Sat.Dec 04, 2021 - Fri.Dec 10, 2021

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The Great Formation

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

On Friday, the US jobs report produced a confusing result. From Bloomberg : The jobs report is composed of two surveys — one of employers and the other of households. The employer survey, which determines the payroll and wage figures, showed hiring slowed across industries, including declines at automakers and retail outlets. The household survey, which determines the jobless and participation rates, showed employment surged by 1.14 million people and many came off the sidelines.

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How Testimonials Can Drive More Traffic to Your Site (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

If you’re looking for a way to increase traffic to your website, have you considered using testimonials? Good news: The new testimonial rule for financial advisors has officially gone into effect as of May 4, 2021! We’ve already begun gathering testimonials for a few of our clients and the results have been phenomenal! In this video, I break down the results from our testimonial program and show you how we helped one advisor increase his web traffic by 54% and increase traffic to his “Ge

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Genesys Raises $580 Million in Funding at $21 Billion Valuation

Hellman & Friedman LLC

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Round is led with investment by Salesforce Ventures with participation from ServiceNow Ventures and Zoom Video Communications, to strengthen Genesys leadership in the Experience as a Service(SM) market Genesys, a global cloud leader in customer experience orchestration, today announced a $580 million round of funding, which is intended to accelerate the company’s leadership in the Experience as a Service market globally.

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Is $22 Trillion a Tipping Point?

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. As of the end of 2020, the US debt held by the public amounted to $22 trillion, an increase of approximately $5 trillion from the year before and well over double the level from a decade ago.1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due.

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Computer Science Education Week

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The second week of December every year is Computer Science Education Week. It is a week to celebrate efforts to get computer science education into the K12 system around the world, and it is also a week in which schools do events, like The Hour of Code , to encourage students and teachers to get excited about learning computer science. Most AVC readers know that my passion project for the last decade has been getting computer science education broadly available in the NYC public school system.

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Government Debt and Stock Returns

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. As of the end of 2020, the US debt held by the public amounted to $22 trillion, an increase of approximately $5 trillion from the year before and well over double the level from a decade ago.1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due.

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