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AI Marketing Platform Nectar Social Lands $30M Funding Round Nectar Social, an AI-powered marketing operating system, announced it raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and the Anthology Fund—a fund created in partnership with AI company Anthropic. The funding underscores growing investor interest in AI
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How to Use AI to Write Proposals and Quotes That Win Clients A weak proposal can cost you a job even when you're the best person for it. If you're spending hours writing quotes from scratch — or sending the same generic template to every prospect — AI
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Personal Finance—Here's What It Means for Your Business OpenAI has rolled out a new personal finance feature for ChatGPT that lets users connect their bank accounts directly to the platform. Once connected, users get a dashboard showing their investment portfolio performance, spending patterns,
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How to Use AI to Plan Your Business Marketing Calendar If you've ever hit January with no plan for what you're posting, promoting, or sending out — and then scrambled all year trying to catch up — you're not alone. A marketing calendar sounds like something
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OpenAI Brings Codex to Mobile—What It Means for Your Workflow OpenAI is expanding access to Codex, its AI coding assistant, by bringing it to smartphones and mobile devices. The move gives business owners and their teams the ability to write, debug, and manage code directly from their phones instead
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Best AI Chatbot Tools for Small Business Websites (2025 Guide) If you're still relying on a contact form to capture leads after hours, you're probably losing business to competitors who answer instantly. AI chatbots for small business websites have gotten genuinely useful — and affordable — over the
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Legal Tech Startup Clio Hits $500M Milestone—Here's Why AI Investment is Exploding Clio, a cloud-based legal practice management platform, just crossed a major threshold: $500 million in annual recurring revenue. The Canadian company's growth comes as Anthropic, an AI safety company, ramps up its own
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How to Use AI to Create a Menu or Service Price List If you've been putting off updating your menu or service price list because it feels like a chore, AI can cut that project from a few hours to about 20 minutes. And the result will actually
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A* Closes $450M Fund to Back AI and Fintech Startups—Here's What It Means Kevin Hartz's venture firm A* just wrapped up fundraising for its third fund with $450 million in committed capital. The firm plans to use the money to back roughly 30 startups across
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How to Write a Professional Bio for Your Business Using AI Your business bio is often the first thing a potential customer, partner, or journalist reads about you — and most small business owners have one that's either years out of date or painfully generic. AI can help you
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Robinhood Launches Second Venture Fund as AI Investment Wave Heats Up Robinhood, the online brokerage known for making stock trading accessible to everyday people, has filed confidentially with regulators to launch a second venture capital fund. This new fund will focus on investing in growth-stage and early-stage startups, doubling down
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How to Use AI to Analyze Your Sales Data as a Small Business Most small business owners are sitting on a goldmine of sales data and have no idea what it's telling them. AI has made it genuinely easy — and affordable — to find patterns, spot problems, and make
