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Jungle Scout raises $110M, acquires Downstream Impact to help 3rd parties sell on marketplaces like Amazon

TechCrunch

Its data engine ingests search, purchasing and other information for some 500 million Amazon products, which it then turns into data to help customers sell on Amazon better. We’ll cover every aspect of company building: Fundraising, recruiting, sales, product market fit, PR, marketing and brand building.

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Rethinking the IT talent pipeline

CIO

Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. There is a persona-based training curriculum to upskill staffers in modern engineering-oriented IT practices and a mandate for all managers become cloud certified.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

Employees with these skills are still expensive and hard to find: nearly 80 percent of companies complain that they’re already finding recruitment for these jobs either 'challenging' or 'extremely difficult.'. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.