TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before founding dipp , Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City. During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. “Salespeople have sales needs, they communicate with the marketing team and then once the marketing team has a direction they brief a designer, then the designer goes back

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales Leader I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Small, a global sales and revenue operations leader who has now taken on the role of Growth and Go-to-Market (GTM) Advisor to investors and startups. Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI tools like ChatGPT, developers have found use cases to mold text in different ways for use cases ranging from writing emails to summarizing articles. Now, they are looking to help you generate bits of music by just typing some words. Brett Bauman , the developer of PlayListAI (previously LinupSupply), launched a new app called Songburst on the App Store this week.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

James Martin, CEO of Butterflye, on Changing the Way Product Teams Communicate and Gather Feedback from their Customers I had the pleasure of interviewing James Martin, the CEO and co-founder of Butterflye , a software company dedicated to helping businesses effectively communicate changes to their products and services. With over 12 years of experience in the SaaS industry, James possesses a profound understanding of the challenges businesses encounter when striving to keep their customers info

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition of Subscription Analytics within Apple Podcasts Connect — the dashboard where podcasters track how their listeners engage with their shows. In addition, Apple says it’s expanding its Delegated Delivery offering, which allows creators to publish their subscriber episodes from other hosting providers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. The features — which include things like private profiles, more control over followers and message safety controls — are similar to those introduced on other popular social media platforms with teens, like Instagram. On Pinterest, users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

CultureBoard Celebrates Milestone of 5000 Customers from Top USA Companies and Fortune 500: Disney, Nike, META, Tesla, Google, Salesforce, Uber, Zoom, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Intel, and More I had the pleasure of interviewing Peter Palus, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of various SaaS companies. His latest venture, CultureBoard , offers a range of modules for modern People Ops & Culture managers, including humorous eNPS surveys, a recognition tool for celebrating special moments, and a Q&#

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Why should you go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in San Francisco on September 19–21? Let us count the reasons. We could hit double digits, but we’ll stop at five because you’re busy people with unicorns to chase. Besides, these five should be tempting enough for anyone interested in building a bigger, better startup — in less time. Five reasons to go to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 1.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ben Franklin Technology Partners joins forces with the Invent Penn State initiative to showcase the Summer TechCelerator Cohort and their startup business ideas! For over a decade, the TechCelerator Startup Boot Camp has been supporting emerging entrepreneurs, and this year is no different. Witness seven entrepreneurial teams present their business concept to a panel of judges for a chance to win $15,000 to get their startup, up and running.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question. Per Triller’s S-1 filing, the short-form video app has had 550 million lifetime sign-ups. But market intelligence firm Apptopia estimates that Triller has been downloaded just 73.2 million times since launch in 2015 — that’s 87% lower than Triller’s own reports.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 21, 2023

Where should you integrate A.I. into your business?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Beamer , a no-code platform to build tools for measuring and monitoring product engagement, last week announced that it received a $20 million investment from Camber Partners, Beamer’s first outside round of funding. Newly appointed CEO Satya Ganni says that the proceeds will be put toward building additional product lines targeted at product managers and marketers and driving the growth of Beamer’s existing solutions.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recently got the following question: “I’m getting inbound from investors and have a screwed up cap table because of my venture studio relationship… I don’t really know what I should and shouldn’t say but I feel like when I mention how much I own, but when anyone shows real interest we get to a point where I can tell they are turned off by the cap table that I haven’t had any control over.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker symbol “ARM,” five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators. The outfit didn’t provide a projected share price in its F-1 paperwork, but SoftBank recently bought the 24.99% stake in Arm that it didn’t own outright from its Vision Fund unit, reportedly at a valuation of more than $64 billion.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 21, 2023

A subtle warning that entrepreneurs aren’t proud of what they’re building.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: SpaceX’s new rideshare program News from India’s space agency and more SpaceX’s new Bandwagon program is a big threat to small launch providers SpaceX is expanding its rideshare program with a new series of missions aimed at meeting the demand for launches to mid-inclination orbits. The new program, which was quietly announced at a space industry conference earlier this month, is the latest sign that SpaceX intends to take no prisoners

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 21, 2023

Space company Axiom raised $350 million in a round that was led by Saudi-owned Aljazira Capital and Korean health-care investment firm Boryung, the company announced Monday. Read more here.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

For many entrepreneurs, their first experience with corporate law occurs when they decide to organize their fledgling business into one of the several forms of business entities permitted by law in most states. For the first-time business owner, the options presented by legal counsel can be confusing, in part because the differences among some types of business entities are subtle or highly technical.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

What happens when a maker of tiny electric vehicles dips its wheels into the military industrial complex? We’re about to find out. On Monday, Arcimoto said it is diversifying beyond its usual business via a partnership with Department of Defense contractor Matbock. That’s a first for the EV startup, which is best known for its doorless “ fun utility vehicles.” The company also makes an “ e-trike ” and some commercial vehicles, including this impossibly small b

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Mark MacLeod

AUGUST 21, 2023

The CEO is customer #1. This is something I say to my clients all the time. Anyone familiar with the concept of ‘servant leadership’ might not agree. So let me expand on this.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Snapchat is preparing to further expand into generative AI features, after earlier launching its AI-powered chatbot My AI, which can now respond with a Snap back , not just text. With the company’s forthcoming generative AI feature called “Dreams,” Snap will again experiment with AI images — but soon, those images may contain you and your friends in imaginative backgrounds.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 21, 2023

WASHINGTON — Axiom Space announced Aug. 21 that it has raised $350 million from Saudi Arabian and South Korean investors to continue development of a commercial space station. The Houston-based company said it raised a Series C round that was led by Aljazira Capital and Boryung Co., Ltd.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Battery fires are bad. Just ask LG , GM , Tesla , Volkswagen or any of the hundreds of people whose e-bikes have caught fire. While fires caused by EVs are a relative rarity compared with fossil fuel vehicles, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. But there’s something that batteries have that fossil fuels don’t: the ability to monitor themselves.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 21, 2023

Tech products have evolved from just being tools that get the job done. Today, tech has the power to foster exciting and enjoyable experiences. Josh Hart of YuLife explores how emotions can help build products that users truly love. Read more here.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Jonas CL Valente Contributor Share on Twitter Jonas CL Valente is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and is responsible for co-leading the Cloudwork Project at Fairwork. If you use apps from world-leading technology companies such as OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft or Google, there is a big chance you have already consumed services produced by online remote work — also known as cloudwork.

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