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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). Timing, broader marketing issues and troubling allegations of sexual misconduct were all contributing factors that stopped Essential’s big plans dead in their tracks.

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In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day

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Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so. But while the U.S. A first read of the data indicates that the U.S.

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How African startups raised investments in 2020

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With other outlets like media publications WeeTracker and Disrupt Africa disclosing different results for the African venture capital market, we compared and contrasted their results last year. It was expected that these figures would increase in 2020. For 2020, the number dropped to $1.43 billion and $1.8 Behind the numbers.

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Fintech startups and unicorns had a stellar Q4 2020

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The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence. Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge?

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How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020

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Wrapping our look at how the venture capital asset class invested in 2020, today we’re taking a peek at Europe’s impressive year, and Asia’s slightly less invigorating set of results. (We’re More money and fewer rounds meant larger rounds, often going to the late and super-late stage startups in the market.

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Today’s startup layoffs have nothing on the 2020 correction

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That said, the pace of layoffs is modest compared with the early-2020 economic correction. Layoffs at companies like Toast, Airbnb, TripActions and others were symbolic of how some still-private companies found their markets effectively shuttered overnight. The result is a more mild pace of layoffs. Let’s go.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Monetization Monitor: Monetization Models and Pricing 2020

Tech companies must focus on how to take products to market, through effective pricing, delivery, and monetization. The COVID-19 global pandemic emphasizes the need to both protect current revenues and build a foundation that promotes growth as the economy recovers. Download this research report from Revenera to learn more.

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The Retailer’s Playbook for Customer Acquisition

The economic disruption of 2020 has left retailers facing a host of barriers to growth. We developed this guide to help retailers build a data-centric acquisition program that lowers their acquisition costs, eliminates wasteful spending, attracts high-value customers and provides a competitive advantage in a tight market.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

He’ll explain how stitching together pre-existing solutions is often the best way to bring a stable, secure product to market most quickly. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building?