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               Meanwhile, for today’s Black History Month recommendation, we’re watching Angela Davis talking about how
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                : Dashlane, a password management company, published its source code to GitHub, which
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                Customers saved $60,000+ annually with the #1 Document Generation app on the Salesforce AppExchange. See how with Conga.
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               Lex, the hookup and social app that launched in 2019 with a nod to lesbian personal ads from the ’80s, is changing. Only, precisely how much will change is still an open question,
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                Harri
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               writes. Sure, the venture-backed startup behind the queer app gave it a new lick of paint last week, but in refocusing on “friends and community,” some users fear that Lex will also scrub away its beloved raunchy essence.
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                “Keep Lex filthy,” the users are chanting
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               .
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               The growing ease with which anyone can create convincing audio in someone else’s voice has a lot of people on edge, and rightly so,
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                Devin
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               writes. Resemble AI’s proposal for
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                watermarking generated speech
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               may not fix it in one go, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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               Here’s another bucket o’ stories for your reading joy:
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                 Pass the crayons
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                :
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                reports that open source platform for designers and their coders
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                 Penpot draws up $12 million
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                as its user count crosses the 250,000 mark.
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                 There’s something fishy about this
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                :
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                 Christine
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                writes that
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                 New School Foods’ filet looks and tastes like salmon, but it’s actually plants
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                .
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                 Whale, whale, whale
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                :
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                 Frederic
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                reports that Triple Whale
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                 raises $25 million for its Shopify data platform
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                .
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                 Don’t worry, bee happy
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                :
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                 As the bee population declines, BloomX secures $8 million to apply AI and EVs to pollination
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                ,
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                 Mike
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                reports.
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                 Bank grows horn
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                :
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                 UK neobank Zopa just raised $93 million
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                at a $1 billion+ valuation,
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                 Ingrid
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                reports.
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                Optimizing freemium products: Challenges and opportunities
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               Offering a free sample in the hopes that the recipient becomes a paying customer is a core tactic at food courts, cosmetic counters, and inside software startups.
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               Freemium products are everywhere, but unless companies revisit and optimize their strategy, there’s no effective way to optimize conversions.
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               “Enabling freemium, especially for established products, can bring organizational and operational challenges even if it adds value to the business,” writes Konstantin Valiotti, product director of growth at PandaDoc.
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               In this article, he presents strategies for optimizing:
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                User activation
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               Three more from the TC+ team:
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                 Tearing into language learning
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                :
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                 Pitch Deck Teardown: Laoshi’s $570K angel deck
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                , by
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                .
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                 Want to buy an EV or heat pump? New coin will help you defray the costs
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