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Shopware, an e-commerce platform that powers 100K brands, raises its first outside funding: $100M from PayPal and Carlyle

TechCrunch

In other words, the tools that it has built are there to help companies have a presence and stack up against the rest of the online landscape, but they are built with a view to making them easy enough for non-tech companies and their partners to use. The money is notable not just for its nine-figure size, but also because of its context.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

That’s what happened this week with Ro , which laid off 18% of its full-time workforce to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of [its] organization, and better map our resources to [its] current strategy.” Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. My personal use. Just don’t use AngelList as a short-cut for the hard work. But to be clear, used properly there is NO downside to AngelList for entrepreneurs. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. A few reasons.

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23 Profitable Recession-Proof Business Ideas

OkDork

Content strategy consulting: When you get good at content remixing and know which type of content performs best on which channels, you can consult creators. Refer them to an AppSumo tool that replaces whatever subscription they’re currently using, and they’ll save a bunch of money and you’ll get a fat referral fee. They probably do.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008.

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

While the former owns an older motorcycle which he is usually able to diagnose and repair himself through the use of rational problem-solving skills, the latter simply hopes for the best for his bike and focuses on being “In the moment”, and not on rational analysis. As Witt puts it: “The studio engineers hated the mp3.

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Lesson #335: The Death of Search Engine Optimization

Red Rocket

Google has always been a staple of any good digital marketing strategy, especially for search engine optimization (SEO), to attract free organic traffic based on the quality of the content on your page. A Quick History of Google Search Ever since Google hit the scene in 1998, Google has been a staple of any good digital marketing strategy.

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