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TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

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“Especially for first-time founders, assessing product-market fit at a stage where it’s mostly anticipation can be as much art as science,” writes News Editor Darrell Etherington, who interviewed three VCs about the topic for TechCrunch Disrupt: Heather Hartnett, Human Ventures. David Thacker, Greylock. Victoria Treyger, Felicis. “In

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

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If the first wave of smartphone communications and the apps that are run on smartphone devices — social, gaming, productivity, media, information, etc. It is, in a sense, a timely disruption. “Memory’s proven software is already redefining how businesses around the world track, plan and manage their time.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks.

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