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Wefox grabs $400M at $4.5B valuation to buck the insurtech downturn trend

TechCrunch

This way of growing users, by getting third-party brokers to use Wefox to advise their own customers, is how CEO and founder Julian Teicke reckons helped the company double its revenues to $320 million last year. “Our model enables Wefox to drive a superior financial profile which puts us on a clear path to profitability.”

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

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Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Automation, AI, enabling remote, authentication.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now?

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Bird also pointed out that the Atlantic time zones are ideal, enabling effective communications with Europe as well as the rest of North America. More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power.

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5 Content Marketing Myths Limiting Your Startup’s Growth

StartupNation

While there are a lot of common myths surrounding content marketing, at its most basic level, it is about using content strategically to build an audience and influence their behavior over time. any asset that marketers can use to bring the advice, knowledge and inspiration their businesses possess to life.

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Daily Crunch: Experts say Musk’s open-source vision could make Twitter vulnerable to attack

TechCrunch

The firm is targeting “internet-enabled consumer tech with recurring business models,” which Miller felt was a white space among all the other enterprise and SaaS investors. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup. Startups and VC.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random.

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