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Daily Crunch: The party’s over — Airbnb bans all disruptive gatherings in perpetuity

TechCrunch

Rising tides and all : Sustainable Ocean Alliance, an ocean-focused, early-stage startup incubator, got itself $18 million in new funding from sources, most notably Marc and Lynne Benioff, Devin writes. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. Power survey found that was not the case.

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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. Lexis was an early application of full-text boolean search logic.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence. Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.”

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Dover raises $20M to bring the concept of ‘orchestration’ to recruitment

TechCrunch

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

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Heyday raises $555M to buy up and scale more D2C brands in the Amazon marketplace universe

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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Observe.ai raises $125M, adding Zoom as an investor, to supercharge the contact center market

TechCrunch

Today, a company that believes it can improve how agents work within them using AI is announcing a big round of funding. could bring into that mix a sweetener for would-be customers, in the form of intelligence that can be applied to voice-only interactions and those taking place over chat. Observe.ai Observe.AI

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. I’ve become less enamored with that over time.