Customer research platform Dovetail has raised US$63 million (A$87m) in a Series A for the software startup’s first major funding round. The raise was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors including Blackbird, Felicis Ventures, Grok Ventures, and CultureAmp CEO Didier Elzinga. New backers include Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Wedflow CEO Vlad Magdalin and… Read more »
Australian startup Car Next Door has sold to the US tech giant Uber after a decade in business. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed The peer-to-peer car rental platform first launched in Sydney in 2012 and now operates in all capital cities except Darwin, as well as the Gold Coast, Cairns,Launceston, and Newcastle.… Read more »
In the B2B sales world, growth is usually a function of connections, capital and crew. For emerging brands, these resources are often in short supply. For this reason, brands are limited in their ability to increase revenue in a short period, and retailers need to constantly find new stock for their customers to keep them… Read more »
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January 19, 2022
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Business strategy
Strategy. It’s one of the most misused words in business. What does it mean? How should it be used? How can you benefit from having a well-considered one? Over the Christmas break, I reread AG Lafley and Roger Martin’s book Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Published in 2013, it sets out five key… Read more »
Capital Raising
Be worried about the right things at the right time. I took this photo on an ancient four-prop 30 seat passenger plane in Tonga. It looked a bit like an old DC3 (it wasn’t) with the old-fashioned metal riveted skin and the only other time I’d flown in something like that was in Kenya. Obviously… Read more »
Antler Australia
In the B2B sales world, growth is usually a function of connections, capital and crew. For emerging brands, these resources are often in short supply. For this reason, brands are limited in their ability to increase revenue in a short period, and retailers need to constantly find new stock for their customers to keep them… Read more »
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