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Slope takes in first capital with visions of being ‘Stripe for global B2B payments’

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Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata were working at artificial intelligence companies when they found inspiration from their respective family’s businesses to create Slope , which enables businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services. Slope, how it works. Image Credits: Slope.

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Bach raises $8M to scale its group travel app for planning bachelorette trips

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We’re also ramping up our supply of bookable experiences to ensure we can keep up with the big summer ahead of us,” he said. The round also included participation from other investors, including Rich Paul, Simon Tikhman and Chief Zaruk, Ken Levitan and Mark Lawrence.

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Atomic-backed Jumpcut uses data to advance diversity in film

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Jumpcut founder Kartik Hosanagar is a professor at the Wharton School, but about ten years ago, he spent his summer in an unlikely way: he wrote a screenplay. Set in India, his script garnered some interest from producers, but no one took the plunge to fund a film by a first-time Indian director.

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Fintech Roundup: The gloves are off in the spend management space

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The company plans to launch the new product, Step Investing, sometime early this summer. There are even crypto-focused summer camps popping up all over the country to educate children about the asset class, Vox reported. Image Credits: Lawrence Murata and Alice Deng, co-founders of Slope / Slope.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

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Lawrence Freedman, Strategy: A History (Oxford University Press). If you're interested in the intellectual history of strategy, its origins, and its evolution from military thought to game theory to business, I highly recommend Lawrence Freedman's "Strategy: A History" (Oxford University Press). The Strategist's Role.

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The British and 9/11

The Cipher Brief

Lawrence Wright, drawing upon a variety of sources, chronicles the disastrous attack on Luxor, which had the effect of alienating the Egyptian population from both groups. So GI was indeed part of bin Laden’s group in Afghanistan and was involved in operations at the time of the December 1998 report.