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Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse

VC Cafe

The crypto crash, the lack of transparency in some of the token sales/promotion and the asset bubbles that existed everywhere, including in digital collectibles and NFTs have recently put a negative spin on the space as a whole. From my vantage point, today’s negative financial sentiment most closely resembles 2008.

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How One Woman’s Flat Tire Inspired A Global Trucking Movement

YoungUpstarts

In 2008, Ellen founded Women in Trucking: an association designed to be a resource and encouragement to transportation leaders. Ellen worked in both traditional and non-traditional positions. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

They compete on features, price and execution. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Mobile devices deliver “bottom of funnel” sales opportunities that deliver real & immediate economic results. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. Copper’s Relationship Era does the same for the sales industry, and Dialpad’s Anywhere Worker paints a picture of simple, streamlined communication for SMBs.

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How to Get People to Believe What You Write

ConversionXL

Read this: In the present report the results of a series of experiments are described in which wine and beer drinkers were tested to measure their peripheral competency. MailChimp gets it: Complicated language confuses and frustrates people, and neither one helps your sales. Did you get that? Me neither. Not too many.

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An Exclusive Interview with Paige Pearce, World Champion Archer

Rembrandt Communications

A winning archer since the age of 13, Paige travels the world competing and just returned from various tournaments in France, Iowa, Montana, and Rome. There, she won her first gold medal in 2008 at the Junior World Championships. I like to meet new people and share my love of the outdoors when I’m not competing. Archery Team.