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Closed User Groups in Travel: Benefits, Examples, and Best Practices to Enable a CUG Strategy

Altexsoft

That’s where closed user groups come in. By creating exclusive travel experiences for a select group of clients, you can increase customer loyalty, repeat purchase rate, and revenue. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to implement and take advantage of a closed user group strategy.

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Discord is close to closing a round that would value the company at up to $7B

TechCrunch

Discord , the communications service that’s become the 21st century’s answer to MUD rooms, is close to closing a new round of financing that would value the company at up to $7 billion, according to sources with knowledge of the round. billion valuation. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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BlackRock acquires minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider Human Interest

TechCrunch

Human Interest’s digital retirement benefits platform allows users “to launch a retirement plan in minutes and put it on autopilot,” according to the company. Since the initial closing of that round, Human Interest said in a blog post that it has seen has over 400% growth in the number of customers and revenue.

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AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models

TechCrunch

Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Dolma, as the dataset is called, is intended to be the basis for the research group’s planned open language model, or OLMo (Dolma is short for “Data to feed OLMo’s Appetite).

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Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

TechCrunch

This funding round will also support a ‘Creator Grant Program’ being set up by Clubhouse, which will be used to “support emerging Clubhouse creators” according to the startup’s blog post. Of course, adding monetization for users also introduces a method for Clubhouse itself to monetize.

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Ring launches pilot program to let local agencies share updates and ‘safety information’

TechCrunch

Beginning with the City of North Port and Pinellas County Government in Florida and the City of Fulton in New York, the new program will allow government organizations to provide safety information through Neighbors, the Amazon-owned company’s neighborhood watch feature that alerts users to nearby alleged crimes and events.

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Flippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers

TechCrunch

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. in 2020, up from 15.8%