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Regulatory scrutiny is good for the future of software

TechCrunch

PV Boccasam. Contributor. PV Boccasam is a partner at Cota Capital. Now that digitization has become the norm, government regulation seems to be following close behind. While many lament government regulation as an infringement on innovation, I believe increased scrutiny is a net positive for the future of the software industry. First, it’s important to recognize that increased regulation is a reflection and acknowledgment of the dramatic impact that software is having on economies and societies

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AI startup SpaceAge Labs scores $1.2m in seed funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register SpaceAge Labs , a Singapore-based IoT / AI solutions startup , has announced raising S$1.7 million (about $1.25 million) in a seed funding round co-led by Silicon Solution Partners and SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.

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The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet

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In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Over the past four years, it’s updated the list to reflect the current status of its most valued companies. Valuation isn’t the best way to measure a startup’s success or real-life value, of course, and YC has always admitted that.

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Waffle House Exec Shares Why Mentorship Is Essential for Successful Leaders

Smart Hustle Magazine

Bert Thornton has spent 40 years leading the growth of Waffle House, as its former President and COO. Mentorship has been an important part of his success. When Bert started there were a handful of Waffle Houses, when he retired, they had thousands. Bert’s passion is developing future leaders through mentorship. His new book, High Impact Mentoring , A Practical Guide to Creating Value in Other People’s Lives, co-authored with Dr.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank

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Coming off of a year where monthly active users grew 150% year over year, ethnic e-grocer Weee! secured $425 million in Series E funding toward its goal to be “the primary source for food at home,” Larry Liu, Weee!’s founder and CEO, told me. It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for

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Leverage early investors when raising a Series A, says DeepScribe’s Akilesh Bapu

TechCrunch

Raising a Series A is a different ball game from raising a seed round, and for Akilesh Bapu, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered medical transcription platform DeepScribe, giving prospective investors a hard deadline while leaning on early investors for support and guidance made all the difference. “We were at this trajectory as a company where we had a semblance of product-market fit,” said Bapu, reflecting on the summer of 2021. “We had proven our product.

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Work on the 5-9 Until the 9-5 Becomes a Side Hustle

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How I quit my 6-figure job for a 6-figure side hustle. Copy. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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HearHere raises $3.2M to scale its immersive storytelling road-trip app

TechCrunch

Santa Barbara-based HearHere , the company behind an audio entertainment and immersive storytelling road-trip app, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding led by RV and outdoor retailer Camping World. The app aims to foster deep connections and understandings of the places and histories of the land that users are traveling through when on a road trip.

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The Best Startups Begin with a Desperate Need to Solve a Problem

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Necessity is the mother of Unicorns Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

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Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own extensive, multi-channel on-demand video traffic (and correspondingly complex codebase) globally, and later adopted by companies like Tesla, American Express, Github, Deutsche Telekom, VMware and some 150 other large organizations and others to manage their own services.

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Malaysia’s edotco acquires 1,000 Indonesian towers from XL Axiata

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Malaysia’s edotco Group , one of Asia’s leading integrated telecommunications infrastructure services firms , announced its acquisition of approximately 1,000 towers from XL Axiata for about RM219 million ($52 million). The acquisition, which was made through a local subsidiary, PT edotco Infrastructure Indonesia, confirms edotco’s foray into the Indonesian market, one of Asia’s larges

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Lucid rolls back production goals even as demand for luxury EV rises

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Earnings season rolled along today with notes from Lucid Motors’ fourth-quarter results. The company, like other electric vehicle (EV) companies, is nascent in revenue terms, albeit further along than some. The company publicly debuted as a SPAC company in July last year after merging with Churchill Capital IV. The company’s value has had a turbulent day.

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Y Combinator Top Companies - February 2022

Y Combinator

We’re excited to share the 2022 YC Top Companies. In addition to the list of top companies, we also launched the YC Breakthrough Companies list to highlight the fast-growing companies that have received between $15M-$300M from YC. Both lists include private, public and exited companies valued at $150M or more and are sorted by valuation [1] or market cap as of February 2022.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Better Dairy slices into new funding for animal-free cheeses

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Food tech company Better Dairy is closer to getting its aged and hard cheeses into the testing phase after securing $22 million in Series A funding. The U.K.-based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. We initially got to know Nagarajah and Better Dairy back in 2020 when the company raised £1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by Happiness Capital.

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How To Write A Business Proposal? – A Guide

Feedough

“We’ll get back to you soon.” “Your rates are out. Read more. The post How To Write A Business Proposal? – A Guide appeared first on Feedough.

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Flashfood raises $12.3M to scale its grocery app that helps tackle retail food waste

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Toronto-based Flashfood , a mobile marketplace that provides customers with access to discounted food nearing its best-by date, has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by S2G Ventures. The app allows users to browse through available deals at participating stores near them. Customers can also purchase items directly in the app and then pick up their order from the Flashfood zone in their participating store.

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How To Start and Manage an Online Business

Smart Hustle Magazine

Whether we like it or not, online businesses are slowly taking over. The pandemic has undoubtedly contributed to this trend to a great degree. More and more people decide to try their luck in one of the fastest-growing industries. That’s why it is easier than ever before to start and manage an online business. Before you set the wheels in motion, you have to spend some time planning the venture.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Rakuten Symphony acquires Kubernetes platform Robin.io

TechCrunch

Rakuten Symphony , the recently launched telco-focused arm of Japan’s Rakuten Group , today announced that it has acquired Robin.io , a startup that offers a Kubernetes platform optimized for storage solutions and complex network applications. Rakuten Mobile was one of the company’s early customers and Rakuten Capital led Robin.io’s Series C funding round.

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Community of Cultivators: Edition 60

GCUC

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global. The post Community of Cultivators: Edition 60 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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Ownit helps brands sell products, at the point of discovery, with one click

TechCrunch

We’ve all seen a product on social media that looks interesting, so you click the “shop now” button and are taken over to a new site. But wait, you weren’t finished on the social media site, and when you go back, everything has refreshed. Ownit unveiled a checkout experience today, after testing with 10 companies, that gives direct-to-consumer brands a way to sell their products without that interruption.

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Database triggers to clean text inputs

Derek Sivers

Even smart people can accidently put bad data into a database. We copy text from a web page, then paste it into a form, not realizing it also copied a space, tab, or newline character. Then your system thinks someone’s name is not “Jim” but “ Jimn”. You could use JavaScript to sanitize all form inputs, but what about when you import a CSV file, or get data from an API?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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What’s your BNPL startup really worth?

TechCrunch

News that Zip, an Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company, intends to buy Sezzle , a U.S. company of similar ilk, caught our eye this morning. Both concerns are public in Australia, which means that the deal provides a fascinating window into the real value of this particular sort of fintech revenue. TechCrunch has covered more BNPL startup funding rounds than I can hold straight in my head.

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Generate unique random values directly in the database

Derek Sivers

You often need to generate random strings, like for login cookies and unique entry codes. These strings always need to be stored in the database. So make your life simpler by generating the random strings directly in the database. Here's a very handy PostgreSQL function to do it: create function gen_random_bytes(int) returns bytea as '$libdir/pgcrypto', 'pg_random_bytes' language c strict; create function random_string(len int) returns text as $$ declare chars text[] = '{0,1,

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The PR boss behind Groupon, Lemonade and Squarespace shares how to land press coverage at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Fledgling early-stage founders need two essentials to get their startups off the ground and onto solid footing — funding and media exposure. Earned media can translate into funding, but it can also translate into more recruiting options for folks who have just fundraised. And, if you place an article in the right publication, it can also grow your customer base.

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[enVerid in The ACHR NEWS ] Daikin Applied introduces building controls

OurCrowd

enVerid Systems, the leader in sustainable indoor air quality (IAQ) solutions, will exhibit in booth #C5146 at the 2022 AHR Expo At the AHR Expo this year, Daikin Applied introduced SiteLine Building Controls — a portfolio of scalable, cloud-based technologies to connect, monitor, and manage both individual pieces of HVAC equipment and integrated building systems.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.