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Why AI Won't Be the Investment Opportunity Everyone Thinks It Is

This is going to be BIG.

When I think about true disruptions in tech—the ones that enable huge investor outcomes because they create generational behavior change, entirely new markets, and populate whole business ecosystems out of nothing—location-aware mobile devices stand out to me as right up there with the web itself.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Find your valuation, international visas, hiring for growth

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So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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Announcing the agenda for Extreme Tech Challenge Global Finals presented by TechCrunch

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From our Extra Crunch Live Pitch-offs all the way up to the world-famous Disrupt Startup Battlefield, we can’t get enough of ’em. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 1. The Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 Global Finals: Startup Pitches Part 2.

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How to calculate your startup’s TAM, SAM and SOM

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Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Airbnb disrupted the hotel industry by imagining a technology that would enable homeowners to match up with travelers seeking a place to stay.

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Startup pledges to ‘deliver a cup of coffee’s worth of energy in just three sprays’

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If we could find a way to make it taste good, we felt like we had the potential to disrupt the entire energy drink market and really the caffeine market as a whole,” he added. So they tapped into their neuroscience chemistry studies and went back to the drawing board for two years.

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Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component

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Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Collecting zero-party data, Airbnb CEO interview, crypto volatility

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Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies. That’s a lot of lettuce, but the pricing shows how much tech-enabled DTC firms can flex, writes Alex Wilhelm, who compared Sweetgreen’s range to IPO pricing for Allbirds and Rent the Runway. and a valuation between between $2.5