Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

Today, only 4% of B2B sales occur online, with Amazon Business driving at least $10 billion in sales annually. 1 49% of transactions are still done manually via phone, fax, or in-person meetings with sales representatives and account managers. First, a bit of background on why independent retail will thrive in America.

accelerator

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Life House , a boutique hotel brand that has built software aimed at helping independent hotel owners and operators, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by new investors Kayak and Inovia Capital. Rami Zeidan started Life House after nearly a decade of working in different areas of the hotel industry.

real estate

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

in 1981 after he was fired by Salomon Brothers, where he had been responsible for analytical tools for sales and trading. Prior to Bloomberg — and its aggregated financial data — entering the scene, firms had to collect data independently, often relying on calculators.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

In other words, the company has partnered with companies such as Rocket Mortgage and ADT to integrate insurance at the point of sale in their products. Every state regulator has to approve individually and independently with their own rules.”. Branch co-founder and CEO Steve Lekas. It’s really hard to move quickly,” Lekas said.

innovation

StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. The red represents our African roots and the blue our beautiful blue waters and skies that we share with our Caribbean neighbors. Not just when you need something or want to make a sale, but all the time.

culture

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Other options for workers can be taking collective action, solidarity unionism, forming independent unions, employee resource groups (ERGs), guilds, joining a worker center, new innovations/ideas, etc. All of which have merit, and may be best in different circumstances.

venture capital

Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2022

Many startups simply assume that if they do what other startups do – classify workers as independent contractors, pay people primarily in equity grants, or pay out salaries to every employee – they will be in the clear. Customarily and regularly exercises discretionary powers and use independent judgment. Administrative Employees.

startup

Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. To pick just one representative story… I was sent to the principal’s office one day in high school, probably for goofing off in class.

ventures

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Does their industry, profitability, business model, or financial independence come into play? Financial independence. “The biggest driver of our hiring is our financial independence,” Yen said. American sales and marketing software giant HubSpot , a $14 billion publicly-traded company, announced its first U.K.

sustainability

TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. Victor Benjamin, on the other hand, has worked for 10 years in pharma sales.

startup

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely. annual GMV.

opportunity

Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The team was ultimately acqui-hired by imeem for the impressive tech we had developed, but our dreams of building an independent web music player were over. He was previously Head of Product for LinkedIn Sales Navigator, growing it from idea to $200M in sales in 1.5 years, and from 0 to 500 employees.

startup

Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

The definition of expert varies by discipline, but here’s a good pressure test: Skills: Do they have the skills to independently make judgment calls? B2B saas companies will likely include folks from sales and marketing. Each team should have one Informed Captain and representatives from each of the core functions required for success.

frameworks

TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Will Apple’s spectacular iPhone 12 sales figures boost the smartphone industry in 2021? Today’s smartphones are unfathomably feature-rich and durable, so it’s logical that sales have slowed. billion came from phone sales, largely driven by the release of the iPhone 12. Independent thinking suffered.”

VC

Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

The sales process in our company paused for a few days. As a result, many see switching to a career in IT as a chance to find a stable source of income with a job that is location-independent and offers salaries tied to the dollar. Apple has stopped sales of its products in Russia, as have Samsung and ASUS.

development

TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Products and services that require anything requiring on-site visits and integration as well as a long sales cycle involving face-to-face meetings and customer education are negatively impacted during this time. At TAU, we are interested in a variety of sectors and evaluate each potential investment independently.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kano Computing (“Kano”), the venture-backed company best known for its DIY computer kits and software for teaching coding and STEM skills to kids, is spinning out its creative software suite and online community platform as an independent business. The move comes as the U.K. million loss, but a loss nonetheless. Going solo.

creativity

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Time independent. This type of “affiliate” traffic might represent 20% of your overall traffic. Europe is roughly the same as the US. But distribution is now unlimited.

sustainability

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I guess that’s why people like my pal Trevor Owens felt vindicated by the sale of GroupMe as evidenced by his Tweet to me. I have always been equally impressed with Brew PR who represented them and would hire them for any company in which I had invested. What do I think now? I responded with something like “Great product.

media

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. Do you have sales productivity software? I chose for my blog to be independent of my firm, GRP Partners. Blog on that topic. Apparently not.

startup

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

incumbents

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

In the future trains will auto tweet and potentially update displays in train stations or airplanes can tell us when they will arrive at the gate in stead of us talking with the uninformed gate representative. New tickets about to go on sale for your favorite band – Tweet.

media

Berkonomics

MARCH 28, 2024

The duty of care is to care for the corporation’s asset itself, not the shareholders whom they represent. Each corporation, when chartered becomes a live person in the eyes of the law, independent and subject to the care of its board of directors. Everything else is a self-imposed duty or responsibility.

board

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Unless you’ve engaged my firm to represent you or your startup, we do not have an attorney-client relationship. Independent contractor or consulting agreements. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue. All opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Gust.

board

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Kenya’s B2B e-commerce food distribution platform Twiga has laid off 211 of its full-time employees following restructuring that has eliminated the company’s in-house sales team. The representatives signed up vendors and were in charge of customer relations, gathering market intelligence and promoting products to clients.

entrepreneurship

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel. Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. trade secret).

startup

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Among these is Roofr , a five-year-old, San Francisco-based, 31-person sales platform for roofing contractors that just raised $4.25 Right now, Roofr is focused exclusively on helping close that initial sale. Roofr also sells its software to independent insurance adjusters.). million.

construction

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded in the second quarter of 2019, Bogota-based Bold is a payment services provider, or independent merchant acquirer, focused on serving micro and SMB merchants. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If The startup must be doing something right.

enablement

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This latest round represents a huge hike on its valuation since then, when Commercetools was valued at around $300 million. E-commerce was already growing at a steady pace before 2020, by some estimates representing more than half of all commerce transactions. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce. John Lewis and many others.

technology

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The duty of care is to care for the corporation asset itself, not the shareholders whom they represent. Each corporation when chartered becomes a live person in the eyes of the law, independent and subject to the care of its board of directors. Everything else is a self-imposed duty or responsibility.

board

TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

In both down times and boom times, businesses across industries are faced with the challenge of building sales pipelines and closing revenue. But it requires a thorough, vetted source of information and contacts in departments like business development, sales and recruiting. ” Investors seem convinced. . billion valuation.

startup

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most large restaurant chains across Africa have grown accustomed to using legacy systems and point-of-sale providers to manage operations. Orda , a Nigerian food tech platform that provides a cloud-based restaurant operating system to solve these issues for small, independent restaurants, is announcing that it has secured a $3.4

capital

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Real estate appraisers use comparable sales to determine an adjusted price per square foot as the principal basis for calculating valuations when applying the market value method. There are clear valuation ranges for startups by stage and by round, which represent an established market value.

VC

TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Though SaaS growth didn’t take as big of a hit as previously thought, Miguel Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Capchase, told TechCrunch “that SaaS companies did see a shift in their return on investment when sales cycles delayed as buyer’s asked for more flexible financing terms.” over the same period in 2022.

peer-to-peer

Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

He continues to utilize his strong business expertise including hiring/training/mentoring staff, operational planning, sales forecasting, process implementation, and launching new sales divisions. Within two years he was managing the global sales team and responsible for the companies $28.7M global revenue.

real estate

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For example, sales of e-bikes are outpacing sales of electric cars in the U.S., He believes that CoverTree’s offering represents the first time that consumers can buy manufactured home insurance online. “If The ways in which we live and get around have evolved over the past few decades. according to recent research.

ventures

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

As a result, most firms have independent internal groups that periodically analyze valuations. The one exception to this is the late-stage investor or the deep-pocketed investor who may represent a substantial part of the overall money raised. Many Unicorns had taken private fundraising dollars from mutual funds. More on this later.

VC