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Consumer investment fatigue

Tomasz Tunguz

Many of the promising marketing and media innovations of the past six years, daily deals, subscription ecommerce, social gaming and social media, have been struggling. I’ve been asked a few times whether there is consumer investment fatigue as a result. But consumer investment will continue.

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Stream raises $38M as its chat and activity feed APIs power communications for 1B users

TechCrunch

A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps — is announcing a round of funding on the back of some very strong growth. “It’s rare to see a product so critical to customers and scaling well.

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15 Business Leaders Share Their Experiences and Insights on Getting Through COVID-19

StartupNation

Nick Quain , VP, venture development, Invest Ottawa . “Go Use the tools you have already developed, leverage your reputation and make a plan that enables you to react dynamically to the market and builds to an alternative goal. Related: 3 Core Objectives to Help You Lead Your Startup Through the Pandemic. Go on the offensive.