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Pitch Deck Teardown: Qortex’s $10M seed deck

The pitch deck video analytics firm Qortex used to raise its $10M seed round has a lot missing, but it does get some things right.

5 can’t-miss strategies to break through in a crowded market

The role of HR in enterprises is becoming more strategic. This means that selling effectively requires a less-aggressive approach.

How well did Klaviyo, Arm and Instacart actually do in their first test on the public markets?

Let's do a quick summary of results from Arm, Klaviyo, and Instacart, and ask how they perform once we allow for IPO-related costs.

6-point checklist for making sure your sustainability tech pitch is newsworthy

Show journalists and their readers that sustainability is no longer a side issue or just a worthy cause. It’s our duty to help Mother Earth.

Klaviyo’s strong IPO pricing should give unicorns an idea of what they are worth

Defending — or nearly defending — a 2021-era valuation in a 2023 IPO is impressive, given how much the value of tech companies has changed in the past year and a half.

Klaviyo could be the rare startup to defend a late-stage 2021 valuation

As the IPO market slowly comes back to life, it's becoming easier to understand just how far off the mark some startup valuations were back in 2021.

Klaviyo could break the unicorn IPO logjam

Klaviyo could be the torch bearer tech startups have been waiting for. Let's dig into its IPO filing this morning to figure out how it's grown.

Never express your ‘use of funds’ slide as percentages

Early-stage companies need to paint a compelling picture for another round of funding. That’s where startups often fall down. Here’s how to fix that.

The advertising slowdown is dinging Big Tech

Perhaps the real deciding line between Big Tech and the rest of the technology industry is the point at which advertising incomes become a material part of their revenues.

5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech

As the major platforms are forced to innovate, advertisers who are willing to "be like water" and flow with change are going to come out ahead.

How to implement an effective chatbot program

Today’s chatbots are compelling. They use AI and ML algorithms to learn, speak like people, offer solutions and basic customer support, route customers and much more.

How to improve retention, growth marketing’s golden metric

Growth marketing isn’t the silver bullet to solving retention, but there are definitely some tactics that can be implemented to help improve it.

After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs

Marketing makes or breaks a company. When I am asked what is the No. 1 thing that I would do to help a company scale massively, it is focusing on marketing. Period.

5 growth marketing predictions for 2022

It’s been a crazy year in growth marketing, what with the meteoric rise of TikTok, radical iOS privacy shifts and a staggering $240 billion poured into U.S. startups as of September 30.

Where will our data go when cookies disappear?

When cookies finally disappear, companies will have to evolve how they drive ad revenue. It will no longer be as easy as plugging into an exchange and watching revenue skyrocket.

Hope and hype: Avoiding ad fraud in the hot connected TV market

With due diligence, an understanding of the fraud landscape and a commitment to keeping ad buys close to the publisher, you can make CTV deliver on the hype it has generated.

The death of identity: Knowing your customer in the age of data privacy

Prioritizing individual profiles is far from the most effective way to understand and address customers’ intentions, needs and struggles. Brands don’t need to know who; they need to know what and

4 ways to leverage ROAS to triple lead generation

Whether you’re investing in your human resources or in critical tech, some outlay in the short term is always needed for long-term success. That's true when it comes to marketing as well.

Creative adtech is on the cusp of a revolution, and VCs should take note

Here are five reasons why VCs should consider ratcheting up their investment into adtech startups building the next generation of creative tools:

What’s driving the global surge in retail media spending?

To understand why retailers will capture more ad spend, it’s important to evaluate what modern marketing has become. Is it bus stop advertisements? Bidding on Google keywords or a Clubhouse session?
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