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Can Your Business Thrive Despite Economic Challenges Like Coronavirus?

YoungUpstarts

In reality, 2020 is turning out to be a mild period of softening likely followed by accelerated growth by year’s end. For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. D: Recession.

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Fundraising: Don’t Waste Time Convincing Skeptics

Austin Startup

The product is a complex AI service in an industry vertical that is large and growing fast. Didn’t make sense to him that the industry vertical had revenue anywhere near their forecast. Originally published at [link] on June 22, 2020. How could a company only six months old have $600k in revenue this month?

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like?

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. And as a result, they came out on top for growth in brand recognition in 2020: Image Source. Brand consideration. In short, their visibility skyrocketed. How to track your brand.

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2020 Accel Euroscape: Decacorn Unleashed

Cracking the Code

The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit? While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. No-code/low-code solutions can reduce costs and development cycles, and are forecast to grow to 23% by the end of 2021.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

While The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is predicting that foreign direct investment globally could drop by 30% to 40% from 2020-2021, others remain optimistic for the opportunities the pandemic entails. The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. .” –the Global Impact Investing Network.