Meggie
@Meggie
449 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Kristina
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over 4 years ago
Even in the age of COVID-19, you need to stay focused on the customer
Even in the age of COVID-19, you need to stay focused on the customerIt’s easy to think, as we find ourselves in the midst of a truly unprecedented situation, that the rules of building a successful business have suddenly changed. While the world may be topsy-turvy at the...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
A Beginner's Guide to Small-Business Structures
Choosing the type of business structure can have lasting impacts on your business.March 18, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Building a solid foundation is the key to any business. Choosing the type of business structure can hav...continued
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over 4 years ago
Dispensed: The pressures hitting the frontlines of the coronavirus response, all you need to know...
Samantha Lee/Business InsiderHello,Welcome to Dispensed, Business Insider's weekly healthcare newsletter. We're on week two of work-from-home here at Business Insider. Spirits are high, Broadway is still dark (we miss you, "Six"!), we're doing a whole lot of social distan...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Meditation apps offer free mindfulness, as social distancing takes a toll
I’m not sure how many days we are into this “15 days” thing. Frankly, I’m not really sure what day of the week it is. As we collectively lose our grip on reality and socialization and increasingly turn to technology to cope, a number of meditation apps are offering up con...continued
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Meggie
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over 4 years ago
How to Increase Brand Awareness Through Experiential Marketing
Jonas Tahlin, CMO of Pernod Ricard USA and CEO of Absolut Elyx, shares his thoughts on building brand awareness.March 19, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Jonas Tahlin, CEO of Absolut Elyx and CMO of Pernod Ricard USA, talks abo...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Gregoria
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over 4 years ago
The Problem With Trump's Triage Testing
Triage entered the lexicon of the coronavirus era last Friday, when President Donald Trump claimed that Google is working on a tool to determine who's eligible for testing. In this case, only people who display serious symptoms will be able to get a test for the novel cor...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Hannah
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over 4 years ago
County deems Tesla a ‘non-essential’ business during shelter-in-place order
Tesla is not an essential business according to the Alameda County Sheriff, a declaration that could force the automaker to shutter some of its operations in the county under a shelter in-place directive that was ordered because of the global spread of COVID-19, a disease...continued
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Minnie
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over 4 years ago
CVS sent false coronavirus information to staff
CVS mistakenly sent false information to its staff about how to combat the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to CNN Business on Tuesday.The email, sent Monday by CVS Chief Medical Officer Troy Brennan, falsely suggested that the virus could be killed b...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Arvid
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over 4 years ago
Postmates reveals plans to cover medical costs for couriers as part of COVID-19 response
Postmates said that it will be creating a fund to cover the costs for doctor appointments and medical expenses related to the COVID-19 outbreak for its delivery fleet, and, for merchants, Postmates will waive commission fees for stores in impacted markets.The goal, the co...continued
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over 4 years ago
Travel savings tool Service shuts down, citing COVID-19 downturn
Service, a tool that helped you get compensation when there are flight delays and find lower hotel rates after you’ve already booked, today said it would shut down its service.The company, which launched in 2015, says it faced a fundraising round that collapsed two weeks ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Alphabet’s Verily launches its California COVID-19 test screening site in a limited pilot
Alphabet -owned health technology company Verily has launched the COVID-19 screening site that was first misrepresented by President Trump as a broadly focused coronavirus web-based screening and testing utility developed by Google. After a flurry of blog posts by Google ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Erik
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over 4 years ago
Oyo layoffs, Airbnb’s delayed IPO and the long-term quandary of investing in travel startups
It’s the best and worst of times for travel startups.Massive growth over the past few decades has made tourism one of the big global industries, covering everything from recreation to business conferences to shopping sprees.But doubts about the future of the industry are ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Investors move from coronavirus woes to Biden wins as markets rally on Super Tuesday results
While the aftermath of Super Tuesday has left the Democratic Party riven between its more liberal and moderate wings, investors viewed last night’s results as a win for business and markets.Shaking off the steady beat of bad news about the advance of the novel coronavirus...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Garnet
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over 4 years ago
Chargify acquires Keen to bring event-based billing to its platform
Chargify, the subscription billing platform, announced today that it has acquired event streaming company, Keen for an undisclosed amount. One interesting aspect of this deal is that both companies are part of the Scaleworks private equity firm’s stable of companies.Keen ...continued
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Joe
@Joe -
over 4 years ago
The good SaaS times will end and challenges are coming
We’ve had a great decade-long run in SaaS — abundant capital, a thriving economy and a massive existing market shift from on-premise to cloud.But the good times will end and challenges are coming.I’m not predicting when it will happen — maybe it’s the spread of COVID-19, ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
4 Ways Marketing Automation and Personalization Can Work Together
We accept automation in our personal lives. So why are we so afraid of using it to optimize our companies?March 14, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Automation makes 21st century life possible. Siri and Alexa help us schedule ou...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Elaina
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over 4 years ago
How to Convert Someone to Your Cause in 5 Simple Steps
Phillip Stutts discusses the branding and marketing lessons he's learned from working in politics for the past two decades.March 14, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Phillip Stutts, founder of Go Big Media and Win Big Media and ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Anderson
@Anderson -
over 4 years ago
How to buy back your startup from a tech giant like WeWork
How to buy back your startup from a tech giant like WeWork And turn it into a majority employee-owned operationWhen SEO and marketing company Conductor sold to WeWork in March 2018, it was a bit of a last-ditch effort. Leading up to the sale, Conductor’s executives and em...continued
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over 4 years ago
U.S. institutes 30-day travel ban on Europe, taps SBA and tax deferrals to stimulate the economy
In a Wednesday evening address from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would issue a thirty-day travel ban for travel from the European Union, excluding the United Kingdom and a number of other notable exceptions. He is also looking to Congres...continued
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over 4 years ago
Empowering Women Is at the Heart of Carbon38's Business Model
Katie Warner Johnson is disrupting the athleisure industry and redefining workwear fashion.March 12, 2020 2 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Carbon38 co-founder and CEO Katie Warner Johnson has seen her target customer in the boardroom...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Alexie
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over 4 years ago
Assembled raises $3.1M led by Stripe to build ‘the operating system for support teams’
CRM software accounts for one-quarter of all enterprise IT spend. But ironically, while a lot of money is spent on platforms like Salesforce or SAP to manage incoming calls and outgoing marketing and sales activity, not a lot of attention is given to the issue of how to h...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Jimmy
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over 4 years ago
Taipei-based TNL Media Group acquires adtech startup Ad2iction
TNL Media Group, the Taipei-based media and journalism company, announced it has acquired mobile ad technology startup Ad2iction. In addition to digital advertising and data analytics, Ad2iction also operates verticals like Agent Movie, a film site, and its brands will re...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Raoul
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over 4 years ago
Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' tech is coming to airport stores in March
OTG, the company that owns and operates the CIBO Express Gourmet Markets chain, says it plans to deploy the technology at additional stores located at LaGuardia and Newark airports. The company operates approximately 100 CIBO Express locations at 10 major airports across ...continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
Ismael
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over 4 years ago
Quibi accused of patent infringement for its 'Turnstyle' video feature
The tech in question allows Quibi to play different videos depending on whether the viewer is holding their phone horizontally or vertically, and it's central to Quibi's offering. Eko's lawyers sent Quibi a letter demanding that it stop using the technology or license it....continued
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Meggie upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
George
@George -
over 4 years ago
Robinhood’s third outage may point to deeper problems in its tech stack
After suffering its third outage in two weeks, Robinhood’s founders may need to take a deeper dive into the technology stack that powers their business.That’s because the outage the mobile asset-trading platform experienced yesterday was unrelated to previous issues that ...continued
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