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SpaceX delivers 88 satellites to orbit, lands first stage onshore for first time in 2021

SpaceX launched 85 satellites for external customers, as well as three Starlink satellites, to orbit on Tuesday, marking the second successful launch of the company’s dedicated rideshare missions. While the Transporter-2 mission will deliver fewer objects to space than the first rideshare mission (the Transporter-1 sent up 143 satellites, a new record), it launched more […] http://dlvr.it/S2nydB

How to cut through the promotional haze and select a digital building platform

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Most buildings are beginning their digital transformation and are looking for ways to bring people back, keep people healthy and create environments where people want to spend time. http://dlvr.it/S2nrrF

A Beginners Guide to 8 Email Marketing Strategies

The cutthroat email inbox of your average consumer roils with marketing messages. Some contain competitive subject lines, whereas some are… http://dlvr.it/S2nYxY

Should You Write Your Own Content or Hire Someone to Do It For You?

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Content is king when it comes to making your website stand out from the competition. It has an immediate impact… http://dlvr.it/S2nNl2

Rocket startup Gilmour Space raises $46M Series C to take small launch vehicle to orbit

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Australian rocket launch startup Gilmour Space Technologies is betting that bigger isn’t always better. The company has developed a small launch vehicle it calls Eris, a 25 meter (82 foot) rocket that can deliver payload of up to 215 kilograms (474 lbs) to sun synchronous orbit. Now, it’s raised a $61 million AUD ($46 million […] http://dlvr.it/S2n5MK

How Digital Marketing Helps Different Businesses During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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The Covid-19 Pandemic has affected every business in its vicinity; it does not matter if it is a small-scale business… http://dlvr.it/S2k2rz

Can You Really Make Money Overnight? What to Know About Passive Income

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Many small business owners and freelancers dream of setting up viable passive income streams. It’s a system where you don’t… http://dlvr.it/S2jwsQ

5 policies Washington should enact to end the climate crisis and joblessness

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The problems we seek to address may be unique to our time, but the source of our solutions remains the same: expanding entrepreneurial activity. http://dlvr.it/S2jfNz

Sources: SentinelOne expects to raise over $1B in NYSE IPO tomorrow, listing with a $10B market cap

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After launching its IPO last week with an expected listing price range of $26 to $29 per share, cybersecurity company SentinelOne is going tomorrow with some momentum behind it. Sources close to the  tell us that the company, which will be trading under the ticker “S” on the New York Stock Exchange, is expecting to […] http://dlvr.it/S2jV2m

Training platform Virti raises $10M Series A led by IQ Capital to teach soft skills in VR

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As the pandemic took hold, training staff had to ‘go virtual’. Typically, that would have meant falling back on existing corporate training solutions, which we all know and “love”. Could there be another way? In 2018, trauma surgeon Dr. Alex Young took the training required for high-stress scenarios like surgery and applied it to a virtual […] http://dlvr.it/S2jBWq

Hit iPhone controller Backbone One scores Xbox Game Pass partnership at xCloud’s iOS launch today

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Backbone One, the killer iPhone game pad I profiled here late last year has just scored the mother of all tie-ups for a gaming accessory. It’s getting bundled with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate as it launches on iOS today alongside the xCloud game streaming service. As a part of the deal, Backbone is being bundled […] http://dlvr.it/S2f8JG

How to Use Enterprise Data to Build Your Customer Journey Map

In today’s post-COVID world, customer loyalty is more open than ever before. The pandemic caused consumers everywhere to try new… http://dlvr.it/S2f2Cz

7 Ways Effective Presentations are Helpful in Your Career Advancement

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7 Ways Effective Presentations are Helpful in Your Career Advancement Presentations are like a coin; they have two sides- the… http://dlvr.it/S2dmlJ

The first preview of Windows 11 is now available

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Microsoft today released the first preview build of Windows 11 to those in the Dev Channel of the company’s Windows Insider program. If you have joined the Insider program and meet Microsoft’s new — and somewhat complicated — system requirements for the new operating system, you should see the update soon. This first preview includes […] http://dlvr.it/S2dbxP

Pittsburgh’s mayor on the city’s startup community and the difficulty of attracting venture capital

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This week, TechCrunch is turning its spotlight on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with interviews, profiles, and an event featuring the outgoing mayor, CMU’s President, and local startups. The Rust Belt city has spent much of the past decade working to shed the image that arrived in the wake of the deindustrialization of the 1970s and 80s. Courtesy of […] http://dlvr.it/S2dJlG

What’s a Creative Agency? How They Help & How to Find One

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Building a brand doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of work to forge strong relationships with people—and much of… http://dlvr.it/S2ZVjS

More Than a Buzzword: 4 Customer Sentiment Analysis Use Cases

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We’ve written a lot about customer sentiment and why it matters over the past several years. Now, if you Google… http://dlvr.it/S2ZPwq

Testing 1-2-3… How to Get Your Audience to Embrace Your Content

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It’s been a few years since I’ve been up on stage as a musician. I’ve been in a lot of… http://dlvr.it/S2ZCVj

Why Businesses Should Go For Outsourcing Cold Calling Services

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Marketing has always been crucial to companies- whether big or small. Among all the ways that are offered today to… http://dlvr.it/S2Z56c

Egypt’s Minly raises $3.6M to connect celebrities and fans through personalized experiences

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In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a growing trend of creators adopting digital and social media, not just as a supplement to their media presence but also as a cornerstone of their personal brand. The pandemic has surely accelerated creator economy trends. Many popular artists and figures have had to postpone concerts and […] http://dlvr.it/S2YvGh

Bipartisan Cybersecurity Bill Impending

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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to introduce legislation addressing overwhelming spikes in ransomware and other cyberattacks on critical organizations… http://dlvr.it/S2WpsN

Blogging Hacks for Advanced HubSpot Users

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Even the most well-written blog post needs a little help getting over the finish line, and more importantly, in front… http://dlvr.it/S2Whft

4 Effective Ways to Get More LinkedIn Connections

LinkedIn, the social media site for professionals, is an excellent place to start if you’re interested in growing your personal… http://dlvr.it/S2WWQy

6 Online Business Endeavors You Can Realistically Start Today

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The idea of doing things “virtually” has now become as normal as going to the grocery store to buy milk… http://dlvr.it/S2WP5V

50 Budgeting Tips for Small Business Owners

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Business is all about money. As a business owner, you want to make as much as you can and be… http://dlvr.it/S2WGPr

Top 5 Embedded Business Intelligence Best Practices

Businesses thrive because they fail in new and exciting ways. Little failures every day add up to big lessons. By… http://dlvr.it/S2SSCq

This One Thing Could Be Sabotaging Your Sales Enablement Program

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Why Your Business Needs a Communications Plan One of the most overlooked parts of any successful sales enablement program is… http://dlvr.it/S2SNJm

Dear EU: It’s time to get a grip

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The EU for all its lethargy, faults and fetishization of bureaucracy, is, ultimately, a good idea. It might be 64 years from the formation of the European Common Market, but it is 28 years since the EU’s formation in the Maastricht agreement, and this international entity is definitely still acting like an indecisive, millennial, happy […] http://dlvr.it/S2SK2K

LinkedIn formally joins EU Code on hate speech takedowns

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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has committed to doing more to quickly purge illegal hate speech from its platform in the European Union by formally signing up to a self-regulatory initiative that seeks to tackle the issue through a voluntary Code of Conduct. In statement today, the European Commission announced that the professional social network has joined the […] http://dlvr.it/S2SH2b

Loom spins up a pregnancy and postpartum education program

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Erica Chidi, the co-founder of Loom and a first-generation Nigerian-American, learned how to wrap the language of self-care around her body from an early age. She spent the early part of her life in South Africa, then the epicenter of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, watching her father work as an endocrinologist and infectious disease […] http://dlvr.it/S2SBZW

3 Smart Business Investments You’re Probably Not Making

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I get it. You’re a solo-preneur. (so am I!) You’re proud of the fact that you’ve bootstrapped your business from… http://dlvr.it/S2NjZq

10 Facebook Ads Tips and Features

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When you are trying to run a social media campaign, Facebook is the default option due to its massive reach.… http://dlvr.it/S2NdPD

The Rise of Recommerce: the Secondhand Economy [Infographic]

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We have all tried it. Whether it was an attempt at nabbing a vintage nostalgic item or a bid to… http://dlvr.it/S2NYwK

SPAC charts are exercises in the limits of hype

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Having read more SPAC investor decks in the last twelve months than I’d like to admit to, I thought I was over being irked by their bullishness. Call me conservative, but public companies shouldn’t be full of shit, and companies going public should probably aim for a similar target. That’s why S-1 filings for traditional […] http://dlvr.it/S2NWXT

Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays

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After weeks of leaks and hype, Microsoft today officially announced Windows 11, the next version of its desktop operating system. While the company may have once said that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows, forgoing major point launches for a regular cadence of bi-annual upgrades, but it clearly believes that the changes — […] http://dlvr.it/S2NQN9

An interview with a leading venture capitalist

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Inspired by this Hunter Walk tweet and the ensuing chatter. TechCrunch recently sat down with Leading Investor from Well Known Firm to chat about their investing theses, the state of today’s venture capital market, and why prices are so high for early-stage startups. We’ve been hunting down Leading Investor for some time, so it’s great […] http://dlvr.it/S2JpCT

Electronic Arts buys mobile game studio Playdemic for $1.4 billion

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Video game giant Electronic Arts is continuing to make M&A moves as it looks to bulk up its presence in the mobile gaming world. Fresh off the $2.4 billion acquisition of Glu Mobile this past April, their biggest purchase to date, Electronic Arts announced Wednesday that they are buying Warner Bros. Games’ mobile gaming studio […] http://dlvr.it/S2JnCP

Sales Enablement: An Insight into Building Your Own Team

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You already have a winning sales enablement team and strategy with the best technology and processes to support it? Wow!… http://dlvr.it/S2JjsH

$100 million… Leta Capital wants to be a friend to Russia-speaking founders everywhere

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It’s become increasingly obvious over the last few years, as Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip on his country, that Russian entrepreneurs who want to engage properly with the rest of the world have had to leave their mother country. Gone are the days when a startup in Russia might attract attention from many Western […] http://dlvr.it/S2Jgf6

Acryl Data, commercializing LinkedIn’s metadata tool DataHub, emerges from stealth with $9M from 8VC, LinkedIn and Insight

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In 2019, LinkedIn’s engineering team announced DataHub, a metadata tool it had built to help it organise, search and discover insights from its vast data trove. In 2020, LinkedIn open sourced it. Now, a startup co-founded by one of the creators of DataHub and by a former senior engineer from Airbnb who helped build the […] http://dlvr.it/S2JZfK

Oyster, an HR platform for distributed workforces, snaps up $50M on a $475M valuation

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The future of work is long on long-distance, and today a startup that’s built a platform to help organizations hire global talent and build out those remote workforces is announcing a round of funding on the heels of strong growth. Oyster — which provides tools to help with hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits and salary management […] http://dlvr.it/S2DvX1

7 Traits of High-Quality Remote Job Candidates

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It was a global pandemic that first forced many businesses and working professionals around the world to get acclimated to… http://dlvr.it/S2DtCp

The early-stage venture capital market is weird and chaotic

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With as much seed capital as there is in the market today, we talked to investors about startups raising later Series As than before, while Series B rounds can happen incredibly rapidly. http://dlvr.it/S2DpK8

RFP Automation: What It Is, How it Works, and Best Practices

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Let’s not sugarcoat it: responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) prior to automation was brutal. Like doing your taxes, you… http://dlvr.it/S2DnQn

5 Great Statistics that Prove How Social Media Recruitment Helps Businesses

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The purpose of social media, as the name suggests, was to allow people to interact with each other online. Without… http://dlvr.it/S2Dkr2