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In this article, we will talk about a specific type of founders and a specific type of international investor, corresponding to those founders, and we’re talking about the founders from CIS countries, who have fears and insecurities connected with coming to Silicon Valley to complete all the trials, which are necessary to receive an investment.
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Drum roll ... On January 28, the Golden Kitty Awards took place, the best of the best products of the year launched at Product Hunt! For the first time in its six-year history, this year's awards ceremony was held online. The winners were selected in 23 categories from mobile applications to fintech, and the best products in each category received their Golden Kitty award.
Let’s have a look at the projects which won their kittens this year 🐱
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Vasily Nikolaev is a venture investor, NetworkVC partner and the CEO of Braintree that is developing the next generation of artificial intelligence. Their latest successful deal was the sale of Coda Devices to Thorlabs. Vasily was a partner of the Quantum Wave Fund where he reviewed several hundred transactions and discovered the processes going on in Silicon Valley from both sides.
Vasily spoke on air at Angel Talks about the discipline of an investor in making investment decisions, finding good deals and evaluating founders, investment strategies, and the mechanics of venture capital funds.
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The amount of information and content produced is increasing exponentially every day. With the development of the Internet and its ubiquity, it becomes more accessible to a wide range of people, but it quickly faces a new challenge: how to filter out the entire amount of information in order to find the answer to your question? How to verify it for authenticity without a specialized background?
Already loved #news section is on the air, share most relevant news with you 👇
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The last few days in the stock market are full of the news on GameStop (NYSE: GME) shares. The company sells physical media containing games, films, consoles and other goods.
For the last two years, sales have only been falling, and analysts have not seen any options in which shares will start to jump, it was the leader in falling rates. But in the past two months, shares opened up 360% and market capitalization has tripled.
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Statistics show that in 2020, the number of hours a day spent on smartphones has increased significantly. Social networks and instant messengers are the leaders among applications.
At the same time, it is not the first year when research and experts note that people are worried about the impact of mobile applications on their lives. The term “mobile fatigue” comes into use: the constant uncontrolled use of mobile applications can increase the level of experienced stress.
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🇮🇱 Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ranked together in sixth place in Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report (GSER) for 2020. This is the second year in a row as they showed the same result in 2019. The rankings are noteworthy as The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 reflects the impact that COVID-19 had on the global startup economy.
In today’s review, we’ll look at the strengths and weaknesses of the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ecosystem, talk about its main players, both among startups and investors, and, of course, education. After all, many startups start at the university.
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⚡️Where unicorns graze: valuation growth and a possible round of investments in the Clubhouse
In the past few weeks, investors in a number of funds approached the founders of the Clubhouse startup with a proposal to lead a new round. At the same time, the company’s assessment at this stage, when the application does not bring profit, is announced at $1B. Last night it became known that Clubhouse had confirmed the raise of investments in round B, the amount was not disclosed.
Details 🔥
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In the first week of January, while the whole world was quietly resting on the Christmas holidays, the audience of the Telegram messenger reached 500 million active monthly users, as Pavel Durov reported on his channel. The app experienced strong growth of 1.5 million monthly users last year, but such a surge was impressive even for the founder.
Telling about most important evens around Telegram 👇
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Game developers have several pressing problems: the attraction of new users is certainly expensive, they rarely stay for a long period of time in the app. Moreover, the app stores want bigger fees for each payment.
The GamePad startup went the other way and found a way to radically increase product virality, user engagement, and reduce the cost of user attraction as well. CEO of the startup Pavel Kuznetsov shared the details.
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Psychological problems cost businesses money: Dublin-based Frankie Health startup raises investments for psychological assistance for employees.
Prepared all the info for you 🔥
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Edutech Blabla startup — an app where native English speakers record short, entertaining videos designed to teach the language to students from all over the world, raises $1.54 million of investments.
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💸 It is possible to raise investments in a startup not from business angels or funds, today many startups choose crowdfunding platforms.
A startup with Ukrainian roots nect MODEM successfully conducted a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, raising $ 350,000 from 3,000 backers for product development.
You can read more about the startup here.
Today, the CEO of the nect MODEM team Misha Rudominski will tell you how crowdfunding works and why a startup needs it
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We continue introducing you to the episodes of the «Maslow-ish» audio-podcast from the creators of the NODE PR agency. In this episode, we discuss communication from different perspectives. Our today's guest is Irina Barzhak, the founder of the Institute of Public Speaking and Conflict Science.
Today we talk about how to deal with conflicts, not be afraid of public speaking and always remain calm.
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France is rarely considered as a cradle of startups, both worldwide and in Europe. Education, investment and journalism have always been strong sides of this country, and in recent years, they have further strengthened their positions.
In the StartupBlink report for 2019, Paris became the 13th city in the world and the leader of startup ecosystem development in France. Today, in our material, we are going to analyze the components of this success.
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⚡️Folx Health, a telemedicine service with a focus on the LGBTQIA + community, raised $25M in Series A. The total funding is close to $30M. The funds will be used to scale in all US states (so far they are available in 11 only) and to increase the number of products and services for all members of the transgender and queer community.
Find the details in the article 👇
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It was reported yesterday that DesignCrowd has raised $7,6M ahead of its potential IPO in Australia. According to the CEO of the company Alec Lynch, this is a very timely financing: the management has a developed roadmap for development and the money will help to expand the staff and make the plans come true.
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Sooner or later, any startup has to think about raising investment to grow and develop. One of the most important questions when preparing for the round is the correct corporate structuring of the startup.
Vitaly Tvardovskiy, attorney at SBH Law Offices, shares how to get started preparing structuring, what documents should be drawn up, what to look for when choosing a jurisdiction and registering a company, as well as how and when to start the restructuring process.
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A wide audience first heard about Bitcoin in 2017, when its rate grew almost 20 times during the year. However, after that the currency rate began to fall, and the predictions of some enthusiasts that bitcoin could rise in price again to almost $100,000 seemed nonsense.
Recent months have shown that nothing is impossible, and now the topic of cryptocurrencies, and the blockchain with it, is back on the radar. What has changed in the direction in recent years? What blockchain startups are being created and what is their future? CEO of the QPDigital fund Denis Valvachev shares his opinion on these topics.
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“Tell me what your customers and competitors are buying, and I’ll tell you how to grow your business,” this phrase can describe OpenBusiness, a new startup of Yulia Lokotkova, a well-known financial analyst in Belarusian fintech.
This is already her third startup: she has pitched her project to the best business angels and has taken part in the American accelerator Starta Ventures. Investors already estimate OpenBusiness at $ 2.5M. Yulia shared life hacks on its creation and promotion.
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The EduTech sector has strongly grown over the pandemic — even public schools started to use an online format. What is it: a hype, a temporary solution or a steady trend? Today, investors are investing in EduTech projects with pleasure. But is everything so rosy? What are the problems in this area?
Grigory Avetov helps to answer all these questions in the Angel Talks video podcast of Sergey Belyaev and Ivan Lomakin.
Today we want to touch upon product management, namely the concepts of minimum products.
🎢 Minimum product concepts are early versions of a product that solve at least one potential customer's problem.
The main value is that you can spend very little time on design and development and get feedback from users very quickly. All this will help to understand in which direction the project needs to move and what needs to be improved.
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🔊 The podcast industry is growing and evolving quite rapidly. Both the number of listeners and the amount of content consumed are growing weekly.
How will the development of a startup take the podcast industry to a new level? Read in a new article!
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⭐️ The guest of the next episode of the "Maslow-ish" podcast from the creators of the NODE PR agency is a psychologist, gestalt therapist Olga Klimova.
Together with the host Ksenia Zaikova they try to figure out how to overcome the barriers in our heads and stop being shy about expressing our opinions.
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A few days ago, statistics of downloads and use of mobile applications in 2020 were published. In general, there are not many surprises: the impact of the pandemic on user choice, overall audience growth and time spent on the phone.
However, there is one interesting detail. Talked about it and the news of the dating market in a new article 👇
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Christina Petrukhnova, an expert in effective communications, talked about the formula of trust, typology of personalities and everything that can help us achieve effective communication on air on our “Maslow-ish” podcast. We have gathered the main theses in a text version 😊
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Hey! Our today’s guest is Alexandr Kovalev, founder of the aggregator of freshly roasted coffee producers "STATUS: Coffee”.
Today we will talk about Power BI, which is one of the BI services, that is, services for processing and visualizing data.
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It seems that no Silicon Valley project had such a chance of success.
It had everything, the unicorn gold standard: idea and mission, motivation and charisma, important connections and good market conditions. But instead of the expected takeoff, there was an unexpected failure. Who Elizabeth Holmes really was: a genius con artist or a crazy fanatic? How did she manage to outwit more than a dozen experienced investors, wise politicians, and even one Nobel laureate? What role do emotions and pathological traits play in management and leadership? Is it possible to understand that your potential partner has a mental health problem? What is the threat and how to prevent potential risks?
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We have great news for you! Quite recently, as part of the Product Hunt Daily mailing list, a letter with Top 5 projects that received most upvotes in 2020 was sent out.
The Easy Bloggers project from our pipeline became the first (taking the product of the week, and then the product of the month, congrats on that!
Who else made it to the top? Read in the article below 👇
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Happy New Year, friends! 🎄
It has been a challenging but very productive year for all of us and our Rocket DAO ecosystem. Want to share our achievements with you ✨