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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

TechCrunch LA

Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the If you tried to shop Amazon for just one of these categories?—?where

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

Tech.Co

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Zoom Startup tool: Video conferencing Price: Free You've probably already heard of Zoom. From its 4.3-inch

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Sometimes I make a blog entry. Great posts.

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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

TechCrunch LA

“I don’t want to look only at the negative…Maybe there are things that are positive that come out of this bad crisis,” Cevolini told TechCrunch on a video call. Speaking to competition with Zero Motorcycles in particular, “We are in a different category,” she said.

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How Blossom Wants To Save Water, Money Using The Cloud

socalTECH

My team was responsible for all of their embedded projects, including TVs, phones like their Wi-Fi phones and video phones, anywhere Skype was embedded into products. There are lots of established players in this market, who pretty much own all of the shelf space in this category. How do you get to market?

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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