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The Rise of the Rest Class of 2019

Revolution

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. Yes, absolutely.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random.

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Extra Crunch roundup: StockX EC-1, Early Stage recaps, unpacking Alkami’s IPO, more

TechCrunch

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture. When should I hire a sales team?

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? Tomasz Tunguz: Oh, interesting. Mine, I edit constantly.

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The 3 Newest Companies on YC’s Top Revenue List and What They’re Doing So Right

Y Combinator

That was the first one where I was like… whoa, okay, cool, there are companies using [Deel] that I love. "You You need the right culture inside of the company, which is super customer-centric and super execution-centric because they trust us with what, at the end of the day, is the heart of their company: their employees.

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What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Only 10p goes to mixed-gender teams, and less than 1p goes to all-female teams?—?despite This is a great place to find support and connection, and a useful resource for information and feedback. Instead, use it to make wellbeing and self-care a priority, and avoid becoming another statistic. Don’t worry, you get used to it.)

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

This drew the attention away from companies in the space that weren’t trying to be anything but what they are—cultures that employees have very low expectations of. It always made more sense as a way to mix it up away from another workspace you were more anchored to—the “third place”. It wasn’t priced to be such a thing either.