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See you tomorrow!  — Christine and Haje

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• Slumdog $5-illonnaire: Landa is the newest startup to draw enterprise capital, on this case $33 million, to democratize actual property possession, Mary Ann writes. Its strategy allows individuals to spend money on the actual property sector, which is understood for offering generational wealth, however in a inexpensive, extra fractional manner, and in some circumstances, for as little as $5 initially.
• Snap, crackle and . . . fizzle: Regardless of the myriad of reports and new revenue streams we’ve reported about Snap proper right here on this publication, Evan Spiegel stated the phrases no tech worker needs to listen to proper now: “restructuring our business.” Amanda reviews that this sadly means chopping 20% of workers.
• Obstacles abroad: Amazon faces some powerful competitors in India, and Manish reviews that has offered some challenges within the e-commerce big’s capability to realize a extra distinguished foothold within the nation.

Startups and VC

This week, Haje went deep with a founder who’s constructing digital license plates. He mused that constructing an easy-to-copy {hardware} product in an extremely tightly regulated trade the place winner-takes-all could be an utter nightmare, however when it really works, it really works, and it’s fascinating to see Reviver build a company, one license plate at the time.

Populus, the San Francisco–primarily based transportation knowledge startup, acquired its begin as shared scooter mania took maintain and cities tried to make sense of how infrastructure was being utilized by fleets of tiny automobiles. Now, Populus co-founder and CEO Regina Clewlow is repositioning the company to make the most of one other sizzling alternative: curbs and congestion, Rebecca writes. It’s a extremely good learn from the TechCrunch transportation desk with an undertone of “the facility of nice pivots.”

Raisin’ cash, raisin’ hell:

 Crafting a XaaS buyer success technique that drives development

Giving customers higher service than they anticipated may actually save a software program startup. In a single examine, firms that spent 10% of yearly income on buyer success attained peak internet recurring income.

“Firms principally deploy two or extra buyer success archetypes,” in accordance with TC+ contributors Rachel Parrinello and John Stamos. “They normally differ by buyer phase, enterprise versus technical focus and gross sales movement focus: undertake, renew, upsell and cross-sell.”

Should you’re fascinated by optimizing income by way of CS, learn the remainder for a full overview of job design methodology, as a result of “firms mustn’t design their buyer success roles in a vacuum.”

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Huge Tech Inc.

Social media and privateness don’t typically go hand in hand, particularly when kids can see quite a bit on the web already. Twitter got caught up in this when it reportedly tried to monetize grownup content material in an effort to compete with OnlyFans. It later scrapped this system when it was discovered that its system couldn’t “detect little one sexual abuse materials and non-consensual nudity at scale,” Amanda writes. In the meantime, California lawmakers wasted no time shifting forward to place in place statewide online privacy protections for children the place there are none on the federal stage, Taylor reviews.

• Stepping on the fuel, er, EV pedal: Toyota is accelerating its investment in U.S. electric vehicles, and can park some $3.8 billion into that initiative, up from an preliminary $1.3 billion, Jaclyn writes.
• Cashing in on NFTs: Occasion organizers working with Ticketmaster can now issue NFTs tied to tickets on Circulate, Ivan reviews.
• It’s virtually fall and which means one other Apple occasion: Brian has the thin on all of the issues it is best to find out about Apple’s iPhone 14 event on September 7.
• New satellite tv for pc on the block: Royal Caribbean goes “all-in on satellite tv for pc service,” and can outfit its fleet of ships with Starlink internet, Devin writes.