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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Please reach out and email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, opinions or tips or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. Noam Ohana, who heads up Exor Seeds, the holding company’s early-stage investment arm, will join Via’s board. ” Layoffs in a time of COVID-19. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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Report: Veoh Planning Major Layoffs

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Quoting a "source close to the company" VentureBeat said that the layoffs would be "drastic." An email to Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh, this morning, asking for comments on the rumor was not returned. Tags: veoh layoff jobs video content. Veoh laid off 20 percent of its employees in November. READ MORE>>.

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Take advantage of the good times to build stakeholder loyalty.

Berkonomics

If there is no closer connection to the corporation, when times are tough for any reason, it is these employees that make it tough for management to gain understanding and consent for actions that must be made such as missing payrolls, making layoffs, or abandoning pre-announced plans. Investor loyalty is most tenuous of all.

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Create stakeholder loyalty when times are good.

Berkonomics

If there is no closer connection to the corporation, when times are tough for any reason, it is these employees that make it tough for management to gain understanding and consent for actions that must be made such as missing payrolls, making layoffs, or abandoning pre-announced plans.

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Adam Scott | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

You got flash sales and group sales sites coming to us and basically have the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers, saying they have tickets that are on sale. I had to close the doors of businesses and layoff people. This is a huge deal to a half a billion to a billion dollar industry.

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Adam Kanner | ScoreBig, Startups, and LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

We had flash sales and group sales sites coming to us with the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers saying they have tickets on sale. I had to close the doors of businesses and layoff people. There is no solid financial investment footing to constantly support startups here.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

It won’t be long before another round of layoffs comes, and these new tools will create new jobs to fill the gap. The mobile Internet – The latest major computing cycle [Email readers, continue here…] Over the last fifty years, the world transitioned from mainframe computing to mini-computers to PCs to the desktop Internet.

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