Elaina
@Elaina
435 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Patrick
@Patrick -
over 3 years ago
Sololearn raises $24M for its bite-sized, Duolingo-like mobile-first coding education app
Coding is not just for engineers and computer programmers anymore: The pace of technology and its growing ubiquity mean that even nontech roles will require workers to have some degree of knowledge to do their jobs in the future. Today a company called Sololearn — which h...continued
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Colin
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over 3 years ago
Square launches business bank accounts
One step at a time, Square is creating a new bank from scratch. Today, the company is launching a new product called Square Banking that combines a checking account, savings accounts, debit cards and loans under a single roof. With Square Banking, the company wants to con...continued
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
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Liliane
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over 3 years ago
Lawsuit over Rite Aid infant acetaminophen marketing tossed - Reuters
A Rite Aid store at 1841 North Western Avenue is shown at in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 21, 2020. Picture taken January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoJudge finds reasonable consumers would not be misled The company and law firm names shown above are g...continued
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Monserrat
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over 3 years ago
Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
Zoom has announced that it’s acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which has worked on creating real-time translation and transcription software. Zoom says the acquisition is a move to help it make communicating with pe...continued
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Alan
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over 3 years ago
Renegade Partners rolls out its much-anticipated debut fund with $100 million
Renegade Partners — a Bay Area-based venture firm co-founded by veteran VCs Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek — is taking the wraps off a $100 million debut venture fund that’s been capturing the imagination of the business press since almost its conception in late 2019...continued
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Giles
@Giles -
over 3 years ago
How pitch training can help startups get their story right
When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They ...continued
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Iva
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over 3 years ago
Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs
Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee between them. Young was there on a marketing contract. Cavins was a boa...continued
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Leda
@Leda -
over 3 years ago
Verve Motion raises $15M following exosuit pilot with grocery workers
Verve Motion raises $15M following exosuit pilot with grocery exoskeleton/exosuit category has been heating up over the past few years. It makes sense, really. There are two giant — and dramatically different — potential customer bases. On one end are those sorts of jobs...continued
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Alexzander
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over 3 years ago
Every Content Marketer Should Use These 9 Tools
July 14, 2021 8 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their percent of total ecommerce sessions were generated through search in 2019, and the global ecommerce market is projected to produce $4.89 trillion in retail sales...continued
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Americo
@Americo -
over 3 years ago
Impact raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation as affiliate and other marketing partnerships come into ...
Affiliate marketing may have started as a kind of side hustle for bloggers and others that were making the majority of their revenues through advertising or other channels, but with the rise of influencers and the huge profusion of spon-con on social media, the idea of le...continued
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Kristina
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over 3 years ago
Pet Startups Are Having a Field Day
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Americans filled airports and highways nearly as much as on holidays before the pandemic. For many people, the busy travel weekend will be followed by a return to the office and other activities out of the house. This ongoing transition pe...continued
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Bobby
@Bobby -
over 3 years ago
Growth marketing roundup: cool SaaS, marketing lies, VR ads and more
Growth marketing roundup: cool SaaS, marketing lies, VR ads and might think that a short week due to a U.S. holiday calls for a short weekly recap, but we have plenty to share about growth marketing from our coverage over the week. With the help of your recommendations, ...continued
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Liliane
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over 3 years ago
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early Stage
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early venture capital used to get a bad rap. The money flowed from corporations into startups when times were good, and quickly disappeared when the market turned.But startups and corporations discovered someth...continued
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Arvid
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over 3 years ago
FabricNano raises $12.5M to help scale its cell-free fossil fuel alternative technology
It’s not often that you hear DNA described as a wafer – but that’s the analogy that Grant Aarons, the founder of FabricNano, a cell-free biomanufacturing company uses to describe his company’s major product. That DNA, the company hopes, will make a dent in a growing globa...continued
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Elaina
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over 3 years ago
Wimbledon: how weather conditions affect tennis matches
Rain may be the biggest concern, but for players temperature and humidity are also importantEvery factor that could affect the outcome of a tennis match comes under minute scrutiny, including the weather.Temperature is fairly straightforward. On a hot day, th…
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Americo
@Americo -
over 3 years ago
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan’s Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge
Mr. Bragg said repeatedly during the campaign that he had sued Mr. Trump or his administration more than 100 times during his tenure at the attorney general’s office. He also said he expected to be attacked by Mr. Trump, who said this week that the investigation was a for...continued
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Cyril
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over 3 years ago
This week in growth marketing on TechCrunch
TechCrunch is trying to help you find the best growth marketer to work with through founder recommendations that we get in this survey. We’re sharing a few of our favorites so far, below.We’re using your recommendations to find top experts to interview and have them write...continued
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Anderson
@Anderson -
over 3 years ago
ShelfLife, a marketplace for raw materials, raises $3 million seed round
Two years ago, Lillian Cartwright teamed up with some fellow Harvard Business School students to launch a new spiked seltzer brand called Astrid. Despite all the tools that make launching a D2C brand easier than it’s ever been, the team ran into complications when it came...continued
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Oren
@Oren -
over 3 years ago
Visier raises $125M at a $1B valuation for its big-data approach to HR analytics and planning
The world of work has changed massively in the last year, and with it a rush of startups have emerged with new technology and approaches to improve how it is shaped, and specifically how human resources departments do their jobs.In the latest chapter, Visier, a Canadian s...continued
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Maureen
@Maureen -
over 3 years ago
Pittsburgh’s Locomation puts a convoy twist on autonomous trucking
The Pittsburgh Strip District, once home to Industrial Age giants Alcoa, Heinz, U.S. Steel and Westinghouse, has evolved over the past decade into a technology and robotics hub, and notably, a testbed of autonomous vehicles. That activity has more recently spilled out be...continued
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Elaina
@Elaina -
over 3 years ago
Wimbledon day three - Reuters
Highlights of day three of the Wimbledon tennis championships on Wednesday (all times GMT):/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/COBLZKLF3FPLLFO7332PHOTREQ.jpg)
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Marjory
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over 3 years ago
An exploration of art, nature and technology
Caroline Rothwell is a Sydney-based visual artist whose work tackles important conversations about human interactions with nature throughout history — and their lasting effects. In her latest body of work, she hopes to bring attention to the plants around us we so often t...continued
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Abbie
@Abbie -
over 3 years ago
Sustainability and Climate Change: Join the Conversation with Experts
The Covid-19 pandemic has substantially shifted the ways in which we experience urban spaces. In an instant, high-density city centers have seen mass exodus to the suburbs as people have sought greener and larger spaces.If the pandemic is any indication of the challenges ...continued
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Jerrold
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over 3 years ago
A ranch is running out of water in the West's historic drought
(CNN) T.J. Atkin's family has been in the cattle ranching business for nearly a century. In that time, he says, a drought has never hit their operations this hard."Everyone else I've talked to says in 85 years, it has not been this bad," Atkin told CNN. "We have 85 years'...continued
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Elaina upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Delia
@Delia -
over 3 years ago
A new video platform offering classes about skilled trades begins to build momentum
Trade schools are nothing new, but a new startup called Copeland thinks it can build a big business by bringing education about plumbing, drywall, cabinetry and more to the masses through high-quality pre-filmed classes online that feature industry pros and professional e...continued
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