During the past decade, the world has witnessed growth of global startups facing serious threats from lack of longevity plans. Many startups that mushroomed during the mid-2000s disappeared overnight due to the lack of a “long-range vision.” Although these upstarts dared to disrupt and demolish the old order of business, they completely ignored the traditional […]
How Startups Can Leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Startups today are in an exciting phase. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Tesla, and many of the world’s biggest household names in technology were small fledgling startups not so long ago. Even now, every few days, we hear of another startup like Spotify, Airbnb, or something or the other becoming a unicorn, going public, and before […]
Why Raising Too Much Money May Not Be Good for Your Startup
The success of any startup largely depends on how much funds have been raised, invested, and judiciously utilized. However, the real question is how much funds should be raised at the start. If you are establishing a startup for the first time, there’s every possibility of being tempted to fundraising in a big way at […]
5 HealthTech Trends That Will Shape 2021
The outbreak of COVID-19 has helped people gain awareness about health and created a necessity for the rapid growth of healthcare technologies. It has revolutionized the way doctors diagnose a disease and treat it. Taking on the situation, the global tech giants are gearing up to integrate more health-related equipment in daily used gadgets for […]
GDPR: ADOPTING MORE STRINGENT PRIVACY IN THE US
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) implementation by the EU in 2018 was a watershed moment for both consumers and businesses alike. Given the increasing worldwide dependence on digital data capture, storage, and processing, the regulatory framework couldn’t have come at a better time. The GDPR is a stringent data privacy law that seeks to […]
Raising Capital as a First-Time Founder
Starting a new business is not easy. The process includes a whole lot of priorities and aspects that you need to focus on. A survey by the Kauffman Firm estimated that, on average, it takes at least a minimum of $80k to keep a startup running through its first year. Fundraising is a challenging task, […]
Data Security in Healthcare
In today’s digital world, it is imperative to protect enterprise data across different environments and follow privacy protocols. In every domain, including retail, healthcare, finance, and supply chain management, businesses are thriving because of the availability of data. Data is now central to all business strategies and forecasts. And because data is so important, it […]
How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Blockchain?
In recent years, the one technology we have been hearing about repeatedly is Blockchain – which originated with the development of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. With the whole world seeking to find solutions to manage the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners have found the use of Blockchain technology valuable across industries. A 2019 […]
How COVID-19 Impacted the Investment Theses of Family Offices
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the modern world into uncharted waters at an alarming speed, bringing the global economic activity to a near halt as the world tried desperate measures to bear the brunt of its onslaught. From startups to global conglomerates, everybody in the economic world was hit by the crisis. Family offices were no […]
Pitching to Investors: Best Practices During the COVID-19 Crisis
Certainly, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the year 2020 has been an unprecedented one for startup companies in the U.S. and globally. While venture funding across the globe fell around 6% in the first six months of 2019, the first half of 2020 witnessed a sharp fall of 17%. In the […]