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What Role Do Partnerships Play in New Business Development?

Startup Blogpost

What Role Do Partnerships Play in New Business Development? To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well.

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HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks

TechCrunch

HiPeople , a HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding. HiPeople says the investment will be used to support growth so that more recruiters can hire remotely using automated reference checks. It follows a $1.1 million pre-seed in late 2019. In the U.S.,

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Seraf Toolbox: Questionnaire for Checking Customer References

The Seraf Compass

To help guide our investors through that process we have developed a Questionnaire for Checking Customer References. An area of diligence we talk a lot about is assessing the market and verifying customer demand.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

TechCrunch

Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements. Axelera and GigaSpaces are both developing in-memory hardware to accelerate AI workloads. Verma says that the company is pre-revenue.)

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

“Most of the technical content published misses the mark with developers. I think we can all do a better job,” author and developer marketing expert Adam DuVander says. DuVander was recommended to us by Karl Hughes, the CEO of Draft.dev, which specializes in content production for developer-focused companies.

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Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation Signs an MOU with “Hive Colab,” a Ugandan Business Incubation Organization, for the Development of Startup Clusters

AsiaTechDaily

Register Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (President Kim Won-kyung, hereinafter referred to as “GCCEI”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hive Colab, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, to innovate the business environment for startups in both countries.

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Create target customer personas to develop successful growth strategies

TechCrunch

Developing your customer profile is an integral piece of positioning your brand and an indispensable section of your brand book. Here’s how: Pull a list of your most dedicated users for each metric that matters to your company, such as highest LTV, most frequent user, highest number of purchases or even highest referring customer.