Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2020

As an entrepreneur in the UAE, I have been in consumer-facing industries, such as leisure, food and beverage and fitness. Consumer-facing businesses like ours employ a lot of people, mostly lower paid, and with slim management overheads. A version of the following article originally appeared on Entrepreneur Middle East.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2024

Focus will be on adaptive retail for customers, workforce and society Walmart president and CEO, Doug McMillon energized the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) delivering a keynote this week about the company’s new type of commerce, describing it as “customer-centric, interconnected, frictionless and one that consistently exceeds expectations”.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The internet opened up a major consumer market by providing services more cheaply, and to more people, online. Having a highly personalized experience is what consumers value the most about in-person services—think of tutors, personal trainers, and doctors. users, time spent). Better retention and engagement.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Keys to ascending the consumer-internet throne. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

But as lockdowns lifted and people began resuming their outdoor hobbies, mobile-first businesses have seen growth accelerate as consumers turned to digital tools to improve their time outdoors. Each niche will probably be dominated by one or two players, and a given niche can have tens of millions of consumers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As the movement to support employees better gathers momentum, traditionally consumer-focused edtech startups are taking notice. Over the past few months, direct-to-consumer companies, including Outschool and MasterClass, have quietly spun up products targeting employers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

The Family Fund & Founder Community , which goes by F3C, announced $25 million in new capital commitments and its focus on becoming the largest community of founders that co-invest in the late-seed and Series A stages of consumer brands. We believe the consumer ecosystem is really durable,” Wand said in an interview. “As

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Aforza , developing cloud and mobile apps for consumer goods companies, announced a $22 million Series A round led by DN Capital. The global market for consumer packaged goods apps is forecasted to reach $15 billion by 2024. Aforza’s trade promotion designer mobile image. Image Credits: Aforza.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Around the world, consumers are facing higher prices for goods and services due to disruption to supply lines and labor availability primarily brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the consumer price index (CPI) increasing by 6.2% It’s quite clear that consumer confidence is the main obstacle. points to 109.5,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Many consumers and companies want to reduce their impact on the environment but may not know where to start or how to sustain the necessary changes. From its consumer app trials, the company saw that it was able to help shoppers reduce the emissions of their purchases by 23%. want businesses to help them be more sustainable.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 6, 2024

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Building a solid brand for modern consumers is one of these surefire ways. Steps to building a killer brand for the modern consumer. Since your goal is to differentiate your brand from the rest so that modern consumers will pick you as their top choice, you should know whom you’re competing against. The answer is yes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Enterprise security company Lookout is selling its consumer cybersecurity business to F-Secure in a $223 million deal that Paul writes will “now evolve [Lookout] into a pure-play enterprise company” that will focus on mobile endpoint security and cloud security. Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Can you see it? Are you still there?

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Register A recent study released by Visa has found that majority of Singaporean consumers want the option to control their data rather than leaving it up to the discretion of companies and government. According to the Consumer Data Confidence Research by Visa, almost 8 out of 10 of Singapore consumers want more control of data.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It provides identity management and protection for financial services, banking and consumer apps, but Soffio calls it a financial digital passport, which helps with user identification, making the task less cumbersome for both consumers and financial services. We think this will be a big unlock for the industry.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Kikoff , a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. Kikoff’s product, the “Kikoff Credit Account,” is the first of a planned suite of offerings all aimed at improving consumers’ financial health. Department of the Treasury.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When he’s not working on his companies, you can find him investing in consumer brands and tech solutions that empower them. While leading Business Development at XRC Ventures in NYC, I noticed how consumer brands would constantly send samples to our office. I feel like I’m the luckiest person in consumer VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Unfortunately, however, it’s also a business sector rife with fraud and consumer privacy abuse, particularly in emerging media forms like CTV and mobile. This is significant because there are already documented cases of consumer data being misused as part of ad fraud schemes.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. Ai Palette supports 15 languages, which the company claims is the most of any AI-based tool for predicting consumer packaged goods (CPG) trends. Is a product consumed socially or individually?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Much of this is driven by consumer behavior to reduce waste and have more sustainable consumption of goods. Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019. “In

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Grover , a Berlin-based startup that runs a subscription model where people can for set fees rent out consumer electronics like computers, smart phones, games consoles and scooters, has picked up €60 million ($71 million). The funding is coming in the form of €45 million in equity and €15 million in venture debt.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

For consumers to protect themselves from such malpractices, they need to be aware of their rights. In short, consumer awareness is integral in the modern-day economy. But what is consumer awareness? What are the rights and responsibilities of a modern-day consumer? Advertisement What Is Consumer Awareness?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

COVID-19 has changed consumer behavior. According to the latest Square study , retailers and restaurants are adapting to consumer behavior changes and turning to technology to grow in 2021. According to the Square report on the Future of Restaurants, 67% of consumers like to use a restaurant’s own website or app when they order food.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He’s the CEO of Femtosense , a startup developing edge hardware designed to make AI processing viable for low-cost consumer electronics. In general, consumer product developers are competing to add more AI capabilities to their offerings,” Fok said. Sam Fok laments that this is the case.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They recognized health savings accounts as a powerful utility to save on healthcare costs, but thought the way those were run — largely by banks offering the service as an afterthought, according to Cyriac — were not putting the consumer first. “We We saw an opportunity to approach it differently and put the consumer first,” he added.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Online interior design startup Havenly is acquiring direct-to-consumer home furnishing brand The Inside , the company announced on Thursday. In terms of the future, Mayer said Havenly’s goal is to become the main home destination for this new generation of home consumers. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 16, 2021

My friends at The New Consumer and Coefficient Capital have published their annual consumer survey. I guess that explains this chart: But back to the consumer survey, there are lots of interesting slides in it and you can get it here by creating a free account to The New Consumer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One of these options, consumer loans, is being explored by Blnk , a fintech launched last October. Blnk, a fintech that provides instant consumer credit in Egypt, raises $32M in debt and equity by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch. Egyptian fintech MNT-Halan lands $120M from Apis Partners, DisrupTech and others.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As open-source and developer-led companies become increasingly visible, important, and massive, we should draw the parallel between developer marketing and consumer marketing. In the consumer World, consumer companies use luminaries to support a product. There are a torrent of consumer examples.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

trillion consumer products industry can more accurately measure and reduce their carbon footprint. Scope 3 emissions account for up to 89% of emissions for consumer products on average, Collins added. We profiled Collins’ journey from pizza to climate-friendly food beginning in March 2020 when she announced a $2.7 With another $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

After a lengthy period of experimentation, investors have decided that consumer fintech trading businesses are not SaaS companies, meaning that those fintech revenues should not be valued as if they were annual recurring revenue (ARR), the main product of software-as-a-service concerns. This may have been an error.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 Just like many other companies, Upsie saw a bump in business last year thanks to the COVID-pandemic and resulting increase in consumer electronics sales (17%, according to the NPD Group Retail Tracking Service). Upsie nabs $5M to build a direct-to-consumer warranty service.

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Terkel Small Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How do you educate a consumer? The post How do you educate a consumer? The post How do you educate a consumer? What is the future of customer education: in academy or in product? To gain insight into the future of customer education, we asked CEOs and customer support professionals this question for their best insights.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Telda , an Egyptian consumer money app founded by ex-Swvl executive Ahmed Sabbah last April, has raised $20 million in seed funding. Its first market, Egypt, is one of the highest consumer spending markets in Africa. The fintech, in a statement, said it wants to “revolutionize finance for the MENAP region.”

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