Hubspot has a free and easy CRM system that could be sufficient for small and medium sized companies

Hubspot has a suite of products to organize, track and manage leads, sales and marketing. They have an interesting completely free to use CRM offering. Hubspot is offering a basic CRM product for free and commit to keeping it free. There are numerous testimonials that it is easy to use and intuitive. Demo and training …

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Ant Financial raises $14 billion and has $150 billion valuation

China’s Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, has raised a total of $14 billion. It was a yuan and dollar-denominated tranches. Investors included Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds GIC and Temasek, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Private equity groups included Warburg Pincus, Silver Lake Partners and General Atlantic. Alibaba …

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eToro lets you copy the trades of winning traders in real-time and copied traders earn 2% fees

For more than a decade, eToro has been a leader in the global Fintech revolution. eToro is the world’s leading social trading network, with millions of registered users and an array of innovative trading and investment tools. eToro has plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto wallet and raised $100 million in private funding. …

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Interview with Kim Cope Axiom Zen Product lead for Cryptokitties – C2 Montreal #C2M18

Kim Cope is Product lead for Cryptokitties which was developed Axiom Zen where she works. Cryptokitties are breedable beanie babies CryptoKitties is a game centered around breedable, collectible, and oh-so-adorable creatures we call CryptoKitties! Each cat is one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you; it cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed. CryptoKitties is one of …

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7-Eleven and convenience stores are winning retail in Asia while private label and ecommerce are global trends

Shoppers are shifting multi-national brands to retail store brand products. For the first time in over a decade, shoppers in the U.S. actually made more trips to stores in 2016, taking an average of 109 trips per household. Despite this increase in trips, however, overall spending was flat, as 85% of those additional trips had …

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Custom prefab factory construction of buildings is already a multi-billion dollar unicorn

Katerra is taking systems approaches to remove unnecessary time and costs from building development, design, and construction. Katerra is off to a fast start with more than 1500 employees, offices in four countries, a growing number of factories, and dozens of active projects. Softbank invested $865 million into the construction startup Katerra who will source …

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AI Business value is $1.2 trillion in 2018 and will be $3.9 trillion in 2022

Global business value derived from artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to total $1.2 trillion in 2018, an increase of 70 percent from 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. AI-derived business value is forecast to reach $3.9 trillion in 2022. The Gartner AI-derived business value forecast assesses the total business value of AI across all the enterprise …

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The Price Of This Essential Mineral Could Skyrocket

This might be the smartest mining opportunity in 2018. It’s not coal, oil, copper. Nor is it silver, gold or platinum. But one little-known miner called Vatic Ventures (TSXV:VCV.V) with a simple business strategy… is sitting on a potential find that could make a real difference in Asia. Their strategy? Scour the globe with the …

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