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Make no bones about it, Fuzzy expands reach into pet care market with capital infusion

TechCrunch

The company, founded in 2016, provides 24/7 live chat and telehealth, ship-to-home prescriptions, vet-curated items in its e-commerce marketplace and educational content and programs. He called Bhettay “an energetic and smart entrepreneur” who is building a strong team to go after a space that is ripe for disruption.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. 2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. As demand falls, so will prices/valuations.

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Go-to-Market Tactics for Category-Defining Startups

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3

TechCrunch

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. As the founder of an infrastructure project that has been around since 2016, I want to remind you that web3 isn’t just a drop-down menu of features to be bolted on to your project. FOMO is real.