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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

TechCrunch

From that frenetic creativity came the company’s distinctive mascot: a childish and rebellious evergreen-colored owl named Duo. Duolingo, for example, has taken this model and found ways to embed engagement hooks, pockets of joy and addictive education features within its core app. Duo, Duolingo’s mascot, flying around.

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5 Effective Inbound Marketing Strategies to Nurture in 2024 

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That said, video content drives traffic, boosts engagement and increases conversions, so adding targeted explainers, how-tos, and other educational videos to your website, YouTube Channel, and social media profiles is an effective way to get more leads with your inbound marketing strategy. Check out these 25 best explainer video examples.

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

I’m thrilled to announce Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ investment in Tinybop , a new Brooklyn-based studio building the most creative and thoughtfully-designed educational apps for kids. ” What the team at Tinybop has produced, as I hope you''ll check out, is one of the most creative apps I''ve ever seen.

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10 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Customer Acquisition

StartupNation

While there are hundreds of marketing channels, they each fall into seven broad categories: Your website and blog : Make the most of your website and blog by sharing educational, helpful, and/or entertaining content with your audience. Now it’s time to get creative with your customer acquisition. , include email marketing.

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Smart Hustle Wishes You Happy New Year and Rocking Success in 2022

Smart Hustle Magazine

For the past year, we’ve done our best to serve you and provide inspiration and education to help you START and GROW your business! At Smart Hustle, we inspire, motivate, and educate small biz owners to realize their dreams. Put aside some money this year to train, educate yourself to become a better business owner.

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Altro has raised $18M to help you build credit just by paying for your Netflix subscription

TechCrunch

Participating services include, but are not limited to, YouTube Premium, Dollar Shave Club, Adobe Creative Cloud, Nintendo Online, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Xbox Live, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and DisneyPlus. We had over 200,000 downloads and shot up to the top 10 in the App Store,” Broughton recalls. By the time it raised its $2.5

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Kdan Mobile gets $16M Series B for its cloud-based content and productivity tools

TechCrunch

It also passed 200 million downloads and now has more than 100 million members on its platform. After focusing primarily on individual users, Kdan Mobile decided to start working with more enterprise clients in 2018 and its software is now used by more than 40,000 businesses and educational organizations.

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