In today's highly competitive business landscape, minority entrepreneurs face unique challenges when it comes to scaling their ventures - particularly securing funding. However, the founders of WriteSea, a groundbreaking platform designed to help service-based businesses streamline operations, have defied the odds by raising an impressive $2.5 million in venture capital during an extremely tough market.
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Financial Literacy: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Personal Finances
Financial literacy is an essential skill that empowers individuals to make informed and effective financial decisions. From budgeting and saving to investing and managing debt, financial literacy covers a range of topics that are crucial to achieving financial well-being. This article aims to provide a comprehensive guide for beginners looking to master their personal finances.
New Coins from Lear Capital Offer Investors a Chance to Purchase Patriotic Limited-Edition Physical Precious Metal Assets
Lear Capital founder Kevin DeMeritt has announced the Los Angeles-based precious metals company will release a series of new Mount Rushmore Presidential coins, beginning in mid-October.
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The luxury watch market is confusing for outsiders. Watches, sometimes known as horological instruments, are valued for their functionality and brand appeal. Collectors monitor auction sales, attend industry events and secretive fancy dinners where bragging rights and memorized model numbers or industry gossip become currency of choice.
Global Reach: Social Discovery Group's Investment Projects
Social Discovery Group has a mission to solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality. We invest in, develop and support social discovery startups around the world directly or via VC Funds to back companies that have communication and connection at the heart of their model.
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This article examines what ESG investing entails and its potential impacts on portfolio performance across asset classes and sectors. We will then explore some of the opportunities associated with this form of impactful investing and address common issues related to the successful implementation of sustainable finance principles.
"We've spent 20 years making mistakes so others don't have to," says Charlie Lass, founder and CEO of the consultancy and private investment fund, Dallas Incorporated.
No successful investor is automatically knowledgeable about cryptocurrency, and there’s no shortcut to learning about the industry.
Following the news that auto giants Daimler AG and the BMW Group have signed a deal to develop next-generation automated driving technology together, the Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG have announced that they are partnering on autonomous vehicle technology too.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure to speak with Amy Francetic, founder and managing director of a Chicago-based clean energy investing venture capital firm called Energize Ventures, and the co-founder of the Clean Energy Trust, a Midwestern-focused non-profit clean energy accelerator.
Toyota Motor Corp. and Denso Corp. announced plans on Wednesday to form a joint venture to develop the next-generation semiconductors for future connected and self-driving vehicles. Denso, one of the world's largest auto suppliers, will own 51% of the new business with Toyota to own the remaining portion.
Cigna joined the parade of health insurance companies and biotech giants backing GNS Healthcare, a technology firm applying machine learning to healthcare through precision medicine.
Symantec Corp. signage is displayed outside of the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Venture capital firm Vice Ventures has launched a $25 million fund that will focus on early-stage startups from non-traditional verticals including, cannabis, alcohol, CBD, e-sports, addiction recovery, sex tech, and others. The fund does not invest in products that are intended to hurt people, though, Founding Partner Catharine Dockery told Bloomberg TV, bringing up the example of guns.
