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I’ve worked with hundreds of unicorns: Here’s what founders and executives need to focus on

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Having helped build a startup and gone under the hood with many unicorns over the past few decades, I’ve seen how some of the best founders and executives position their companies in times of stress to flourish on the other side, whether through a successful IPO, SPAC exit or just stable growth.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Last month, it was one of the 60 startups to get accepted into the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2022 cohort, which included some non-dilutive funding. Ideh said his company intends to relaunch the election data site, this time with more datasets and functionalities, in anticipation of Nigeria’s 2023 elections.

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Packworks makes operations easier for sari-sari stores in the Philippines

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Packworks has now onboarded 150,000 stores and wants to have 220,000 stores by the end of 2022 and 500,000 by the end of 2023. The Pack SuperStore app enables sari-sari owners to process their business’ inventory, bookkeeping and data collection. It also gives access to financial products and supply ordering at a cheaper price.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. Seafood traceability solutions; ropeless traps; microalgae and seaweed are a hugely untapped resource with multiple market opportunities; ocean and weather data collection and analysis.

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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

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Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.” ” Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc. Manish has more.

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Collect and leverage zero-party data to personalize marketing and drive growth

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Ben Parr is president and co-founder of Octane AI. Zero-party data has very quickly become the biggest buzzword in marketing and digital advertising. Implemented correctly, zero-party data marketing allows you to treat every customer as an individual, personalize their experience with your brand and build real relationships.

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NebulaGraph reaps from China’s growing appetite for graph databases

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The EV supply chain is highly sophisticated and each car sale can generate reams of data from the design stage to after it ships, said founder and CEO Sherman Yu, who previously worked at Ant Group and Meta. That’s not the end of data collection. The company’s plan to open an office in the U.S.

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