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3 in 5 Small Businesses Don't Inform their Customers About Third-party Data Collection, Reports Survey

Smart Hustle Magazine

Brent Leary , co-founder and partner of CRM Essentials, said, It's no secret that data is valuable for powering personalized ads, but we were surprised to find how comfortable companies of all sizes are with unethical data collection methods that leave their customers in the dark and their information in potentially dangerous hands.

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Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it

TechCrunch

Nearly all digital businesses collect some type of data from their users, so there has been growing concern from privacy rights groups about how that data is used. Yet, data collection is not wrong in and of itself.

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How collective data and storytelling can lead to lasting impact for underserved entrepreneurs

Source Link

SourceLink will be working closely with these groups not just to power their data collection efforts as Hubs, but surrounding this cohort with opportunities to learn from one another on a quarterly basis.

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

TechCrunch

A lot of this tech is focused on job sites, but given the need for data collection and analysis, what advances are you seeing in back-end technologies? One of our portfolio companies, Versatile, is a great example of using job site data collection to drive actionable insights for GCs. Is there a killer app?

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Dealroom raises €6M Series A for its startup data, market intelligence service

TechCrunch

Then, the resulting data is cleaned and run through the company’s software to “uncover actionable predictions,” as Dealroom puts it. So Dealroom is three linked parts: data collection, cleaning and synthesis. What Dealroom wants to do with its data in the future is tinker with it more intelligently.

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5 Ways E-Commerce Entrepreneurs Can Make More Data-Driven Decisions in 2022

StartupNation

All of these things can, and should, be supported by data. Collect strong data to optimize supply chain. One supply chain startup, Logmore, describes how they’ve used data to solve supply chain issues , especially with perishable items. Says the company, “Data is not collected from where it should be.

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Environmental, social and governance tracking gets easier with ESGgo

TechCrunch

The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. To fully track ESG impact across a business, the GRI and SASB standards suggest tracking hundreds of data points across the organization.