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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

TechCrunch

Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

Panasonic’s B2B Connect unit used the Azure OpenAI Service to build its ConnectAI assistant for internal use by its legal and accounting teams, as well as HR and IT, and the reasoning was similar, says Hiroki Mukaino, senior manager for IT & digital strategy. Budgeting for those resources and timescales are essential, too.

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Why Customer Success Is More Critical Than Ever At Cloud-Native Companies

Battery Ventures

But today, many of the market’s most innovative B2B companies are investing even more in customer success—and viewing it as an offensive strategy to generate growth, instead of just a defensive play to keep customers from deserting them.

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Enterprise Web Development – Process, Cost

Existek

They give the B2B clients access to some of your company’s data. In its case, both employees and B2B clients have access to a certain amount of the company’s information. This approach usually aims at easing some processes for B2B clients. It provides the possibility to plan time and budget as well. Cloud Platforms.

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Embracing “Pricing-Market Fit” as a Cloud-Native Company — in a COVID-19 World

Battery Ventures

In early March, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold, we wrote about how many B2B tech companies selling into enterprises can navigate the current market uncertainty with a cloud-native, go-to-market playbook. Other cloud-native startups should consider emulating these practices and be long-term greedy!

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Cloud architecture Use of content about cloud security grew 25%, and identity and access management (IAM) grew 8%. And while the foundation of any security policy is good local security hygiene, it’s also true that the cloud presents its own issues. Mergers and buyouts complicated the situation more.

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