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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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Engage with AT&T, Polygon & more at TechCrunch Disrupt

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Rachael Wilcox, creative producer, Volvo Cars. Look who’s coming to Disrupt: As previously shared , our title sponsor, AT&T , will be hosting a session on the TC+ Stage on driving innovation through collaborations both big and small. and Web Spiders will be demoing on the show floor. Can’t wait to hear this talk!

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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

TechCrunch

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. The next wave of products will be able to straddle the line of comfort to successfully get adoption, and cultural shift to successfully deliver a truly collaborative cash experience.

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7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention

Andreessen Horowitz

For a social app, this may be having 5 friends on the platform, for a work collaboration product, it may be joining a few channels. Omnivore — an open-source, read-it-later app — recently demoed how AI can really provide creative summarization that benefits users.

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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars

TechCrunch

If a customer is lucky enough to get past those hurdles and find a freelancer to work with, they often don’t have the proper collaboration tools to complete the project in a precise and timely manner,” he told TechCrunch. Early Stage is the premier “how-to” event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies

TechCrunch

Marketers leverage the strength of the IP to establish collaborations with large companies, such as pharma companies and institutions, such as the government, universities or hospitals. To this end, marketers develop creative ways to gather lists of, and information on, key contacts at these potential partners.

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Music wearable Mictic raises $2.5M to get you shredding, scratching and strumming

TechCrunch

Just from the demos and descriptions, it’s the kind of startup you’d scratch your head over and talk about in the bar after a long day of CES, for it to never be heard of again. It connects to your smartphone, and the app unlocks music-making creativity for beginners with no music skills at all. million round.