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One Mistake Led This Entrepreneur To Build A $3.5 Billion Business

Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. A fintech startup that has gone from bootstrapping to saving users over $1 billion a year when transferring money.


Sticking With Starbucks After A 20% Gain

Many of the stocks Wayne Himelsein has recommended before June's strong upturn are no longer bargains. However, Wayne says Starbucks, which is up over 20% since he recommended it on March 10, is still a buy.

The Number Of Women-Owned Businesses Is Exploding. Why Does The Digital Space Lag?

The number of women-owned businesses has been exploding, but not in one part of the economy where you'd expect it to be: digital-only businesses. The number of women-owned businesses grew 58% between 2007-2018, according to the American Express 2018 State of Women-Owned Business, compared with 12% for all businesses.

Miss Grass Raises $4M To Launch In-House Cannabis Brand

Venice, California - Miss Grass is a modern, elevated online magazine with captivating content and an e-commerce destination for modern cannabis consumers. Co-founded by Kate Miller and Dosist alumna Anna Duckworth, the cannabis cultural tour-de-force - dubbed the "Goop of cannabis" by W Magazine- just closed a $4 million funding round.


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Bitcoin has been on a tear lately, powering above the $10,000 mark last weekend just under two months after crossing the $5,000 level and causing analysts and investors to ask whether this time really could be different.
Optimistic thinking is leading people to set up businesses that have no realistic prospect of financial success, shows new research which may help explain why only fifty per cent of businesses in the UK survive their first five years.
COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the United States, business relationships are formal and typically based on contractual agreements. In China, business relationships rely more on the long-lasting culture of guanxi, a mixture of personal and public relationships that affect all individuals and organizations.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund, which provides capital to faculty, students, alumni and staff at all IU campuses to help them further develop their research and innovations into startup companies, has committed to invest $500,000 in Indianapolis-based NERx Biosciences Inc. as part of a $2.2 million bridge round.
Launched in January of this year by KIBO, the U-TECH Valley is a platform that supports rapid commercialization of cutting-edge technologies developed at universities and research institutes in South Korea.
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute today announced a partnership with Ngene Therapeutics Inc. (Ngene) to develop new disease treatments that leverage human stem cell research and novel gene editing techniques.
Although most organizations have begun embracing diversity and inclusion (D&I) practices tailored to individual differences (e.g., race, gender, age), few organizations consider how one's social class background might affect workplace experiences. The new white paper, "Benefits of Socioeconomic Diversity to Organizations.
Businesses that have attracted lots of positive media coverage and are also affiliated with high-status venture capitalists or underwriters may seem like poster children for corporate success. But new research from the University of Notre Dame shows this kind of attention may be too much of a good thing.
Sergey Young of Longevity Vision Fund, to present on "Opportunities in Longevity Biotechnology" at the Longevity Leaders Conference in London, 4th of February.
A new study is highlighting one possible reason women aren't making more headway in Silicon Valley: men prefer to invest in companies run by other men
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