Entrepreneurship
Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden
Ms. Khan, who first attracted notice as a critic of Amazon, was confirmed by the Senate as a commissioner on the agency on Tuesday.
Month: June 2021
Entrepreneurship
What We Learned About Amazon’s Warehouse Workers
Outsiders see a business success story for the ages. Many insiders see an employment system under strain.
Entrepreneurship
Amazon Launches Black Business Accelerator Program
Amazon just announced that it’s launching a $150 million Black Business Accelerator program for third-party sellers on the site. Almost all third-party sellers on Amazon are small to medium-sized businesses. Third-party sellers represent nearly 60% of product sales on Amazon, and they enjoyed record sales growth in 2020. Amazon wants [CONTINUE READING]
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Dun & Bradstreet Sales and Marketing Summit Focused on Finding New Business
A recent 3-day event provided small businesses with useful info. The Rev.Up Summit for sales, marketing and operations was hosted by Dun & Bradstreet. It ran from June 8-10. Featured speakers covered topics from buyer engagement to digital growth. Stacy Greiner, Chief Marketing Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, covered the highlights [CONTINUE READING]
Entrepreneurship
5 Uses of Artificial Intelligence to Improve Customer Experience Measurement
Customer experience plays an important role in the growth of your brand. That’s why it’s essential to not only offer a great experience but also understand if you truly are able to cater to your customers well. That’s where you can use artificial intelligence to improve your customer experience measurement. [CONTINUE READING]
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12 Questions Managers Should Ask Their Employees in Order to Lead Them Well
One of the best ways to learn how to manage your employees is to ask them questions. If you pose the right questions, you’ll get to know what motivates your employees and what their goals are. You can then use this information to manage them more effectively and help them [CONTINUE READING]
Entrepreneurship
He Could Hear Them Talking, But He Persisted
This article, “He Could Hear Them Talking, But He Persisted” was first published on Small Business Trends
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Leyla Seka and Letty Ledbetter of BVI: We’re going to increase the appallingly low number of blacks participating in venture capital
It’s a small world. So when I had a recent LinkedIn Live convo with Leah-McGowan Hare of Salesforce and Bevy’s cofounder Derek Andersen on to talk about the company’s efforts to recruit black investors in their recent $40M round, Leah’s story about attending the Black Venture Institute’s (BVI) two-week venture [CONTINUE READING]
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Inside Marqeta’s fintech mega-IPO
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. A [CONTINUE READING]
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How many opinions does it take to hit the $100M ARR Club?
In a world of talking points and corporate jargon, opinions are refreshing — and Expensify CEO and founder David Barrett is full of them. One of his earliest lessons in life, for example, was that basically everyone is wrong about basically everything. If instilling that at a young age doesn’t [CONTINUE READING]