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FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths just closed a seed round for his decidedly noncontroversial new startup, Hone 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 19, 2019
Tom Griffiths has founded four companies, two of which “weren’t much to write home about,” he jokes. The third captured the world’s attention: FanDuel, the fantasy sports company that was routinely in the press — not always for desirable reasons — from nearly the day it launched, to its near merger with rival DraftKings, to its…
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5 Simple Ways to Identify Business Ideas That Could (Really) Change the World 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 19, 2019
Want to come up with a world-changing business idea? First step, think locally. What exactly does your community need?
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Birdies Carries Off $8M Series A 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- January 18, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Birdies today announced its $8M Series A funding.
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Indonesian e-commerce unicorn Bukalapak raises $50M 0
- Raises and Exits, Uncategorized
- January 18, 2019
The chances are you may be familiar with Tokopedia, especially after it commanded a $7 billion valuation last November when it raised $1.1 billion from investors like Alibaba and SoftBank’s Vision Fund, but fewer people outside of Indonesia are aware of another sizable local online retail unicorn: Bukalapak. Smaller than Tokopedia in size, the company is…
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Magid: Pros, cons of 10-year-challenge meme 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 18, 2019
There has been a lot of commentary on the privacy implications of the “10 year challenge” that’s been popular this month on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This latest meme has people posting pictures of themselves now and from 10 years ago. In some cases — especially celebrities — it’s a way of bragging about how…
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SimplyCook dishes up £4.5M Series A for its subscription-based flavourings and recipe service 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- January 18, 2019
SimplyCook, the recipe kit service that focuses on flavour ingredients, has closed £4.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Octopus Investments. Unlike other recipe or meal kits, such as HelloFresh, Gousto and Marley Spoon, U.K.-based SimplyCook doesn’t send all of the fresh ingredients required to turn its recipes into food on…
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