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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

TechCrunch

It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. For example, branded marketplaces are well positioned for consumer electronics given the high price and slowing rate of innovation in new phone models — creating less of a cultural zeitgeist around having the latest phone.

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

CIO

For example, the aggregation of billing data, and the act of grouping tags to populate all the attributes that must be applied after data ingestion, can be burdensome on some cloud cost optimization tools, slowing down efforts to react to the spending data. “You ClearData’s tech stack ensured that appropriate tags remained during deployment.

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Cross-Cultural Design

A List Apart

I pride myself on being a third-culture kid , meaning I was raised in a culture other than the country named on my passport. But even with a cultural upbringing in both Nigeria and the US, it was one of the first times I ever had to guess my way through a task with no previous reference points. And I did it! Typography.

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How to Change a Struggling Culture

Steve Farber

Luciano, who recently sent four of his team to my Certification program, says the shift to a people-focused culture was essential to the lightning-fast financial turnaround. Here are four simple yet profound steps he took that could change the course of any struggling culture: 1. Ditch the name tags. “I tore them all up.”

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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

They often come with rigid processes, complex solutions, and high price tags. But there are unseen costs from countless escalations, differences in company cultures, and lackluster delivery that erodes” the value of the engagement. “It The largest vendors are not always the best choice for a smaller IT organization,” Bhasin says.

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Welcome debuts a smarter city guide app on iOS, backed by $3.5M led by Accel

TechCrunch

Upon first launch, you’ll give Welcome some input about your interests and you’ll have the option to pick from a series of publishers to follow — like Condé Nast, Lonely Planet, Eater, Culture Trip, Food & Wine, and others — whose content is used to help inform Welcome’s recommendations.

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3 things startup founders need to know about M&A

TechCrunch

The reality though, is that M&A isn’t limited to flashy corporate businesses nor does it have to bulldoze through company culture. They’ve also realized that deals don’t have to have heavy price tags and red tape that larger companies navigate. I know this firsthand from 15 years buying and selling companies.