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What does Instacart’s supposedly delayed IPO teach us about how unicorns think?

TechCrunch

Instacart has left us IPO nerds feeling whiplashed. The IPO was also set to be a critical affair for other, yet-private unicorns, as it would have provided some indication of how the public market felt about at least one of their peers. While disappointing, this turn of events does teach us a few things.

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What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn?

TechCrunch

During a recent Twitter Space, M13 Partner Anna Barber and I looked back at the dot-com crash in search of lessons operators can use to avoid missteps founders have made in past downturns. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Nobody expects any of this to be smooth sailing.”

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Things The Pandemic Taught Us About Diverse Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

What the pandemic taught us about diversity. One of the most important things that the pandemic taught us is the importance of a work-life balance. The pandemic also taught us the importance of investing in technology that supports diverse and unbiased hiring. Let’s take a look. Further Reading.

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What 2021’s IPO pops tell us about future flotations and SPACs

TechCrunch

Let’s talk about public offerings now that the IPO season is essentially behind us. So, what about those insane IPO pops? And, second, what happened to the handful of SPACs that we felt made some reasonable sense before their combination was completed? How is Latch doing?

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.

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What do these 4 IPOs tell us about the state of the market?

TechCrunch

We’ll unpack the final price of each, comparing it to its IPO valuation range and drawing a few conclusions about where we stand in the larger unicorn liquidity cycle. And we may have been too conservative before , so we have a bit of clean-up ahead of us. Why do we care about IPO pricing? Strong pricing.

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What Vimeo’s growth, profits and value tell us about the online video market

TechCrunch

Let’s answer a few questions: How quickly is Vimeo growing, how profitable is its business, and what can its spinout tell us about the larger video market?

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Salesforce Formulas for the Everyday Admin

Speaker: Steve Molis, Salesforce MVP

So don’t miss out and join us for this first episode in a brand new series about improving your Salesforce efficiency! Creating Dynamic Year-to-Month and Year-to-Date Reports. Finding the Ultimate Parent Account. The Greatest Formula Ever Written. August 2nd 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT

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Turning Trial Users Into Successful Customers

Speaker: Daniel Foster, Strategy Lead, TechSmith & Vic DeMarines, VP of Product Management, Revenera

Join us for a discussion about experimenting with data-driven onboarding to boost customer experience during trials and drive business outcomes. TechSmith’s Snagit Strategy Lead, Daniel Foster, will share how he leveraged product usage data, segmentation, and targeted onboarding messaging to improve trial users’ experiences.

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Architect Your Organization for Effectiveness, Productivity, and Joy

Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

We are excited to welcome Ron Lichty, co-author of a seminal book on managing software teams and a well-known speaker, who will walk us through the latest thinking, best practices, and on-the-ground experiences structured around key questions about effective organizational structures: How, when and how often do we split teams?

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

We must find a way to create “Togetherness” and use the collective knowledge of each team to win. This means we must intimately understand the customer journey then implement tech that helps us provide an amazing customer experience. Jeff Davis is here to help you think differently about how Sales and Marketing should interact.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Join us for this exclusive webinar with expert innovator Paul Weald to learn more about: How artificial intelligence technology can complement employee performance and optimize business performance with intelligent insights and analytics. Embrace automation, collaborate with new technology, and watch how you thrive!

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

Inclusive design is about designing for as diverse a range of people as possible. It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world.

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Serverless and Containers: How to Choose the Right Application Strategy

Speaker: Tolga Tarhan, Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica

We will hear about specific use cases where organizations leveraged serverless refactoring, containerization or a combination of both solutions, that resulted in improved performance, availability, and scalability. Join us to learn how you can unlock the benefits of the modern tech stack!