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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

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Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Others described a workplace with poor management and no structure and a company finding it hard to onboard merchants to its platform while running out of money simultaneously.

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Daily Crunch: After buying Twitter, will Musk bite back at Apple’s in-app purchase fees?

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99 Twitter problems, and Apple might have one : It’s no secret that Elon Musk thinks Apple’s 30% IAP (“inventor assistance program” to those of us not up on tech lingo) transaction charge to developers is “a lot.” I promise you two things, you promise me two, too : Make 4 promises to hire better staff for your startup team , by Haje.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

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“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

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Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. Urban Innovation Fund is a 100% woman-owned firm and 77% of the companies it backs have had a woman or a person of color on the founding team.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

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the Blossom Finance team realized that the market there for Islamic finance was very small, said Martin. I think we all inherently know the answer to that question, because debt can trap the poor in a cycle of poverty that they cannot escape. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

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We sell our bottled beverages and tea boxes in over 3,500 of the top retail accounts in the US from Whole Foods to Vitamin Shoppe and are generating over $100,000 / year of direct income for 2,000 indigenous farming families in Ecuador. We knew early on that building a strong team and bringing in key leaders would be essential for our growth.

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Hiring Top Artificial Intelligence Talent: Must-Know AI Engineer Interview Questions and Answers 

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Behavioral and Team-Based Questions Part 6. Extra Questions for Senior Engineers Interview Assessment: Candidate Evaluation Cheatsheet Best Practices to Use When Interviewing Artificial Intelligence Experts ML Engineer Hiring: Do It In-House or Find an IT team Extension Vendor ? Technical Interview Questions Part 4.