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Can You Build a Business with $100 or Less? Yes … and Here’s How

StartupNation

In 2016, our ETC team weighed all the options and decided to go mobile with AMP (accelerated mobile pages) to see a rapid jump in sales (and we saw it!). 8 Ways to Make Money on Social Media Arm yourself with a toolset (free!) I must confess: I’m addicted to attending live events, especially in sports , even today. In 2024, it generated $6.7

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How to Build an Online Presence for Your Small Business

American Entrepreneurship

Invest in Online Advertising While organic reach is valuable, paid advertising can accelerate growth. LinkedIn Ads Effective for B2B marketing. Consider: Google Ads Appear at the top of search results for relevant queries. Facebook & Instagram Ads Highly targeted ads to specific demographics.

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Listen Up! Why Revolution Ventures is Investing in Indianapolis-based Casted

Revolution

As short-form media consumption and the effectiveness of influencer-style marketing have increased, and as enterprises continue to search for better customer acquisition and engagement channels, podcasting has been fueled to a multi-billion-dollar category with nearly 2M shows hosted in 2020¹.

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EduMe raises $20M to scale its corporate learning platform targeting gig workers and other ‘deskless’ employees

TechCrunch

“Deskless” workers have become a big focus for tech companies looking for new opportunities in the B2B market, and today a startup targeting this segment with e-learning tools is announcing a round of funding to fuel its own growth. The growth of this trend has translated into very big business.

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YC-backed Amenli raises $2.3M to provide insurance to Egyptian consumers

TechCrunch

And these providers focus on the B2B market because they lack the tools to access the mass retail market. In this segment is a middle-income pool of about 50 million adults; that’s the market Amenli is after, El Tohfa says. Life after YC has been great for Amenli.

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Wire grabs fresh funding for secure messaging tech that’s big with G7 governments

TechCrunch

Duric says the plan for the Series C is to accelerate Wire’s penetration and scale in markets “where we had a pretty good start” — such as in sectors like government and the military — as well as looking to expand its focus on regulated markets, like financial services. .”

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Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools

TechCrunch

That market driver has now led to a significant growth round for a startup that is helping the larger of these businesses, including those targeting the B2B market, build out their digital sales operations with more agile, responsive e-commerce solutions.