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AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Scott Galloway is a bestselling author and professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The following is a recent blog post, republished with permission, that originally ran on his blog, "No Mercy / No Malice." In it, Galloway says the elite educational institutes are still profiting while second-teir schools struggle.  Higher education is the most important industry in America. Its the vaccine against the inequities of capitalism, the lubricant ...

Ophelia, a NYC-based healthcare tech startup providing treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), raised $15m in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Refactor Capital, and the founders of Flatiron Health, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Allbirds, PillPack, Carbon Health, and Lambda School. The company intends to use the funds to continue to build and expand its services to patients across the U.S., to soon accept insurance, inclu...

Austen Allred Will Pay You To Hire His Graduates! By Austen Allred Austen Allred with Joram Clervius, one of his first Lambda School students. Photo: Lambda School The way we interview and hire job applicants today is deeply flawed. This is especially true in software engineering roles, in part because companies rely far too heavily on structured interviews that "test" candidates on a set of skills that isnt very much like the job of software engineering at all. Those tests often inc...

Bigeye (formerly Toro) scores $17M Series A to automate data quality monitoring As companies create machine learning models, the operations team needs to ensure the data used for the model is of sufficient quality, a process that can be time consuming. Bigeye (formerly Toro), an early stage startup is helping by automating data quality. Today the company announced a $17 million Series A led Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor Costanoa Ventures. That brings the total raised...

The round was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor Costanoa Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to improve the platform and make it available to more data teams. Now, Bigeye is applying an engineering approach to data, making it effortless for data teams to measure, improve, and communicate data quality for their organizations. Led by Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder, and by Egor Gryaznov, CTO and co-founder, Bigeye provides a data quality engineering platf...

The Seed 25: The best female early-stage investors Cowboy Ventures; Floodgate; Structure Capital; Uncork Capital; Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. There are thousands of seed investors but only a few who succeed repeatedly.  This list of the 25 best female seed venture capitalists is based on an analysis by Tribe Capital. The venture-capital industry is ...

With their online payments processing company Stripe now valued at close to $100bn (€84bn), Patrick and John Collison have become beacons for a new generation of young Irish entrepreneurs.

Deseret News Share this story Silicon Valley startup Belong Home is aiming to disrupt the long-term rental market with a platform they say simplifies and improves the relationships between landlords and tenants. On Tuesday, the company announced a $40 million funding round and plans to open a new secondary headquarters in Utah and staff it with 100 new employees. Belong Home Silicon Valley startup Belong could have leveraged a fresh cash infusion to expand its current headquarters in San Mateo,...

Silicon Valley startup Belong will soon expand to Silicon Slopes and bring with it 100 new job opportunities in the area.

This Silicon Valley startup to open secondary HQ in Utah with 100 new employees Art Raymond © Belong Home Silicon Valley startup Belong Home is aiming to disrupt the long-term rental market with a platform they say simplifies and improves the relationships between landlords and tenants. On Tuesday, the company announced a $40 million funding round and plans to open a new secondary headquarters in Utah and staff it with 100 new employees. SALT LAKE CITY — Silicon Valley star...