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01.12.2024 / 20:13

How to Market Your Startup on a Tight Budget

Starting a new business with limited funds presents distinct obstacles in marketing. Standard ads can deplete resources, but ingenuity and resourcefulness can help overcome this hurdle.Here’s how to put low-cost plans into action that connect with customers, grow your audience and market your startup on a tight budget, without overspending.To develop a faithful customer base, you need to do more than just sell.

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How to Protect Your Startup From the Most Common Digital Pitfalls

Starting up a new business venture is equal parts thrilling and overwhelming. In the initial stages, everything feels like a new challenge; from setting up your systems and processes to defining a brand, to finally getting your first customers. However, beyond the initial thrill of launching a startup, the real test lies in managing growth sustainably.

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How to Build Your Dream Tech Startup Team

Building a tech startup in today’s competitive market is a daunting task. While an innovative software business idea is considered a great foundation for success, it is not a guarantee.

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Startup uses genetic sequencing to make meatball from extinct mammoth

An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth. (Credit: Aico Lind www.studioaico.nl)Throw another mammoth on the barbie?An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.The launch in an Amsterdam science museum came just days before April 1 so there was an elephant in the room: Is this for real?"This is not an April Fools joke," said Tim Noakesmith, founder of Australian startup Vow.

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Facebook co-founder’s firm B Capital Group to back Indian sexual health startup Mojocare

Sequoia India, Chiratae Ventures and Better Capital are considering participating in the round, which could be announced as soon as Tuesday, the people said. The Bangalore-based company plans to use the proceeds to further expand and diversify its product portfolio, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private.

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Bangalore-based health-tech startup Clinikk launches all-inclusive health subscriptions

₹5 lakh cashless hospitalisation insurance cover for a monthly subscription fee of ₹500. The insurance cover has been curated specially for Clinikk members by an insurance partner. Clinikk, a Bengaluru-based health-tech start-up, launches its all-inclusive health subscriptions that aims to bring down the medical cost to zero by integrating health insurance with its comprehensive outpatient care delivery model.

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Air purifier kills COVID in seconds: IITK-backed startup on how it works

#IITKanpur and @iitbombay, has proven to be a path-breaking innovation against both air pollutants and the coronavirus.

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Laid off during Covid, man turns entrepreneur. Now owns a startup with 30 employees

pandemic has left many without jobs and no income, however, some have turned the adversity into an opportunity. "To people who got impacted by layoffs, I was laid off in May 2020," writes Prashant Mahajan who is now the co-founder of product management platform Zeda.io. Zeda.io was founded by Mahajan and Vaibhav Devpura in January last year in Bengaluru and registered in Delaware, US.

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Digital health startup MFine lays off staff

₹740 crore) in its Series E round led by Singapore-based impact investor ABC World Asia in September last year. A unicorn is a privately-held startup with a valuation of at least $1 billion.

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Covid born tech startup raises $2 million from ICICI Bank-led group of investors

Bizzo plans to help service-preneurs to digitally build, scale and organise their businesses.

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Health startup Athelas its $1.5 billion valuation after pandemic boom

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Startup Pardes Biosciences joins hunt for Covid-19 pill

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India AI startup Fractal weighs IPO as pandemic fuels growth

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Space startup Aevum brings services down to Earth with air cargo and personal delivery via drone

Cargo deliveries by drone assisted dropped from an autonomous plane sounds out of this world but that’s the idea behind Aevum’s new model to use its space plan to bring goods and supplies to anywhere in the world.

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Vaccitech, startup behind Oxford Covid vaccine tech, falls 20% in Nasdaq debut

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Toronto-area startup Switch Health accused of fumbling Canada’s COVID-19 border testing

new requirements that took effect on Feb. 22 for non-essential international travellers to get tested in Canada upon arrival.

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Startup behind AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine files for U.S. IPO

LONDON: The biotech startup behind the Covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca PLC and the University of Oxford filed Friday with U.S. regulators for a public share offering.Vaccitech PLC said in a securities filing it plans to use the technology underpinning the vaccine to develop treatments targeting prostate cancer, hepatitis B and human papillomavirus.

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Calgary tech startup helps women find work during pandemic

The pandemic combined with Alberta’s deep economic struggles have forced many women out of work.

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Prince Harry joins coaching startup as chief impact officer

NEW YORK – Prince Harry has joined the corporate world as employee coaching and mental health firm BetterUp Inc.'s Chief Impact Officer.

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Prince Harry has a new gig: Executive at Silicon Valley startup

In this handout image provided by Harpo Productions and released on March 5, 2021, Oprah Winfrey interviews Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

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Toronto tech startup transforms virtual learning

A Toronto-based tech start-up company is reinventing virtual learning for thousands of students in Canada and around the world. As Caryn Lieberman reports, the software is especially helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pandemic spurs companies to increase tech startup investing

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Amazon hires founders of covid-19 testing startup to curb spread

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Startup funding touches new records amid pandemic

startups, characterized by mass layoffs as the pandemic took hold, has turned into a record venture capital funding haul.Despite the economic tumult wrought by the coronavirus, startup investing in the U.S. reached a record high of $130 billion in 2020, according to a new Money Tree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers/CB Insights.

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Should you join a startup during the pandemic?

Also Read | A year on, China is shaking up the worldStartup jobs in industries from payments to social media have become steadily more popular, says Lisa Cohen, an associate professor at McGill University’s business school who studies startups. Many young workers fantasize about getting in early at, say, the next Facebook, tantalized by the rewards that come when a sink-or-swim enterprise proves itself viable.But that allure was severely tested in a year dominated by the pandemic, which has thrown the economy into tumult and increased the desire of job seekers like Mr.

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Byju’s, Zomato corner bulk of startup funds in pandemic year

NEW DELHI : Funding in startups fell sharply in 2020 as the pandemic led venture capital firms to adopt the watch-only mode, though global investors continued to back unicorns and firms that adapted to the changed business conditions.Indian startups raised around $10.6 billion across 660 deals this year, the lowest in four years in terms of deal value, according to data from Venture Intelligence.

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Startup aims to help musicians stay afloat during the pandemic

COVID-19 has taken its toll on numerous industries including the arts with many struggling to stay afloat. Two musicians have found a way for them and others to safely continue honing their craft while giving people a customized performance at the same time.

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Tech worker turns hobby into a startup nearing unicorn status

South Korea’s Silicon Valley, the Pangyo Techno Valley outside Seoul, and has retained that localized approach even as it expanded throughout the country and beyond. Users who verify their location trade mostly face to face with others within a radius that’s usually about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles), in what’s known as a nearby marketplace.Danggeun Market Inc., the startup behind Karrot, is planning to raise as much as 100 billion won ($90 million) in financing next summer, potentially pushing its valuation to about $1 billion, Kim said.

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No pilot required: Space startup Aevum reveals sleek autonomous launch vehicle

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A private space startup has been keeping its head down until it revealed a sleek aircraft-assisted rocket set to begin launching missions for the U.S. Space Force from Jacksonville.

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How Google evolved from 'cuddly' startup to antitrust target

SAN RAMON, Calif. – In Google's infancy, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the personal computer software market to choke off competition that could spawn better products.Their disdain for Microsoft spurred Google to adopt “Don't Be Evil" as a corporate motto that remained its moral compass during its transition from a free-wheeling startup to a publicly traded company suddenly accountable to shareholders.That pledge is now a distant memory as Google confronts an existential threat similar to what Microsoft once faced.Like Microsoft was 22 years ago, Google is in the crosshairs of a Justice Department lawsuit accusing it of wielding the immense power of

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COVID-19 pandemic sees successful radio startup relocate from NYC to Edmonton

KPISS.fm in 2016, which features a rotation of hosts, funded by listener and DJ donations. The station’s shows feature a wide range of talent and genres, and focuses on musical appreciation and personal stories.“I got my start at CJSR 88.5 FM in Edmonton.

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Coronavirus-sniffing robots offer a testing alternative, startup bets

Smell camera“If a dog can smell it, we can," said Agabi, who describes the Konicore as a “smell camera." He imagines the technology could be useful far beyond bombs and diseases. For example, he said, it could digitize the taste of food, allowing for the synthetic recreation of things like bacon.Koniku’s merger of biology and computing technology — often termed “wetware" — is a growing field.

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Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup unveils pig with computer chip in its brain

Elon Musk‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

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Bengaluru in world's top 30 startup ecosystem list

NEW DELHI : Indian's startup capital Bengaluru has been ranked in the world's top 30 startup ecosystems. Topped by the Silicon Valley in California, Bengaluru is at the 26th spot and the only India city to feature in the list by ‘The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020’ by Startup Genome.While Delhi is in the runner-up category at the 36th spot, Mumbai ranks first in the list of top 100 emerging ecosystem ranking.

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Co-Founders of Aussie Startup The Reset Collective on Why Launching Amid Pandemic "Made Sense"

Blighted by cinema closures and production freezes, film studios the world over have been pushed into survival mode by the unprecedented strains of the novel coronavirus crisis. Australian film company The Reset Collective would appear to be on an opposite trajectory: The startup production and distribution banner officially began business on May 6, right in the midst of the pandemic.

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Bengaluru startup brings produce from greenhouses to plates

₹12 to ₹28 per kg, Aswatha was assured of the ₹30 a kg in his contract with Bengaluru agritech startup Clover that picks up the produce from his greenhouse. He knows the market rate can go up to ₹60 a kg when there’s a shortage, but he’s happier with a steady price.He’s also less vulnerable to the weather and pests than his ancestors who grew vegetables for consumers in Bengaluru 65 km away for aeons.

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A startup is matching covid-19 patients with plasma donors

paise aap transfer kar do, hum kal aayenge (transfer the money and we will come tomorrow).’ And I couldn’t really blame them, everybody’s hard up these days," says Mal.The donor they homed in on proved to be ineligible—she was pregnant. They had to start the entire process all over again.

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WATCH LIVE: Startup plans to launch people to edge of space from Kennedy Space Center

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A new startup plans to use a giant balloon to carry paying customers to the edge of space for a unique view of the Earth and their journey will start from the former space shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Space Perspectives signed a lease with Space Florida, the state’s spaceport authority, to locate its first operations center for the Neptune capsule at the Launch and Landing Facility, formerly the shuttle landing runway.The company is led by entrepreneurs Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum.Neptune is capable of carrying 8 passengers and a captain on each flight, according to Space Perspective founder and co-CEO Jane Poynter.The private company plans to announced Thursday its intent to fly the

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Zomato co-founder's meditation startup for mental health

Zomato in 2008 and quit after 10 years. He continues to serve as a member on the board of directors at Zomato.Chaddah did not disclose the funding details.

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NABARD fund makes first investment in fintech startup Jai Kisan

₹30 crore funding round.The pre-Series A round of funding was led by Arkam Ventures (formerly Unitary Helion) along with participation from existing investors Blume Ventures, Prophetic Ventures and Better Capital. Other investors including The Chatterjee Group (TCG), Rajiv Sahney of New Vernon Capital LLC and Sanjay Mariwala of OmniActive Health Technologies also invested as a part of this round.NABVENTURES was launched in May last year with a proposed corpus of over ₹500 crore.

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Virtual Concert Startup Wave Nabs $30 Million From Backers Including Scooter Braun, Alex Rodriguez

Virtual concert startup Wave has raised $30 million in series B funding led by Maveron that features participation from Griffin Gaming Partners and individuals including Scooter Braun, Alex Rodriguez, Superfly co-founder Rick Farman and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. The company will use the investment to go beyond concerts and into the broader entertainment experience space, including gaming and social.

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Virtual Concert Startup Wave Raises $30M From Backers Including Scooter Braun, Twitch's Kevin Lin

Scooter Braun, Alex Rodriguez, Superfly co-founder Rick Farman and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin.The company will use the investment to go beyond concerts and into the broader entertainment experience space, including gaming and social. The round also included NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Avex, Superfly Ventures, Convivialite Ventures and Raised in Space.

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Facebook Gaming Exec Joins Social Startup Wormhole Labs

Facebook Gaming executive Phil Ranta has joined startup Wormhole Labs as chief operating officer. Ranta, who most recently served as head of North America gaming creators at the social network, will help Wormhole launch its immersive and social platforms.

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Healthcare startup IVF Access raises $5 million from Vertex Ventures

The capital will be deployed to set up IVF clinics across India that will provide assisted reproductive treatments

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Pune startup to launch online funeral management service

In view of movement restrictions due to the lockdown, a Pune-based start-up, which makes available services of priests and other material required for a prayer ceremony, is now planning to roll out a holistic funeral management service through its online platform.

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Startup founders get off the treadmill

The first thing Samrat Reddy, founder of healthy juice brand Drunken Monkey, did after Hyderabad eased lockdown restrictions was go to a park and play cricket.

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HR-Tech startup, iXceed forays into digital marketing services

Digital marketing unleashes a brand’s complete potential to offer the best experience to their customers

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Airtel makes strategic investment in conversational AI startup Voicezen

MUMBAI: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has acquired a strategic stake in Voicezen an early stage startup focused on conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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