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How These Brothers Went from Hip-Hop Duo to Transforming the World of B2B Sales

ReadWriteStart

It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . As part of the founding sales teams at Stripe (Ross) and Google Cloud (Ryan) saw how little innovation there was around the buyer <> seller relationship.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. For a B2B product, this means figuring out what kinds of businesses are suited for your product. Nick Frandsen is a co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. It’s genius! It’s the next thing!” What is their size, industry and location?

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3 Elements To Ensuring PCI Compliance

YoungUpstarts

Since complying with PCI standards, and ensuring that all partners and third-party vendors they work with do as well, is in businesses’ best interests, let’s examine some of the considerations to keep in mind about PCI compliance strategy. One of the best ways to ensure compliance is to work with a compliant service provider.

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Our year in review: a look back and ahead

Version One Ventures

We made 3 new investments: Figure 1 , a photo-sharing network for medical professionals; Upverter , a cloud-based hardware engineering platform; and one unannounced investment. There’s also a massive opportunity for B2B marketplaces to replace paper-centric, error-prone supply chains for small businesses. Boris & Angela.

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Starting an E-commerce Site? Five Tips Every College Grad Should Know.

YoungUpstarts

by Nikole Haiar, Director Marketing, Retail & Partner Services at Hostway Corporation. If you’re planning to operate your e-commerce site on the cloud, it pays to identify the applications that require elevated levels of security. But it pays to know what the challenges are ahead of time, so you can make plans to address them.

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Flashpoint New York Demo Day, Friday, June 14

David Teten

Since its inception last year, Flashpoint companies have attracted close to $35 MM in commitments from angels and investors, including ff Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, Sigma Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and New World Ventures. RSVP here.

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Flashpoint New York Demo Day, Friday, June 14

David Teten

Since its inception last year, Flashpoint companies have attracted close to $35 MM in commitments from angels and investors, including ff Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, Sigma Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and New World Ventures. RSVP here.

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