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FabuLingua wins the TechCrunch City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off!

TechCrunch

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow. Two other companies presented in the Austin pitch-off.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

Unless you’re a former CIO who has a clear understanding of the decision-making process, you can only fall back on basic best practices that will usually result in a generic pitch. Regardless, it’s out in the market racking up downloads, which is pretty bad. TechCrunch Experts.

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Finalists Announced in 2024 PA Wilds $50,000 BIG IDEA Contest!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

“More than sixty individuals downloaded applications, and the challenging task for the evaluation panel was to select six finalists from the pool of many high-quality applications. We’re excited to hear more from each finalist at the final pitch event on June 30.”

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Early-bird pricing increases next week for TC Early Stage Operations & Fundraising

TechCrunch

You’ll learn or strengthen the core entrepreneurial skillsets every startup founder needs to master — legal issues, fundraising, marketing, growth, product-market fit, tech stack, recruiting, pitch deck teardowns and more. Here are just two of the featured speakers ready to download serious knowledge in April.

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How to Get Your First 1,000 Mobile App Users

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Strategies to cultivate a community, iterate with an audience and convert it into a customer base Photo: Unsplash In today’s hyper-competitive, fast-paced digital world, it seems like everyone and their smartphone-savvy grandmother is developing a mobile app. Instead, think about building a community (or joining an awesome existing one ).

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A Conference, a Dad, an Idea, a Team, Funding, and a Launch: Brooklyn's Own Tinybop is Live on the App Store!

This is going to be BIG.

When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea." He investigated successful models, like Toca Boca, downloaded every top educational app on the App Store, and played alongside his two sons, carefully observing and absorbing their feedback. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company.

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Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors

TechCrunch

Now that investing is cool again, upstarts like Staax , which pitched today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield, are finding new ways to cash in on its cachet, particularly among young people. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market.