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Verve scores $18.5M to reward you for selling tickets to friends

 Verve, the U.K, startup formerly known as StreetTeam that offers a sales platform to enable brands to easily run advocacy programs, has picked up $18.5 million is Series B funding. The round is being led by publicly-listed VC Draper Esprit, with ...

Taizo Son’s Mistletoe leads US$3.5M funding in venture investment platform Hatcher+

Hatcher+ is now working on a US$125 million fund to make a series of AI and ML-assisted co-investments into early-stage companies Hatcher+, a Singapore-based data-driven venture investment platform, has raised US$3.5 million in funding, led by Taizo Son’s (brother of SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son) Mistletoe group, ahead of the upcoming launch of its US$125 million data-driven VC fund. […]

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In video, how fear setting can help you take action and thrive in high stress environments

Entrepreneurs often make hard choices. Here’s how “fear setting” can help you overcome self-paralysis Early-stage tech investor and best-selling author Tim Ferriss talks about Stoicism, and how defining your fears can help you as you navigate through hard decisions to thrive in high-stress environments.  

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Here’s a small way to start building your resistance to Y Combinator rejections

 Who loves a good niche? We sure as hell do. And we also love niche products that address those niche problems — especially tech niches. So here we are, with Today in Good Niche Things. This time it’s a small little thing on the internet that sends you a rejection letter from Y Combinator before you even had a chance to apply to Y Combinator. It, instead, will send you a… Read More

Vickers Ventures Partners closes fifth fund at US$230M, eyes global firms

Vickers Ventures Partners’s fifth fund is larger than all its previous funds put together Global venture capital firm Vickers Venture Partners has announced it has closed its fifth fund at US$230 million, falling slightly below its original goal of US$250 million. It had made its first close of S$86 million (US$63.5 million) in July last year. Vickers Venture […]

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A chat with the creators of Arduino

 On this week’s Technotopia I talked to Massimo Banzi and Fabio Violante, the co-creators of Arduino. This pair of Italian artists saw their little single-board computers as a gateway to high-tech art but they’ve essentially created a world in which anyone – from an 11-year-old hacker to a huge corporation – can make amazing hardware in a few hours.
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