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Biking In Paris

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

We have been coming to Paris regularly for about 15 years and back in 2008, I started using the Velib bike share system and wrote about it here. I wish NYC’s Citibike system had that mix in their kiosks. But I’ve been using a service called DOTT this stay in Paris. Biking around Paris is great.

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Daily Crunch: Following ‘significant reduction’ in demand, Peloton puts brakes on production

TechCrunch

And sure, last year was one of the best for crypto startups, but now even more big companies are getting into the mix. Twitter rolls out NFT support : If you’re a member of Twitter’s subscription service, you will soon have the ability to connect a crypto wallet and use an NFT that you own as your profile picture. Startups/VC.

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Affirm, Airbnb, C3.ai, Roblox, Wish file for tech IPO finale of 2020

TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. On to the headlines from TechCrunch and Extra Crunch: If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right (EC). The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). Subscribe here. Extra Crunch.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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Startups and VC. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. Alomar led startups through the dot-com bust of 2000 and the Great Recession of 2008 and will talk about whether investors are still prioritizing growth over profits and how to identify the proof points founding teams must define before their next raise.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. Add this new model to the mix. Read more: PEHub.

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Flush with Series A funding, Daye unwraps the big gynae health mission

TechCrunch

The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. In the US, for example, about 30% of the tampon market is scented tampons. So even your used tampon has to smell good, apparently!

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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