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How to Optimize B2B Deal Management to Cut Costs and Losses in 2021

ReadWriteStart

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. With a cloud-hosted deal management solution, however, you can create a multi-threaded relationship. It’s no longer business as usual.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. But beyond that, not much.

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Smart glasses, 3D content and the ‘iPhone moment’ for AR

VC Cafe

For disclosure, at Remagine Ventures we are investors in Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and Zoog , an interactive AR platform for families, bringing stories and games to life. trillion times in aggregate ( source ). million lenses, which have been viewed over 3.5 Snap Spectacles. Magic Leap.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team.

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Raw Data & Google Analytics: A Game Changer

ConversionXL

After a few hours playing around with SQL , I was already able to deliver insights I never could have with aggregated Google Analytics reports. Now that more and more tools allow you to access raw data—and cloud storage has become more powerful—web analysts should shift focus, too. For regular use, aggregated data is usually enough.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. More than 40% of B2B transactions in the US, which is roughly a $25 trillion market , are still made with paper checks compared to 5-7% for consumers.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data.