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Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America

TechCrunch

Miferia , a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength.

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

TechCrunch

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. In a world where you have one chance to bring an idea to market, this risk can be fatal, even for well-established companies.

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3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit. We interviewed three founders from our portfolio, all of whom ran discovery experiments to find their product-market fit at different stages of their company’s development.

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Equinix goes partner prospecting with AI

CIO

So, in 2021 Equinix revisited its prospecting platform to take it a step further by adding a data-driven sales prospecting approach that uses AI to identify partners best positioned to help the company drive new sales, both globally and within specific regions and countries.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing

TechCrunch

Americans spent nearly $20 billion on pizza deliveries in 2021. In a comprehensive article that weighs development costs and technical debt against time to market , Chopra encourages readers to consider factors like product defensibility and risk before deciding whether to build or buy.

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GSK and R/GA Ventures are launching a health studio for startups

TechCrunch

GSK Next, the innovation arm of GlaxoSmithKlein, is launching a new mentorship and business development program. Called the Re/Wire Health Studio, the program will eventually select six startups that will win access to nine weeks of mentoring, business development expertise and cash grants. . Drive and excitement is one aspect of it.

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

TechCrunch

According to Jose Cayasso, CEO and co-founder of pitch deck design agency Slidebean, there are five slides where pretty much all founders miss the mark : Go-to-market. Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product. As a concept, minimum viable product (MVP) has given founders maximum flexibility.