its latest report, The Untold Toll: The Impact of stress on the well-being of startup founders and CEOs. Clearly, the emotional state of founders and entrepreneurs in any period, especially now in this economic environment, is a critical driver of success. Yet the emotional, cognitive, […]