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Oars.io is an exceptionally good brand. As you know, .io domains are really hot, especially ultra-short ones, and are very popular with the new generation of entrepreneurs, for both startups and spin-off ventures. Here is a sample of recent one word .io sales: · Social.io $1.5M · Poker.io $1M · App.io $800K · Mint.io $230K · Luck.io $144,261 · Hero.io $125K · Ledger.io $120K · Eleven.io $121K · Evo.io $105K · Gaming.io $105K · Mountain.io $90K We'd be right in the middle of that stack with other one word 4 letter .io's. Our price for Oars.io is $130K. #domainnameforsale #domain #domains #domainname #domainnames #brand #dotio #venture #venturecapital #startup #startups #brand #brands #branding #marketing

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😅 How did Dan end up manufacturing large quantities of pharmaceutically optimized LSD? 1. Founder of HealthMode 2. Acquired by MindMed to become CMO 3. Run an FDA breakthrough program for LSD in anxiety Full episode in the comments 👇

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Local News publishers stand out as a potential beneficiary of this new web economy. Local audiences tend to navigate directly to local news websites and that direct navigation could insulate the local media property from such dramatic changes in search and social. Advertisers should recognize the value of Local Media's authentic and engaged audiences. Vertical publishers need to start building syndication to Local Media partners to reach those authentic and engaged audiences also! Distributed Media Lab is here to help!! Local Media Association

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Google Faces $2.5 Decillion Fine Over Media Restrictions. That’s $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. With that; Google has almost entirely pulled out of Russia with the Russian subsidiary of the company declaring bankruptcy more than a year ago. This Seems fake. First question comes to mind; “what’s behind it” and “what’s the core reason for this besides what they are telling the media?” #Google #Decillion #PrivateEquity

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Create Health Ventures Launches Inaugural $21M Fund for Early-Stage Digital Health Startups  Create Health Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage digital health companies, has closed its debut fund, raising $21 million, surpassing its initial target. Launched in 2024, Create Health Ventures is based in Austin, TX, and Chicago, IL. The firm focuses on technologies that enhance healthcare access, improve patient experiences, and deliver value across payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies. *Its primary focus includes:   1. Payer-Facing Technologies: Solutions that improve member experiences, enable seamless data and workflow integration, and scale technology across geographies.   2. Clinical Trial Enablement: Tools to help pharmaceutical companies recruit and retain participants for late-stage clinical trials as demand increases. *Founders and Approach:   Create Health Ventures was co-founded by Emma Cartmell and Amit Aysola, healthcare veterans with over 45 years of combined experience. They bring operational expertise, regulatory insight, and an extensive network to portfolio companies. The firm exclusively invests in startups led by healthcare industry founders, leveraging its unique value-added platform for scaling businesses.  *The platform includes: - Business development support   - Access to executive coaches   - Connections to healthcare leaders   - Cross-selling opportunities among portfolio companies  *Key Quotes by GPs:  - Emma Cartmell: “Founders from the healthcare industry understand the challenges and opportunities to improve patient outcomes. Supporting them is the most impactful way we can positively transform healthcare.”   - Amit Aysola: “Payers and pharmaceutical companies are driving demand for connected, scalable solutions, and we are investing in companies to meet these needs.”  *Investments and Impact:  The firm has made five investments so far and partners with foundations, impact investors, and strategic healthcare veterans to mentor portfolio companies.  *Portfolio CEO Feedback:   - Dr. Chip Grant (Watershed Health): “Create Health Ventures has been invaluable in scaling operations and fundraising.”   - Shara Cohen (Carallel): “They are the most collaborative and active investor team I’ve worked with.”   - Neil Batlivala (Pair Team): “They’ve helped us manage growth and reach underserved communities.” If you are experiencing difficulties in raising fresh capital and would require warm introductions to new LPs, contact G+QUANT     ▶ Please use G+QUANT's link for inquiries and fund decks, or send your inquiry directly to [email protected] #VentureCapital #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #Startups #ClinicalTrials #PatientCare #HealthTech #HealthEquity #CreateHealthVentures

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Only 12% of websites pass Core Web Vitals. Just 0.03% score a perfect 100. A site we crafted for Tire Bolt is one of them. Here’s what we delivered: • Lighting-Fast Performance With a 0.6-second load time, the site scores 100 on Core Web Vitals for desktop and 96 for mobile. • Custom WooCommerce Build Tailored to their unique needs, designed to scale, and optimized for seamless operations. • Backend Integrations Streamlined inventory and order management to save time and eliminate headaches. • Local Digital Authority Boost A targeted content strategy to dominate local search and attract nearby customers. Results? A website that Google & users LOVE.

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Button is now supercharging creator and affiliate programs for the largest retailers with impact.com! Building a business model on top of commerce is what people call future proofing. This is the direction the internet is heading, and it's great to see two of the largest players collaborating on different but complementary parts of the ecosystem to drive increased value for our customers. Combining the scale of Impact's platform with the AI powered commerce optimization Button delivers - joint customers can drive more incremental profit, additional HVAs like app installs, and improve their shoppers experiences like never before. Check out our case study below and the others on our site! #commerceisthefuture #commerceoptimization #mobileappinstalls #higherprofit #incrementalgrowth https://lnkd.in/e7mxKMqq

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An interesting article below, that demonstrates out how San Diego is punching above its weight.  And how Connect's strategy and execution over time, contintues to be central to that success. The article describes the current state of the market in Seattle.  (And i love Seattle.) It's a market that we tend to track with relative to venture fundings.  They used to kick our butts, we outraised them each of the last three years.  This despite the fact they have 3x as many funds there, and 9x the amount of resident capital there. (per pitchbook) Some key takeaways:  * They continue to compare themselves to SIlicon Valley. Instead, we leverage our proximity. *They whine there's not enough local investors (see note above - they have more than us). We bring over 200 VCs to SD annually! * They say founders are not connected with one another. We bring CEOs together regularly, in a variety of ways - private dinners and through our Springboard program. * They say they need to elevate their image on a national & international stage. Why we created and continue to build Five.Ten.Thirty (aka Inno Day).  * And the last paragraph - they need to concentrate on making their region a great place to live. Our mantra: "It's about Better, not Bigger." (See XEO, TL Fund). THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT. WE ARE ON A MISSION TOGETHER!!!  (Comments, whining, suggestions on SD always welcome.) https://lnkd.in/g6Rq_f2Y

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👩‍🔬 Ayble Health is building an end-to-end care platform for digestive health, utilizing technology like predictive AI to help more than 70M Americans who live with gut discomfort. 👨‍🔬 It's W6 / Q2 / 2024 & this week in our MGMT Boston startup series we’ve got Ayble Health, a Seed stage healthtech startup building a platform for digestive health, increasing access to nutrition and behavioral therapy for millions who live with gut discomfort to make care better, faster, and more personalized. Sam Jactel had a problem. He had lived with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) for 10 years. It even runs in his family. Lucky enough to have the privilege of incredible access to care, he was treated at Harvard training hospitals like Brigham & Women’s. But Sam never got the help he needed to use nutrition and psychology as tools to tackle his condition. He would go to the doctor, take drugs, and was still sick. In and out of the hospital with flare ups frustrated by this Grand Canyon wide gap in care. Who was treating the whole patient? And where? There are not enough GI dieticians or psychologists to treat patients. Up to 40% of Americans' daily lives are being disrupted by digestive troubles and some 70M Americans suffer from GI diseases. There are 150 licensed GI psychologists nationwide... By comparison, it would be harder to get into ANY Ivy League university than see a GI psychologist. Like, 1000x harder to see a GI psychologist than get into Harvard statistically speaking. Are you starting to see the problem? What started as an Excel spreadsheet has now been transformed into an end-to-end care platform built to scale access to specialized nutrition and psychology therapy and make GI therapy better, faster, and more personalized. Using advanced nutrition techniques, powered by AI, their team helps patients find and remove trigger foods to live better lives. Their core differentiator? This stuff works. After years doing research backed by 14 clinical studies, they’re going commercial. The proof is in the 💩 , I mean pudding. 2023 was a critical year of validation as their first year “out in the wild”. They’re already working with multiple large state based health plans, 75% of the Top 10 academic medical centers in the country, and several F500 type employers. Next year they hope to widen access to 10s of millions. Sam & the team are hiring across the board, investing in core platform differentiators and wanting to be in every conversation related to GI with the patient at the center. Operators to Know: -Susan Aman, Director of Engineering -Lance Laughlin, Senior Software Engineer -Stefania Patinella, M.A., NBC-HWC, Founding Health Coach -Jessica Russo, Director of Customer Success & Partnerships If you're interested in learning more, including the key roles Ayble is hiring for, the full post is linked in the comments! And sign up for the newsletter to see who we bring you next week, will you?? #bostontech #startups #healthtech

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"We’re imagining a world where AI applications can write code, spin up workflows, and run them on Pipedream without direct human interaction—just programmatic developers." I recently sat down to discuss the future of Pipedream, and AI Automation Here are 3 key takeaways: 1. AI is going to play a huge role, especially as it continues to improve at writing code. This means Pipedream will be able to solve more complex problems faster for our customers. 2. As AI gets better, it will also enhance Pipedream’s capabilities by contributing more components to our open-source platform, benefiting all users. 3. We’ve launched Pipedream Connect, marking our first step towards embedding Pipedream directly into other applications. This is a key trend for the future—having Pipedream’s infrastructure power workflows within our customers' apps. Navigating this shift will be a critical part of our journey as we continue to innovate and expand the possibilities of automation.

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Meta's introduction of incrementality-based optimization, revealed at Performance Marketing Week in June and officially introduced last week, is strategically shrewd: - Meta has natively facilitated lift studies for years, so it knows that its platform is incrementally accretive; - Meta is the singularly largest publisher for most eCom advertisers, and its contribution is likely being undervalued by psuedo-deterministic measurement solutions; - Meta would prefer to reduce its dependency on direct data transfer, even through server-to-server mechanisms, and it has slowly been increasing its reliance on aggregated attribution data from 3P measurement tools (see: AEM changes last year). Optimizing for incrementality will simply increase platform CPMs while shifting more budget allocation into Advantage+.

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Just over a year ago, Imran Mahmud, MD introduced to me what was then called, Co:Helm. I was taken by the backgrounds and stories of Abdel Mahmoud, MD, Zahid Mahmood & Tahseen Omar and moreso their grit and determination to forge ahead with their mission of reducing the cost of healthcare. They soon got into the Sequoia Arc program with the backing of another friend, George Robson. And have been staying low and building ever since. Inbetween rebrandng to Anterior (formerly Co:Helm). And even more recently announced a new round to add more fuel. https://lnkd.in/e3V4qrRz Happy to be a supporter alongside Annelie Ajami, Dorothy Chou, Adil Mohammed, Andy Young, Caroline Mogford, Christian Arno, Felix Leuschner, Freddy Kelly, Leonard Picardo, Mandeep Singh, Michael Steel, Omid Ashtari, Noor Shaker, Sultan Murad Saidov, Yuelin Li and others in the ecosystem... [Anterior is giving clinicians a second set of hands—and fixing one of the biggest pain points for patients. It is a LLM-powered co-pilot for administration, handling all the work that comes before the clinical decision-making. Where it might take a nurse several hours to track down, organize and summarize hundreds of pages of records they need, Anterior can do it in seconds, allowing clinicians to increase their output tenfold and focus on what matters most: helping patients.] #healthcare

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#NewProductLaunch So, we have been talking about Eric, our phone interview AI-Agent. Eric has been operating in stealth with many US customers. Every customer loves him 🙂 How can Eric be a part of your team? Step 1: Upload a list of phone numbers and names Step 2: Schedule a time to call the candidates. Eric calls them at a pre-set frequency and time to maximize the connect rates. Step 3: Voila! Identify the top, most suitable candidates instantly. Your human recruiters then engage and onboard them! No wasted phone calls. No phone tag! 10x your hiring and placement speed! Check out Eric! #airecruiter #phoneagent #aiagent #hiring #speed #staffing ----- Follow us at Babblebots.ai for more updates Write to us at [email protected] for a demo!

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Design for every device, because your customers are browsing everywhere. Key Insights from George Barnett Reid 👀, GB Media: Amazon currently resizes storefront graphics automatically, but the results can vary in quality. There’s a growing expectation that Amazon will eventually allow uploads of mobile-specific versions for storefronts, similar to existing practices for A+ content and BrandStory. It's important to regularly check how your storefront appears on different devices, particularly mobile, to ensure an optimal user experience rather than relying on assumptions. #Amazon #Ecommerce #DigitalMarketing #Design #UserExperience #MobileOptimization #Branding #ContentCreation #Marketing #Innovation

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New ideas are always exciting, the key is to validate that it’s not just an idea but a real problem. You can only do that by talking to customers.

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AdAttributionKit: Unpacking Apple’s new ad attribution framework AAK unifies Apple’s various advertising attribution frameworks under a single umbrella product name and extends SKAdNetwork in meaningful ways, including with support for re-engagement and alternative app marketplaces. These are substantive improvements. But impediments to adoption remain: IP-based attribution is still widely viewed as a suitable alternative to Apple’s native iOS attribution framework, meaning that platform tools like Conversion APIs will take adoption priority.

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Our V1 Release is Coming Soon! 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Tomba.io is gearing up for the official release of V1, packed with powerful new updates designed to take your email search and verification experience to the next level. Here’s what you can expect: ✅ Improved Email Verification System – Enhanced accuracy to boost deliverability. 📱 Brand-New App – A sleek, intuitive interface for smoother navigation. 🏢 Search by Company + Advanced Filters 🏆 Competitor Data at Your Fingertips 🔗 New LinkedIn Extension – Seamless access to key data without leaving LinkedIn. 🚀 And so much more… ⚙️ Behind the Scenes: We are now crawling and processing 20TB of data weekly to uncover new companies, emails, and opportunities – ensuring you get the most updated information, every time. The best is yet to come, and we can’t wait to show you. Stay tuned for V1's release – it’s almost here! 🚀 #Tomba #ProductLaunch #ComingSoon #EmailVerification #LinkedIn #SaaS

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This is awesome Velt (YC W22). I love this. When we built our last SAAS product, we had a small feedback widget on the platform that was one of the most used features of the platform. Customers love to give you feedback and Velt (YC W22) is taking it to whole new level. Great product. Anybody who is building SAAS should consider embedding this in their platform to simplify customer feedback.

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