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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

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For example, the aggregation of billing data, and the act of grouping tags to populate all the attributes that must be applied after data ingestion, can be burdensome on some cloud cost optimization tools, slowing down efforts to react to the spending data. “You You don’t know when it will be written, and you must be ready to consume it.

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

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Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability.

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6 best practices for better vendor management

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They often come with rigid processes, complex solutions, and high price tags. Conduct site visits, and where possible, interview other companies using their services.” But there are unseen costs from countless escalations, differences in company cultures, and lackluster delivery that erodes” the value of the engagement. “It

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3 things startup founders need to know about M&A

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Alvaro began his career providing acquisition financing for M&A at JP Morgan before co-founding Spanish pet retail giant Kiwoko, which in turn acquired 12 other companies and was eventually sold 5x. The reality though, is that M&A isn’t limited to flashy corporate businesses nor does it have to bulldoze through company culture.

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Decoding the Qualtrics deal: Was the firm a good fit for SAP?

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Both companies remained incongruous to each other’s progress before Qualtrics was sold to Silver Lake and CPP Investments earlier this week , according to experts and analysts. The other issue, according to Constellation Research’s Principal Analyst Liz Miller, was that these firms were also not a “culture fit”. “I

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H&R Block answers tax questions using gen AI

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Tax preparation company H&R Block is no stranger to AI and machine learning (ML), having leveraged the technologies across its business for years. The company has long had a strong partnership with the vendor, which has helped H&R Block shift about 90% of its infrastructure to the public cloud.

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Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A

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The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Canada, Australia and Asia.

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