Mon.Nov 29, 2021

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Partnerships

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Like many did, we spent much of this weekend watching Peter Jackson’s wonderful documentary of the Beatles making Let It Be, titled Get Back. I enjoyed so much of the film, particularly the music, but the big thing I took away is the power of real partnerships. While this was the Beatles last recording session, what you see in the film are four partners working together creatively and wonderfully.

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Bolt makes first acquisition with Tipser, launches ‘Remote Checkout’

TechCrunch

The ability to purchase something at the point of discovery from digital content exists, but checkout technology company Bolt has the opportunity to give that its “one-click” treatment. It announced Monday that it made its first acquisition in Tipser , a Swedish-based technology company enabling direct checkout on any digital surface. San Francisco-based Bolt is fresh off of raising $393 million in Series D funding in October, bringing total capital raised to date to $600 million.

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5 things to do and 5 things to avoid in customer discovery interviews

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Conducting effective customer discovery interviews How to get candid insights?—?even from your biggest cheerleaders Photo by Ahmed Zayan on Unsplash I started to learn how to conduct customer discovery interviews in the summer of 2020 through Stanford’s Hacking for Recovery program based on the school’s flagship entrepreneurial class Lean Launchpad.

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Melbourne-based mobile ordering platform Mr Yum lands $65M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum , a Melbourne-based mobile ordering and payments platform that was founded in 2018, announced today it has raised a $65 million USD Series A round, led by Tiger Global. Other participants in the round included Commerce VC, VU Venture Partners, Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar and Kim Jackson through Skip Capital, San Antonio Spurs

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Gen Z’s Mindset of Purpose Fuels a New Business Model

StartupNation

In September 2021, 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs. We’re hearing about the Great Resignation everywhere–on TikTok and Forbes and everything in between. The industries affected are vast, and the reasons are highly variable. The common denominator, however, seems to be that there is a widespread shift in mindset among American workers that may no longer be compatible with the way the business world traditionally functions.

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When Does You Need Business Insurance?

StartupNation

A few weeks ago, I bought a new car. It was a stressful experience because of the shortage of vehicles at dealerships across the country. Incredibly, I was able to work out a sale price my wife and I were comfortable with, but we still purchased the car in a seller’s market. Worse, unlike homes and real estate, a car depreciates considerably the moment it drives off the lot and goes down every subsequent month.

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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

TechCrunch

Yassir, an Algerian startup that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30 million Series A round. The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors. VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital.

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Is an Acquihire a Good or Bad Outcome for Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The “acquihire” has a bad reputation among entrepreneurs, but is it actually such a bad thing? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Alms is a social app focused on real-world impact and positive change

TechCrunch

A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms , the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability, and others with positive impacts. Instead of driving the collection “likes,” as on other social apps, Alms aims to encourage real-world engagement through its challenges and the specific steps and actions tha

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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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Bonus: How To Become A LinkedIn Thought Leader with 40k+ Followers w/ Liz Willits

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Image courtesy of Liz Willits Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For our Cyber Monday special, marketing expert Liz Willits joins the Entrepreneur’s Handbook’s founder, Dave schools. Liz is one of the best marketers Dave has ever met. She has over 43k followers on LinkedIn and has her own marketing consultancy at LizWillits.com.

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Quick-commerce startup YallaMarket eyes Saudi Arabia and Qatar next year after U.A.E expansion

TechCrunch

YallaMarket, a Dubai-based quick-commerce startup, is planning to expand within the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E), and to enter Saudi Arabia and Qatar next year, to tap the appetite for speedy and convenient grocery shopping. The startup, which was formally launched last month, is expanding in the U.A.E cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai by setting up an additional 100 dark stores to offer 15-minute delivery services.

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How to Identify & Disqualify Fake Leads Quickly

Entrepreneur's Handbook

There are leads, genuine leads, and fake leads. Can you smell them 5 streets away? Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Particular Audience takes in $7.5M to give retailers way to take on Amazon

TechCrunch

Being in control of customer data is one of the ways retailers, like Amazon, Spotify and Netflix, are able to tap into consumer behavior and create customized experiences whenever a user logs in. Those are some of the reasons Amazon, in particular, is poised to grab 50% of the U.S. e-commerce market this year, and why Sydney-based Particular Audience wants to break down the data silos going on within e-commerce to give any retailer a chance to gather similar data on their customers to personaliz

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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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[Stellar Cyber On Stellar Cyber News Page] Stellar Cyber Celebrates Two Years of Open XDR Success

OurCrowd

Santa Clara, CA, November 30, 2021 — Stellar Cyber, the innovator of Open XDR – the only Everything Detection and Response platform, today celebrated the second anniversary of introducing its groundbreaking Open XDR Platform. In November of 2019, at a time when even having a “captive” XDR on the market was a gleam in the eye for all but three security vendors, Stellar Cyber leapfrogged the industry to introduce the first Open XDR platform.

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Tax? ?Deductions? ?for? ?Podcasters? And Bloggers (That You Must Know)

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Veronica Rhodes, Partnership Manager at TFX. Over the last decade, a rising number of people have supplemented their income through blogging & podcasting. People in almost every field use blogging & podcasting to make a part-time or full-time living. Maybe you enjoy writing, or you’re a natural at shooting photos, or perhaps you just have a talent for sharing intriguing things via audio that people want to listen to.

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10 Ways to Create a Successful Business Pitch

StartupNation

Recently, the term “business pitch” has become as popular as the term “startup.” A pitch is essentially a business plan that one presents verbally to potential investors of a business. A shorter summary of the complete pitch is an elevator pitch. The startup owner has to clearly explain the business opportunity to the investors, so that they can make the most appropriate decision.

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Tax? ?Deductions? ?for? ?Podcasters? And Bloggers

Smart Hustle Magazine

By Veronica Rhodes, Partnership Manager at TFX. Over the last decade, a rising number of people have supplemented their income through blogging & podcasting. People in almost every field use blogging & podcasting to make a part-time or full-time living. Maybe you enjoy writing, or you’re a natural at shooting photos, or perhaps you just have a talent for sharing intriguing things via audio that people want to listen to.

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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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Product-led growth and signal substitution syndrome: Bringing it all together

TechCrunch

Kerry Cunningham. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Currently senior principal at 6sense , Kerry Cunningham is a thought leader in B2B marketing and is a former SiriusDecisions and Forrester analyst. A few years back, my former colleagues and I at SiriusDecisions introduced what we called the Intent Data Framework (IDF). About a year ago, we updated the model to include non-behavioral signals and called it the Buyer Signals Framework (BSF).

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WJR Business Beat: E-Commerce Falls Short of Consumer Expectations (Episode 326)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff Sloan talks about why success as an online business isn’t a trip down easy street. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about two new studies that show consumers aren’t all that thrilled with their online shopping experiences. . Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat.

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Equity Monday: New unicorns kick off the week as India get cross with Starlink

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. With a holiday-impacted week behind us, we hope that you are ready for the next few weeks of busy news. Because starting in the back-half of December, the world is going to slow down dramatically. Make sure that you are following the show on Twitter , and let’s get into it!

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The Lucky 7 Steps to Channel Sales Success

Red Rocket

More often than not, growing businesses use sales and marketing efforts to drive their revenues. Marketing basically uses advertising and other techniques to bring leads into the business. Your sales team either closes the leads handed to them by the marketing department (inbound sales), or they actively hunt new end-clients down with prospecting efforts (outbound sales).

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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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Community of Cultivators: Edition 56

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 56 appeared first on GCUC Community.

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OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index Q3 2021

OurCrowd

Demand for high-tech employees 244% higher than 2020, but post-pandemic slowdown looms. Hybrid working increases. Job vacancies at OurCrowd companies in Q3 2021 rise 244% year-on-year to more than 3,528; new daily vacancies rise from 31 to 47 Most high-tech companies plan to slow down their hiring plans in 2022 Hybrid work trend increases – more than 80% of companies expect hybrid working to continue into 2022, with employers in central Israel expanding recruitment in the periphery Software engi

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3 views on Jack Dorsey’s decision to step down as Twitter’s CEO

TechCrunch

When Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced today his plans to step down as CEO, he didn’t go quietly. “There’s a lot of talk about the importance of a company being ‘founder-led,'” he wrote. “Ultimately I believe that’s severely limiting and a single point of failure. I’ve worked hard to ensure this company can break away from its founding and founders.” Dorsey added that he believes “it’s critical that a company can stand on its own, free

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[Armory in BusinessWire] Armory and AWS enable multi-target deployments at enterprise scale

OurCrowd

Armory, the company that specializes in deploying mission critical workloads at enterprise scale, was selected by AWS as an Amazon EKS Anywhere launch partner to provide customers operational flexibility and business agility through multi-target deployments at enterprise scale. Read more here. The post [Armory in BusinessWire] Armory and AWS enable multi-target deployments at enterprise scale appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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.