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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers.

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Bokksu bags $22M Series A at a $100M valuation to deliver traditional Asian groceries to your homeĀ 

TechCrunch

Bokksu CEO Danny Taing has always been passionate about Japanese food and culture, so he moved to Tokyo after college and lived there for four years. Taing founded Bokksu in 2015 and launched a Japanese snack subscription service in 2016. Bokksu ships its grocery products to the U.S. Canada, the U.K,

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Getaway, a startup building tiny cabins, raises $41.7M

TechCrunch

Founded in 2015, Getaway builds “Outposts” ā€” collections of tiny cabins in rustic locations within a two-hour drive of major cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles and New York. ” Staff acknowledged that some investors were skeptical about Getaway’s insistence on building the cabins and Outposts itself.

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Hivery bags new money to automatically optimize product placement on store shelves

TechCrunch

CEO Jason Hosking told TechCrunch via email that the proceeds will fuel the growth of products designed to help brick-and-mortar businesses make decisions about physical space and product displays. finding the right products for a store), category planning and optimization and planogram design and creation.

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Online learning platform CLASS101 bags $26M Series B to support growth

TechCrunch

million (12 billion won) Series A round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia along with Mirae Asset Venture Investment, KT Investment, Strong Ventures and SpringCamp. Ko and four other co-founders established CLASS101 in 2018, which was pivoted from a tutoring service platform that was founded in 2015, Ko said. and Japan.

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Banking giant Truist acquires fintech startup Long Game in effort to reach younger demographic

TechCrunch

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. Thereā€™s a trivia aspect and clients get rewards for learning.ā€. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based

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Justworksā€™ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck Iā€™ve ever seen

TechCrunch

.’ If you ask him to think about something and respond, he’ll think about it and come back with an answer that has four pillars underneath it. ” In 2015, Justworks closed its $13 million Series B, led by Bain Capital Ventures. . We record Extra Crunch Live every Wednesday at 12 p.m. Episode breakdown.

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