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Report: 33% of US Small Businesses Couldn’t Pay Their Rent Last Month

Tech.Co

The rent crisis is getting worse, according to a new report that found a full third of all small and medium-sized businesses are behind on their rent for the month of May. The new data comes from small business networking site Alignable, which released its Q2 Rent Report at the start of the month. What's driving the crisis?

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch LA

If a station doesn’t send out an error or a driver doesn’t report it, network providers might never know there’s even a problem. This round values the startup, which was founded in January 2020, at $11 million post-money. ChargerHelp works directly with the charging manufacturers and network providers.

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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

TechCrunch LA

It has now added to the list of partners local news service Patch and ProPublica, including its Local Reporting Network partners and its collaborative journalism project Electionland. Patch alone is putting out more than 200 local coronavirus stories per day.

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Buy Now, Pay Later Service Affirm Is Teaming Up With Stripe

Tech.Co

Just this month, the payment network deepened a partnership with WooCommerce (and the ecommerce service's 3.7 of US consumers reported having used this type of payment service, a percentage up from 37.65% in the summer of 2020. It's also the latest in a spree of deals for Affirm. How the Service Works. In early 2022, 55.8%

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time.

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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

Two companies stand out: 17Hats, a leader in the freelance CRM space made painful but critical choices and now are very well poised for meaningful 2020 growth. I predict SoCal will continue to grow, but in 2020 more companies nationwideÂťand hereÂťwill not get the funding they need. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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8 Keys To Attracting More Talent Than The Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

According to recent reports , these come from all the way up and down the age and experience spectrum, including up to ninety percent of the current Baby Boomers, as well as Millennials. Zappos , led by Tony Heish, has been a leader in this direction, and reports many advantages, as well as challenges.