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For Jakob Knutzen, cofounder and CEO of new video conferencing and online workshop platform MeetButter, there is a clear and guiding north star: making online workshops even better than those held in-person.

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How MeetButter Hopes to Transform the World of Video Conferencing Heading Into its First Fundraising Round

Hiring in 2020 has been difficult for some companies, while others have thrived. To prepare for the new year, see what our top startup hiring trends are for 2021.

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Startup Hiring Trends in 2021

South Africa is experiencing a fundamental shift in the way we work. Over the past year, remote working and virtual interactions have become the norm. Machines are replacing functions previously performed by humans and this is changing the skills that organisations are looking for. 

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Eight Key Trends Shaping the New Normal for Work in South Africa

Female entrepreneurship is flourishing in Latin America. In a region where women face high inequality, gender biases, and adversity, they are taking big risks and are daring to be part of a challenging, yet promising, startup ecosystem. 

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Top 5 Female-Founded Startups to Watch in Latin America 

How hard is it to get a job at Google? What is the hiring process like? Learn the answers to these questions and more in our guide on how to get a job at Google.

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How to Get a Job at Google

Mark Cuban is known as an outspoken businessman and investor. Since earning his initial fortune Cuban has stayed active, continuously searching for his next big venture but outside his investments what companies does he own?

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What Companies Does Mark Cuban Own?

Ivan Glasenberg, the longtime chief executive of global mining and trading giant Glencore, announced on Friday that be is handing over the reins of the company he built. 

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Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg is Stepping Down After 18 Years

Fundraising platform GoFundMe has revealed that Juan Benitez joined the company at the beginning of the month as its new President. He is the newest member of the company’s executive team and will report to CEO Tim Cadogan.


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GoFundMe Sources New President As It Gears For Growth

Chicago is the heart of the Midwest’s startup scene. Home to hundreds of companies, dozens of individual and institutional investors and thousands of passionate, driven employees, the Windy City has become a launchpad for startups solving not just user experience problems, but social problems too.

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Nine Chicago Startups Poised for Huge Growth in 2021

American cloud-based software giant Salesforce has announced it's buying workplace chat app Slack, marking one of the biggest – and most valuable - recent deals in the software industry. On Tuesday, Salesforce announced it would pay $27.7 billion for the independent publicly traded company.

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Salesforce Acquires Slack. Here's the Executive Team Making it Happen

Over the last few years, two 31-year old twins, Filippo and Marco Mottolese, have grown to dominate the Italian food landscape. Their drive and innovation led to two renowned companies that they founded less than five years ago: Foorban and Miscusi. 

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The Mottolese Twins are Leading Food Retail Innovation in Italy

On Tuesday, Swedish “shop now, pay later” fintech giant Klarna revealed several major changes to its board of directors, chiefly that Michael Moritz is replacing Jon Kamaluddin as Chairman. 

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Klarna Taps Sequoia Partner As Next Board Chairman

While the UK scene is in dire need of more support for entrepreneurs from Black communities, it’s important to support the thriving number of entrepreneurs from those backgrounds which are creating great things.

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Ten Rising Black-Owned Startups in the UK

On Monday, eBay hired Eve Williams as Chief Marketing Officer, UK. In her new role, Williams will help the global e-commerce company build its brand with British customers through impactful brand campaigns, content, and integrated marketing plans to show the breadth of eBay’s marketplace. 

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eBay Hires Veteran Global Brand Director as CMO

Ola, a ride-hailing and micro-mobility company, has announced that GM veteran Jose Pinheiro will serve as the Head of Global Manufacturing and Operations for its burgeoning electric vehicle business. 

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Ola Hires GM Veteran To Realize Its Electric Vehicle Ambitions

The state’s largest city and capital, Indianapolis, is on the radar of the biggest names in tech, as Salesforce’s largest presence outside of San Francisco is in Indianapolis and Amazon picked the city as a top 20 finalist for is HQ2.

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Ten Indiana Startups to Know in 2020

Interestingly, the Italian government still owns a significant share of many of these large businesses, a remnant from when the state was the most important buyer for the strategic utilities industry during Italy's fascist period. 

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The Ten Largest Companies in Italy by Revenue

José Calderon is already one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in Latin America at just 33 years old, having co-founded and led three of the most disruptive food-tech startups in the region: Domicilios.com, Merqueo, and currently RobinFood, perhaps his most ambitious venture yet. 

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The Man Disrupting LatAm's Food Industry

Armed with almost $190M in total funding, Hyperscience has come close to doubling its team in 2020 and has goals to do the same in 2021. Maintaining that growth over the course of two years would be challenging for any company, but for one that’s on the cutting edge of machine learning and AI automation, nailing the hiring process, especially on the technical side, will be imperative. 

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Hyperscience is Doubling (Again) — Here’s How Suren Hiraman Will Build Another Powerful Engineering Team

For the past ten years, the tech scene in France has grown at a rapid pace, and the country now has over 9,900 startups, including six unicorns among the 400 worldwide unicorns.

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