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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

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The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

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Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. What is it weak in? The Vilnius startup ecosystem is mainly dominated by startups developing business management systems (B2B, SaaS) and financial technologies. Lukas Inokaitis, business development, NFQ Technologies. What is it weak in? Rokas Tamoši?

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Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers

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Pixyle AI’s neural networks train its visual AI algorithms to not only identify fashion items in an image, but also categorize them by attribute, like color or pattern, that match the keywords shoppers use when searching for an item. Pixyle AI’s team on a green mountain top. The reason for search results is usually bad data.

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10 growth marketing experts share their 2022 predictions and New Year’s resolutions

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This is a quiet period for marketing: End-of-year campaigns are already underway, teams are on holiday vacations and there’s little to do until after the new year. Should marketing teams be leaning into this, or is it industry/customer-specific? was high on their to-do list.

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UK’s greenworkx takes aim at the domestic retrofit skills challenge

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And a training/upskilling/reskilling problem. Commenting in a statement, Nikolas Krawinkel, partner at Mangrove, heralded the opportunity of the looming “green industrial revolution”, writing: “We’re on the cusp of a green industrial revolution, which will require a huge rethink of our education and training systems.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

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The company is looking for customer-focused skills and asks candidates to tell them about “a time you learned something from a team member that changed your mind or widened your perspective.” The two founders, Ayelen Denovitzer and Shailendra Sason, met while they were working for Revolut, in the crypto team more specifically.

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Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com

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Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. The executive also said he “had a lot of leadership training” and realized that he needed to treat his employees with the same kindness he was treating customers. He got it done.” Learn more.

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