The entrepreneurs on last year’s Next Billion-Dollar Startups list included (left to right) Squire Technologies’ Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant; Notarize’s Pat Kinsel; Incredible Healt...
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For Ukraine’s Tech Startups, Fighting The War Means Memes, Information Campaigns–And Keeping Their Businesses Going
Memes against the war: Reface’s Memomet app, coming soon. Couresy of Reface Technology companies proliferated in Ukraine before the war. Now the country’s 250,000 IT workers are looking at small...
Payments Giant Visa Launches New NFT-Focused Program for Crypto Entrepreneurs
Global credit card giant Visa is launching a new crypto program to help content creators and entrepreneurs grow small businesses with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). According to a new company blog post, ...
Visa launches new NFT programme for entrepreneurs
Visa is looking for entrepreneurs in the fashion, arts and entertainment fields to get them involved in its new NFT-related project. Visa in the NFT world Two days ago, Visa unveiled the Visa Creator ...
Inside The Ukrainian Government’s NFT Sale—And The 3 Young Entrepreneurs Who Helped Create It
One of the NFTs that’ll be sold in next week’s sale. It depicts a Belarussian missile attack on Ukraine last month. Courtesy Fair.xyz The plan came together a couple weeks ago over birthda...
Husband and Wife Entrepreneurs Mint Own Unicorns Within a Year
(Bloomberg) — An Indian couple became the country’s first husband and wife to build their respective startups into enterprises with at least $1 billion valuation, also known as unicorns. Most Re...
Crypto Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Support Resistance
Crypto-savvy entrepreneurs with ties to Ukraine have been mobilizing their skills and networks to support the country’s resistance to the Russian invasion. One example is Kharkiv-native Illia Polosukh...
Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Struggle To Save Their Employees As War Threatens To Crush Their Businesses
Andrey Zdesenko, one of the top 100 richest people in Ukraine, is the founder of Biosphere Corporation, the largest manufacturer of household products in Ukraine. His company is now helping deliver ai...
How Ukrainian Entrepreneurs Are Sidestepping The Russian Censors
The front pages of British newspaper on February 27, 2022, in London, England. Russia’s large-scale … [+] invasion of Ukraine has killed scores of civilians and military personnel. (Photo ...
George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake
Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...
5 Ways Retail Businesses Can Manage Price Increases
With costs increasing across the board, retailers are looking for ways to cope with price rises. getty After two years that have been full of challenges, from Brexit to the pandemic, the UK’s cost of ...
These sisters launched QuickHire app to help service workers find good jobs
The launch of QuickHire was spurred by the pandemic, but it’s really been years in the making. Angela Muhwezi-Hall, 32, first thought of the idea in 2017 when she was working as a college and ca...
Amazon holiday earnings blow away expectations (thanks to Rivian), stock spikes
Amazon.com Inc. executives thought that supply-chain and staffing concerns could wipe away their holiday profit. They were wrong. Amazon AMZN, -7.81% reported fourth-quarter profit of $14.3 billion, o...
AAPI Creators And Beauty Entrepreneurs Stand Together Against Anti-Asian Hate
On January 24, 2022, an online gathering hosted by Tower 28 and Cocokind was “zoom bombed” with … [+] racially-charged content. Tower28 It was supposed to be an online gathering to c...
El Salvador Plans to Offer Crypto Loans to Small-Scale Entrepreneurs – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
The government of El Salvador will offer cryptocurrency-based loans to small companies. Conamype, the National Commission for Micro and Small Enterprises, will be the link between the investors and a ...
Singapore’s Next-Gen Tycoons Join NFT Craze With Launch Of Collaboration Platform For Entrepreneurs
ARC cofounders Elroy Cheo and Kiat Lim Courtesy of ARC Kiat Lim—son of Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim—has joined the craze for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with the launch of a private digital commun...