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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

TechCrunch

Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022.

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Global Payments have really been rifle shot in terms of distribution before I came on board as CEO.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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The Ideal Pitch Deck is a Story, a Science, and an Art

StartupNation

You’ll find dozens of articles on keeping your deck to 10 slides or how you must have a board of advisers slide, but we base our thesis on some more tangible examples. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ). Who doesn’t love a good story?

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years. Can you cancel or reschedule online?

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The 6 best texting apps in 2025

The Zapier Blog

Unless you absolutely require one or two specific features or are a real stickler for security , the best text message app will be the one that the people you want to text also use. Though, if I could rule the world using benevolent AIs, I'd make everyone use Signal.)

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Good & Bad Advertising slogans (And How To Differentiate Between Them)

Feedough

From Disney to Bira , every brand use advertising slogans. Advertising slogans are brief and catchy phrases used by companies in marketing and advertising campaigns to draw their target audience’s attention to the advertised offering. California Milk Processor Board: “Got Milk?” Coca Cola – “Open Happiness” (2009).

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