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Seismic Scores $170M, Now Worth $3 Billion

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The Series G round was led by Permira and also included JMI Equity, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jackson Square Ventures, Ameriprise, and funds and accounts advised by T. Along with the funding, the company said it has acquired Lessonly, a developer of sales training, coaching, and enablement software which is based in Indianapolis.

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

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An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

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Insights and Opinions: Get Out Of The Office!

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Running a global company with multiple product lines, a much larger team (spread out in offices around the globe) and hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through our platform has completely changed the dynamics of the business and my role has needed to change in it, accordingly. I run a very different company today than I did a year ago.

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How To Tune Business Strategy For Long-Term Success

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A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers.

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. iPhone for design, Android for being a more democratic platform. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

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Awkward topics such as equity share come into play and everyone’s roles and what value they bring to the table are questioned. There are countless of great individuals willing to help, coach, mentor and guide new companies and new entrepreneurs that vastly outnumber the ones who seek out to do damage.

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