TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Hearst Ventures and individuals from Stone Point Capital also participated in the financing, which brings San Diego-based Truepic’s total raised since its 2015 inception to $36 million. Rather than trying to detect what is fake, Truepic says its patented “secure” camera technology proves what is real.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

The fintech’s new growth strategy follows its plan to power its embedded finance offering beyond its current markets, including Uganda and Ghana, to bridge the financing gap affecting millions of micro, small medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across these markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

While Duolingo never wanted to look like other edtech companies, as we saw with its product strategy in part two, it turns out that evolving from college pizza vibes meant that it would have to take a page from its peers. As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Here goes….

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Others include Trsel , which is designed to give small brands access to the same kinds of analytics larger online retailers have, and Varos , which aims to shed light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of customer acquisition costs. According to Zion Market Research, the predictive analytics industry made $8.12

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. In EO Accelerator, we learned basic principles about the critical aspects of running a business and put strategies into place that enabled us to grow at a rapid but sustainable pace?which How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company plans to launch Toss Bank, a neobank, in September 2021, which it describes as “the final key component” of its super app strategy. We are going to use this vehicle to give the most competitive interest rates to users, and Toss Bank will not have a separate app, since we have super app strategy.”. Toss founder SG Lee.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus. But then Ravichandran’s identity was stolen in 2015. New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. But that’s what startup life is all about. To win, you have to learn how to rebound from failures — fast. Make your mission your mantra.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted. So, how does it work?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Bill Zhang lowered himself into lunges on a squishy mat as he explained to me the benefits of the full-body training suit he was wearing. We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area in Shenzhen that’s also home to many hardware makers. “The suit is for the more savvy consumers in the West.” Designed in China.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

History has shown that well-executed M&A strategies can be transformative and yield impressive results. For instance, in 2015, PayPal acquired Braintree, a payments company that owned the mobile payment service, Venmo. But the Disney-Pixar marriage isn’t the only one that proved to be a massive growth engine.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

LawVu is to legal what Salesforce is to sales teams,” co-founder and chief strategy officer Tim Boyne told TechCrunch in an email. LawVu was founded in 2015 by Boyne, who spent over a decade working in IT and operations at law firms, and Sam Kidd, a SaaS project management expert. for its global go-to-market strategy and open U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

More important, public companies may be more attractive buys than their private peers. In 2015, our internal analysis showed private SaaS companies commanded twice the valuation-to-multiple revenue of the public markets. This new behavior is a shift in strategy for private equity firms. But it’s not happening yet.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Israel, and the UAE, bringing our global network and experience to shape your vision, strategy, execution, and team. Israel, and the UAE, bringing our global network and experience to shape your vision, strategy, execution, and team. David Teten: Who are your peers/competitors, and how do you differ?

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