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Lands of Lorecraft: A Millennial Management Science is Being Born

The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing will Emerge from a Failed Idea

23 Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion - FirstRound

LA Venture: Mark Mullen on the Traction He Looks for When Doing B2B Seed Investing

Investor Connect: Mark Mullen

VC Corner: Q&A with Mark Mullen

Mark Mullen Ranked Top VC in LA

Jim Andelman on LA Venture Podcast

Jennifer Richard Talks to Entrepreneur Mag about Female Inequity in VC

Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist returns to Morocco for DEMO Africa in October

Venture Games Podcast with Jen Richard

Nail Your Startup's Narrative in 4 Steps

The Product Superpowers That Few Flex: Intention and Conviction with Brett Queener

Banking on Rewards to Preserve Customer Loyalty (Finextra)

MarTech Interview with Jordan Glazier, CEO at Wildfire Systems

Can I Have Your Attention, Please: What Customer Service Can Learn From Online Dating

The Need For Speed: What The Futurists Can Teach Us About The Future Of Customer Service Forbes Technology Council

Alpha Edison leads customer service platform Thankful’s $12M round

Spekit Welcomes Dan Scheinman, First Investor in Zoom and SentinelOne, as Board Member

Meet The Entrepreneur Who Wants To Make You Great At Your Job

Shippabo Expands Transloading Services for Customers With Inland Movement

SafeRide completes Series B

SafeRide’s Blog and Industry commentary

Lyft partners with SafeRide

To Reverse Declines, Direct Mail Updates Old Methods With Digital Touches

Disruptive Nation with David Fink, CEO and Co-Founder, Postie

Why Direct Mail is Coming Back with Dave Fink, CEO and Founder, Postie

Why the Energy Production Industry Needs Continuous Emissions Monitoring

Where is IoT on the Hype Cycle

Introducing Particle's Supply Secure Hardware Portfolio

It’s a lot easier to get people to pay rent if you don’t demand it all at once

How NestEgg's Property Management Tech Is Helping Create A Million Millionaires

5 ways to hack being a landlord, from the founder of a property management app who used to be Expedia's CTO and has his own real-estate empire

This Startup Is Transforming How Rent Is Paid -- and Guaranteeing It Is

NestEgg cracks the code for small landlords and the agents who help them

NestEgg’s property management platform targets small landlords

Hotel Executive Magazine: Why IHG Can’t Live Without KYC

Mary Poppen Joins involve

Patent Announcement

Series A funding

How AI-Powered Call Centers Can Help With Your Digital Transformation Efforts

Call analytics platform Invoca expands into sales, e-commerce and customer experience

Invoca Acquires DialogTech for $100M to Expand its Conversational Intelligence Tools

Invoca’s conversational AI analyzed over 1.5 billion call minutes

Launch and Funding annoucement

Product Love Podcast

Reuters: Shell to buy Inspire Energy in green energy push

Fast Company: Replace Your Electric Bill With A Flat-Rate, Monthly Subscription To Wind Power

Yahoo! Finance: How Inspire is helping power homes with clean energy

5 Best Practices for an Efficient Fundraising Process

Reinventing the Financial Exchange for the Private Markets

This 11-page pitch deck helped Hum Capital, a fintech using AI to match investors with startups, raise a $9 million Series A

Hum Capital thinks the future of funding is a return to old-school Wall Street

AI, EVs and auto tech pose a threat to traditional auto insurance

Honk white labels its roadside assistance service to Farmers in massive deal

Honk, the Uber for towing services, raises $18 million

Trends

Capability Trends Reports

Global Talent Mobility Research Reports

FlowPath Founders Find Common Ground In Facilities Management, Raise First Seed Round

Latest Blogs

The Modern Facilities Management Podcast

EV Connect Offers GM Dealerships Charging Management and Network Services Across Canada & U.S.

Jordan Ramer Forbes Councils Member

EV Connect Introduces Industry’s Most Flexible Electric Vehicle Charging Solution Designed for Fleets

Why your next hardware project should look like a software project

#5 Cloud PLM & building a better mousetrap with Michael Corr

Extended deadlines or not, it’s time to move on from cookies

DISQO’s platform shows ads on TikTok are effective and reach affluent audiences

DISQO’s platform ranks top 10 2022 Super Bowl ads for total impact

First-party data is about building trust, not control

DISQO primed for growth in 2022!

THE INS & OUTS OF SAAS METRICS: FINANCE LEADER CHRISTINA ROSS ON REVENUE RETENTION

LA-based Credit Key raises $33 million for its business-to-business payments platform

Best New Ideas in Money How debit cards are becoming ‘a democratizing force

Uber Freight drivers get new payments and fuel rewards

Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall

Salons and Spas Embrace New Appointment and Payment Technology

LA-based Boulevard Raises $27 Million for its Spa Management Software

Boulevard Just Launched Sleek Payment Hardware for Salons

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Introducing Interventions, The Next Phase of Measurement-Based Care

Exclusive: Blueprint Maps Out Data-Driven Mental Health Platform With $3.4M Seed

Atrium Raises $13.5 Million to Revolutionize Data-Driven Sales Management

Atrium Announces New Integration with Gong to Transform Data-Driven Sales Management with Automated Sales Rep Coaching

Announcing the Atrium Automated Insights Engine

Atrium Raises $20M to Bring Data-Driven Sales Management to the Masses

Aforza boosts digital twins for consumer packaged goods with $20M raise

How Distell Is Digitizing REX & TPM to Seize Global Growth

Consumer goods software company Aforza bags $22M to open US headquarters

Launching Aforza Interview with Dominic Dinardo

Branch Raises $75M to Help Workers Get Paid Faster

ChowNow on Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Dining Companies List of 2022

Building Startups in a Bear Market

Bonfire's Mark Mullen and Jim Andelman on this Year's List of "Top Venture Capitalists of 2022"

The Ins & Outs of SaaS Metrics: Finance Leader Christina Ross on Revenue Retention

Women-Led Spekit Raises $45 Million To Help Remote Teams Train Employees

Boulevard Achieves Record 2021 Results With 188 Percent Revenue Growth