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Harvard MBA leaves Wall Street to launch CUBA CANDELA, a Cuba travel business

Entrepreneurs / 20th June 2019

Meet Chad Olin, Founder and CEO of CUBA CANDELA, a company that is changing American perceptions and creating meaningful experiences on the island of Cuba with private custom tours for individuals (couples and families). Chad...

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‘Miniature pop-ups’: Micro retail space available for just £1 per day

Entrepreneurs / 14th June 2019

New analysis from Direct Line for Business1 reveals the latest retail trend, ‘miniature pop-ups’, where shops rent out tiny, temporary in-store sales space to retail entrepreneurs. Some of the space...

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Wild Earth Closes Series A with $11 Million from VegInvest, Bits x Bites, VECTR, P.O.V., and M Ventures

Entrepreneurs / 29th May 2019

Wild Earth, Inc., a startup reinventing pet food with biotech, today announced it has closed its Series A with an investment of $11 million led by VegInvest, a venture capital firm supporting...

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Salesforce Ventures Launches New $125 Million Europe Trailblazer Fund

Entrepreneurs / 28th May 2019

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, today announced that Salesforce Ventures, the company’s global corporate investment group, has launched a $125 million Europe Trailblazer Fund to continue to fuel enterprise...

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James Beard Foundation Receives Over $1 Million To Support Female Culinary Entrepreneurs Thanks To Grubhub’s “Donate The Change” Program

Entrepreneurs / 7th May 2019

The James Beard Foundation today announced that the organization’s Women’s Leadership Programs has benefitted from over a million dollars contributed by diners of Grubhub, the nation’s leading online and mobile food-ordering...

Perkbox, Europe’s Fastest Growing Employee Experience Platform, Raises £13.5M in Funding Boost

Entrepreneurs / 1st May 2019

Perkbox, Europe’s fastest growing employee experience platform, has announced £13.5M in equity funding to support the worldwide expansion of its employee experience platform. The round is led primarily by existing investor Draper...

Choosing the Right Funding Route for Your Business

Entrepreneurs / 29th April 2019

  For today’s business looking for investment finance there are myriad funding routes open to them. There are the more traditional venture capitalists and angel investors, as well as newer...

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Babson College Startups Win Big at B.E.T.A. (Babson Entrepreneurial Thought & Action®) Challenge

Entrepreneurs / 24th April 2019

Babson celebrated entrepreneurial spirit by awarding more than $300,000 in cash and prizes to alumni, graduate, and undergraduate startups Yad, Taylor Custom Rings, and Perkzilla, as well as to special award winners...

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Nevada’s Startup Incubator Helps Investors Learn The Art Of Angel Investing On April 11th

Entrepreneurs / 30th March 2019

 StartUpNV will host its first angel investing workshop Thursday, Apr. 11. with investor expert Bill Payne. The $49 half-day workshop, teaching aspiring angels the end-to-end process of angel investing, will take place from 12:30 – 4:30 p.m....

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5.3 Million Brits Want To Go Freelance

Entrepreneurs / 28th March 2019

The entrepreneurial dream is alive and well in the UK reveals new research collated by Direct Line for Business.1 Some 5.3 million people (10 per cent) dream of becoming their own...