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US B2B Startups Dominate $337 Million Worth Of Funding

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Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna Security. Chertoff Capital made a “significant” equity investment in the round, the company said.

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Amazon Sizzles, Plenti Fizzles And Goldman Gets Its Consumer Banking Groove

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It used to be that when “Goldman Sachs” was mentioned, it was in the context of the storied Wall Street investment banking firm trading and underwriting securities, advising on mergers and acquisitions, taking companies public and brokering deals. Yes, the focus may have been on tax cuts and share buybacks and credit cards.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. However, the model doesn’t currently allow companies to issue new shares, meaning that DPOs do not raise any capital for the company. STAYING PRIVATE.

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes.

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Fintech Fundings: 186 Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in June

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HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Income tax preparation app. Tags: Consumer, tax prep. Source: Crunchbase , Finovate. Goji (formerly Consumers United). Consumer insurance portal. Latest round: $19 million. Total raised: $89 million. Source: FT Partners. D3 Banking. Banking platform. Latest round: $8 million Series A. FundedByMe.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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“The initial 7 years were all about having negative working capital, positive cash flow and a sustained ability to fund our own growth. I started treasuring GMV, room-nights and other ‘vanity’ metrics instead of the fundamentals of cash flow and working capital,” he explained. Those were the only metrics we tracked. Product: Bridj.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

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Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. From one perspective, the position of management consulting as an industry has never seemed more secure. Those companies made plans.