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A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software

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Marcus Merrell Contributor Share on Twitter Marcus Merrell is vice president of technology strategy at Sauce Labs. This article uses my own experience working on high-throughput B2B and B2C stacks during a similar time period that Vine was around, and I’m making some assumptions.

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Givz raises $3M in seed funding to make donations a marketing tool for businesses

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In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. Eniac partner Vic Singh said that there’s been a trend of brands experimenting with different ways to target the socially conscious consumer. . “We

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

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There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. We are sector-agnostic in our approach, and we invest both in B2B and B2C tech/digital companies from various industries.

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Spain’s Payflow, a salary advance startup, banks $9.1M to fuel a super app growth strategy

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.” Among users it notes a high uptake — with a 40% download rate on average, and rates as high as 90% for some of its clients — which it claims is 5-10x higher than other on-demand salary platforms and other social benefits.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

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I really wish that the business case for social and ecological startups will finally be proven (kind of like Oatly showed with the Blackstone investment). Unfortunately for us, typical B2C cases are rather scarce. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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SFCC: The Orchestrator for Your B2C Lead-to-Loyalty Journey

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In the competitive world of B2C commerce, fostering customer loyalty is paramount. Here’s how SFCC empowers businesses to build lasting customer relationships: Targeted Acquisition Strategies: From the moment a customer lands on your site, leverage their data to create a personalized experience.

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Shopware, an e-commerce platform that powers 100K brands, raises its first outside funding: $100M from PayPal and Carlyle

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Shopware competitors now include the likes of Shopify Plus, Magento and others building a mixture of headless and other components, which brands and others can mix and match to power online shopping experiences, be they via their own websites, via mobile apps or by way of third-party platforms like social media sites or marketplaces.