Startup Blogpost
AUGUST 18, 2023
19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. From adopting the “Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs” strategy to avoiding risky investments, these insights offer a wealth of knowledge for any entrepreneur looking to navigate the uncertain waters of startup success.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Startups are so full of s**t right now. The pipes are jammed and there are so many companies that are full to bursting with the desire to un-pack them. We’ve just been through determining the shape of this year’s TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 and we are seeing a huge amount of waste recycling, poop and urine startups. Because SBF gets applicants that are often at bootstrap or pre-seed stages, we’re betting that this trend will show up on everyone else’s dance card next year.
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AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 18, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Techsauce , a prominent figure in the tech ecosystem, has taken a significant step forward with the launch of the “VentureBridge” Fund. With this, Techsauce plans to support leading Thai organizations for establishing, operating, and managing investments in startups worldwide.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Investments, joint ventures or acquisitions could be vehicles for foreign adversaries to gain a foothold in the U.S. space industry, the Pentagon said in a new bulletin published today. The new guidance, “Safeguarding the U.S. Space Industry,” warns that foreign intelligence entities (FIEs) could use a range of strategies — including capital allocations — to exploit American space companies.
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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?
Y Combinator
AUGUST 18, 2023
Today we’re excited to show you the reimagined YC Library — a new hub for the best videos, talks, essays, and more that Y Combinator creates for startup founders. It’s an easy way to keep up with our growing lineup of new video series — from the founder-favorite Dalton & Michael to the recently launched Founder FAQ — while also helping you explore a wealth of content we’ve made over the years.
Startup Catalyst Brief brings together the best content for the entrepreneurial ecosystem from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 18, 2023
You can’t just build it and hope they come If you build it, they will come. Right? What worked for a corn farm in Dyersville, Iowa, decisively does NOT work for startups. The startup graveyard is littered with companies with incredible products that went under because they did not focus on distribution until it was too late. Getting those first users can be challenging for anyone, especially if you don’t have the cash to throw money at the problem.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
A recent PitchBook study that surveyed founders from top accelerators found that they are generally interested in just three things: Learning how to operate a startup Networking with potential customers Getting warm intros to VCs But now that so many venture capital firms provide these services — along with marketing boot camps, personal coaching, founder/investor retreats and other value-adding activities — is getting accepted into an accelerator still as important as it once was?
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 18, 2023
Framework of quitting from a YC Founder, ex-MBB consultant, and Softbank Investor Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Anyone with a Costco card knows you save more when you buy in bulk. Now apply that same theory to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 , and you can save a bundle when you take your team, your clients or your star startups to San Francisco in September. Heck, take your family and let them see what you do for a living. Seriously, though, when you bring your posse to Disrupt, you increase the networking ground you can cover and the opportunities you can discover and you can absorb more of the invaluable knowle
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OurCrowd
AUGUST 18, 2023
TALA Philippines is looking to improve its financial products and add new features and benefits to the Tala Wallet as it looks to attract more users to tap its app. Read more here.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Part of the X (née Twitter) roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the platform today foreshadowing the potential removal of the block feature. “Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” Elon Musk wrote. “Makes no sense.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 18, 2023
A social threat intelligence company is rolling out a new tool to help detect the presence of bot or spam accounts created with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Read more here.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, has been asked to reduce its robotaxi fleet by 50% in San Francisco following a crash Thursday night with a fire truck. The California Department of Motor Vehicles, the agency that regulates the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles in the state, requested the reduction in operations. The state agency said it is investigating “recent concerning incidents” involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco.
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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.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 18, 2023
The post [Intuition Robotics in Business Insider] A 77-year-old talks to an AI-companion robot called ElliQ over a dozen times daily to combat her loneliness: ‘It really is like having somebody else in here’ appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California this week, two parents accuse Roblox of illegally facilitating child gambling. While gambling is not allowed on the platform, which hosts millions of virtual games that cater to children and teens, the lawsuit points to third-party gambling sites that invite users to play blackjack, slots, roulette and other games of chance using Roblox’s in-game currency.
OurCrowd
AUGUST 18, 2023
Food waste is a massive global problem that needs to be addressed, but the issue is often ignored, as huge amounts of food are discarded for not meeting quality standards or for spoilage during transit. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, a staggering 1.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
A Cruise robotaxi and an emergency vehicle crashed late Thursday night and left a passenger injured. The crash is the latest in a string of incidents that occurred this week after winning approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand commercial operations in San Francisco. Cruise posted a few details about the crash on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reverse this trend with a new, huge text dataset that’s free to use and open to inspection. Dolma, as the dataset is called, is intended to be the basis for the research group’s planned open language model, or OLMo (Dolma is short for “Data to feed OLMo’s Appetite).
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Twitter, er X, competitor Bluesky buckled following Elon Musk’s announcement that X will no longer support the “block” function in favor of mutes only. Users on Bluesky were seeing issues with slow load times and the occasional error message when trying to load posts. Images and graphics were also slow to load. In addition, the site’s status page indicated an issue affecting performance was being investigated.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
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 in the small launch market. Orbital inclination refers to what part of the Earth is visible to a satellite as it rotates around the planet.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week, I’ve been looking at the evolution of tech startups. The journey from two or three co-founders to an exit or an acquisition is long and arduous, and it turns out that a lot of VCs aren’t particularly picky about who sits in the CTO seat at company formation. That’s a bad idea.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2023
The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. TikTok users are digging through their parents’ wardrobes to recreate the vintage outfits from the movie. Fanart of the characters and convoluted theories about the movie’s ambiguous ending keep going viral. The tag #Zepotha has nearly 160 million views, and the movie’s theme song — an ethereal, synth-heavy pop beat — is trending.
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