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When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017 and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. Ron has more.
There are many ways for startups to get ahead. It just turns out that not all of them are quite, er, legal. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order in its first-ever enforcement action over a case involving “review hijacking,” or when a marketer steals consumer reviews of another product to boost the sales of its own. In this case, the FTC has ordered supplements retailer the Bountiful Company, the maker of Nature’s Bounty vitamins and other brands, to pay $600,000 for deceiving customers on Amazon, Sarah reports.
And we have another handful for you, in which horizontal buildings just don’t get the love they deserve. If only they would (high-)rise to the occasion.
No single person could manage a B2B SaaS sales operation today, which is probably why head of revenue operations is No. 1 on LinkedIn’s 2023 Jobs on the Rise list.
To claw back time from mundane tasks so RevOps teams can tackle “the larger, meatier projects,” Rattle COO Apoorva Verma wrote a TC+ article with recommended tactics for training sales reps, finding places to automate, and ideas for codifying “every single one of your business-critical processes.”
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Don’t you hate when you’re shopping and have to go over to another app to make the final purchase? WhatsApp heard you loud and clear. Users in Brazil can now pay merchants through the app, which means they can now have an end-to-end experience in the app, reports Ivan.
Now over to Google. The company has some big news regarding its Google TV, which expanded its free streaming lineup to include over 800 live TV channels, Sarah reports. If your favorite channels include Tubi, Plex, Haystack and others, you’re in luck.
Today you get a reward for good behavior. Six — count ’em six — more for you:
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