10 Skills to Master Before Launching a New Business
From Excel to public speaking, every entrepreneur should have these skills.
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Author: dumbcapital
Robocorp Collects $5.4M Round of Funding
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Robocorp has closed a new $5.4 million round of funding from its existing investors Benchmark, Slow Ventures, and firstminute Capital.
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API startups are so hot right now
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. A cluster of related companies recently caught our eye by raising capital in rapid-fire fashion. TechCrunch covered a few of them, and I read coverage of others. Looking back through my notes and the media…
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H-1B visa: Outsourcers and IT staffing companies score big win with government settlement
After two courts ruled against a federal government policy on the use of H-1B visa workers by staffing and outsourcing companies, an industry group has won a major victory in a settlement with the government amid an ongoing lawsuit. The agreement between the government and the ITServe Alliance, which represents firms that place foreign workers…
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3 views on the life and death of college towns, remote work and the future of startup hubs
The global pandemic has halted travel, shunted schools online and shut down many cities, but the future of college-town America is an area of deep concern for the startup world. College towns have done exceedingly well with the rise of the knowledge economy and concentrating students and talent in dense social webs. That confluence of…
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