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Four Fundamental Innovations of Web3 that Will Upend Web2 Incumbents

Tomasz Tunguz

DAOs bind the loose community of open-source software contributors through tokens. Foundations endowed with significant token stakes fuel the ongoing protocol development, balancing the capitalism needed to fuel progress with the benevolence intrinsic to the open-source ethos.

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Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company

TechCrunch

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Community meets product. As TechCrunch wrote last year, in many ways, the chief community officer is the new chief marketing officer.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

And, in the case of Unity, the damaged trust from their recent pricing change execution has left the community seeking alternatives. Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Brief History Of Game Engines Humans have always desired to construct and explore worlds of our own imagination.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

There’s scores of competition, including incumbents like OpenAI and Anthropic. ” He has a point — insofar as incumbents are feeling the pressure, at least. The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically. billion in Q1 2023, with an additional $10.68

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SXSW 2022: Building the Sustainable Startups of the Future

Revolution

For us, our focus on reducing consumerism and enabling a circular economy has drawn passionate candidates who care about our mission and want to do more than earn a paycheck.” and companies play a significant role in ensuring people from all geographies, communities, and income brackets have the resources to participate in the green economy.

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Daily.dev is like Reddit meets Stack Overflow

TechCrunch

Founded out of Tel Aviv, Daily.dev wants to help like-minded software developers connect, share knowledge and discuss all that’s happening across their ecosystems. There’s no escaping the fact that there are plenty of developer-focused communities out their on the web, from Discord and Hacker News, to GitHub and Stack Overflow.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

TechCrunch

Companies in this segment work with community pharmacies and lower-end providers such as drug shops to help stock products. Many startups operate in single or two countries, so expanding geographic footprints will be an enabler to draw in better funding.” Some include mPharma, Lifestores, Shelf Life, and Maisha Meds.

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