Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now This week we published our interview with Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter. We discussed his first year as CEO; the company’s profitability target after three decades (Boston Dynamics was founded in 1992); Spot, Pick, Handle, and Atlas; and the company’s broader roadmap, including which robots […]
The CEO of 4Ocean, a company that sells bracelets made from recycled materials, talks about how his company has created a community based on its mission. September 17, 2020 2 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Alex Schulze is the co-founder and CEO of 4Ocean, which sells bracelets made mostly from […]
September 17, 2020 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Raising capital is one of the most difficult stages in a startup’s journey. Not only do entrepreneurs need to locate and pitch investors, they are often exposed to macro-market movements that can dry up capital when industries experience times of stagnant growth. […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Mozilla is sunsetting two services as the Firefox browser maker seeks to “tighten and refine” its product lineup and focus on core areas of its business. The announcement comes less than a month after Mozilla announced a major restructuring of its corporate division, leading to […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now RapidAI (formerly iSchemaView), a startup developing a portfolio of stroke imaging and assessment products, today closed a $ 25 million round. The company says the funds will be put toward strategic growth initiatives around the world. “Given our growth and profitability, we intend to use […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Presented by Blue Prism The pandemic has put a spotlight on the role of automation in business. To learn how the technology landscape is evolving, the benefits companies are achieving beyond cost savings, how automation improves business resiliency and more, don’t miss this VB Live […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Aidoc, which bills itself as an AI solutions provider for radiologists, today closed a $ 20 million extension to the series B it raised in April 2019, bringing the round total to $ 47 million and the company’s total raised to $ 60 million. Cofounder […]
September 15, 2020 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. How would you make a living and provide for yourself if you got laid off by your employer tomorrow?This question isn’t entirely hypothetical in today’s dicey economic environment. As the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continues to hammer various industries, the number of […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Seegrid, a company that builds self-driving vehicles to carry materials in industrial environments, has added a further $ 27 million to its recent equity funding. This closes the round at $ 52 million and takes the company’s total raised to $ 150 million, with a […]
September 14, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. So, you have started a business, Congrats! Now what? To help you prepare for and understand your journey to becoming an entrepreneur, think of it as building a house. When creating a home, you begin by visualizing, planning, financing, gathering materials, […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Confirming rumors, Airtable today announced it has raised $ 185 million in funding at a $ 2.585 billion valuation — more than double its previous $ 1.1 billion valuation. The news comes as the company’s growth accelerates, with a workforce of 300 employees and a […]
September 11, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. All of us want to make more money. However, we have been led to believe you have to spend money to make money. Or we’ve been told to be successful, we have to be the hardest worker in the room. The truth is, making […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now When I wrote about the forced TikTok acquisition last month, I spelled out what everyone wants. The Trump administration wants trouble for TikTok (and China), Microsoft wants TikTok’s data (and algorithm), and parent company ByteDance wants to be in charge of its own destiny (and […]
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Software as a service is eating the world. Whether it’s payment processing, website building, or restaurant managing software, there’s a SaaS tool out there that handles it. The market for “vertical SaaS” is particularly strong, tripling in the last decade. Vertical SaaS offerings provide a […]
September 12, 2020 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. After graduating from college, I’d wake up at six in the morning with one question in mind: Should I go all-in and focus exclusively on entrepreneurship — consequences be damned? Or look for a full-time job that gave me a sense of […]