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5 ways to optimize the power of customer experience (CX)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Brands can leverage customer experience (CX) to differentiate themselves from competitors. Because it’s difficult to create a completely unique product in today’s overcrowded market, more and more businesses are turning to improving the customer experience they provide in order to stand out. The CX industry has grown significantly in recent years: Over half of B2C companies have a dedicated CX team, and the US CX industry is expected to grow by 15 percent annually over the next decade.

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How to Quietly Grow your Business

Entrepreneur's Handbook

7 strategies to boost revenues under the radar and without breaking the bank Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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The Key to Success Is a Team That Is Willing to Grow, Says This Founder

Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

Oliver Kray details the launch and growth of his company, Mypostcard.com.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Business Success in the Metaverse 

StartupNation

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. Championed by newly rebranded Meta (formerly Facebook), the metaverse will be a network of 3D, 360-degree immersive and interactive micro-worlds. These digital spaces are where we will buy products, consume media, learn new skills, socialize and play in avatar form.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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How to foster serendipitous innovation in hybrid and remote teams

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is CEO of the boutique future-proofing consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts , which helps forward-looking leaders avoid dangerous threats and missed opportunities. A best-selling author, his newest book is Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage.

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6 cloud trends to watch in 2022

TechCrunch

Josh Berman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Josh Berman is president of C2C , an independent and vetted Google Cloud community with a unique pulse on the cloud market. The past two years have been exciting periods of growth for the cloud market, driven by increased demand for access to new technology during COVID-19 and the proliferation of the “work-from-anywhere” culture.

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5 Lessons This Entrepreneur Learned Building a Side Hustle

StartupNation

Like many entrepreneurs, I knew I wanted to run my own company from early on. I received an MBA, then spent several years in management consulting, which helped me learn how top executives think, what works in strategy and how to run a business. I planned to use this experience to seize future entrepreneurship opportunities, but I also dabbled in entrepreneurship along the way and actually helped start a company while I was still in grad school.

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Build a business that sells for more

NZ Entrepreneur

One day you’ll want out! You’ve come a long way and it’s your baby – you have nurtured and put your all into this business. Letting go and selling your business is never easy. But the time will come when other pastures and missions call, when the passion starts to wane, or a life event dictates that it’s time to cash up and exit your business. As an entrepreneur this can go against the grain.

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Akita Inu?—?A Cute Crypto with Serious Ambitions

Jason Malki

Akita Inu?—?A Cute Crypto with Serious Ambitions I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Ryan Roberts, Founder & CEO of Akita Inu?—?the premier community coin on the carbon-neutral Algorand blockchain. Ryan Roberts, Founder & CEO Ryan is the Founder & CEO of Akita Inu. A veteran crypto investor with over a decade in the space, he has a wealth of experience managing creative teams, leading high-value projects and developing a range of NFT collections.

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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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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

TechCrunch

A recent survey carried out by CNBC reported that 81% of executives worldwide say AI will play a prominent and critical role in how their businesses operate this year. Companies are phasing from the first generation of AI, which deals with pattern, text and image recognition, to decision-making AI, which helps them make timely decisions in complex spaces.

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Why The Traditional Strategic Annual Plan is Failing You

StartupNation

For small to mid-sized enterprises, the annual strategic planning process can be fraught with frustration. On one hand, it is acknowledged that the most accepted best practice for a business to go from their vision to achieving their stated result, for example, grow revenue by 5x over 24 months with existing resources and infrastructure, is tied to the creation and implementation of a strategic document, like the annual plan or the large PowerPoint, that has all the supporting initiatives and ta

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Fox Launchpad: When Startups Need Help Getting Started

Angel Capital Association

Fox Rothschild understands the unique struggles startups face. To help, the firm developed the Fox Launchpad , a virtual incubator and resource center developed to nurture early stage companies through flexible services, accessible attorneys and a variety of other exclusive offerings. The program includes: Startup Package - The legal advice and documents necessary to get a company up and running, all for a discounted flat rate.

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The Role That Luck Plays In Our Success?

Hunter Walk

Why Being Thankful For Good Fortune Doesn’t Have to Ignore Impact of Effort & Skill. “There’s no free lunches,” was the mantra my father repeated to me most often as a kid. I was taught that effort matters (alongside ethics) and, ahead of the ‘growth mindset’ being academically coined, believed that with enough focus on a goal, I could probably get closer to achieving it.

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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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Bokksu bags $22M Series A at a $100M valuation to deliver traditional Asian groceries to your home 

TechCrunch

Bokksu CEO Danny Taing has always been passionate about Japanese food and culture, so he moved to Tokyo after college and lived there for four years. When Taing moved back to NYC, he brought a suitcase full of his favorite Japanese snacks and shared it with his friends. Taing realized other Americans also loved Japanese snacks, but they didn’t have a way to discover and buy them in the U.S.

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11 Benefits of Blockchain Technology for Small Businesses

StartupNation

What is one benefit of utilizing blockchain technology in your small business? To help you understand the benefits of blockchain technology , we asked fintech experts and small business owners this question for their best insights. From the benefit of border-free transactionality to top-level data security, there are several benefits of utilizing blockchain technology in your small business.

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How To Leverage Your Expertise Into A Profitable Personal Brand

Entrepreneur's Handbook

You don’t need a big audience Image of the author “Hasan, you should go in my place.” I froze. Seriously? Me? It was late 2017. Ash Ali, my friend, and investment partner was talking about a huge 3-day international startup summit in Dubai, where he was going to be flown in as a speaker and mentor to thousands of tech startup founders in attendance from all over the world.

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Dremio - A Foundational Component of the Modern Data Stack

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2015, Dremio started in our offices. Today, the company announced its Series E at $2 billion valuation. The business has cemented itself as a foundational component of the Modern Data Stack. About seven years ago, Dremio’s founder Tomer envisioned a product that would enable customers to manage data and compute separately. Today, we call this idea the data lakehouse and a query engine.

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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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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. In one of the latest developments, Domestika — a popular site that creates and sells online video tutorials and courses covering a range of visual arts and related skills, building a larger community around that content where members can also interact and learn from each oth

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Entrepreneurial Spirit Drives a Mission to Connect People With Popongo

StartupNation

America truly is the land of opportunity, especially to people who grow up in third world countries and fight adversity every day while seeking to create a better life for themselves and their loved ones. Creating Popongo was one such opportunity, a chance to challenge myself as well as fill a need and connect people. As a Jamaican native, I dreamed of going to America to do something meaningful with my life.

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Why All The Innovation Fuss About Ideas? Innovation is More Than That

Entrepreneur's Handbook

The difference between amazing ideas and genuine innovation Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Three innovative startups connect with i2E venture advisory services

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Our venture advisors work with innovative Oklahoma companies to advance their technologies and position them for funding. Here are three exciting ventures that recently connected with our venture advisory services. BAYESIC TECHNOLOGIES. Bayesic Technologies was founded in 2015 by four partners affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

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Statement of Cash Flows vs. Cash Flow Statement

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution.

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Content Marketing in the Metaverse: Grow Your Audience With 3D, VR, and More

StartupNation

As a startup founder or small business owner, you likely wear many hats and have a lot on your plate. Between managing finances , operations, and marketing, it can be hard to find time for everything. But one of the best things you can do for your business, especially early on, is work on your digital marketing by creating content. But how do you reach the growing part of your potential audience that is moving from the real world and Web 2.0 into the immersive experiences offered by the metavers

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Let’s Hope Bitcoin Crashes to $100 (Again)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lots of people are getting stupidly rich right now. This is the greatest investment opportunity I’ve ever seen. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Ten-Nine Technologies gaining attention

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Tulsa-based Ten-Nine Technologies gaining attention with new battery materials. By Scott Meacham. Startup companies face a virtual Mt. Everest when it comes to gaining industry credibility and the interest of potential new customers. No matter how great the product or market fit is, garnering the attention of industry leaders and decision-makers is always an epic task.

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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.