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5 Ways to Revitalize Your Sales Efforts During Tough Times

StartupNation

Right now, entrepreneurs and small business owners are likely getting in their own way when it comes to sales, whether from fearing the future or feeling like their offerings are no longer relevant or important. If you’ve lost a few clients or opportunities due to COVID-19, you might lack confidence and assume that now isn’t the time for customer acquisition.

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Sales CRM Pipedrive takes majority investment from Vista Equity Partners to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Pipedrive , the sales CRM tool for small and medium-sized businesses, is the latest European company to reach unicorn status. Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. This means that Vista has effectively acquired Pipedrive, in the sense that the PE firm now has a majority stake.

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Selling More Online: A Conversation All About E-commerce

Smart Hustle Magazine

John Lawson and Jackson Cunningham spoke at the Survive and Thrive Summit and talked all about starting e-commerce. H osted and produced by Ramon Ray of Smart Hustle Media, the first two Summits were successfully held in 2020. The next one will be in the spring of 2021. Be the first to know when that registration opens up as well as other online events by signing up for our newsletter.

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mmhmm videochat software is now available to all for Mac

TechCrunch

mmhmm , the presentation software developed by Evernote founder Phil Libin, is today coming out of beta. The mmhmm app is now officially available for Mac. The software allows folks to spice up their video calls with the ability to add different backgrounds, play videos, add images, and use filters, among other cool effects. The app has been invite only since its inception, but today it becomes available to all.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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White Label: Meaning, Process, & Examples

Feedough

Not every business develops its offering intending to operate on a B2C model (customer-facing model). Some focus on getting resellers and even let such resellers to sell their offerings under their own brand name. This type of business operations is called white labelling, and the product that’s offered is called a white-labelled product. Businesses usually choose this model when they desire to focus just on the manufacturing and production, and not on how the product is marketed, promoted, or

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Voodoo, Obsidian & Zettlekasten - A Modern Way of Taking Notes

Tomasz Tunguz

For many years, I wrote notes on paper using the bullet journal method. It’s a method I still highly recommend. Now that my days are spent exclusively behind a computer, I’ve been searching for the right note-taking strategy. I recognize that note-taking is like pricing strategy: you never get it entirely right, so you’re always inclined to tinker.

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48 hours left to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020

TechCrunch

Listen up, space fans and aficionados. You have just 48 hours left to secure an early-bird ticket to TC Sessions: Space 2020 , a two-day virtual conference dedicated to early-stage space startups and the community that supports them. Join the brilliant minds, leading founders, shrewd investors and boundary-pushing engineers determined to shape the future of space exploration and everything that entails.

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How eCommerce Companies Can Tackle the $500 Billion Returns Problem

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A proposed hybrid solution with the potential for rapid growth. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Personal finance startup Truebill raises $17M

TechCrunch

Truebill , a startup offering a variety of tools to help users take control of their finances, announced today that it has raised $17 million in Series C funding. When I first wrote about the startup in 2016 , it was focused on helping users track and cancel unwanted subscriptions. Since then, it’s expanded into other financial products, like reports on your personal expenses and the ability to negotiate lower bills.

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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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How OLIO Gained 2.4M Users By Proving Its Concept on WhatsApp

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How OLIO became a leader in the sharing economy Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Are subscription services the future of fintech?

TechCrunch

Joshira Maduro. Contributor. Joshira Maduro joined the LendingTree team in April 2020 and uses her background in market research and branding to write about credit card news and better ways to spend. Subscription services are on the rise. During the pandemic, Americans have been spending more time at home and more money on the digital products that make navigating our new normal easier.

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5 Motivation Boosters from 5 Masterminds of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Their words of wisdom played a key role in the selling of my company Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OthersideAI raises $2.6M to let GPT-3 write your emails for you

TechCrunch

When I send an email, it’s special. A crafted, beautiful thing that — who am I kidding, it’s mostly automatic. So why not automate it? OthersideAI is taking this idea ( with a $2.6 million seed round ) beyond the auto-responders and smart replies, using OpenAI’s GPT-3 language generation engine to turn bullet points into full, personalized messages.

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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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Ten Questions to Get You Started Telling Your Entrepreneurs’ and Community’s Stories

Ecosystem Builder Hub

“ Every community has its secret entrepreneurial success stories. Ecosystem builders must recruit those individuals and elevate them as examples for others by highlighting their stories to others. ” — Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook. Storytelling is essential to building a successful startup community. Creating and sharing stories about your entrepreneurs and your startup community has several benefits.

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Come hear about the opportunities in space observation at TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates. At TC Sessions: Space this December 16 & 17 , we’ll be discussing what’s ahead for the market with some of the industry’s leading founders, including Payam Banazadeh, the chief executive and founder of Capella Space; Rafal Modrzewski, the chief executive and founder of ICEYE; Peter

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How To Start a Company With Your Best Friend And Save Your Friendship

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Going to war together — when done correctly — can build closeness rather than resentment. Here’s how. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Th O’s r ptinal, th dllrs r mndtry

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast ( now on Twitter! ), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The full Equity crew was on hand to debate the current venture capital market, curious about how risk-on, or risk-off things really are today. Danny , Natasha and I framed the conversation around a number of news items from the week, including: Wrkfrce has launched , and we wanted to chat more about the future of niche media, bringing The Juggern

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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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[Nexa3D in Odessa American] Nexa3D Opens EMEA Customer Success Center in Germany, Powered by Disc Direct

OurCrowd

Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer production 3D printers, announced today the expansion of its EMEA operations with the immediate opening of a customer success center in Germany, powered by Disc Direct. To accelerate its EMEA expansion, Nexa3D inked a collaboration agreement to host Disc Direct’s customer success center in Karlsbad, Germany, located near Frankfurt Airport.

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Railsbank, the Banking-as-a-Service, raises $37M in growth funding

TechCrunch

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Leading the round is MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital, which are both existing investors in Railsbank. Also participating is Anthos Capital, Global Brain, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr. Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footpri

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[TechSee in MarTech Series] Techsee Announces Partnership With Salesforce for New Visual Remote Assistant Technology

OurCrowd

TechSee, a leader in intelligent visual assistance technology for customers, agents, and field technicians, announced a collaboration with Salesforce, the global CRM leader, to integrate intelligent visual assistance technology into Salesforce with Visual Remote Assistant, a real-time, interactive video support technology that can be deployed in Salesforce Service Cloud and Salesforce Field Service.

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Mobile security startup Oversecured launches after self-funding $1 million, thanks to bug bounty payouts

TechCrunch

You might not have heard of Sergey Toshin, but you should know his work. Toshin is a 24-year-old security researcher in Moscow who focuses largely on mobile app security. With his knowledge of what different mobile security flaws looked like, Toshin built a custom Android mobile app vulnerability scanner to quickly and automatically find vulnerabilities in an app’s code, he told TechCrunch.

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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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[Sight Diagnostics in Jerusalem Post] Shaare Zedek, Sight Diagnostics to collaborate on coronavirus research

OurCrowd

Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Sight Diagnostics will collaborate on a new study to examine morphological changes that occur in white blood cells of coronavirus patients, in order to detect early deterioration of their health status. Read more here. The post [Sight Diagnostics in Jerusalem Post] Shaare Zedek, Sight Diagnostics to collaborate on coronavirus research appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

TechCrunch

Video communication startup Livestorm announced today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Gilles Bertaux told me that the company started out with a focus on webinars before launching a video meeting product as well (which we used for our interview). “The way we think about it is, webinars and meetings are not use cases,” Bertaux said.

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[Subspace in Telecompaper] Subspace selects Manama-IX for regional expansion

OurCrowd

Manama-IX, the Bahrain internet peering service provider, announced that Subspace will join its platform. Through this collaboration, the companies aim to deliver a new dimension to the region’s gaming space. Read more here. The post [Subspace in Telecompaper] Subspace selects Manama-IX for regional expansion appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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InFeedo raises $3.2M led by Bling Capital, delivers $1.1M exit to early employees and investors

TechCrunch

A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are and resolve their issues on time to retain talent just raised a new financing round from several high-profile executives. InFeedo, a four-year-old people analytics SaaS startup with headquarters in Gurgaon, said on Thursday it has raised $3.2 million in its Series A funding round.

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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.