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Japan’s B2B ordering and supply platform CADDi raises $73 million Series B funding

TechCrunch

CADDi, a Tokyo-based B2B ordering and supply platform in the manufacturing and procurement industry, helps both procurement (demand side) and manufacturing facilities (supply side) by aggregating and rebalancing supply and demand via its automated calculation system for manufacturing costs and databases of fabrication facilities across Japan.

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Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M

TechCrunch

“We aim to have pricing move at the pace of product innovation.” “The end users include the multiple stakeholders at each company who touch pricing and billing, with engineers, product managers, revops, and finance controllers using Orb actively to drive business decisions.”

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Practical Skills for The AI Product Manager

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager. In this article, we shift our focus to the AI Product Manager’s skill set, as it is applied to day to day work in the design, development, and maintenance of AI products.

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6 investors and founders spotlight SaaS, B2B and medtech as Wroclaw’s hot startup sectors

TechCrunch

In short, the city appears to be strong in areas such as B2B, SaaS, marketplace, B2C, gaming and medtech. Most of our VCs, in my opinion, are focused on B2B, SaaS or marketplace-like startups. We have a couple of funds that are actively looking for innovative companies to invest in. What are the tech investors like in Wroclaw?

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

Unfortunately, most B2B companies go through the innovation journey using abstract terms and intangible metrics, such as “trying to reach product market fit.” Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it. Ask ten people to define PMF and you’ll get ten different answers.

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Extra Crunch roundup: B2B marketplaces, edtech M&A, breaking into the $1M ARR club

TechCrunch

B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups. Marketplaces created for B2B activity are surging in popularity. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups.

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Google, Stanford And The IDF: Professional Backgrounds Of Unicorn Founders

Crunchbase News

Engineers (21%), software engineers (17%) and product managers (14%) round out the most-common background roles a clear pattern showing that leadership, technology and marketing skills form the foundation of unicorn founder success. Another 22% had already led companies as CEOs, while 9% served as CTOs before launching their unicorns.