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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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[Connected Energy in Insider Media] North East manufacturers celebrated In tenth year of prestigious awards

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The products, innovations and ideas from the region’s manufacturers have been recognised at Insider’s Made in the North East Awards 2022. The prestigious awards, which this year celebrated their tenth anniversary, were held at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead. Read more here. The post [Connected Energy in Insider Media] North East manufacturers celebrated In tenth year of prestigious awards appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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Improving discovery for NFTs will amplify digital creators and marketplaces

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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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10 Proven Ways To Make Money With Your Computer And Internet

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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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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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Fantasy sports platform EarnU launches in India

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

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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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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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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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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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[Greenlight in Finextra] Greenlight makes board appointments

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

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

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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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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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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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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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Lightricks Acquires Popular Pays

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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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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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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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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.