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The big question on every startup’s mind for 2021

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My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? It was a humbling year that, for much of the tech community, was mostly spent inside, away and alone. Attending CES 2021? The 2020 boom in climate tech SPACs.

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Fintech Roundup: Due diligence makes a comeback and a former Better.com employee speaks out

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2021 was a record year for venture capital fundraising, and fintechs were the largest recipients of funding worldwide, with about 21% of all venture dollars last year going into fintech startups. Investors appeared to be backing some startups in part due to FOMO, and that’s not necessarily a good thing.

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10 Tech Recruiting Strategies To Find The Best Tech Talent

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Like an onion’s skin, recruiters uncover multiple layers in their recruitment process: sourcing, screening, and evaluation to find the best talent with the modern tech recruiting strategies that gel into your organization. Now, you can’t *just* hire tech candidates who are willing to work. You create a job description ?

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Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021

TechCrunch

From the type of deals reviewed to the definition of an African startup, each factor contributes to the disparities in numbers. Briter Bridges, for instance, avoids using geography to define an African startup due to factors contributing to business identities like taxation, customers, IP and management team.

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Find trends, advice and value at these special breakout sessions during TC Disrupt 2021

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum… with more to come!

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

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Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. Users post video reviews of their purchases and can see in real-time data how they did, as well as receive commissions from sales that resulted from their posts.

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