TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Here’s why we applied for a federal grant and why we think you should add “America’s Seed Fund” to your deep tech fundraising mix. The administrators also aren’t interested in driving strategy — they believe in your vision and want to help you bring it to fruition. Build credibility. There are several SBIR/STTR programs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. “It sits between the big brands and retailers, enabling them to customise a store’s assortment to match the needs of the local consumer. We call it ‘hyper-local retailing.'”

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Day-to-day coordination tasks can be simplified using service management software so that your team can focus on brainstorming strategies and business working plans. Understanding the stock mix lying back in your warehouse and the different demands on that stock is imperative for satisfying daily business needs. Conclusion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Exotel, which counts Blume Ventures and IIFL Asset Management among its backers, has raised about $100 million in a mix of debt and equity rounds in the last 12 months. Indian ride-hailing giant Ola uses Exotel’s platform to send text messages to its customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. That was a good surprise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. Also betting on it is Tender Food, which this week announced $12 million in seed funding for its technology aimed at replicating whole muscle cuts, using plant protein, to make beef steaks, pulled pork and chicken breasts. Image Credits: Or Paravoznik / Plantish team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For you, special price : Kyle reports that Enable lands $94 million to help B2B companies manage their rebate programs. Here’s the first batch that pitched today: NXgenPort : A Saint Paul, Minnesota–based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter. You can sign up here.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

From implementing “Innovation Fridays” to encouraging risk-taking and experimentation, these leaders provide a wealth of insights into the impact of their strategies on their businesses. This has helped us innovate faster than our competitors and grow well in the process.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2023

This data can be used to improve future events and marketing efforts. Environmental benefits: Online events are more environmentally friendly than in-person events, as they do not require travel and often use fewer resources, leading to less waste. Then use the StreamYard Giveaway Tool to select audience participants to win.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This funding will help us supercharge our international growth – enabling Shopware to capture the significant opportunities ahead of us,” said Stefan Hamann, co-CEO of Shopware, in a statement. Indeed, the fact that there are so many touch points today underscores the complexity of the market, but also the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

– Tech-enabled, virtual respiratory care provider that makes it easy to take the unknown and unmanageable out of respiratory illness and give control back to the patients suffering from it. Fast Sense H2 – Nano-sized quantitative, mixed-gas sensor and analyzer for industrial, environmental and security applications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Just this year, we’ve seen companies like EventX , Twine , Vendelux and Zuddl announce either funding or strategic moves that enable them to vie for attendee attention. Investor attention is focused on event companies lately, especially as pandemic restrictions ease around the world and events become in-person again. billion in 2019 to $5.8

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Here, I'll demystify this term and explain how and why you should use it to make your life (and the lives of everyone in your organization) easier—and maybe slightly terrifying. How to kickstart your IA strategy What is intelligent automation (IA)? Analyze leads: Likewise, you can use Zapier and AI to analyze and score leads.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The strategy of venture capital is not to capitalize on the continuity of trends already existing on the market or to focus on the hype of the moment, but rather the exercise of imagining the demands of tomorrow, intercepting products and services capable of reinventing entire sectors with a view to a future industrial policy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Last week, Paystand — a blockchain-enabled B2B payments startup — announced it had acquired Mexican fintech Yaydoo — creating a new unicorn in the resulting new entity. Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

This seed round, one of the largest in the Middle East and Africa, is a mix of debt and equity financing. While Opontia does not disclose the ratio of equity and debt, it confirmed that the majority was debt which will be used to make acquisitions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producing carbon-negative industrial materials, including limestone for making concrete, in the process, and it has attracted significant funding even at its very early stage. “We came out and did this straight away,” he said.

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Red Rocket

JULY 5, 2021

For example, is your customer more of a “fitness fanatic” or an “arts and crafter”, to enable media targeting at that “interest” level. Set the Media Mix Mastering your marketing funnel and media mix is a more in-depth conversation that I have written about in the past. Again, there may be more than one persona here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

The startup is using AI modelling to predict how climate change will affect the future growth of forests, combined with remote data capture to monitor customers’ projects and verify improvements to forests — to boost the quality of carbon credits. Are carbon offsets b t? A renowned climate expert weighs in. eAgronom closes $7.4M

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Pricing a product actually involves a lot more psychology and art than science and is one of the most challenging problems my co-founders and I have attempted to solve when launching Uizard , an easy-to-use design tool for non-designers. You could of course start charging at whatever arbitrary price you deem adequate and adjust along the way.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

Johan Hajji , CEO and Founder, UpperKey Employ a Formal Product Roadmap The most useful tool to balance the big-picture vision with the day-to-day operations is a formal product roadmap. When we’re in the mix, we don’t see the big picture. One strategy I have used that has been successful is “Global Fridays.”

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 11, 2023

But this move to a multi-cloud strategy also creates serious security difficulties. Organizations want a centralized architecture that supports different cloud platforms and enables them to implement security and access controls uniformly in order to overcome this difficulty.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

CEO Muddu Sudhakar said the new cash will be put toward market expansion and supporting Aisera’s go-to-market strategy, in addition to investing in the company’s product development, R&D, sales and marketing initiatives. It’s no panacea — findings are mixed on whether customers prefer even basic chatbots to human agents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Despite ethnicity usually being a self-determined categorisation, we believe this is justified because the data we collect is subsequently anonymised and is being used to improve access to capital,” they note, adding: “Ethnic or gender prejudice is dependent on the perception of the person holding the purse strings to funds.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

For a full conversation, check out Tong’s talk about design strategy coming up at our TC Early Stage 2021 – Marketing & Fundraising conference on July 8. The pandemic affected us all. When do I use Slack versus email? The pandemic has forced us all to adapt, and design is no exception.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Instead, they're focused on "strategy", which lots of makers already have a good starting sense of. That means making it easier for meetups and innovation conferences to use your spaces. I don't mean literally, but I do think students need to mix with their professional communities a lot more. Open your doors.

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ExactHire - Startups

JUNE 3, 2021

When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates. Stellar candidates can easily get lost in the mix.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

origin, destination, type of truck, load, shipper, facility, seasonality, price per shipment, cost per mile, quality of truck carrier, mix of headhaul and backhaul). Enabled many shippers to reduce the number of carriers and brokers that they work with. 3) A Strategy That Alleviates Systemic Supply Shortage.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals. He said, . “[W]e

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 3, 2019

We use it for news, gossip, communication, relationships, recommendations, research and, yep, for cat photos and showing off too. Basically, all of the things that make us human! According to online magazine Human Resources Director 92% of companies are using social media as part of their recruitment strategy.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our movement stood for building a better world through the power of entrepreneurial solutions , supported by a powerful magic mix of inspiring spaces, vibrant communities and meaningful content. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time. HUB Practice Academy.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Scroll to see traction metrics for your stage using the charts below. Note: You can over-drip and spoil your main traction reveal later - Be sure to use this sparingly. Go-to-Market Strategy Slide: Are you making progress with your initial customer segment? Remember, “Investors like to see trend lines, not points.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Freemium products are everywhere, but unless companies revisit and optimize their strategy, there’s no effective way to optimize conversions. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Samsung, Google and Qualcomm are poised to take us in and out of reality, Ivan writes. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Enabling communication, transparency within the remote workforce. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? Vaccination.

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