Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The company argues that greenhouse agriculture is a safer, more reliable and more climate-resilient mode of food production, producing up to 15 times higher yields, using a twentieth as much water as traditional agriculture. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand commercial collaborations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

million in a mix of debt and equity. Though he wasn’t actively seeking new funds, Al-Ansari had been speaking with Crédit Mutuel Equity, which used to be CIC Capital Canada, prior to the pandemic, and their deal was put on hold. In addition, Al-Ansari expects growth to accelerate for the rest of the year. It raised $54.9

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

I’m keen for you to let us know a bit more about what that looks like. You’re also sort of no longer running your classic three-month type accelerator program, which finishes on, say, a demo day. Can you tell us about what you are doing and why these changes have come about? For us, it was not a good use of money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

” Despite the hype about ease of use, enterprise companies always ask customers to abandon familiar tools so they can learn something new. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. But more than that, this IPO is a useful measuring stick for keeping tabs on the IPO market as a whole.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. but we are using much better ingredients.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

It doesn’t feel like a week goes by at the moment that another startup doesn’t emerge armed with a huge wallet of cash to pursue a strategy of consolidating and then scaling promising brands that have built a business selling on marketplaces like Amazon’s. That was a good surprise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

.” To achieve this flexibility (or at least try), Morales and Grover co-founded Orb , a pricing platform that helps companies automate a range of different billing types — usage-based, subscriptions or a mix of both. “The trend towards usage-based pricing has accelerated in recent years, and so has the hype around it. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Although that component of the España Nación Emprendedora strategy is, inevitably, going to be a slower burn, hence the decade-long lens. In the near term, the startup law will be one of the first major deliverables of the strategy. This is sample data that we use — that we extracted from business data analysis.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The proprietary technology uses micelles, which Steinhart called “the microscopic magic of milk,” to create the replacement plant-based dairy products, but that don’t sacrifice on taste, texture or functionality. It is also kind of a testament to the strategy of going after dairy consumers because Smashburger is mainstream.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We’ve all seen the statistics on how many businesses fail within the first few years of operation, and the current pandemic may accelerate that struggle for some startups. While you’re at it, get a business credit card so you’re not using your personal credit to finance your business. Pay yourself first, never last.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. ” Accelerating momentum. It’s an acute problem. billion by the end of 2026 (up from $643 million in 2022).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In other words, the tools that it has built are there to help companies have a presence and stack up against the rest of the online landscape, but they are built with a view to making them easy enough for non-tech companies and their partners to use.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of commerce globally. In the US, e-commerce penetration increased from 16% at the end of 2019 to 27% in April 2020. For better or worse, COVID-19 has accelerated e-commerce adoption among businesses in the same way it has accelerated e-commerce adoption among consumers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2024

But the race is on, and the social AI platform Chai feels they are right in the mix to succeed. Those who submit a model are compared against other teams, providing a community-based evaluation method, creating an accelerating community of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Chai currently offers $1 million in cash prizes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Businesses today feel, more than ever, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. It plans to use the funding to expand its own technology tools, as well as grow internationally. ” The roster includes Metro, Aldi Süd, Toyota and many others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And according to David Wechsler, a principal at OMERS Ventures, “having an embedded strategy is not required for venture funding.” He thinks that early use cases may center on customer service, but is certain that more will follow. Meyer added that there is particular interest in products that go beyond embedded insurance. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

“Our work with these companies will be guided by our role as a leading global innovator of next-generation products, technologies and services as we help them accelerate their growth and deliver positive impact to the world.” Sokwoo Rhee, senior vice president for innovation at LG Electronics. NeuroTrainer, Inc. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The mix of positives such as a fast-growing population–the youngest globally–, solid smartphone penetration, increasing crypto adoption, and negatives like low GDP per capita across board and unemployment makes Africa the next ripe ground for web3. For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily in the U.S., Today’s announcement adds Africa to the mix. the United Kingdom, Latin America and Southeast Asia.” Chidinma Iwueke (Principal, QED Investors).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Companies like Airbnb, Intercom and Buffer have released the pitch decks they used to raise their first rounds of funding, and if you look at their structure, you can essentially find the same set of slides. We’re going to use that to distill the ideal set of slides for a pitch deck (and combine it with some storytelling ).

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Together with our CMS to edit the content of the steps, we are able to quickly expand the usability of our software to new countries and use cases. The startup says it’s been seeing growth rates hitting, on average, more than 30% month-on-month, as employer demand for its services accelerates.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. MIDAS is a convening place for innovative research ideas and researchers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

Bob Ruark, principal and banking and fintech strategy leader for KPMG US, noted that pricing is difficult now given the rapid decline in valuations. Most of those are product buys to drive or accelerate revenue growth with the secondary benefit of getting new talent, Ruark said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The team is in the process of creating a desktop-sized instrument that can automate the processes used to get genetic samples ready. What I noticed was that the existing technologies for moving, mixing and heating fluids were archaic,” he said. “I The rapidly accelerating genomics industry may have room for Volta to climb on board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. Therefore, low entry barriers for forest owners, automation and efficiency are central to our product strategy,” she suggests. Are carbon offsets b t? eAgronom closes $7.4M

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

Battle-tested strategies and tactics I used to reach $2M ARR. It’s a pivotal phase where your initial success is tested, and your strategies for growth are pushed to their limits. It took years for me to reach $1M ARR , and when I did, things started to accelerate — but it was not by accident!

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Is this an area where there are lessons to be learned from that and ways to accelerate technologies to the battlefield? First of all, I think it’s about our 165th attack on us using those sorts of techniques, largely UAS, but a variety of techniques. Without the budget, it’s very, very hard for us.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 20, 2021

Lessons learned I’ve devised a few coping strategies. It also helps me prolong the peaks and endure the valleys because I have a mix of both, rather than weeks in a sunken valley. That’s the question I find most useful in determining whether to soldier on. Can you persist long enough to reach breakthroughs??

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 25, 2023

Moreover, the consistent progress achieved through these sprints has boosted team confidence and has led to accelerated growth and innovation in the startup’s journey. When we’re in the mix, we don’t see the big picture. One strategy I have used that has been successful is “Global Fridays.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

In consumer goods, where product features and benefits like brand, reputation, and service are often intangible, the conjoint analysis is a marketing research approach used to measure the differentiation value. at least to start with, and especially if there is an opportunity for “land and expand” sales strategies.

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