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Financial comparison “super app” Jeff raises $1.5M seed extension

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While one of Jeff’s main features is loan comparison, the company has started expanding its offerings because most people only borrow money once in a while. “What we were surprised about is that in Europe, for instance, TikTok would never work for financial services, but in Vietnam we saw that it is a pretty amazing channel,” said Niparts.

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Checkout.com’s new president is bullish on US expansion, says she ‘welcomes’ comparisons to Stripe

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We also asked how she felt about the comparisons to Stripe…and her answer may surprise you. What do you think of comparisons to Stripe? Checkout.com’s new president is bullish on US expansion, says she ‘welcomes’ comparisons to Stripe by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch We welcome them.

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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness: Feedback Loops

Martin Fowler

Tim continues his comparison of high and low effectiveness organizations by comparing their key feedback loops. To improve these, organizations need to understand the importance of micro feedback loops, which are often neglected because they are so small.

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Smartphone sales to rebound on AI gains, Morgan Stanley says

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in 2025, shrugging off comparisons […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Smartphone sales will mount a comeback starting in 2024, defying growing warnings of a prolonged slump across the mobile sector, according to separate projections by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reviewed by TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This Buyer’s Guide Will Help you Choose the Best Graph Database

This guide is intended to assist your buying decision with side-by-side comparisons of graph databases from Amazon, DataStax, Neo4j, and TigerGraph. Selecting a graph database is an important decision that can shape the success of your organization.

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Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba

TechCrunch

In comparison, there were about 200 million K-12 students in 2019 in China, according to the Ministry of Education (link in Chinese). Zuoyebang offers online courses, live lessons and homework help for kindergarten to 12th grade students, and claims about 170 million monthly active users, about 50 million of whom use the service each day.

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Without the Stripe and OpenAI deals, global VC results would have been even worse in Q1 2023

TechCrunch

Given that the early 2022 months were not that far from the peak of the last startup cycle, this comparison is somewhat specious: we all know that things have slowed down since then. Up is good, right? Why are we carping about declines if venture totals are no longer pointing towards the ground?

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution?