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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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8 Success Drivers Define A Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to a 2015 study. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. 5) It is 2015. One of the interesting questions I’m keeping an eye on is at what level users will consume compute resources, in particular, where in the spectrum between infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. It’s contagious!”. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.