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WePlay Acquired By TeamSnap

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TeamSnap said it has acquired Weplay''s customers, technology, and online coaching resources and extensive video content as part of the buy. weplay teamsnap merger acquisition sports team management saas community' The company said that WePlay had 2.25 million customers. READ MORE>>.

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NuOrder Gets $45M For Fashion Merchandising

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The company says it provides its service to help manage merchandise orders for such brands as Coach and retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's. The funding was led by Brighton Park Capital and Imaginary Ventures. The company's co-founders are Heath Wells and Olivia Skuza.

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Givsum Gets Funding, Support From Two Accelerators

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The company said both SteelBridge Labs and OC4 Venture Studios will provide ongoing coaching from their teams of experienced startup founders, investors, and consultants, with SteelBridge offering up managed development services, including sales guidance, operations support, and product strategy.

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Reflections on 2020: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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These are fundamental to how we are coaching our portfolio companies as well  we practice what we preach! We look forward to seeing how AI and ML will continue to disrupt finance, CPG, big data, and SaaS. This ability to do more with less will pay dividends post pandemic as we focus on growth. Being grateful.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

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Increasingly I find myself engaging executive coaches at companies an trying to help executive teams get 360 degree feedback. The best leaders I know encourage coaches to come in and are willing to listen to feedback about themselves. In fact, I’d observe that most board meetings don’t on this important topic.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. People proclaimed that there was a “new economy” and “the old rules didn’t apply” and if you questioned it you “just didn’t get it.” Until we weren’t.