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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

Coding Horror

That's like the most effective exercise program ever! Eye/o GmbH owns AdBlock and uBlock , employs 150 people, and in 2016 they had 50 million euros in revenue, of which about 50% was profit. Google's paid "Acceptable Ads" program is a way to funnel money into adblockers to, uh, encourage them to display certain ads.

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Station F adds an online program to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Right now, around 9% of entrepreneurs applying to a Station F program get accepted. It’s a fully online program, which means you can access it from anywhere in the world,” Varza said. Image Credits: Station F.

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With Kard, banks and fintechs can build custom credit card rewards programs

TechCrunch

But for young fintech companies newer to card issuance, setting up an attractive rewards program from scratch can be onerous, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case-by-case. To that end, he hopes to triple the size of Kard’s 25-person team by the end of the year.

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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

TechCrunch

Pursuit founder Jukay Hsu observed that there are job training programs out there, but not only do they often cost considerable money up front but their support ends when the classes do. Program grad Rook Soto and his family. “Getting the skills is a necessary but not sufficient condition for getting hired,” said Hsu.

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Deed pulls your employer’s charity and volunteer program into Slack to keep it front of mind

TechCrunch

Deed started its life in 2016 as an app with a similar, but different, focus. They’d assumed we had an enterprise offering as well to help them with their employee volunteering and engagement programs.”. But it’s still early days for the company — much of its growth, and even its focus on the enterprise, is relatively new.

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Squire, a barbershop tech startup, triples its valuation to $250M in latest round

TechCrunch

Salvant and Squire’s other co-founder, Songe LaRon, began the business as a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses in 2016. Squire lets businesses schedule appointments, offer loyalty programs and install contactless and cashless payment.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO

This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. Then in 2016, Google beat Internet Explorer with its Chrome browser, attaining this success on the strength of Google’s superior search technology. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.