Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

By Les Pardew, founder of Mystery Escape Room. Many businesses are struggling to find the best way to move forward as some employees return to the workplace while others will continue to work at home or a combination of both. A Gartner Inc. survey finds one-third of business leaders are most concerned with maintaining corporate culture while 13% worry about providing parity between the remote and in-office workers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Most FMCG brands rely on a combination of owned and outsourced assets to carry out delivery operations. The variety of both models brings about a fragmented logistics cycle and FMCGs can lose significant value in the process. ILLA is an Egyptian startup that provides full-stack delivery solutions to corporates and small businesses in the FMCG sector.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Once a startup has successfully launched, it can move onto the scaling phase. This can be a perilous time for a fledgling company, with only 1 in 200 startups becoming successful scaleups. There are many reasons for this fairly low success rate. For example, a startup’s product could be inadequate, failing to address its target market’s actual needs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work. The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. But “remote” has taken on a different meaning than it denoted two years ago. Since COVID-19 began, companies that never planned on working remotely have moved millions of employees online.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We believe the 2020s are the decade of data. The trends are ubiquitous and plain. The number of data teams is growing as more companies rely on data for daily operations. In addition, the sophistication of these teams has progressed meaningfully in the last five years. During this period, there have been three main categories of data work: business intelligence, machine learning, and exploratory analytics.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With funding support from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners has launched a Job Link initiative to help companies in Central and Northern PA find talent. We plan to create ‘win-win’ opportunities for local talent to find relevant meaningful job opportunities that match company needs. Ben Franklin’s Job Link AIMS to create a talent pipeline that connects students, graduates and alumni to area technology and manufacturing companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 million in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures. Founder Tommy Dang started the company at the end of 2020 after working together to build internal low-code tools at Airbnb. While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Modified excerpt from “Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact” by Liz Wiseman. Copyright © 2021 by the author and reprinted by permission of Harper Business. While everyone brings capability and intelligence to their jobs, much like a card game, some people seem to play their hand better than others. These people develop a reputation as the impact players within an organization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Berlin-based on-demand grocery delivery and dark store operator Gorillas has grabbed “close to” $1 billion in Series C funds, in the latest sign of the searing investor interest driving activity in urban food shopping apps across the continent and beyond. The round is being led by another food-focused on-demand delivery startup — German’s Delivery Hero — which confirmed it’s invested $235M in Gorillas to grab around 8% of the upstart grocery delivery startup.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Entry-level servers can help small businesses manage expenses, improve productivity and reduce organizational complexities. Dell is here to help with the challenges your unique business might be facing and guide you to the right server technology solutions and assist with reaching your IT goals — no matter how big or small. Dell’s one-socket PowerEdge servers are built to process data quickly and enable everyday business applications to. run faster and reduce interruptions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Jen Laloup. Contributor. Jen Laloup is CEO of Mobile Growth Association. More posts by this contributor. Current and upcoming trends in Latin America’s mobile growth. Earlier this month, Citibanamex — Mexico’s second-largest bank — announced that it is building new APIs to allow fintech companies real-time access to information like its services and ATM locations.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Unexpected traffic, expected conversion rates, and randomness Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

John Diener, the CEO of an aquaculture nutrition and genetics company, would visit hundreds of shrimp farms as part of his job. But gradually he became frustrated by some of the environmentally unsustainable practices used in many locations. One night, his wife bought some frozen shrimp to cook for dinner and he realized the industry he was involved in was poised to affect the health of his own family.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Imagine living in a world with no banks! You don’t. Read more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Despite Automattic’s respected position, awareness of its myriad businesses tends to be spotty. “I spend a lot of time with investors, press and research analysts, and I’m always stunned that people say, ‘We know WordPress.’ But they don’t know Woo,” says Mark Davies, Automattic’s chief financial officer, referring to the company’s WooCommerce subsidiary.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Reversing a problem is a common mental model for thinking about a challenge in a novel way. Especially in investing. Google’s share price is $2863.55 as I write this. Is it a good price to buy? The traditional way of thinking would lead one to build a bottoms-up model with a few assumptions and compare the output to the price. But that approach ignores some critical information: the price.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

SOC Prime , a Boston-based early-stage startup that claims to have built the world’s largest threat detection marketplace, has secured $11 million in Series A funding. The company will use the investment, led by DNX Ventures with participation from Streamlined Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners, to scale and accelerate the adoption of its marketplace that allows researchers to monetize their threat detection code to help security teams defend against cyberattacks.

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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.

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you’re interested in writing a post for TechCrunch or TechCrunch+, please join the Twitter Space I’m hosting today at 3 p.m. PDT/6 p.m. EDT. I’ll explain our editorial guidelines, the editing process and most importantly, the criteria we use to determine whether a post creates value for readers. This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Building internal sales agreement software, often known as quote-to-cash, is an expensive and time-consuming process that RevOps wants to take off the plate of fast-growing startups. Today, RevOps announced an oversubscribed $5 million follow-on seed round led by Caffeinated Capital, Coatue Management and Gradient Ventures. Angel investors, including Twilio’s Jeff Lawson and executives from Airtable, GitHub and Twilio, also participated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There’s plenty of frustration in the world of startups over when a digital asset does and does not constitute a security in the eyes of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Where many see regulatory murkiness, the five-year-old, New York-based investing platform Republic sees opportunity. Indeed, while many outfits grapple with whether to distance themselves from certain digital assets, Republic — whose CEO, Kendrick Nguyen, started his career in securities litigation with Goodw

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TechCrunch Live (formerly Extra Crunch Live) has been incredibly educational over the past few months. We’ve learned how Rec Room’s pitch landed investment from Sequoia , how Wheel crafted a pitch deck that hooked Tusk Venture’s Jordan Nof , how Retail Zipline ticked every box for Emergence Capital and how Coda made their pitch doc sing for Madrona Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In April of this year, collaborative design powerhouse Figma launched a white boarding tool called FigJam. A separate tool and brand from Figma, FigJam allows users to brainstorm and iterate together in an infinite white board experience, complete with voice service to chat it out in the very same tool. For all intents and purposes, FigJam can be seen as an extension upstream for the design software company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gloucester, Massachusetts-based Cometeer has been around for nine years. In that time, the company has built up a mad scientist’s lair worth of coffee scientists, equipment and processes to jolt some fresh life into the industry. Based out of a former frozen seafood facility, the company has created a multimillion-dollar proprietary production line to turn beans into flash-frozen little “pucks”, sealed in capsules to keep their flavor intact.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When you move around a city, you often end up farther away from some of your favorite restaurants and bakeries. Locale wants to keep you connected to the food you love, even if you live hours away now. Locale, based in San Francisco, enables customers to order from dozens of businesses, including bakeries and restaurants, and get them delivered in one box for just a $5 delivery fee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Microsoft, whose executives once used phrases like “un-American” and “cancer” to describe open source, is now one of the world’s largest contributors.

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