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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging from the beta phase.

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How I Almost Made a Terrible Business Decision to Keep Up With The Joneses

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Beware the Joneses’ influence on your startup journey; good-intentioned people make bad decisions under the influence. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata

TechCrunch

In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Today, a decade or more into the End User Era, consumers have become the tail that wags the dog. Product-led growth models have been widely embraced: Instead of devoting resources to customer acquisition, PLG companies ship and scale quickly and more efficiently.

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Newsletter: Full egg protein, no animals + Precision medicine

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company, full egg protein, no animals OurCrowd Arabia Chairman makes first trip to Israel March 28th online: Investing in precision medicine Jobs Index: High tech set for hiring boom Plantish reels in $12M seed funding D-ID raises $25M Series B funding Singapore’s foreign minister visits OurCrowd HUB Security to list on Nasdaq in $1.28B SPAC Australia’s Seed Partnerships offers VC with OurCrowd People.ai: From code to combat in Ukraine

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Improving discovery for NFTs will amplify digital creators and marketplaces

TechCrunch

Alexandre Robicquet. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alexandre Robicquet is co-founder and CEO of Crossing Minds, an AI-powered recommendation platform for e-commerce and content. An experienced Stanford AI scholar, he holds three Master's degrees in mathematics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Four years ago, my team set an ambitious goal: build the smartest recommendation platform on the market.

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Startup Self-Repricing as a Recruiting Tool

Tomasz Tunguz

Could Instacart’s self-repricing become the first of many? It’s quite possible. The company announced it would mark its shares to a market price 40% less the last round. In a fundraising environment awash with capital and term sheets lapping up on the front doors of many startups, why might we see more self-repricings? Talent. Startups appeal to candidates span many dimensions: influence, category creation, smaller teams.

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Newsletter: Full egg protein, no animals + Precision medicine

OurCrowd

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: The EVERY Company, full egg protein, no animals OurCrowd Arabia Chairman makes first trip to Israel March 28th online: Investing in precision medicine Jobs Index: High tech set for hiring boom Plantish reels in $12M seed funding D-ID raises $25M Series B funding Singapore’s foreign minister visits OurCrowd HUB Security to list on Nasdaq in $1.28B SPAC Australia’s Seed Partnerships offers VC with OurCrowd People.ai: From code to combat in Ukraine

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8 EO members share lessons from their best and worst business partnerships

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Kym is fascinated by entrepreneurs and their journeys, so he asked EO members from various chapters to share their experiences. Read his earlier posts on what EO members wish non-entrepreneurs knew about entrepreneurs and how EO members define success and the impact of core values.

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10 Proven Ways To Make Money With Your Computer And Internet

Feedough

There are people all over the world who earn their. Read more. The post 10 Proven Ways To Make Money With Your Computer And Internet appeared first on Feedough.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It was a live recording this week, which was good fun. Our co-host Natasha was off, so Mary Ann and Alex teamed up with Grace to hammer our way through the news of the week live, with friends on Hopin, Twitter Spaces, and other locations on deck to hang out and ask questions.

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Lightricks Acquires Popular Pays

HPA

We are excited to announce that our portfolio company Popular Pays has been acquired by Lightricks , a growing platform for content creators and developers of the world’s leading photo and video editing tools. HPA has been an investor in Popular Pays since the 2017 Series A. We’d like to thank HPA Deal Lead and Board Observer, Corey Ferengul, and Independent Board Member, Amanda Lannert, for their contributions and counsel to the company over the years.

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Daily Crunch: EU, US reach ‘agreement in principle’ on trans-Atlantic data flows

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 25, 2022! This is one of the last Daily Crunch intros that I will write for you. I will miss our daily chats and hellos. But there’s no time on a Friday for relaxing. We have work to do!

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Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas

A Smart Bear: Longform

We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Remote-work boom powers Firstbase to $50M Series B

TechCrunch

Firstbase announced a Series B round of funding today, led by Kleiner Perkins. TechCrunch covered the company’s Series A one year ago , when the world’s remote work shift was fully underway. Now in a more hybrid world, with corporations large and small trying to figure out how they will balance in-office employees and staff working from home, we were curious about how Firstbase is planning for the future.

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Fantasy sports platform EarnU launches in India

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register EarnU , a crypto-friendly fantasy sports platform , has entered the Indian market ahead of the Indian Premier League 2022. The brand provides a user-friendly play-to-earn experience to the audience across various sports and esports on the basis of prediction games.

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IT can play a major role in driving sustainability

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Jeff Kukowski. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jeff Kukowski is CEO at CloudBolt, which helps companies automate easily, optimize continuously and govern at scale in hybrid and multicloud, multitool environments. With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals.

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[Ride Vision in The Times of India] ADAS for motorcycles: Spark Minda to launch rider assistance system by 2024

OurCrowd

Read more here. The post [Ride Vision in The Times of India] ADAS for motorcycles: Spark Minda to launch rider assistance system by 2024 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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As Instacart looks to cut its valuation, will it kick off a trend?

TechCrunch

Instacart is not done making news. Earlier this week, the well-known grocery delivery unicorn announced a software suite as part of a self-described third act. Today, Bloomberg reported that Instacart reduced its valuation from around $39 billion to $24 billion, representing a roughly 38.5% reduction in the company’s worth. Commentary indicates that the company’s new “valuation” was set by a 409a price change , not a decrease in the value of preferred shares sold in its last round.

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[Greenlight in Finextra] Greenlight makes board appointments

OurCrowd

Greenlight® Financial Technology, Inc. (“Greenlight”), the family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially-smart kids, today announced the addition of two renowned financial and consumer business leaders to its Board of Directors and the hire of its first Chief Legal Officer as the company advances to its next stage of growth. Read more here.

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Bigblue raises $15 million for its D2C order fulfillment service

TechCrunch

French startup Bigblue has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The company operates an order fulfillment platform for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands. In other words, a D2C brand can outsource all things related to logistics to Bigblue so that they can focus on product and marketing. Runa Capital is leading the round with LPV acting as the ‘secondary lead investor’.

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[InsideTracker in Endurance Sportswire] OPEX Fitness expands InsideTracker partnership to deliver unparalleled personalized training resources for professional coaches

OurCrowd

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – March 25, 2022/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – OPEX Fitness today announced a partnership with InsideTracker, the leading truly personalized performance and nutrition system, following a successful pilot program in 2021 that gave coaches and clients access to InsideTracker Pro, delivering science-backed nutrition and lifestyle recommendations based on blood, DNA and fitness tracker data.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.