In the throes of tightening budgets and widespread layoffs, sales teams are facing a near impossible challenge: close more deals, with less resources, in less time. In an effort to ...
They say you aren’t serious about your side hustle until you go full-time. Well, this month I did just that. Leaving the luxuries of job security and a salary is ...
Ever get the feeling that you can apply artificial intelligence in a meaningful and value-adding way to your startup but you are sitting on the sidelines? If the answer is ...
The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds and are now leading successful companies. Lolita Taub, Co-Founder and ...
When the pandemic first halted travel and in-person meetings, many speculated how the venture capital industry would respond. While deals have been historically tied to face-to-face meetings, the industry quickly ...
Crunchbase Spotlight is a series that celebrates diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and tech by profiling people of color, women, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ. How do you bring ...
UCLA Professor Matthew Lieberman once said, “being socially connected is our brain’s lifelong passion … It’s been baked into our operating system for tens of millions of years.” Now, in ...
We’re back with a special Black History Month bonus edition of the Monthly Rundown. Following the classic Monthly Rundown style, this edition highlights Black-founded and co-founded companies with new funding ...
The professional playing field has never been even. Still today, we must acknowledge the fact that some runners start the race farther away from the finish line than others. This ...
The welcome news of COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out around the world gives us hope that much of life will return to normal in the coming months and years. It ...
Creating a sales presentation that wins clients can be a challenge in the best of times. But the world has changed drastically over the last year and it’s impacted how ...
The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds and are now leading successful companies. Nithya Thadani is the ...
Without a strategic sales pipeline, your business is doomed to fail. If you haven’t defined the steps that make up your sales life cycle, you can’t possibly tell the difference ...
B2B sales prospecting isn’t always as exciting and glamorous as other parts of the sales routine, as you can imagine; it’s far more behind the scenes and challenging. In fact, ...
The South Asian diaspora, an accumulation of generations of traditions, art, and stories from one of the oldest and richest cultures in the world, manifests in the lives of over ...
Colorado is no longer just an early-stage ecosystem. Over the past 10 years, Colorado’s startup ecosystem has matured and, with it, venture capital investment, talent, and secondary locations (and relocations) ...
Today, many organizations still believe that money is the only motivation. One would think that a higher compensation would produce better results, but research shows the link between motivation, compensation, ...
President Joe Biden recently gave the United States public its first glimpse into his intent to increase sustainable investments in areas such as the energy sector, when he pledged to ...
It’s the most important step to improve relations between business teams & IT If you’ve spent even a small amount of time working inside or around the enterprise, you’re no ...
In November of 2017, Crunchbase.com relaunched on a brand-new web platform. We transitioned millions of Crunchbase users to the new site, and we did it with almost zero downtime and ...
Here We Are 2021… One of the truths in sales is that repetitiveness is the path to oblivion, both for your company and your role as a manager. With the ...