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The Trade Desk Offers Up Free Courses

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Ventura-based online advertising exchange The Trade Desk says it will offer up free access to its digital advertising courseware until the end of 2020, allowing everyone from advertising industry professionals to those looking to build the required skills to enter the field.

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Reflections on 2020: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. This was a most difficult year, filled with unimaginable hardship, and the raw humanity of this year, in all its forms, is what I will remember most about 2020. I'm very excited to see 2021 come and very happy to see 2020 go.

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Reflections on 2020: Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder, Alteryx

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You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here. Analytics and data in 2020 have become household words. This is one of the benefits of COVID-19 in 2020. The Today, we have Olivia (Libby) Duane Adams, co-founder and chief advocacy officer at Alteryx (www.alteryx.com) who is based in Irvine.

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Just raises $8M in its effort to beat Root at the car insurance game

TechCrunch LA

Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance. ” In 2020, Root had a direct loss ratio of 82%. But of course, it has far fewer customers and is only serving one market. It issued over 1,000 new policies in the second quarter, up “tenfold” compared to the same period in 2020.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

Entity uses all this to curate not just what courses it provides and what goes into the curriculum, but also how best to supplement that learning. Today, Entity courses also include targeted mentoring from people working in the tech industry, as well as career coaching en route to finding a job. .”

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Shopify Plots Amazon Affiliate Marketing Attack

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This, of course, is potentially game-changing news for Shopify users. Consumer tech, for example, is a perfect fit for affiliate marketing with 60% of consumers buying electronics on Prime Day 2020. billion on Prime Day 2020 — that's more than the annual GDP of Monaco in just two days. Considering Shopify?

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The New Style of Startup Vision: Smaller But Sharper?

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Of course, neither this original mission statement, nor its current one, actually reflect how Facebook profits as a business — it primarily sells adverts to users. The company mission statement is, of course, a way to seize attention externally, and focus team members on the end destination.

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