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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

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You probably presented a minimum viable product and initial consumer research, and were backed for that. Here are five things green founders should remember when seeking VC funding at this moment. When it becomes repeatable, you can scale it. Remember the point at which you raised your initial funding?

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Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America

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We’ve reported on some of those wholesale marketplaces recently, including ZAX , which connects sellers to buyers in Brazil, Morado for Colombia’s beauty industry, Novi , for sustainable goods, JABU in Africa and GudangADA , doing something similar in Indonesia. Meanwhile, Miferia is still in its early stages.

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Here’s what I learned while leading a bootstrapped startup to $40M ARR

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Bootstrapping a startup is one of the effective means of building a self-sustaining and successful business, especially as VC investments slow down. But, one of the greatest challenges we were able to avoid was starting with a finished product. In other words, the bare minimum required for someone to use it and get value out of it.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

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The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. And while this is a good practice for startups, it’s also a good standard practice for big technology companies building AI/ML products. Contributor.

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CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

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Birgit Fridrich, who joined Allianz as sustainability manager responsible for ESG reporting in late 2022, spends many hours validating data in the company’s Microsoft Sustainability Manager tool. Rainer Karcher, Allianz Technology’s chief sustainability officer, knows what the effort to streamline ESG reporting will take.

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Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey

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“Between the seemingly daily new technology innovations and bifurcated perspectives across the market, it proved critical to have a clear vision that allowed us to avoid distractions and sustain progress,” he says. Underpinning their product-led approach and speed to market was executive leadership alignment and participation.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 5 pitch deck slides to fix, initial viable product, MLOps acceleration

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Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility. Twenty companies have formed a coalition to promote sustainability practices aimed at reducing energy and water usage, along with emissions.