AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Wee also said Tech in Asia will remain independent, preserving its unique culture, processes, and HR policies. Subsequently, in October 2018, Tech in Asia introduced a subscription service, allowing readers to access paywalled articles in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. Willis Wee, the founder of TIA, also serves as its CEO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65 billion, according to PitchBook; though an about 47.9%

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” ” And when you read the article carefully it allows for a period of discovery in your business. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital!

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

It turns out Wu’s trajectory in bridging Japanese culture and that of his home country of Taiwan was set well before he got into the restaurant business. Japan’s highly conservative nature, close attention to detail, and linguistic and cultural barriers, leave precious room for error for a new brand entering the market.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Eight people out of Ro’s 11-person customer service operations team have quit due to culture, the majority leaving after only being at the company for five months, employees say. ” To illustrate its culture, a Ro spokesperson pointed to “extremely high engagement scores” from an internal Culture Amp survey last fall.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. ” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Reform your startup’s meeting culture. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “ According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. The last category is most actionable.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. So in a way, foreign capital can act as a stressor to African founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This Space is not a forum for pitching an article — if you’d like to submit your post for consideration, please email guestcolumns@techcrunch.com. This article contains strategic, actionable advice for implementing a GSDD program alongside the lessons the team learned as they identified problems with the experiment. We do not know.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Over the last few days, we’ve published several articles recapping panels from last week’s TechCrunch Early Stage virtual conference. As ever, full articles are available for Extra Crunch members. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Pan-African venture capital firm Launch Africa Ventures led the pre-seed round. Other investors that took part include Century Oak Capital GmbH and Consonance, with a contribution from ecosystem management firm Pariti. . For the latter, Reetch is enthusiastic about exporting the African food culture to Western countries.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Note: I originally published this article in 2019 to share my lessons-learned from mapping a local ecosystem. I highly recommend checking out Chad Renando’s article on LinkedIn, Mapping Innovation Ecosystems , where he discusses the concept and shares many examples. Making (and Measuring) an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem article.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Entrepreneurs who are fortunate enough to make it across the finish line of an exit often still find themselves running uphill: reorganizations and layoffs create profound cultural shifts that few are prepared for. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.”

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

Creating a Supportive Work From Home Culture (Blog). This article highlights the differences between the two classifications and what it means for employee benefits and access to unemployment. Read this six-part article series that explores the following topics: The reputational risk of RIF. Talent Resources.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. Team members trust their CEO to do what he or she says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Using data from Capital IQ and Battery’s research, this post contains key benchmarks for public companies and privately held SaaS businesses , along with recommended targets for companies with different ARR ranges. ” Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our Black history month mention of the day is Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want to Talk About Race,” which Haje read last year and which served as a bit of an eye-opener to all the things he thought he knew but really didn’t about how race shows up, ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Benoit Wirz , partner, Brighteye Ventures (an active edtech-focused venture capital fund in Europe that backs YouSchool, Lightneer and Aula). Charles Birnbaum , partner, Bessemer Venture Partners (a generalist fund with portfolio companies including Guild Education and Brightwheel). Jerry Lu , senior associate, Maveron.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

“I’ve talked with their product team and CEO many times — they’re big believers in our mission of empowering creators and they have a lot of respect for the products we’ve built and our customer-first, product-led culture.” . Haje wonders in an article where he includes 30+ AI-rendered pictures of Batman. Startups and VC. “It

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

There is a growing body of articles about the important issue of the lack of investment dollars flowing to Black women founders. For anyone following venture news, this data should not be new: Fortune reported that while the numbers have tripled since 2018, Black women still only receive 0.27% of all venture dollars in the U.S.;

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 4 ways to make DEI a key component of customer service and culture. Joyce Lee, Alorica’s chief culture officer, shares four actionable steps companies can take to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce: Start with an inclusive onboarding process.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Our culture and values have more or less remained the same.”. Awotona says.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As far as merged names go, it’s not a particularly exciting one, as Brian comments in his article — but the executive shakeup has some more juicy details in it: MakerBot CEO steps up and Ultimaker CEO steps down. Following this week’s closing of the Ultimaker/MakerBot merger, the combined company is announcing a new name. Yes, really.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. On Tuesday, VP and managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, Yair Snir, shared an article explaining why founders should plan to get acquired , particularly since their odds of going public are so long. .” Today, we learned that the U.S.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A 2020 article from the Next Web noted that almost half of Indian startups don’t hire women to save on maternity costs. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. According to the EEOC, 83 percent of tech executives are white.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

More venture capital keeps trooping into Africa’s B2B e-commerce retail, a space where startups are digitizing informal trade to get thousands of merchants to operate more efficiently. This time, it’s a startup that was in the news this January: Namibia-based JABU , whose $3.2 million seed round we covered.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is why I do speak regularly at various conferences.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is why I do speak regularly at various conferences.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. Still, I had no idea NYC tech even existed and I suspect that’s still the case for the majority of students today—although that’s changing with efforts like HackNY, Tech@NYU and Blue Venture Community.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Is it suffering from cultural dissonance between its high-growth model and more conservative European investors? Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture. Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture.

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Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

I recently shared this article and tweeted this , and I was quite surprised by the thread it triggered and the reaction it generated.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “This helps build a meritocratic and less bureaucratic culture, and ensures our team reaps the benefits commensurate with their work product,” he says. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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