Sat.May 30, 2020

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The New Startup: Legal Financing & Lawsuit Loans

YoungUpstarts

If you haven’t heard about legal financing or lawsuit loans before, that may change. The practice of legal financing dates back to the early 1990s, but it didn’t take off in the United States until Credit Suisse Securities launched a litigation lending program in 2006 that later became its own company in 2012. Legal financing, often referred to as a lawsuit loan, is a cash advance that a lender gives to someone in exchange for a portion of their potential settlement or judgment in a lawsuit.

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Google rescues TikTok, deletes over 5 million negative comments to spike up ratings

Our Own Start-up

The never ending war between YouTube and TikTok and hashtags asking users to ban TikTok, especially in India, has an abysmal impact for which ratings were dropped to 3 from 4.7, and then it suddenly plunged to 1.2, its lowest rating ever. But tech giant Google brings off the bummer and becomes a saviour of TikTok.

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New Normal: Conversation with Peter Maier of SAP

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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8 Ways Your Old School Can Energize Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. The lesson of finding help, connections, and even funding where other people may never look is one that makes all the difference in the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Tik Tok’s Indian version Mitron gets popular, despite no promise of privacy

Our Own Start-up

Mitron has taken India by storm. It has a resemblance to TikTok owned by ByteDance. This app is developed by students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. Indians are moving away from TikTok, a Chinese app that has given birth to many controversies now and Mitron is the new destination preferred by millions.

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Leading Through Adversity: Guiding Principles for Leadership Through COVID-19 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

by Eric Yaverbaum, CEO of Ericho Communications. By now, it’s clear that we’ll be dealing with the massive changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic for the foreseeable future. Experts predict periodic outbreaks, secondary and tertiary waves of disease, and lockdowns and quarantines at least through the next eighteen months. The whole world will have to redefine how we work, go to school, connect with loved ones, and really every aspect of our lives as we adapt to this new normal for the long haul