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spurse Launches Social Reward Platform at Influencer Marketing Conference & Expo

StartUp Beat

spurse announced the pre-launch of its Social Reward platform at the Influencer Marketing Conference & Expo 2020 (IMCX 2020) that took place the 25th February in Los Angeles. Attendees of this year’s networking and educational event included senior-level marketing decision-makers […].

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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’

TechCrunch LA

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Welcome Tech, which has an office in San Antonio, Texas, raised an $8 million Series A in March of 2020. s SB Opportunity Fund.

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5 Rules For Every Business In The New Sharing Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the rise of the “ sharing economy ,” with collaborative and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms , including Lyft (rides), Airbnb (lodging), and WeWork (workspace). There are always opportunities to participate in existing platforms, such as becoming an Uber driver, or to start your own platform sharing your favorite hobby.

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

TechCrunch LA

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs). Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms. Include marketing initiatives to educate and help customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020. These communities will dramatically amplify your own marketing.

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What setups are best for secure network design?

Southern California Edison Blog

During 2020, the average data breach cost for the public sector was $1.6 As businesses expand and bring on more users, devices, applications, and platforms, they are transmitting larger volumes of data that, when breached, can cost businesses an average of $150 per record lost. In 2020, the average education sector data breach cost $7.1

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