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To win post-pandemic, startups need remote-first growth teams

TechCrunch

Growth leaders used to build key relationships across a company while working together in a real-life office. Those relationships could carry over through the pandemic, but let’s say you’re a new company and you’re remote-first. How do you build this complex collaboration from scratch? Growth marketer and investor Susan Su tells us that the solution is not just more software tools.

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How to Use Earned Media Coverage to Drive Your Startup’s Sales

StartupNation

Do you believe PR doesn’t work? If so, you might be telling the wrong kinds of stories in the media. You might also be expecting your press coverage to do all the heavy lifting for you. The truth is, you need to be very strategic about your earned media coverage and how you promote it. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here.

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Tractable raises $60M at a $1B valuation to make damage appraisals using AI

TechCrunch

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. Tractable , which works with automotive insurance companies to let users take and submit photos of damaged cars that are then “read” to make appraisals, has raised $60 million, a Series D that values Tractable at $1 billion, the company said.

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Selling Your Business Is Not the Marker of Entrepreneurial Success

Entrepreneur's Handbook

1,000 acquisition rejections taught me why entrepreneurs really sell their businesses — and it isn’t always a cause for celebration. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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BrowserStack valued at $4 billion in $200 million BOND-led funding

TechCrunch

Yet another SaaS startup, which began its journey in India, has attained the much coveted unicorn status. BrowserStack, a startup that operates a giant software testing platform , said on Wednesday it has raised $200 million in a new financing round that valued the 10-year-old firm at $4 billion. BOND led the Dublin and San Francisco-headquartered startup’s Series B financing round, while Insight Partners and existing investor Accel participated in it.

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Kenyan foodtech startup Kune raises $1M pre-seed for its ready-to-eat meals service

TechCrunch

While there has been a wave of innovation in food tech worldwide, it’s still in early days for Africa. There are only a handful of African food-tech startups, and a year and a half’s worth of global pandemic has added a couple to that list. Kune is one of the most recent food-tech startups, and today, the six-month-old Kenyan-based company is announcing that it has closed a $1 million pre-seed round to launch its on-demand food service in August.

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How I Doubled My Income and Saved 520+ Hours a Year

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Spending 1 hour a week with a virtual assistant is the best investment I’ve ever made Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Honey Insurance launches with $15.5M AUD, the largest seed round ever for an Australian tech startup

TechCrunch

When Richard Joffe moved his family to Australia in 2019, he said applying for home insurance “was like traveling back in time 30 years.”. “I found the sign-up process painful, the fine print was confusing and the insurance company was totally reactive, not proactive. They never contacted me aside from my renewal,” he told TechCrunch. Joffe, who founded parking sensor platform Park Assist and jobs platform Stella.ai in the United States, began researching and found many people in Australia share

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Why I Went From Focusing on One Side Project to Five Different Ones

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Here’s what I learned from diversifying my time 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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Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak Robotics snags investment, partnership from Bridgestone

TechCrunch

Tire-making giant Bridgestone has taken a minority stake in Kodiak Robotics, the Silicon Valley-based startup developing autonomous trucks, as part of a broader partnership to test and develop smart tire technology. While the terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette told TechCrunch that this is a direct financial investment.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

ENS stands for Ethereum Name Service and it is a decentralized domain name system built on the Ethereum blockchain. You can get domains with the.eth extension by going here , connecting a wallet, and searching and purchasing a domain. I have purchased fredwilson.eth and avc.eth and a bunch of other.eth domains for my family. It does not cost a lot of ETH to register a domain, but you need to remember to go back and renew it as there is no company/registrar operating a business to do that for you

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Introhive raises $100M for AI-powered sales tools to help companies build ‘relationship graphs’

TechCrunch

By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing this most successfully are making a killing. In the latest example, a startup out of Canada called Introhive — which has built an AI engine that ingests huge amounts of data from across disparate applications to help co

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[Intuition Robotics in California News Times] 6 robot helpers used for health services, eldercare and social support – Press Enterprise

OurCrowd

This week’s column Questions about robots that take care of HN’s seniors from last week, He shows that he doesn’t want the robot to take care of him. Take a look at six innovative robots that provide social support. Connection and health services. Read more here. The post [Intuition Robotics in California News Times] 6 robot helpers used for health services, eldercare and social support – Press Enterprise appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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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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Bringg nabs $100M at a $1B valuation for a last-mile delivery platform for retailers

TechCrunch

With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to COVID-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services are continuing to see a lot of business and attention. In the latest development, Bringg , which has built software to help retailers with last-mile logistics — specifically to manage, and in some cases even tap, people fulfilling del

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in GlobeNewswire] Senate Committee Passes Infrastructure Bill Supporting the Continued Development of Hyperloop

OurCrowd

WASHINGTON DC, June 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee passed S. 2016, the Surface Transportation Investment Act, which includes multiple provisions that will allow the continued development of hyperloop in the United States, with bipartisan support. Read more here. The post [Virgin Hyperloop One in GlobeNewswire] Senate Committee Passes Infrastructure Bill Supporting the Continued Development of Hyperloop appeared first on OurCrow

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SoftBank Vision Fund 2 leads $140M funding in Vishal Sikka’s Vianai

TechCrunch

Vianai Systems, an AI startup founded by Vishal Sikka, former chief executive of Indian IT services giant Infosys, said on Wednesday it has raised $140 million in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The two-year-old startup said a number of industry luminaries also participated in the new round, which brings its total to-date raise to at least $190 million.

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Sales Tax Compliance? As You Grow Don’t Ignore It.

Smart Hustle Magazine

Over the past year, life as we know it became undoubtedly intertwined with the internet. Almost everything happened online – work, school, gatherings, shopping, and more. The sudden shift to ecommerce created new opportunities for businesses to reach more customers across more channels. At the same time, we’ve seen the rise of blended shopping experiences for consumers like buy online, pick up in store and social selling as consumers demand convenient, yet seamless, multi-channel experiences.

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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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Wonderschool’s Chris Bennett and investor Marlon Nichols will break down the path to seed-stage funding

TechCrunch

Extra Crunch Live is all about helping founders build better venture-backed businesses. Naturally, we do this by having candid conversations with founders and their investors. On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live, we’ll sit down with MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner Marlon Nichols and Wonderschool co-founder and CEO Chris Bennett.

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What Is Labelling? – Product Label Types & Components

Feedough

There’s something common in a shirt with a printed cloth. Read more.

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Yasmin Razavi of Spark Capital will sit in judgment at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Joining us onstage as a judge for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 ‘s Startup Battlefield will be Yasmin Razavi, general partner at Spark Capital. Her engineering background and fintech chops should make for incisive questions for the founders presenting. Razavi invests in growth-stage enterprise, fintech and developer companies, but her background is until fairly recently an engineering-focused one.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Impact of Fake Reviews on E-Commerce (Episode 241)

StartupNation

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a newly released study from CHEQ and the University of Baltimore, which found that fake reviews in the e-commerce market have resulted in a $152 billion problem. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn about these fake reviews on e-commerce sites and how to mitigate the costly problem: “So, here’s the bottom line: if you’re an entrepreneur selling on your own website or selling on marketplace platforms like Amazon, you need t

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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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Denmark’s Templafy raises $60M for its B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation

TechCrunch

Templafy , a Denmark-born B2B SaaS platform that does business document creation, has raised a $60 million D round of funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures. All previous investors also participated, including Insight Partners, Seed Capital, Dawn Capital and Damgaard Company. Templafy has now raised a total of $125 million. To some extent, Templafy competes with PandaDoc.

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3 Reasons Why Your Boss Is Taking You for Granted

Entrepreneur's Handbook

It’s not about the metrics Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Dear Sophie: Is it possible to expand our startup in the US?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What is a diversity green card and how do I apply for one?

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[Surgical Theater in The Journal] WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute offers patients added comfort, high quality care with virtual reality surgical suite

OurCrowd

MARTINSBURG — West Virginia University Medicine East is one of just 10% of hospitals in the nation to boast the latest in virtual reality technology designed to improve patients’ clinical care and engagement within its recently rebranded Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. Read more here. The post [Surgical Theater in The Journal] WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute offers patients added comfort, high quality care with virtual reality surgical suite 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.