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Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows

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Metafy’s model is catching on with its market. Metafy’s CEO explained that his startup has a particular take on its market — that it focuses on coaches as its core customer, over trainees. By doing so, Metafy has cut its need for marketing spend, because the coaches that it onboards bring their own audience.

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

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Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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Investors and business leaders: It’s time to take coaching mainstream

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Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching. In any other industry, when someone with raw talent — an athlete, a singer, an actor — furthers their career, the first thing they receive is a coach. Return on coaching (ROC).

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Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang: CEO coaching is ‘about having a second set of eyes’

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Earlier this month, Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, where he spoke about executive coaching and why he encourages founders in his portfolio to have a CEO coach. Why CEOs need coaching. Timestamp: 4:52). Timestamp: 8:59).

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How to Successfully Coach Your Sales Team to Drive Efficiency

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

A great sales team starts with a manager who’s a great coach. This means coaching. According to CSO Insights, sales coaching has a double-digit impact on win rates and quota attainment. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Coach your sales team and set them up for success.

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Future raises $24M Series B for its $150/mo workout coaching app amid at-home fitness boom

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This moment has propelled public companies like Peloton to stratospheric highs — its market cap is about to eclipse $40 billion — but it has also pushed venture capitalists toward plenty of deals in the fitness space. million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform. Caliber, with $2.2 Image via Future.

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Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform

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Caliber , a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heels of a $2.2 “My co-founders started testing the idea of coaching people individually and that’s where the light bulb really went off,” said co-founder and CEO Jared Cluff.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. Dig into our data-backed guide to learn: Proven methods for warming up cold calls Coaching points for responding to price pressure early and often Front-line examples of how to win the battle for customer retention How can you speed it up?

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Historically, marketing teams use this tool as an anchor to ensure messaging resonates with customers. Join Robin Zaragoza, product coach at The Product Refinery, as she shares tips on how to create a powerful value proposition that keeps your customer at the heart of your product development process.