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BetterWorks Goes From Feast To Famine With Layoffs

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A report today from PandoDaily said that Santa Monica-based BetterWorks has terminated all of its sales and marketing staff, and half of its operations team. Now it appears that the firm is looking to pivot its model, and looking to figure out a better customer acquisition model. READ MORE>>.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

“[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.

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Three questions to answer about your COVID response

Berkonomics

Raising money during this crisis will be almost impossible, even from friends and family shocked by the stock market declines. Do you still need marketing costs when there is no-one out there buying new product? Are you salespeople making few if any sales because your prospective customers are distracted by their own problems?

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News? Why does that matter?

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BetterWorks Shutting Down On May 31st

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Craig said that the shutdown came as a result of not being able to sustain a large enough market, relative ot the high cost of customer acquisition. According to an email from Craig, the company decided to close down the BettterWorks perk platform, and will not longer be active after next Thursday.

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5 Key Recovery Strategies Counter Economic Downturns

Startup Professionals Musings

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. It's far less expensive to nail down repeat business from your existing customers than it is to land new ones. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money.

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Blippar, Backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Calls It Quits

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According to Blippar, it had been attempting to gain a "small amount of funding" as it was making a shift into the B2B market, but an un-named, existing investor "voted against the additional funding, effectively blocking the investment even if they were not asked to participate in any further financing of the business". READ MORE>>.

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