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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake). And when we consider the period of hype surrounding their public debuts, it’s difficult to not wonder how many retail traders got burned. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.

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Y Combinator-backed Luca aims to optimize retail prices at enterprise scale

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Luca , a startup building price planning and prediction tools for retailers, today announced that it closed a $2.5 ” Mann describes Luca as a “pricing co-pilot for enterprise retailers.” Luca’s platform attempts to optimize retail prices using historical data and other signals. million equity investment.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

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Direct-to-consumer companies generate a wealth of raw transactional data that needs to be refined into metrics and dimensions that founders and operators can interpret on a dashboard. It’s not uncommon for such dashboards to report the pre-discounted retail amount for orders in which a customer used a promo code at checkout.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Crucial API metrics, US startup funding, advanced SEO tactics

TechCrunch

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Retail Zipline founder Melissa Wong and Emergence Capital investor Lotti Siniscalco joined Managing Editor Jordan Crook to walk attendees through Zipline’s Series A deck. How Retail Zipline’s Series A pitch deck ticked every box for Emergence Capital. Walter Thompson.

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How Leaders Make Business Metrics Meaningful

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Meaningful Business Metrics Aren’t About the Number When it comes to business metrics, there’s a secret that top-performing leaders understand, but might not tell you aloud: “Your customer doesn’t care about your internal scorecard.” Not to mention that no one can concentrate on twenty-seven metrics at a time.

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Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M, gives CPG companies one-touch access to metrics

TechCrunch

This was not a consequence of them not being good marketers or connected to mom, but they didn’t have the technology to connect their back end with retailers like Amazon, Walmart or Hobby Lobby,” she told TechCrunch. For example, the CEO will want different metrics than product teams.

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Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers

TechCrunch

The metrics go deeper. The advantage, companies like Highbeam and Wayfler claim, is that retailers make repayments as a percentage of their sales. Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch Make of that what you will.

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