TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The latter, funnily enough, got a bit of a mixed shout-out when we spoke to Darolfi last year. I sat at America’s Tires for three hours and thought, hey, we use robots to put tires on at the factory,” he told us. Today it announced that it has raised a $7.5 Image Credits: RoboTire. “I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mayank Kukreja said that the proceeds will be put toward “aggressively expand[ing] in North America via product innovation, sales and marketing and partnership development.” “Today, with most systems, companies have to choose between an easy-to-use system or the one with controls.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Start by offering something of value for free to your potential audience in exchange for an email address, such as a discount coupon for your products, a free e-book, workbook, or even a free trial period for your service. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. In my book, I collects all the best scholarships, fellowships, and other programs for high-achieving young people. . 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I underline portions of books, but those clips just sit dormant on the device, completely unsharable. What I’d really like to do is share all my book quotes on Tumblr. ". On top of that, the atomic element of the reading experience isn't the book or the post--both of which match the atomic element of the web, the URL.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sounds like a useful feature, no? Often, they’re found in the review sections for books and movies, where, in my anecdotal experience, Amazon reviewers tend to be more… verbose. Perhaps for shoppers and sellers. But what about reviewers? I’m not going to make the case that Amazon reviews are a form of high art.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

So Lami adopted a B2B2C approach to leverage the trust already built by platforms that converse with customers daily and innovate around it. The product can also be used by partner businesses to manage their own insurance needs. Users can get a quote for motor, medical or other tailored insurance products through its API.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

If you've been wanting to learn a new skill or even strengthen existing ones, here are the seven tried-and-trued strategies I used to boost my expertise—and how you can, too. Now that we're on the same page, let's dive into the seven strategies you can use to learn a new skill or enhance the ones you already have.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. At the time Google said it was against sponsored links because it confused the person searching for content – one of the main arguments people are again using about in-stream advertising.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In his book YES IS THE ANSWER. You write that the title of the book, Yes Is the Answer: What Is the Question? , It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed. When we make mistakes and use the 3 A’s—acknowledge, apologize, and act—with humility and honesty, 95% of people can find a way to forgive us.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

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. Atomos is building the railroad of space using high-powered electric propulsion space tugs to move satellites to any orbit beyond low Earth orbit. What does your company do?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, three alums that worked with data in the world of Big Tech have founded a startup that aims to build a “metrics store” so that the rest of the enterprise world — much of which lacks the resources to build tools like this from scratch — can easily use metrics to figure things out like this, too.

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Continuations

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Since then the AI safety debate has become more heated with a fair bit of low-rung tribalism thrown into the mix. To get a glimpse of this one merely needs to look at the wide range of reactions to the White House Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. This is a real problem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. The COVID-19 pandemic is helping startups that innovate in areas like payments, financing, insurance and compliance. Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’. Details here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. Lots of innovation, great infrastructure, good talent.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2023

I would give them an algorithmic problem to solve and ask some technical questions to probe their understanding of past technologies they had used. Mix curiosity with a passion for technology, and you can get an incredible hire that can diagnose complicated root causes and bring innovation to the company. Is it a culture add?

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Then dive into how Hollywood uses memes to help people find the right movie to watch, to introduce you to the concept of memetics. Finally we’ll run through a step-by-step example of how to use Meme Mapping to get a more consistent return on investment from experimentation. He is currently writing a book on Marketing Memetics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. In late November, Dubai-based DIFC FinTech Hive — the biggest financial innovation hub in the Middle East — signed a milestone agreement with Israel’s fintech (Aviv).

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Will the behavior changes from COVID-19 be permanent?

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs. Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Applicants must be primarily based in NYC.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We’ll make our case using an example of a big, risky bet: turning off your highest performing channel. We’ll explain how to adapt the framework to your own use cases, and take a peek under the hood for those that want to dive deeper. Use the free Big Bet calculator to think through the math. Let’s quantify this a bit.

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

How An Algorithm Transformed The Music Industry And Created The Mobile & Social Web As the music industry recently announced its first annual revenue growth after 15 years of uninterrupted contraction, I thought it was a good time to share some of the things I learnt from reading Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Polo: One of the main things that makes this law pretty solid is that it comes from a dialogue that we held with the different sectors of innovative entrepreneurship. So it’s a very solid law and everything that went in it really reflects the long conversations that we held with innovative entrepreneurship in Spain.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

What we later saw during the pandemic was our business took a major turn towards growth in Q4 ’20 as our mix of off-premise tasting and digital solutions amplified one another. How soon until you authenticate users using Ethereum (and the MetaMask browser extension)? It created a snowball effect whereby we had our best year in ’21.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. I wanted to ask you, why did you decide to write the book? around the book. This is different, right?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

CEO and cofounder, talks to a16z’s Sarah Wang about the dawn of universally accessible intelligence, the compute it will take to power it, and his pursuit of AGI’s first use case: AI friends. [00:39] There are a few options, coding looks super useful, but just also dialogue—it’s the world’s number one pastime.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

It’s not just about people like me who can (and do) turn up in nearly any city in the US and immediately book a ride. I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. Both companies are hugely innovative.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S. I like healthcare a lot.

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