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Tile secures $40 million to take on Apple AirTag with new products

TechCrunch

The company has been a longtime leader in the lost item finder space, offering consumers small devices they can attach to items — like handbags, luggage, bikes, wallets, keys, and more — which can then be tracked using the Tile smartphone app for iOS or Android. Image Credits: Tile. AirTag doesn’t do that.).

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Platforms that are transforming how people and businesses operate, go about their business or leverage their core assets, using superior products, data and AI. Any area that needs to compete both with incumbents and also a set of already successful “new age” companies that made the first step of meaningful disruption.

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Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools

TechCrunch

It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. “We integrate with hundreds of tech providers, including 30-40 payment providers, all of the essential logistics networks,” Lokschin said. ” The roster includes Metro, Aldi Süd, Toyota and many others.

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How to Think of R&D Spend

Andreessen Horowitz

Here’s how I wish more growth-stage teams approached their R&D spend: Use benchmarks to initially ballpark your overall spend (but remember there are good reasons to vary from benchmarks). The mix of short- and long-term, offensive and defensive bets depends on your product and business priorities.

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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because they have the ability to build network effects and economies of scale. In the last few years, incumbents have started to adopt technology to fix inefficiencies, but they’ve focused on tools to streamline individual tasks (e.g.,

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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

TechCrunch

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. Eagle Eye app. ” Crowd.dev analytics.

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Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company

TechCrunch

However, community-led growth is also an increasingly popular approach to driving new and repeat business organically — this is where a product’s users serve as advocates and a support network for other would-be customers. This can also be used to identify existing members of the community (e.g.