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When should your B2C startup enter a new market?

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It may be that through luck or ingenuity, your business has thrived in your home country with minimal marketing spend, but there is absolutely no guarantee this will happen abroad. Flat demand or outlying surges could indicate a ceiling in that market or an extraneous factor that has skewed the data.

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SumUp raises $895M in debt to double down on its B2C payments business

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Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

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They were already growing more quickly than most B2C marketplaces that predated them, and when COVID shutdowns hit, many companies scrambled to shift all purchasing online. This is particularly common in the commodities market, where futures contracts specify a commodity to be delivered on a certain date in the future.

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rali_cap gets backing from global VCs and launches $30M fintech fund for emerging markets

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Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. while the rest are spread across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, markets where they deployed more than $6 million last year. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

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Talent Hack raises $4.7M for its B2C fitness platform, Spaces

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Rather than creating its own front-end, curated platform, however, the New York-based startup’s Spaces is designed to offer a B2C platform for fitness instructors and studios. Talent Hack says this round will go toward increasing its marketing, improving the customer experience and expanding recruiting.

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What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency

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Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric. When and how to hire your startup’s first growth marketer. Growth marketer archetypes.

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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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Its ambition was simple: since B2B transactions make up more than twice the volume of B2C transactions, there should be more tools for businesses — especially SMBs — to make those transactions as easy to handle as B2C ones. Over time, of course, you could see how consolidation is bound to come to the space.

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