TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Side , a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, announced Monday that it has raised $150 million in Series D funding. In 2019, Side represented over $5 billion in annual home sales across all of its partners.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But building a sales compensation plan that both aligns your sales team’s compensation with your customers’ objectives and recruits top salespeople can be incredibly difficult in usage-based pricing. Determine where your sales team makes your customers more successful In usage-based pricing, value = usage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kano Computing (“Kano”), the venture-backed company best known for its DIY computer kits and software for teaching coding and STEM skills to kids, is spinning out its creative software suite and online community platform as an independent business. The move comes as the U.K. million loss, but a loss nonetheless. Going solo.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This latest round represents a huge hike on its valuation since then, when Commercetools was valued at around $300 million. E-commerce was already growing at a steady pace before 2020, by some estimates representing more than half of all commerce transactions. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce. John Lewis and many others.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Among these is Roofr , a five-year-old, San Francisco-based, 31-person sales platform for roofing contractors that just raised $4.25 Right now, Roofr is focused exclusively on helping close that initial sale. Roofr also sells its software to independent insurance adjusters.). million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Founded in the second quarter of 2019, Bogota-based Bold is a payment services provider, or independent merchant acquirer, focused on serving micro and SMB merchants. It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If The startup must be doing something right.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

From Beeple’s $69 million sale of a digital collage at Christie’s to the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection, visual art has seemed to be most prominent use case for NFTs due to close similarities with traditional fine art investing. NFTs sold on Royal represent two things, Blau said.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

million in series A for a minority stake sale. The company seeks to eliminate auditor independence conflicts by not providing any audit services as it also creates an attractive equity stock option pool to enable high-quality talent to participate in its value creation. Uniqus Consultech Inc.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 4, 2022

Many startups simply assume that if they do what other startups do – classify workers as independent contractors, pay people primarily in equity grants, or pay out salaries to every employee – they will be in the clear. Customarily and regularly exercises discretionary powers and use independent judgment. Administrative Employees.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The investment represents a major vote of confidence in PassiveLogic, considering that the startup hasn’t released any products to the public yet (although a beta’s planned for later this year). from sensors) is maintained on an independent intranet not accessible to other IT infrastructure. Image Credits: PassiveLogic.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Most large restaurant chains across Africa have grown accustomed to using legacy systems and point-of-sale providers to manage operations. Orda , a Nigerian food tech platform that provides a cloud-based restaurant operating system to solve these issues for small, independent restaurants, is announcing that it has secured a $3.4

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

He continues to utilize his strong business expertise including hiring/training/mentoring staff, operational planning, sales forecasting, process implementation, and launching new sales divisions. Within two years he was managing the global sales team and responsible for the companies $28.7M global revenue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Will Apple’s spectacular iPhone 12 sales figures boost the smartphone industry in 2021? Today’s smartphones are unfathomably feature-rich and durable, so it’s logical that sales have slowed. billion came from phone sales, largely driven by the release of the iPhone 12. Independent thinking suffered.”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. The red represents our African roots and the blue our beautiful blue waters and skies that we share with our Caribbean neighbors. Not just when you need something or want to make a sale, but all the time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Any e-commerce business has to constantly change its digital storefront to ensure accurate inventory is represented. CEO Sewell said the company was one of the first to go “headless,” meaning to separate the front-end applications from the back-end so they can be independently updated without affecting the other.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. Time independent. This type of “affiliate” traffic might represent 20% of your overall traffic. Europe is roughly the same as the US. But distribution is now unlimited.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Real estate appraisers use comparable sales to determine an adjusted price per square foot as the principal basis for calculating valuations when applying the market value method. There are clear valuation ranges for startups by stage and by round, which represent an established market value.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

First, the four companies mentioned above represent 69% of market cap of publicly traded software companies & have amassed 67% of cash & short-term equivalents. Last, the decreased competitive pressure from four major buyers deflates auction pressure, blunting price discovery in a sale process. 69% 389b 67% Not Anti-trust 2.8

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

I guess that’s why people like my pal Trevor Owens felt vindicated by the sale of GroupMe as evidenced by his Tweet to me. I have always been equally impressed with Brew PR who represented them and would hire them for any company in which I had invested. What do I think now? I responded with something like “Great product.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The company now “works with the majority of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies,” per a PR representative — though the company wouldn’t provide further details. . When TechCrunch last covered SkyCell back in April 2020, the company had been working with eight major pharmaceutical companies and was in trials with seven more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Though SaaS growth didn’t take as big of a hit as previously thought, Miguel Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of Capchase, told TechCrunch “that SaaS companies did see a shift in their return on investment when sales cycles delayed as buyer’s asked for more flexible financing terms.” over the same period in 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The country represents one of the fastest growing source countries not just for goods, but merchants, too. We’ll cover every aspect of company building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product market fit, PR, marketing and brand building. ” The startup is also building out its business on the ground in China, he said.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. To pick just one representative story… I was sent to the principal’s office one day in high school, probably for goofing off in class.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Abound , an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands, is announcing that it has raised $22.9 discounts of up to 50 percent), free returns and, in some cases, Net 60 sale terms (meaning retailers don’t have to pay until 60 days after the invoice).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch. BusinessOnBot says it is building Shopify on WhatsApp for direct-to-consumer brands and small and medium sized businesses, helping them acquire users and automate sales. ZOKO is helping businesses do sales, marketing, and customer support on WhatsApp.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Unless you’ve engaged my firm to represent you or your startup, we do not have an attorney-client relationship. Independent contractor or consulting agreements. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue. All opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of Gust.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The team was ultimately acqui-hired by imeem for the impressive tech we had developed, but our dreams of building an independent web music player were over. He was previously Head of Product for LinkedIn Sales Navigator, growing it from idea to $200M in sales in 1.5 years, and from 0 to 500 employees.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Lately, he was relying on food delivery and pickup services, and while visiting with some of the restaurant owners, he realized a few things: first, not many had a good online presence, and second, these restaurants had the ability to cook cuisine representative of their communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

One tip – depending on seniority – you can sometimes hire independent reference check firms. With an independent person they ask anything they want I can apologize on their behalf. We’re both principals in a sale. It can get expensive so you’d probably only do it for a very senior hire.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The duty of care is to care for the corporation asset itself, not the shareholders whom they represent. Each corporation when chartered becomes a live person in the eyes of the law, independent and subject to the care of its board of directors. Everything else is a self-imposed duty or responsibility.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel. Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. trade secret).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. This post sets out how I believe founders (and investors) should think about independent board members having worked with many of them for the past 20 years. Yes, this is a thing.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2012

In some cases, this can represent a form of “partial liquidity” for otherwise illiquid stock. To qualify for a deduction, the donation must be accompanied by an independent valuation appraisal. Donations of private company stock may be an effective and tax-efficient method of giving with significant benefits to the donor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Merchants can manage their own sales without apps or marketplaces that charge unsustainable fees and commissions, Low added. The pandemic created a new generation of independent business owners, and they represent a fast-growing segment in e-commerce. Honestly, managing orders is hard,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. India, with 32 startups, is the second-largest demographic represented in the new batch, while Nigeria is third, having delivered 18 startups. Victor Benjamin, on the other hand, has worked for 10 years in pharma sales.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 28, 2024

in 1981 after he was fired by Salomon Brothers, where he had been responsible for analytical tools for sales and trading. Prior to Bloomberg — and its aggregated financial data — entering the scene, firms had to collect data independently, often relying on calculators.

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