Startup Success Stories: Only the adaptable survive (and thrive) - Dailyhunt

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The startups betting on consumption by vernacular customers will benefit a lot, as the language is only the barrier for outsiders to garner this huge market. Today 64% of India’s 510 million internet users speak primarily in their local language, while 36% are English users; by 2025, the number of internet users is expected to hit 906 million, 77% of those will be vernacular-first, according to a report by Google and KPMG.

Please read the success story of Dailyhunt harping on vernacular content.

Only the Adaptable survive (and thrive)

By Mohit Bhatnagar As the Covid-led recession sets in, I've started to reflect on a company metric that I had never spent much time thinking through before: Adaptability. How does one even measure that in a company? What makes one company more adaptable than the other? Speed of execution? Intellect

Startup Funding Alert: Canva, a startup for non-designers to design, raises $60 million on a $6 billion valuation

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Any SaaS startup venture, which enables non-designers to design their requirements like sales pamphlets, is an opportunity even in India. Please listen to this.

Sydney-based Canva, the design platform for non-designers, has announced the close of a $60 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $6 billion, according to the company.

Canva was founded in 2012 with the mission of democratizing design tools. While many non-designers can navigate their way around Google Slides or PowerPoint, or maybe even crop an image, going more in-depth on a design project can be daunting, as the suite of tools provided to designers can be incredibly complex.

The company’s tools are meant to simplify the design process for folks who don’t work in the design department, whether it’s the sales team putting together sales materials, marketers working on content or other departments working on internal materials to send to the broader organization. The drag-and-drop interface gives folks a way to create something beautiful and impressive without having to learn Photoshop.

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Canva raises $60 million on a $6 billion valuation

Sydney-based Canva, the design platform for non-designers, has today announced the close of a $60 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $6 billion, according to the company. The startup has raised a total of more than $300 million, including this latest round of financing, from investors...

Google Creates a New Source of Traffic With Keen - Search Engine Journal

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As a new and potentially powerful way to attract more site visitors, Google launches its Keen, which proactively recommends content to users similar to Pinterest for images.

Keen is a machine learning app that actively promotes relevant web pages to users. As your collection grows Keen becomes even better at surfacing the kind of content users are interested in.

It will be very useful tool for researchers, content creators, content developers and writers. It will be better than present system of Google Alerts.

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Google Creates a New Source of Traffic With Keen - Search Engine Journal

Google has quietly announced a content discovery service called Keen. Keen is being referred to as a Pinterest competitor but that's not entirely accurate. Keen is a machine learning app that actively promotes relevant web pages to users. Keen is poised to become a new source of referral traffic, which makes it worthy of investigation.