TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Transportation will be a perennial sector of opportunity given how large a piece of consumer spend it occupies. Do you expect early-stage funding in this sector to stay hot indefinitely? Do you see SPACs as the path to liquidity long term for a large number of startups in this sector?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The oversubscribed round — which features Regal, Aware Super, Perennial, Argo and Greencape — follows a $30 million raise last August , bringing the Los Angeles company’s total funding to north of $100 million. Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D.

creativity

TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or corporate giants acquire or acqu-hire? Not that many and not nearly enough. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Unfortunately, recruiting and retaining top cybersecurity professionals can be a perennial challenge for most companies. As technology becomes progressively sophisticated, the demand for a qualified and experienced workforce is of utmost importance. Thus, there is a need to focus on developing your workforce.

development

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

They met as colleagues at financial services company State Street, and combined forces to solve the perennial problem of broken, out-of-stock tampon machines. .” The two-woman founding team and the company’s co-CEOs are Susanna Twarog and Robina Verbeek. SOS vending machine. Image Credits: SOS.

incubation

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Beginning as a mobile game studio, OneSignal pivoted to customer engagement when co-founder and CEO George Deglin saw an opportunity to address a perennial challenge in app development: creating an effective push notification pipeline. “There is a huge shift happening in the mobile app industry.

development

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

It is estimated that there are over 200,000 motorcycle taxis in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, alone – where they are used by residents to beat the perennial traffic jams. In mobility tech, the attention has fallen on the motorcycle taxi category, a popular mode of transport in the East African country. by 2025.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The investment underscores the persistent popularity of the marketplace model for online business, made popular in e-commerce by the likes of Amazon and Alibaba but extended to a range of services as well.

financing

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“ Common privacy-enhancing technologies like differential privacy and federated learning have suffered from a perennial ‘privacy versus performance’ tradeoff, where using more robust privacy-preserving techniques during model training inevitably results in poorer model accuracy.

incumbents

TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

One perennial problem inside startups: Because no one on the founding team has significant marketing experience, growth-related efforts are pro forma and generally unlikely to move the needle. .” How to cut through the promotional haze and select a digital building platform. Demand Curve: 7 ad types that increase click-through rates.

venture capital

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

A perennially important category, e-commerce is constant in the series A market at 15%, but declining in the seed market, falling from 15% below 10% in 2015. Media companies trade at lower multiples than traditional software companies, but the impressive growth of new entrants like Upworthy may entice investors to reconsider.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

Of course, the perennial challenge that comes when raising more capital is that an investor then has more pressure to deliver on those outcomes. And while early-stage private startups seemingly remain largely unscathed, owing to an influx of venture capital, later-stage companies are finding themselves in a tougher position right now.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

If there wasn’t an ongoing war with America’s perennial ideological rival, then the timing would be driven largely by the political winds in Washington. Cold weather, and Russia pushing its energy advantage over Europe?—?and and to a lesser extent Japan?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Vertical farming, novel protein sources which replace meats, branded water in a can that resembles beer so you won’t be lampooned at a party. Consumer preferences are evolving and startups are rising to meet the demand. Cooling Spaces.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Gone are the days when the New York startup ecosystem, perennially in Silicon Valley’s shadow, was more hype than substance. (In The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. In recent news, Work-Bench recently raised a new $100 million fund.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt, we assembled an all-star panel of venture capitalists working across the entire range of startup growth and got their insights on assessing product-market fit — a perennial and evergreen challenge for entrepreneurs at all levels of experience.

disruption

TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

That’s why we’re excited to be hosting Mar Hershenson, the founding managing partner of Pear VC, on one of our most perennially popular panels — How to Craft Your Pitch Deck, which will happen on the Extra Crunch stage at the all-virtual TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 coming up this September 21-23.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Dave’s comment: This week we welcome our perennial favorite contributor, Kim Shepherd, CEO of Decision Toolbox, to offer us her sage advice on a subject where she is expert. Outgoing, full of creative ideas, and certainly the best person to teach us how, here is Kim on networking… By Kim Shepherd .

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

For product-led growth companies (PLG), the perennial question is: how do we get non-paying customers to subscribe? Toplyne founders Ruchin Kulkarni, Rohit Khanna and Rishen Kapoor. Then the second question is: how do we get paying customers to move to higher tiers?

strategy

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” In a TC+ post aimed at ML team managers, he shares tactics for leveraging active learning and addresses the perennial buy-versus-build dilemma.

VC

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The round’s investors include Perennial Value Management, Alium Capital, Ellerston Capital, Regal Funds Managemetn and CVC, along with returning backers Starfish Ventures and AirTree Ventures. The capital will be used on hiring and product development, with the goal of accelerating the growth of BrandCrowd , its DIY platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

There’s no one solution to the perennial challenge of ensuring a company complies with multiple tax and employment laws. A recent Deloitte report found that slightly over half of companies won’t permit employees to work in locations in which the company isn’t already established for tax purposes.

capital

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Get back, get back, get back to where you once had songs : Music discovery is a perennial challenge for streaming services, and SoundCloud is attempting to solve that by acquiring Musiio, an AI music curator.

startup

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

In markets like these, it will perennially be tempting to get lured in by new opportunities. It plays to some really powerful market expansions — pet insurance, custom pet food, and its own private-label animal pharmacy — that can keep this company growing for the foreseeable future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio is just now building momentum but in a few years may be the provider of a free (as in beer, as in speech, perhaps even as in FOSS) platform that provides it for this perennially mistreated population. Reimagining pathways for returning citizens with Jason Jones, Deepti Rohatgi, and Aly Tamboura.

education

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2014

And of course, there’s the seemingly perennial SMS-enabled refrigerator or washing machine. These headless computers are little portable bricks of compute and storage that are designed to be connected and disconnected from screens at work and home.

innovation

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

3 x 5 To Do List – If you’re anything like me you have the perennial “to do&# list that has hundreds of items in it labeled A, B, C or some similar rating. So I switched not too long to a paid product called X1. I’ve been getting better results. But either tool should do the trick.

advice

TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

” In addition to the VCs mentioned above and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the following investors joined the round: Regal Funds Management, Perennial Value Management, and InterValley Ventures. . “But we’re not in a rush.” The Station: The lidar SPAC craze and 10 investors give their mobility predictions.

construction

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But the stickiness and easy accessibility of online porn means relapsing is a perennial risk and a blocker tool is always likely to be helpful, argues Jenkins. Remojo’s website touts what it bills as a “90 day reboot” — which it says is its most popular subscription plan — for quitting porn.

health

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

” For most founders, it’s the perennial Goldilocks scenario. There is one trick question that investors almost always ask, and it’s guaranteed to make founders uneasy: “What are your expectations surrounding valuation?” What’s wrong with this business?”

VC

TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

It’s a perennial question for early-stage startups: how does one find product-market fit (PMF)? What do you do to ensure that your idea takes such a form that it meets some sort of demand in your target market? How do you get your idea to resonate in the world?

startup

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

” In a TC+ post aimed at ML team managers, he shares tactics for leveraging active learning and addresses the perennial buy-versus-build dilemma.

mix-use

TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers.

financing

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2023

Also featured are stories about WeWork’s perennial struggles, Google’s Messages app fully embracing RCS, and spyware maker LetMeSpy shutting down after a massive data breach. If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday.

disruption

Red Rocket

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Don't Publicly Disclose Your Actions Unless You Have To The one big criticism of Harbaugh was his perennial flirtation with the NFL. What can you do for your teams, to replicate this level of trust and loyalty to you? In 2022, it was with the Minnesota Vikings. In 2023, it was with the Denver Broncos.

leadership

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Another perennial is preventing GPT-4 from being used in unintended ways that might inflict harm — psychological, monetary or otherwise.

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