HR Magazine
Why cohort-based learning is replacing stale workforce trainings
Everyone’s talking about cohort-based learning. Andreessen Horowitz announced its investment in new cohort-based platform Maven, citing how the model leads to completion rates 10 times better than those of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
TechCrunch
Social media collaboration marketplace Pearpop expands to Instagram
Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, is expanding to Instagram after previously only being available to TikTok creators. The platform, which launched last year, allows creators and brands to buy collaborations with celebrities and larger creators. Pearpop will also become available on Twitter later this month, and on Twitch in December. The official rollout on […]
TechCrunch
Pearpop introduces dynamic NFTs that gain value as a social media post goes viral
Pearpop, the social media collaboration marketplace, is diving head-first into crypto. With big-name backers like The Chainsmokers, Alexis Ohanian, Mark Cuban and Snoop Dogg, Pearpop is launching Pearproof, a web3 app that allows creators to mint NFTs of their social media posts. This concept isn’t necessarily new — Cent helped Jack Dorsey sell the NFT […]
Business Insider
PayPal Mafia's Keith Rabois has acquired 40 Shopify sellers in the past year through his startup OpenStore. He's not slowing down despite the recent problems in the aggregator space.
Through his new startup OpenStore, Keith Rabois plans to acquire brands without facing the same pitfalls as Thrasio and other Amazon aggregators.
Social media and data privacy: what you need to know
Privacy Pros Podcast: How To Succeed With Privacy By Design on Apple Podcasts
Forbes
Inside Gumroad’s Historic Crowdfunding — And Sahil Lavingia’s Plans To Turn Customers Into Investors
The first startup to take advantage of new SEC rules raising crowdfunding limits to $5 million, Gumroad and CEO Sahil Lavingia think they've found a new model for turning customers into investor super-fans.
Clubhouse
Midas Talks: Gumroad’s $5M Round And New Crowdfunding Rules
Monday, March 22 at 8:00pm PDT with Alex Konrad, Sahil, Dylan Field. The Midas Touch newsletter breaks down Gumroad’s historic 12-hour, $5M crowdfunding raise and why startups may look to blur the lines between customer and investor more under the SEC’s new rules.
TechCrunch
Gumroad wants to make equity crowdfunding mainstream
Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work, is raising $6 million at a $100 million valuation. While $1 million of that total is reserved for AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Basecamp founder Jason Fried, the remaining $5 million is being raised with a twist: anyone willing to fork over at least $100 bucks […]
TechCrunch
Weight care management startup Found lands $100M at a $600M valuation
Just two and a half months after emerging from stealth, weight care management startup Found announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $600 million. WestCap — a growth equity firm founded by former Blackstone and Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi — led the investment, […]
TechCrunch
Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web
Catch&Release founder and CEO Analisa Goodin told me that she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography — and that her startup has raised $14 million in Series A funding to achieve that goal. Goodin explained that the company started out as an image research firm before becoming a product-focused, […]
TechCrunch
Bandit opens a ‘mobile-only’ coffee shop in New York
If you wander into the Bandit coffee shop in Midtown New York, you won’t be able to just walk up to the counter and order something. Instead, you’ll need to download a mobile app. I experienced it for myself yesterday afternoon, when I — along with several other customers — pulled out my phone, downloaded […]
Fast Company
Why every leader needs a ‘Working Family’ strategy now
The CEO of Cleo points out that working families make up 60-70% of employees at most companies—and a large majority of senior management. She believes this massive segment of the workforce remains severely underserved by employers today.
Cleo on Twitter
We're thrilled to announce that Cleo has been named one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies!Proud to be the only global benefit platform that provides support from family planning and pregnancy through taking care of newborns & young children through teens & adults. 🏆— Cleo (@hi_cleo) March 2, 2023
Forbes
Want To Keep Your Top Talent? Better Support Working Parents And Caregivers.
Many of us have seen family & caregiver-support offerings change over the years as employee benefits packages have been enriched with new offerings to attract & keep top workers. That said, most of us still haven’t had access to such plans, nor fully understand what is actually available out there.