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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

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” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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How to Create a Powerful Unique Selling Proposition (USP)

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Unfortunately, even the best MSPs might lack a unique selling proposition (USP) and use cliched slogans (#1 IT service provider in X city) that appear to be the same as every other MSP trying to top the search results. Use multiple mediums to communicate your USP. This is a rookie mistake. Fine-tune your differentiator.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

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Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. But govtech and civic tech has a greater social impact than burger-flipping robots. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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After some soul searching, he realized he wanted to build something in the e-commerce space that was focused more on the social and environmental impact, not just on driving growth and consumption. It works with both the USPS and a network of local carriers to serve the customers in its current footprint, which is about 100 million U.S.

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Daily Crunch: Salesforce CEO admits ‘we hired too many people’ as company lays off +7,000 employees

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DoorDash is launching a new service that will pick up prepaid packages and drop them off at a UPS, FedEx or USPS location, Aisha reports. Meanwhile, the social network is said to be reversing a political ad ban to bolster up its revenue , Ivan reports. Get food, mail your packages : Now you can have your food and your packages too.

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Nigerian one-click checkout platform OurPass raises $1M pre-seed, wants to build ‘Fast for Africa’

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“We did not want to defeat our USP of one-click checkout by allowing consumers to try to check out in one-click only for them to see their cards flagged as fraudulent,” Eze said. “Hence the reason why we had to build our system on a wallet system to enable that one-click checkout.”

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Thursday snags $3.5M for a dating app that’s live once a week

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Users can upload five photos (either from social media apps like Facebook or their phone’s camera roll) — and share some “topline information” about themselves. While the USP of the app is a ‘one day a week’ limit there is, of course, an option to pay to get a little more access.

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