TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2022

As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. Some big tech apps remain. Face-swapping app Reface pulls out of Russia after users reject anti-war campaign. Fintech and Ukraine. Here’s why this is important: I mean, it’s pretty self-explanatory.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

These apps do the heavy lifting: you don't need to know what CSS is or how to tinker with HTML. How we evaluate and test apps All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. Want to do more with GetResponse?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. Chargehound (W14) was acquired by PayPal. The YC admissions team sifted through tens of thousands of applications and the selection team, including all of our Group Partners, reviewed thousands of apps until our eyes blurred. Truebill (W16) was acquired by Rocket Companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

It also facilitates ACH payments directly into its app. To help keep costs down for contractors, Beam claims that it charges lower fees for transacting compared to say PayPal or Zelle, who also put caps on transaction amounts. I t’s too hard to build,” she wrote in a blog post. “As

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

Affirm — which was founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin — has built technology that can underwrite individual transactions, and once determining a customer is eligible, it can offer them the option to pay on a biweekly or monthly basis. For its part, Stripe is able to offer prospective, and current, customers more payment flexibility.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Coca-Cola, Toyota, Paypal, BNP, eBay, Gucci, Samsung, Dell, Swatch, H&M, Microsoft, Colgate and McDonald’s are just some of the 5,000 enterprises signed up to Treedom , the world’s largest tree-planting community. Users can virtually interact with the tree they plant via Treedom’s app, following its journey through pictures and updates.

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OkDork

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ecommerce platforms do this, popup notification tools do this, photo apps do this, PayPal does this, and even TikTok does a version of this! They work so hard to get you in the door or to stand out from all the competition on delivery apps and then they do nothing to keep you around. Blog posts? What a waste of potential.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Our financial service provider Tala raised $145M to expand its app-based banking services, CNBC reports. The company has lent more than $1B to over 4 million customers and raised more than $350M from investors including PayPal Ventures, GV and Revolution Growth. . Tala raises $145M to expand services and global operations.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. Startup veterans from the likes of PayPal, Wealthfront, Pinterest, Netscape, and more, have identified four core challenges with the Lean Startup. Challenge #3: The Lean Startup leads to incremental products.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Instead of manually entering numbers into spreadsheets or jumping between apps, automation pulls data from one tool to another and keeps everything in sync. New to Zapier? Sign up for free.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. Chargehound (W14) was acquired by PayPal. The YC admissions team sifted through tens of thousands of applications and the selection team, including all of our Group Partners, reviewed thousands of apps until our eyes blurred. Truebill (W16) was acquired by Rocket Companies.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Two-factor authentication vs. multi-factor authentication Benefits of two-factor authentication Types of two-factor authentication How to enable 2FA on popular apps What happens if you lose access to your 2FA device? Best practices for two-factor authentication The best authenticator apps What is 2FA? What you have. Who you are.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” David Sacks of Yammer and Paypal, recently tweeted a napkin-sketch captioned, “Uber’s virtuous cycle. billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And I published this on my own startups blog. So it's a recursive function to say, oh, well, if the New York Times links to you, that's much more valuable than if Dharmesh's blog links to you because New York Times has more page rank. Or even just read these blog posts and watch these videos. I'm making the number up.

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