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Founders of well-funded Egyptian B2B startup Capiter fired following fraud allegations

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Last September, Egyptian startup Capiter raised $33 million in Series A funding to compete in the country’s growing B2B e-commerce and retail space. Others described a workplace with poor management and no structure and a company finding it hard to onboard merchants to its platform while running out of money simultaneously.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

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” This point was seconded by other survey respondents, so we reached out to Drach and his team to learn more. More specifically, Solwey provides consulting in all stages of software design and development strategy and execution. How is your team structured? Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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UnitQ raises $30M in Accel-led round to help companies improve product quality

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The SaaS company’s goal is to give engineering, support, product ops and product management teams the ability to identify and, more importantly, fix quality issues that might be impacting customer satisfaction and retention. The startup is mostly focused on consumer companies, but also has some B2B clients.

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Storytelling Is The ‘Make Or Break’ Skill Founders Are Lacking

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Anyone could hire a developer to build your technology, but what is it about your past personal or professional experiences that makes you the best person to build this product or company? you need to be vocal, and not just in closed-door meetings with your team. Lastly, why you what makes you uniquely qualified to solve this problem?

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Growth marketing is not a magic trick, says Ellen Jantsch of Tuff

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The team at Tuff knows their stuff — and it’s precisely why they are not selling “magic” or any kind of “mysterious secret sauce.” ” This doesn’t necessarily involve offline meetings: Oehlerking and Jantsch are both based in Colorado, but Tuff’s team is fully remote, with global clients.

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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500

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That’s code for “help me out over here” : Kyle reports that Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raised $100 million. On yer bike : Rebecca reports how Grubhub and Joco team up to give NYC delivery workers access to e-bikes. brands get into web3. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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Extra Crunch roundup: BNPL bonanza, scraping Toast’s S-1/A, early-stage SaaS pricing

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Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). ” Is it so bad to take money from Chinese venture funds?

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