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Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6 billion, conducts layoffs

TechCrunch

Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 A spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, saying that “the layoffs are happening as a part of a strategic effort to set Course Hero business line up for future growth.” Launched in 2006, Course Hero was somewhat allergic to venture capital until recent.

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Of course the Adobe-Figma deal is anti-competitive

TechCrunch

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Of course the Adobe-Figma deal is anti-competitive by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch Investors, it appears , are willing to ding Adobe for both doing the deal and not doing the deal. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

With the cloud market maturing significantly, the company could now look at what it had and compare it to other solutions out there. So about five years after the migration, Tomago started to reassess their environment.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool increases course options amidst soaring tech-skill demand

TechCrunch

Among the new courses are product marketing, design and management, data science, engineering and analysis. This is in addition to a software engineering course where students specialize in either front end and back end or cloud engineering. And companies are looking outside of their primary market to hire talent.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Any return to normalcy may seem far-off, but sales and marketing are on the front lines of restarting the economy. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department. Strategically aligning your systems and teams.

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As the global venture capital market slows, Africa charts its own course

TechCrunch

and Europe, the consensus is that the economic downturn will soon start affecting developing markets — Africa, in particular. Large firms like Tiger Global and SoftBank have already taken a beating in developed markets. This means there’s a lag in what’s reported as the current state of VC on the African continent.

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Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign

TechCrunch

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. The answer is simple: Growth marketing. Booting up an email marketing campaign. Launching a paid acquisition channel.

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