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Falkon closes $16M round to automate sales workflows and analyses

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CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ” .” ”

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Five Metrics to Track the Performance of Your Quality Assurance Teams and the efficiency of your Quality Assurance strategy

Trigent

A product goes through different stages of a release cycle, from development and testing to deployment, use, and constant evolution. According to a PWC research report published in 2020, 1 in 3 customers is willing to leave a brand after one bad experience. Developing a sound Quality Assurance (QA) strategy.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

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According to Carta data , data and analytics-focused Series C rounds since the start of 2020 have median values of $43.75 According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. This could include a git-style service ( GitLab , GitHub , etc.),

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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500

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Lauren reports that Posh announced its public launch today after being in beta since October 2020. That’s code for “help me out over here” : Kyle reports that Replit, the web-based IDE developing a GitHub Copilot competitor, raised $100 million. Alongside the launch, the company also announced its $5 million seed round.

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Emerging companies thrive on data. Shouldn’t they use it to improve hiring decisions?

TechCrunch

The consequences of this is not only detrimental to building teams, but to the overall diversity of the startup space. There’s a science to building teams, and therefore selecting talent to join teams. There’s a science to building teams, and therefore selecting talent to join teams.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

TechCrunch

After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United. He also wrote the 2020 book “ The Commando Mindset ”, published by Penguin. On the surface of Loopin is the daily ‘check-in’ via Slack or Microsoft Teams.

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How To Master Market Segmentation

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By Tracy Young In go-to-market organizations, segmentation underpins strategic decision-making, influencing how markets are approached, internal organization, product development and resource allocation. This lack of coordination drains resources and frustrates teams.