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Anyone is building a marketplace for advice, one 5-minute call at a time

TechCrunch

Anyone , an audio app that’s building a ‘marketplace for advice’ one five-minute phone call at a time, is launching new versions of its iOS and Android apps today* and beginning to large-scale onboarding after operating in a limited closed beta for the past six months. It’s one-to-one only.

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Former VC brings smart financial advice to people who really need it, instead of just the rich

TechCrunch

Financial advice is something that fundamentally everybody needs. If you get a paycheck, if you get benefits, then you deserve financial advice.”. Financial advice has been around for many years, yet most consumers do not have access to financial advisors at affordable rates and enabled by tech, creating a huge market,” he added. “As

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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

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This enables open source companies to acquire a vast, free user base. In the early days of achieving product-market fit (PMF), it is critical for open source startups to identify and serve a narrow ICP and find how to repeatedly acquire and close paying users. Revenue traction alone is not a sign of product-market fit.

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Intro’s app attracts Andreessen, Seven Seven Six, Kevin Durant to connect celebrity e-design experts with those seeking advice

TechCrunch

Advice is not a new concept, but Intro is putting its spin on access to in-demand experts through personalized one-on-one video calls. Many told him that as the conversations turned into advice, it was “shocking how much they could get done in a short period of time,” he said. Raad Mobrem, founder of Intro. Image Credits: Intro.

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Why being a VC sucks. Advice to anyone who wants to get into venture capital.

This is going to be BIG.

If your company gets bought for a billion dollars when it''s not even doing double digit millions in revenues, you can''t really deny that luck was a factor--but that luck will enable a firm to raise another fund, while you''re trudging along. 10) Raising a fund is a completely inefficient proccess--especially a small one.

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How to foster serendipitous innovation in hybrid and remote teams

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The contributors, in turn, are motivated by the natural desire to give advice, especially advice that’s visible to and useful for others in their team, business unit, or even the whole organization. This dynamic also fits well with the different personalities of optimists and pessimists. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Signos raises $13M Series A to give you real-time weight-loss advice based on your blood glucose levels

TechCrunch

The standard advice is 2,500 calories per day for an adult male, but we all have friends that eat 4,000 or 5,000 calories and they never put on a pound. At the beginning of their Signos experience, users log what they eat, enabling the Signos platform to learn their body’s reaction to specific foods.

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