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☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the market Monday: CPI then Fed, Big Tech, J&J boost
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Oppenheimer cuts its price target on Apple to $170 per share from $190; but keeps outperform (buy) rating. Separately, Wells Fargo downgrades rating Qualcomm (QCOM), another Club name, to underweight from equal weight (sell from hold). As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

☆ Here's why a former Meta, Slack, and Google sales director swapped Big Tech for climate tech by joining SoftBank-backed startup Plan A
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former Meta, Slack, and Google sales director is joining SoftBank-backed carbon accounting startup Plan A.Neil Delaney, who is joining the startup as chief revenue officer, left Meta in pursuit of "ikigai." Former Google director Neil Delaney describes himself as personable; he enjoys learning and has a natural interest in people. He was working as the interim global sales director at Meta when something else caught his eye: climate tech. With 15 years in Big Tech under his belt, Delaney has now joined Berlin-based carbon accounting company Plan A as its chief revenue officer. The next wave of tech unicorns is expected to be in climate tech, and Delaney sees Plan A as one of them as long as it "executes well."

☆ A stay-at-home mom started freelance writing on the side and now makes 6 figures a year — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Brina Patel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Engaging with potential clients on social media before reaching out directly also helped her. So she turned to job boards like Freelance Writing, ProBlogger, and Blogging Pro, as well as LinkedIn, to find higher-paying gigs. But, she said, her business really took off once she optimized her website, started guest posting for blogs in her niche, and reached out to potential clients through social media. One guest post on Blogging Wizard, she said, drove an increase in potential clients reaching out to her. She'll then take a look at her potential clients' websites and examine areas she can improve.

☆ Andreessen Horowitz just led a $43 million round into real estate financing startup Setpoint after seeing this 10-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Setpoint, a property tech startup that provides financing for real estate, has raised $43 million. The Series A round was led by US investing giant Andreessen Horowitz. Setpoint provides access to financing for single-family residences (SFR), fractional ownership, and rent-to-own housing and works with property tech companies like Flyhomes. Setpoint's Series A funding round was led by Andreeseen Horowitz with participation from Stonecroft, 75andSunny, Fifth Wall, 645 Ventures, NextView Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, Vesta Ventures, and ATX Venture Partners. "Venture investors are certainly being more cautious, but in our experience, companies that have found great product-market-fit are getting funding," Wall added.

☆ Risk officers are the next hot hire for fintechs reaching consumers in new industries, VCs said. Startups are poaching from big companies to find them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Risk officers don't just safeguard data: They take charge of many regulatory and technological issues in financial-services businesses. But only some fintech companies may benefit from thinking about hiring risk officers early. Large banks still dominate hiring for risk officers, but startups are gaining groundFintech startups want to hire risk officers, but they face a hurdle: There aren't enough risk professionals. But fintech startups have been attracting risk officers from banking giants for a while. Still, according to White, there are benefits to hiring risk officers for both types of companies.

☆ I rent out 'champagne walls' for special events on the weekends. It's a side gig that doesn't feel like work and brings in thousands extra a year.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Alexis McDermott is the founder of Wandering Wall Co., which rents out champagne walls for events. I'm the sole proprietor of Wandering Wall Co. and a customer-success manager for a SaaS platform, which I do remotely. I founded my small business that offers elegant champagne walls, photo backdrop walls, seating charts, and welcome signs to display during life's most memorable events in April 2021. I'd always wanted to open my own business and have multiple streams of incomeA Wandering Wall Co. champagne wall. After hours of Pinterest surfing, we stumbled upon the concept of a champagne wall.

☆ Shares of CrowdStrike fall after 'disappointing' earnings, Morgan Stanley says buy the dip
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

CrowdStrike shares fell more than 17% in premarket trading Wednesday, a day after the cybersecurity company reported third-quarter results that said new revenue growth was weaker than expected. More than $198 million was net new ARR added in the quarter, which ended Oct. 31. Last year, CrowdStrike's ARR increased by more than 67% in the third quarter, and the company added 1,607 net new subscription customers for that same period. Analysts at Morgan Stanley also said CrowdStrike's results were "disappointing," but they said estimates did not reflect the current macroeconomic environment. An analyst at Stifel said CrowdStrike's results were "disappointing" and downgraded the stock from buy to hold.

☆ Top Wall Street analysts say buy these stocks during a market downturn
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

This means investors need to shift their focus toward longer-term prospects instead of fixating on near-term gyrations in the market. See below for five stocks picked by Wall Street's top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their previous performance. However, after the company posted its quarterly results, Susquehanna analyst Christopher Rolland noticed that Nvidia is "getting back on track." This prompted him to reiterate a buy rating on the stock and raise the price target to $185 from $180. (See Marvell Stock Chart on TipRanks) Looking beyond the quarter, Rolland sees several upsides to Marvell.

☆ SponsorUnited wants to be the 'Bloomberg terminal' for brand sponsorships. It used this 12-slide pitch deck to raise $35 million.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SponsorUnited has raised $35 million to become the 'Bloomberg terminal' for brand sponsorships. The startup's platform helps brands see data on sponsorships across their respective industries. Check out the 12-slide pitch deck it used to raise the funds in a Series A round. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops — delivered daily to your inbox. A source close to the firm said that the round puts the startup's valuation at north of $100 million, with the total now raised at $38.6 million since its launch.

☆ Cloud financing lender Efficient Capital Labs raises $3.5 million from 645 Ventures to connect India-based startups to US lenders and expand operations to other countries
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Efficient Capital Labs lends capital from US firms to software companies in India. 645 Ventures led its seed round, and it got $100 million debt from Community Investment Management. Kaustav Das, a cofounder of the cloud financing platform Efficient Capital Labs, wanted to start a company that played to his knowledge of the field. ECL raised $3.5 million in a seed round led by 645 Ventures in April and closed a $100 million debt facility from Community Investment Management this month. Capchase took in $400 million in additional debt financing in June.

☆ Meet a 26-year-old tech entrepreneur who says starting a company is 'an art and creative process'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The 26-year-old, Toronto, Canada, native co-founded her first company, Ranomics, at 18. She founded her second company, Locke Bio, a "Shopify" for pharmaceutical and other companies selling FDA approved drugs, at 23. For Tie, art and creativity is not exactly as on-the-nose as writing in iambic pentameter or dancing at Lincoln Center. "That's, I think, more of an art and creative process than something that is technical." Here's how the entrepreneur, now based in Los Angeles, has leaned into her creative, big-picture thinking to find success in fields like tech and science.

☆ Here's why the Fed may have won already but is still acting like nothing has improved
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

We can bet that they will be one-upping each other about how high they want to take fed funds, the overnight bank lending rate. They seem to want to ignore anything that's succeeded since the Fed's rate increase cycle began back in March. I think that, again, if the Fed were to wait through Christmas they would see the layoffs and the corporate failures. One thing that's for certain, the buyers of the 2-year may be more sensitive to the data than the Fed. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade.

☆ How an early investor in StockX and The Athletic built a sports VC firm and got the Cavs owner to back him
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Vasu Kulkarni is the founder and CEO of Courtside VC, a venture firm focused on sports. His company was one of the early investors of StockX and The Athletic, but "missed" on Overtime. Kulkarni built Courtside VC to help sports startup founders like himAs Krossover grew into a multimillion-dollar company, Kulkarni began to realize the opportunity to invest in other sports-related startups. But Courtside VC has hit on enough startups to raise another $55 million in 2019. Courtside VC has invested in focusing on youth sports, fitness and wellness, esports, sneaker culture, and real-money gaming.

☆ Early Figma and Revolut-backer Index Ventures just launched a $300 million fund to back pre-seed and seed stage startups
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

San Francisco and London-based VC firm Index Ventures has launched a $300 million seed fund. San Francisco and London-based VC firm Index Ventures has launched a new $300 million fund that will invest in pre-seed and seed-stage startups globally. Amid the global downturn that's shaken the tech industry, it's been "business as usual" for Index Ventures, Hammer said. The hope is that the seed fund will systematize the firm's efforts toward early-stage startups and entrepreneurs. "It was so tempting two years ago to back these growth rounds — but we launched Origin I, because we operated intuitively."

☆ Prediction Capital just closed the first tranche of its $30 million fund to back early-stage fintech and consumer startups in the DACH region
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Prediction Capital has launched its first fund to back early-stage fintech and consumer startups. The $30 million fund, backed by Swiss family office Infinitas Capital, will focus on the DACH region. The Malta-based firm, which has reached the first close of its new $30 million early-stage fund, will focus on startups in the DACH region. Its focus is early-stage startups, across pre-seed to Series A, and initial ticket sizes will range from $250,000 to $500,000. With the help of the family office, Prediction Capital has been able to close four deals so far.

☆ How OneSchema, a Y Combinator-backed data-importing startup, raised $6.3 million from Sequoia and General Catalyst without a pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Here's how OneSchema raised $6.3 million from General Catalyst and Sequoia without a pitch deck. Luo's experience inspired him to start OneSchema alongside his cofounder, Christina Gilbert, to try to streamline the data-importing process for companies. The startup recently raised a $6.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst with participation from Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Contrary Capital. Because of inbound investor interest, OneSchema was able to raise its seed round without a pitch deck, Gilbert told Insider. A decade ago, many might have argued that OneSchema's focus would someday become obsolete because of the development of automated methods to transfer data, Gilbert told Insider.

☆ The rise of Snowflake created a hole in Salesforce's long-dominant ecosystem, and now startups are rushing in to seize the opportunity
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Matthew Lynley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A new category called "reverse ETL" is emerging as startups race to fill a gap created by Snowflake. But in recent years, a substantial shift has emerged in the way companies manage their data, dovetailing with the rise of cloud providers like Snowflake and Databricks. How reverse ETL was born to fill a hole that Salesforce left wide openThe notion of a reverse-ETL pipeline isn't necessarily new. The future of reverse ETL might not be where it startedMany investors who did not invest in reverse ETL who spoke with Insider said they were surprised the friction was so large that it was able to support a single company, much less three. "We partner with great tools like Hightouch and Census for reverse ETL to SaaS applications."

☆ Here are Monday's biggest analyst calls: Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Coinbase, AMD, Boeing & more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Bank of America reiterates Tesla as equal weight Bank of America cut its price target on Tesla to $275 per share from $325 and said it sees sales volume headwinds. Read more about this call here Citi downgrades Bank of America to neutral from buy Citi said the risk/reward outlook for Bank of America is skewed to the downside. Baird upgrades Advanced Micro Devices to outperform from neutral Baird said demand for the semiconductor company's products remains strong. " JPMorgan downgrades Teva to underweight from neutral JPMorgan said that it's concerned about slowing growth. " Bank of America removes Amazon from the US1 list Bank of America removed Amazon from the firm's top picks list.

☆ On-the-job training is a useful perk that helps retain employees. Here's how to build an education program that benefits your business and workers.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Rachel Durose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On-the-job training and education programs can help businesses retain valuable workers. Here's how business leaders can create training programs at their companies. This article is part of Talent Insider, a series containing expert advice to help small business owners tackle a range of hiring challenges. "On-the-job training and education programs can play a pivotal role in sourcing and retaining employees." Oftentimes, on-the-job training isn't just a useful perk, but a necessary tool for retaining employees, three managers and company leaders told Insider.

☆ Top Wall Street analysts pick these stocks to bet on during the market’s uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Tipranks.Com Staff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The market's cloudy picture is yet another reason for investors to maintain a long-term perspective as they pick out stocks. To that end, here are five stocks chosen by Wall Street's top professionals, according to TipRanks, a service that ranks analysts based on their past performances. Huron Consulting GroupThe next on our list of top analysts' favorite stocks is Huron Consulting Group (HURN), an operational and financial consulting firm. KAR Auction ServicesKAR Auction Services (KAR) provides a platform to auction used cars and offers salvage auction services in North America and the United Kingdom. Moreover, Rolland also believes Cirrus to be a potential buying target for Apple, which also depends on Cirrus' IC products.

☆ Tiger Global-backed Mesh Payments raised $60 million in a bid to help companies make better decisions around travel, HR, and other spending
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mesh Payments raised $60 million from Alpha Wave, Tiger Global, TLV Partners, and Entreé Capital. Mesh Payments, one of the few companies Tiger Global has funded this year, has big plans for the next year. The fintech dealing with corporate payments and issuing corporate virtual cards raised $60 million in September from Tiger Global and other investors. Mesh Payments' founder and CEO, Oded Zehavi, said the company was focusing on refining its products and developing new ones. Alpha Wave led its $60 million Series C funding round in September, along with Tiger Global, TLV Partners, Entreé Capital, and Meron Capital.

☆ Shopify's startup investments this year include millions into companies that focus on NFTs, Web3 apps, customer-engagement, and financial services
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

In its press release announcing the new funding, Wati said the investment was Shopify's first in a startup operating in Southeast Asia. The goal is to make Thirdweb's tools available to Shopify merchants who want to bring Web3 products and experiences to their online stores. Shopify recently participated in Gorgias' $30 million Series C round, which valued the startup at $710 million. According to the company, merchants using its technology report a 96% increase in sales on average. Flexport announced it had received a strategic investment from Shopify as part of its $935 million Series E on February 7.

☆ Exclusive: How operating system startup OpenFin landed an investment from the CIA's VC firm and expanded from serving Goldman Sachs to the government sector
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenFin offers an operating system where users can easily interact with apps all on one screen. The startup received $10 million from ING Ventures and an undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel. OpenFin, a startup that offers a user-friendly operating system, has announced a $10 million investment from corporate VC firm ING Ventures and an undisclosed investment from In-Q-Tel, a VC firm serving the CIA and broader US intelligence community. OpenFin also allows users to easily reorganize their screen to ensure they have access to the most relevant information at any time. In addition to using third party apps on OpenFin, users can also build their own apps on the platform and integrate them with other tools.

☆ Europe's booming startup scene is taking on Silicon Valley. Five German headhunters share which positions and startups offer the best pay.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Nina Anika Klotz | Nathan Rennolds | Business Insider Deutschland | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Insider spoke to five experienced headhunters from Germany's booming startup scene about which startups and sectors are offering the highest salaries. He shared the average salaries he said he had seen for early-stage startup roles:Founder : 60,000 — 75,000 euros: 60,000 — 75,000 euros Software developer : 50,000 — 110,000 euros: 50,000 — 110,000 euros Sales : 60,000 — 80,000 euros: 60,000 — 80,000 euros Operations : 45,000 — 60,000 euros: 45,000 — 60,000 euros Product manager : 60,000 euros: 60,000 euros Business development: 50,000 eurosPay at growth-stage startupsJulian von Blücher advises well-funded growth-stage startups on their recruitment. : 70,000 euros base salary and 40,000 euros variable pay, which is compensation that's awarded to an employee based on their performance. Average variable pay as a percentage of total compensation for C-suite positions is 23.5% across all stages and industries, von Hettinga said. "Of that, about half of the variable pay is company shares or share programs."

☆ How the pay transparency movement's success will change the way jobs are listed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Cheryl Winokur Munk | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A growing number of states and municipalities are enacting salary transparency laws, a stepping stone toward eliminating wage discrepancies based on gender, race and other unfair practices. Here are a few important ways the push for greater pay transparency will change the way employers think about job listings. Even without a law, expect pay transparency to become the normPay transparency laws have been proliferating across the country, with a growing number of states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland and Washington enacting some type of salary transparency law. New York City's salary transparency law, meanwhile — set to go into effect Nov. 1 — includes employers with four or more employees, provided at least one works within New York City. Some companies have opted not to recruit in certain states because of their salary transparency laws, explicitly excluding remote candidates who hail from these states in their job postings.

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