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TikTok Hopes Startups Can Breathe Life Into Its Shopping Struggles

Tech.Co

TikTok is struggling to make a dent in the world of US and European ecommerce , and has now enlisted the help of a number of startups to try and reverse that trend and bring the Live Shopping craze sweeping Asia to other markets. By some metrics, certainly not. Should Tech Giants Stop Trying to Make Social Commerce Happen?

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8 Ways To Ensure Customer Interactions Are Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I commonly see metrics to keep track of revenue per employee, overtime, and absenteeism, but I don’t often see measures of overall customer satisfaction with individual employees. Incentives should be a combination of metrics and recognition to highlight results. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/09/2021.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. The cost of social media done well is low. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors.

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New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals

TechCrunch LA

With this move, Los Angeles wants to hitch its wagon to this momentum and is actively looking for tech busineses that can help with carbon accounting. That means good things for companies like CarbonChain , Persefoni , ClimateView , and SINAI Technologies , which all have offerings meant to help with carbon accounting and management.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. And the valuation party lasted until November 9th, 2021. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life.

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7 Ways To Elevate Your Team Engagement and Happiness

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I still see many companies focusing on what I believe are ineffective approaches to turning this productivity challenge around, including stricter processes, more metrics, and financial incentives to improve motivation. Help people uncover and apply their strengths. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/16/2021.

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7 Keys To Sustainably Enriching Your Customers’ Lives

Startup Professionals Musings

A winning linked focus example is to choose a higher purpose common to all cultures, such as protecting the environment, or helping the underprivileged. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots. Use metrics to assess needs and growth economics. Make every customer experience memorable.

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