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Highnote launches a collaboration platform for musicians and podcasters offering voice notes, polls and more

TechCrunch

It’s typical for creators and their teams to rely on email, text messages, Word Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file-sharing services and tools that aren’t optimized for audio content, Highnote co-founder and CEO Jordan Bradley told TechCrunch. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required.

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Epic Games acquires Sketchfab, a 3D-model sharing platform

TechCrunch

Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. More recently, Unreal Engine has been used for different use cases beyond video games, such as special effects, 3D explorations of virtual worlds, mixed reality projects and more.

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users.

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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. One of the companies that has led the charge in transforming those perceptions is Pittsburgh-based Duolingo.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. You can watch him on YouTube , download in iTunes (for gym or commute) 3/31/11 edition. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

On a community level, however, designers and others were upset: They had adopted Figma precisely because it was not Adobe. Launched a year ago, the startup has seen tens of thousands of downloads and 15,000 “stars” on GitHub. ” Penpot’s choice of using open source-based technology to tackle this was intentional.

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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. A CISA allows a founder to utilize their future earnings as a type of collateral to receive funding today. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models?

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