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The Election Day toilet prank in Luzerne County was.... 

Which is more important for a cartoonist to learn — writing or drawing?

ON THIS WEEK'S SHOW...

• Is it worth my time to learn how to draw AND how to write?
• UPDATE: Dropbox in decline
• UPDATE: Brad writes a "Tales from the Drive" story
• Using social media to direct traffic to website
• Working 7 days a week to achieve work-life balance

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

In der Rubrik “Investments & Exits” begrüßen wir heute Otto Birnbaum, General Partner von Revent. Otto bespricht die Runde von ReOrbit und Speak:

Das in Helsinki ansässige Unternehmen ReOrbit hat in einer Seed-Finanzierungsrunde 6,8 Millionen Euro eingesammelt. Die Runde wurde von Inventure VC geleitet und umfasste Beteiligungen von 10x Founders, Icebreaker.vc, Expansion und Yes VC. ReOrbit ist ein Anbieter von softwaregestützten Satelliten und ermöglicht den Echtzeit-Datenfluss im Weltraum. Das Unternehmen bietet Flugsoftware, Satellitenplattformen und komplette Systeme für Erdbeobachtungs- und SatCom-Betreiber. Durch die Software-First-Architektur kann ReOrbit Satelliten für verschiedene Missionen anpassen und dabei die Kosten und die Zeit bis zur Umlaufbahn minimieren. 

Die OpenAI-gestützte Sprachlern-App Speak hat in einer Series-B-2-Finanzierungsrunde unter der Leitung von Angel-Investor Lachy Groom insgesamt 16 Millionen US-Dollar gesammelt. Die Mitbegründer von Dropbox, Drew Houston und Arash Ferdowsi, haben ebenfalls in Speak investiert, was die Gesamtfinanzierung auf 63 Millionen US-Dollar erhöht. Das Geld wird verwendet, um die Markteinführung von Speak in weiteren Ländern, einschließlich der USA, zu unterstützen. CEO Connor Zwick plant, den KI-gesteuerten Tutor von Speak bis zum Ende des Jahres in den meisten wichtigen Märkten weltweit einzuführen, um Englischsprechern das Erlernen anderer Sprachen zu ermöglichen. 

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In Episode #75, Ross is joined by Casey Martin, Founder and Executive Creative Director of Play, a branding and design studio working with the world’s most innovative companies.

Casey’s leadership has helped shape Play into an uncommonly agile partner, resulting in acclaimed collaborations with Elon Musk’s neurotech pioneer Neuralink, digital currency Worldcoin, storage standout Dropbox and many others.

Ross and Casey discuss what it’s like to build the brands that are shaping the future and how to adapt your design process to work with visionary tech leaders. Casey also shares his perspective on finding balance in fast-paced agency life.

Find show notes and episode highlights at https://nwrk.co/omq-casey

To listen to previous episodes go to https://nwrk.co/omq.

If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and share this episode with your friends.

In this podcast edition, Tyler Britton, Cyber Risk Manager at Dropbox, joins Matthew Davies, VP of Product at SureCloud, to discuss Factor Analysis of Information Risk methodology and how he has embedded it in his organization, Dropbox. He explains his role as a Quantitative Cyber Risk Manager and goes through the challenges and benefits of implementing Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) methodology in organizations.

Siddarth Garg is co-founder and head of growth at CloudFiles. A software developer turned business developer who loves reading epic fantasies, eating good food, and talking about quantum physics!

In this episode, Sid talks through real examples of the challenges customers face when trying to use separate file systems for documents related to their HubSpot deals.

Celebrating over 500 CloudFiles installations on HubSpot in the first 18 months, Sid has many examples of the typical file-related problems customers need to solve. Sid shares several of these in this episode.

A great example is the insurance company with deals that happen over several months, with many related files. A much simpler solution became a single link they could share with the customer, where all files related to a deal are easily managed in Google Drive.

While it’s common to find customers using tools like Zapier to associate files with deals, HubSpot plus Zapier becomes a 1+1 = 3 solution which is much simpler to use and manage.

Often customers have files spread across different systems, and adopting HubSpot files is not really an effective solution for deal-related files. So customers must decide on a file strategy that can be automated and easily implemented through HubSpot and CloudFiles.

A popular feature, which Cloudfiles added in mid-2022 following discussions with HubDo Podcast host Pete Nicholls, was the addition of nine custom HubSpot Workflows actions. These allow much file-related automation, without the need for HubSpot Operations Hub, during the lifecycle of a deal.

Take a listen to Sid’s great examples of problems solved using Cloudfiles for HubSpot.

Episode Highlights:

1. 04:19 reached 500 Installs today!
2. 06:10 ideal customers for CloudFiles
3. 08:43 Financial company replaced Zapier solution for shared access for executors
4. 10:47 “now, we want a single link for our clients”
5. 12:00 How native HubSpot is simpler than Zapier
6. 13:44 We have often seen there’s a bunch of internal file management that the client has to do first
7. 14:16 The need to decide on an internal file management strategy
8. 16:58 When HubSpot+Cloudfiles 1+1 = 3. Easier to adopt than HubSpot files
9. 19:25 Many different file storage. DropBox, mostly Sharepoint & Google drive.
10. 21:01 Custom Workflow Actions, now 9 file automations!

About Cloudfiles

Secure File sharing, tracking & automation for Business. CloudFiles lets you access your existing document libraries and create powerful links for your files & folders. You can collect analytics, add security & perform all sorts of automation in HubSpot

Handy Links for more information about CloudFiles

https://www.cloudfiles.io/blog/32-ways-of-integrating-hubspot-with-google-drive

https://www.cloudfiles.io/blog/cloudfiles-an-alternative-to-hubspot-documents

Case Study: https://www.cloudfiles.io/blog/case-study-with-architecture-social

Connect with Siddarth Garg & Cloudfiles:

Live chat: http://cloudfiles.io

Cloudfiles on HubDo Marketplace

https://marketplace.hubdo.com/en-US/apps/371088/cloudfiles

Your host Pete Nicholls is the Founder of HubDo, HubSpot Certified Trainer and Foundation Certified in Bidding and Proposals by the APMP.

Connect with Pete at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/penichol/

Email: pete@hubdo.com

Meet: www.bookachatwithpete.com
 

For questions about this episode, email podcast@hubdo.com

The HubDo Podcast is a production of HubDo ApS Denmark.

All rights reserved.

Der tägliche Nachrichten-Podcast der deutschen Startup-Szene

Heute u.A. mit diesen Themen:

• N26 mit neuem Aufsichtsrat
• Zalando wächst wieder
• Green Frame will TV-Bühne für nachhaltige Startups
• Stripe entlässt 14 Prozent seiner Angestellten
• Nvidia stellt Ökosystem für Sprach-KI vor
• Leichter Umsatzrückgang bei Etsy
• Hacker kopieren Github-Projekte von Dropbox
• Instagram erhält NFT-Marktplatz
• YouTube startet Primetime Channels
• Twitter-Aktion behauptet, Donald Trump sei tot

In this episode, we’re joined by Le Tran - Director & Head of Dropbox APJ Communications and Bree Bunzel - Head of Dropbox Global Customer Marketing. 

Both Le and Bree each share their own unique backstories. Le shares what it was like growing up in the Western Sydney bubble and growing up with Vietnamese migrant parents and Bree shares how she navigated a mixed-Asian upbringing in Silicon Valley and the mid-west.

We delve into what the tech industry experience has been like for both ladies and the positive impact of having an Asian Employee Resources Gropu (ERG) to Dropbox. 

We also hear Le’s touching story about travelling back to Vietnam with her mum and Bree’s plans to visit Korea for the first time. Both women give us insights into their career journeys and share invaluable advice on getting into the tech industry, especially as a POC. 

Brian Elliott, Executive Leader of the Future Forum, joins me again. This time, we talk about his new book How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their Lives. We also discuss team-level agreements, hybrid work, and the need for experiments. 

More about Conversations About Collaboration:

• Support the show via Patreon.
• Contact Phil Simon.

Tune in to listen to Whitney Knowlton, Product Manager at Dropbox.com, share the stories behind some of her best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring/pivoting product managers.

Whitney's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode

1. Contract roles are excellent ways to get a sense of what the real day-to-day is like
2. Don't always look for the right company, look for the right manager
3. If you want it bad enough, go learn it
4. When doing all the things, stop and ask, what's the problem you are trying to solve, just because it's on a backlog does not mean it should be
5. What are the signals you need to look for to know you are solving the right problem
6. What is the minimum scope possible to get signal
7. Learn enough so you know what to do next if you were not on the right track
8. Don't get out of practice of engaging with your customers
9. Find the link between your success metric in the business and what success means for the customer in using your product.
10. Anchor everything back to the end customer needs
11. Find something meaningful in what you do every day

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While there are scenarios where public cloud is much less expensive than data centers, there are times when it’s much more expensive. Is repatriation a viable way to manage cloud costs? 

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ARTICLE QUOTES: 

Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloud

You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.

infrastructure spend should be a first-class metric

THE CASE FOR REPATRIATION

1. Cloud costs are a large % of Cost of Sales (often times 50-80%)
2. Cloud providers operate on large margins (e.g. AWS at 30%)
3. Repatriation could reduce costs 30-50% of existing cloud spend

THE REALITIES OF REPATRIATION

1. The case in the article is primarily based on 25-40x valuation multiples for software companies. While every companies believes they are a software company today, not every company is getting 25-40x revenue multiple from the market.  
2. All repatriation calculations begin with, “if you run a highly efficient data center”
3. All repatriation calculations next involve, “assuming you have the talent to run a cloud”
4. Repatriation is technical debt. How does your company typically handle that?
5. Less than 100% repatriation creates multiple operational models (ops, billing, security, etc.)
6. Most companies use a subset of the features in any given cloud.
7. Can you create a financial situation in your data center that’s similar to the cloud?

FEEDBACK?

• Email: show at thecloudcast dot net
• Twitter: @thecloudcastnet

In Seoul,  South Korea,  Pastor Lee Jong Rak and his wife, Chun-ja, are doing something EXTRAORDINARY. The elderly Korean couple have created "The Babybox," a place where mothers who are afraid to keep their babies can leave them safely to be cared for or receive counseling and strength to face the challenges of being a young mother. 

International author Nikki Colby joins us on Episode #015 of the Live the More podcast to tell us all about the remarkable story of The Babybox, how it impacted her life as she traveled to Seoul and teaches internationally with Korean students, and what God is speaking to her about the power of love to conquer fear.

Friends, this is a good one. Please join Nikki and me as we dive into the beauty of the Korean people, honor-shame culture, the power of grace and rescue, and the incredible true story of The Babybox.

Nikki's book, No Fear in Love: Reflections from The Babybox, can be found HERE on Amazon.com (US); it can also be found on Amazon UK or Amazon Germany.  ALL the proceeds--yes, all of them--go directly to the Babybox in South Korea. 
 
The Baby Box website

godslove.or.kr (click for English in upper right)

Nikki's website (about the author, blog, current projects, contact details)

nikkicolby.com

Book Illustrator on Instagram

@daybyday.doodle

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Der tägliche Nachrichten-Podcast der deutschen Startup-Szene

Heute u.a. mit folgenden Nachrichten:

• Naturschutzbund äußert Bedenken gegenüber Tesla Gigafactory
• Elon Musk tritt bei „Saturday Night Live“ auf.
• IBM entwickelt ersten 2-Nanometer-Chip der Welt
• Amazon startet Mesh-Netzwerk Sidewalk
• Microsoft schwächt Apples Position im Prozess mit Epic
• Datenleck beim Lieferdienst Gorillas
• Dropbox mit starken Zahlen
• Amazon-Fahrer sollen rasen
• US-Politiker fährt während Videokonferenz Auto

Und für den Experten-Check in der Rubrik "Investments & Exits" begrüßen wir heute Enrico Mellis, Principal Project A.

This episode features an interview with Naman Khan, CMO of Zeplin.

Naman is an accomplished marketing leader with experience across B2B and B2C marketing and sales at some of the largest companies in the world. Before joining Zeplin, he served as VP of Marketing at Dropbox, VP of Product Marketing at Salesforce, and held marketing leadership roles at Microsoft and Autodesk.

On this episode, Naman discusses his journey from some of the world’s most recognizable brands to being a first-time CMO and standing up a new marketing organization. He also shares how he learned to harden messaging frameworks from Marc Benioff and more of the fascinating insights and most successful campaigns from his time at Salesforce and Dropbox.

Key Takeaways

• How to harden messaging frameworks. It takes prioritization and curation.
• Content is an investment, it doesn’t happen on its own.
• Succeeding is great, but learning is way better.

Quotes

“I've been through messaging frameworks many times over my many years. There's only a handful of messaging that I've seen done well…When people like Marc Benioff review a messaging framework, they know what good looks like, so you learn how to harden messaging frameworks. You learn how to create really simple content that optimizes for simplicity instead of completeness or accuracy…What you really want to do is think about your user…You'll be lucky if they remember two or three things, so optimize for two or three things. This sounds so simple, but unless you've done it the hard way, it's very easy to keep making those mistakes.”

“We all want that very simple, elegant, pithy ‘A thousand songs in your pocket’ that kind of says it all. I don't think it's always going to happen, but that's the goal–to get to where you curate a message that people totally get…but that comes from curating and prioritizing. You really have to invest in it. Otherwise, you just end up with kind of flat, generic sounding messaging that you can just take your logo off and put a competitor's logo on.”

“When people think of tactics, they may not always think of website. But because we're a hybrid self-service and sales-assist model, our website is super, super critical. So making sure that the website is optimized for top of funnel, middle, and purchase is important. And again, that doesn't just happen. You have to be very thoughtful about when you update your website with different features, when you want to run a promo, when you want to spin up a landing page, and how that will affect the overall kind of revenue footprint for your company.”

“Growth experiments and our MarTech stack–I put those together because you just can't have one without the other. For us to drive revenue and drive demand, it's all about running experiments through the high volume of visitors and the high volume of freemium traffic that we get.”

“Succeeding is great, but learning is way better. The reason is marketing isn't just rinse and repeat. You can't have done growth optimization at one company, come do the exact same thing at another company, and think that anything will ever look the same. There are just too many variables.”

“You can glean a lot of insight if you invest in data science. You can actually build a pretty complete picture of what the user is doing. You see that in other industries like social media–they know what I'm going to have for lunch right now, it's kind of bananas. So if you invest in really learning about your customer–quant, qual, take a look at how they use your app, and you iterate on it and become really good at it, it makes for much more sophisticated, targeted, high-ROI marketing.”

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Links

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https://zeplin.io/

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. Like every week, we had to leave a lot of great stuff on the cutting-room floor. But, we did get to touch on a bunch of news that we feel really matters.

Also we do wind up talking about a few Extra Crunch pieces, which is where our deeper analysis on news items lives. If the paywall is a bother, you can get access while saving 50% with the code "EQUITY."

Here's what we got into:

• Crypto-art and the NFT boom continue. Check out what Beeple just did. Danny has an opinion on the matter.
• The Roblox direct-listing does very little actually solve the IPO pricing issue. That said, well done Bloxburg.
• We talked about the Coursera S-1, which gave us the first financial peek into an education company revitalized by the pandemic.
• The numbers needed context, so our follow up coverage gives readers 5 takeaways from the Coursera IPO.
• Language learning has a market, and it's big. We talked about Preply's $35 million raise and why tutoring marketplaces make sense.
• Dropbox is buying DocSend, which makes pretty good sense. Even if the exit price won't matter much for bigger funds. We're still witnessing Dropbox and Box add more features to their product via acquisitions. Let's see how it impacts their revenue growth.
• Zapier buys Makerpad. We struggled to pronounce Zapier, but did have some notes on the deal and what it might mean for the no-code space.
• Sticking the acquisition theme, PayPal bought Curv. If you were looking for more evidence that big companies are taking crypto seriously, well, here it is.
• And to close we nerded out about Neeva. Can a Google-competitor take on Google if it was founded by ex-Googlers?

Credits: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo. We are produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.