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What does Instacart’s supposedly delayed IPO teach us about how unicorns think?

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Instacart has left us IPO nerds feeling whiplashed. Late last week , Reuters reported that the American grocery delivery and technology company might probably shelve its IPO until next year. The company raised huge sums , grew immensely during the pandemic and is in the midst of an expanding into advertising and software.

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What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn?

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During a recent Twitter Space, M13 Partner Anna Barber and I looked back at the dot-com crash in search of lessons operators can use to avoid missteps founders have made in past downturns. So many companies were flocking to the Bay Area that the vacancy rate for rental housing was less than 1% when I arrived. “That person was me.”

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What 2021’s IPO pops tell us about future flotations and SPACs

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With rising retail trading around the world thanks to companies like Robinhood and WeBull, some recent tech offerings have had simply massive early trading sessions. Let’s talk about public offerings now that the IPO season is essentially behind us. So, what about those insane IPO pops? Two things are on my mind.

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Things The Pandemic Taught Us About Diverse Tech Teams

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What the pandemic taught us about diversity. One way that companies are managing diverse teams is by having employees participate in virtual meetups. One of the most important things that the pandemic taught us is the importance of a work-life balance. Let’s take a look. Remove unintended bias during the hiring process.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. We must find a way to create “Togetherness” and use the collective knowledge of each team to win. Join us for the fourth amazing episode in our Salesforce efficiency series!

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What Vimeo’s growth, profits and value tell us about the online video market

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The spinout of video platform Vimeo from IAC completed today , with the smaller company now trading as an independent entity under the ticker symbol VMEO. Let’s answer a few questions: How quickly is Vimeo growing, how profitable is its business, and what can its spinout tell us about the larger video market?

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Social robotics company Furhat buys Sphero spin-out company Misty Robotics

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million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “This company spun out of Spiro.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.