TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Doing more with less: This is what marketers get asked for when they join an early-stage startup. British consultant Lucy Heskins knows firsthand how overwhelming that can be, which is why her services can both replace and complement early in-house marketing staff. Either way, it often involves educating the founders about the job to be done. “Too many people fail to realize that marketing is the process of understanding your customers, building appropriate channels to reach them and ultim

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 9, 2021

Sometimes imitation may be better than innovation Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Did you see the viral videos of yesterday’s flooding in New York City subways? In one, riders waded through brown, waist-deep water; another video showed a cascade rushing down a flight of stairs to a subway platform where passengers waited for a train. Infrastructure doesn’t attract much attention until it fails. Domain name services (DNS), the system that directs readers to techcrunch.com when they say or speak it into their web browser, are much the same way.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 9, 2021

An alert from the UK’s Federation of Small Business is a true eye-opener. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope , focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion. The oversubscribed insider investment was led by ICONIQ Growth, which was joined by other existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capitalists deployed around the world during the second three months of the year. Startups have never had it this good when it comes to accessing private-market funds.

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StartupNation

JULY 9, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses the recent growth of mobile advertising, causing 66% of marketers to increase their ad budgets for mobile, according to Digital Information World. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about this mobile advertising phenomenon: “Just another sign of how the pandemic is reshaping business today and going forward.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

One might think that a short week due to a U.S. holiday calls for a short weekly recap, but we have plenty to share about growth marketing from our coverage over the week. With the help of your recommendations, this week we were able to interview Peep Laja and Lucy Heskins, and publish multiple guest columns on growth-related topics including homepage testing, marketing lies to watch out for, VR ad opportunities, company-naming and ad compliance.

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StartupNation

JULY 9, 2021

We’re entering a new golden age — one of social audio. Talking and tuning into discussions on social audio has become the equivalent of posting on your Instagram and LinkedIn feeds. Clubhouse couldn’t have come at a better time. The platform launched in April 2020 with the air of invite-only exclusivity as the world went into lockdown. It was welcomed with open arms by a captive global audience yearning for human connection without Zoom fatigue.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Danny and Alex were on deck this week, with Grace on the recording and edit. Natasha will be back with us starting next week. So, it was old times on the show with just two of our team to vamp on the news. And oh boy was there a lot of news to get into.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 9, 2021

Why sharing more information could make for happier employees Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 9, 2021

There are many stories of chefs, bakers, etc cooking from their homes and apartments during the pandemic and now turning that activity into permanent businesses with storefront leases. I’ve backed quite a few projects like this on Kickstarter and found a great one today. L’Appartement 4F is a couple who baked in their tiny Brooklyn apartment during the pandemic, found a clientele for their products, and now are opening a bakery in Brooklyn Heights.

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OurCrowd

JULY 9, 2021

People are the lifeblood of any organization, but so rarely do they receive the spotlight like the innovative applications and services, company missions, and devoted customer communities they work so hard to create. We want to change that. Read more here. The post [JumpCloud in Security Boulevard] People of JumpCloud | Vivian Eden appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

7 experts got together and shared their best tips for social media marketing. They shared this on the Entrepreneur Facebook page , hosted by social media marketer Kim Walsh Phillips. These experts include: Glenn Lundy , Dana Bowling , Dhomonique Murphy , Carmelia Ray , Daniel Robbins , and Ramon Ray , founder of SmartHustle.com. All of these experts and more will be speaking at the Listeing and Beyond Marketing and Mindset Summit in NYC on 29 and 30 July 2021.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. The company manages consent flows for web publishers and app developers. Didomi is already doing well in Europe with billions of consent interactions per month — it plans to expand to the U.S. with today’s funding round. “Jawad, Raphaël and I have co-founded Didomi to make privacy easier for everyone and an obvious choice for companies.

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Feedough

JULY 9, 2021

Working in a startup is not easy. It requires immense. Read more.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Last year, during the pandemic, a free browser extension called Netflix Party gained traction because it enabled people trapped in their homes to connect with far-flung friends and family by watching the same Netflix TV shows and movies simultaneously. It also enabled them to dish about the action in a side bar chat. Yet that company — later renamed Teleparty — was just the beginning, argue two young companies that have raised seed funding.

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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.

OurCrowd

JULY 9, 2021

At its most basic level, a lock is there primarily to keep honest people honest. Your security should be the best solution you can cost-effectively use. Read more here. The post [NanoLock in Electronic Design] Protecting the Cloud and IoT from Cyberattacks appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2021

Contributed by Tim Waldenback, the co-founder of Zutobi Drivers Ed , a gamified e-learning platform focused on online drivers education to help teens get their license. Tim founded Zutobi to make world-class driver’s education fun, affordable and easily accessible for all. 2021 has already been an interesting year, and we’re only halfway through it.

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