TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Indeed, data indicates that last year saw a near-record number of new corporate investors joining the startup fundraising fray. Microsoft wants to back thousands of African startups : That the African startup scene is expanding at a rapid clip is not news. Startups and VC. TechCrunch has been on that story for ages now.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Raul is a 46-year-old dad, experienced in entertainment, media, and startups. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He penned a great piece on the LA tech community here in Forbes. You can watch on YouTube or download the podcast (for the gym!) 23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators? Not bad, hey? And they had another recent $100+ million exit of Savings.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno used your modem to to download and send email, and it was paid for by placing ads in the email client. Within a small startup with 3 engineers, everyone will work on all aspects of the site. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JANUARY 29, 2021

Much of what we do as startup community builders requires in-person interactions through workshops, meetups, and other events. But the Covid pandemic pushed the big pause button on in-person events that are the beating heart of many startup communities. Our community Slack channels continue to grow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mostaque co-founded and bootstrapped Stability AI in 2020, motivated both by a personal fascination with AI and what he characterized as a lack of “organization” within the open source AI community. ” Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talkshoplive is a startup that’s worked with stars like Paul McCartney and Garth Brooks, as well as small businesses, to host shopping-focused live videos. For one thing, the startup does not require consumers to download any additional apps in order to watch its videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). “My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

After experimenting with the app with a sample of 700 people, Campos was even more encouraged and raised an angel round of funding for Yana , the startup behind her app. Funding for mental health-focused startups rises in 2020. Some of those people would download the app again months later when hit with another crisis. “We

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

There are a number of no-code platforms out there, but I started using Bubble last year and have built several projects on it (including the MVP of my startup Gaya : a platform enabling people in close-knit communities to share their cars with each other). 6: Built-in authentication.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

When I first covered the company in 2017, the startup was focused on a consumer app. On the company’s website , you can browse thousands of pre-trained machine-learning models, participate in the developer community with your own model, download datasets and more. It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

While way too many startup companies (and investors) are focused on “social TV” or on “Instagram for TV” I believe they are missing the more fundamental shift in our industry. most Internet connections have been asymmetric & optimized for downloads). Aren’t all online communities like this?).

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. So what are some credible marketing and promotion steps you should consider for your startup? Invested Interests entrepreneur funding marketing budget startup'

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

Community Crowdfunding Platform brings multiple benefits to Social Gaming Startup Funding strategy plays an important role in how much and how quickly a startup receives funding. In a matter of hours, the gaming startup raised $1 million from retail investors with a minimum investment of $100.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Nonetheless, non-white CEOs still face immense barriers when entering the startup game. Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Related: A Practical Guide to Diversity for Startups and Entrepreneurs. It’s not just socially responsible, it’s fiscally responsible.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. They built a quick version of the app, put together a Discord community to spread the word and shared a few videos on TikTok and Instagram. In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apache Arrow. The open source tool has proved amazingly popular, with the company reporting more than 42 million downloads per month.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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. Athos is a repeat backer: It also invested in an earlier $2.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Phantom is part of a new class of crypto startups looking to build infrastructure that streamlines blockchain-based applications and provides a more user-friendly UX for navigating the crypto world, something that can make the entire space more approachable to a non-developer audience. 0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The startup designed a web-based, real-time collaboration tool for electronics design and engineering. Flux says its technology is supported by “all modern browsers,” requiring no downloads. We are very inspired by GitHub and how it changed the whole software ecosystem with its open and community-driven repository of reusable code.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this role, I spearhead a program that helps veterans and community heroes like teachers, police, firefighters, medical professionals and social workers acquire housing. How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1. Building relationships and enhancing a sense of community. Playing an active and engaging role in your community.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Meet Powder , a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. While many communities of gamers already share content on Twitch, Discord and Reddit, there isn’t a dominant mobile app focused on gaming. The idea behind Powder started in December 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And, the app was recently ranked in the top 10 of all apps downloaded in Mexico via Google Play, surpassing Spotify and Facebook app downloads, according to Amozurrutia. It averages 6,000 new customers a day, mostly due to word of mouth, the company said. We need to educate on a basic level.”. Image: Flink.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

By streaming the data, the data scientist or developer no longer has to download all of this data to a local laptop, but sends it through for use by the model in the same way that Netflix streams a movie to you, so you aren’t downloading the whole thing to your local machine. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The idea for the startup comes from Lewis Foster and Matt Russell, the U.K.-based Similar to Spotify, the Uppbeat website leverages a freemium model, To get started, creators can sign up for a free account that provides access to about 50% of the site’s roughly 1,000-track music catalog and 10 downloads per month.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

Qwili , a startup that provides a hybrid sales product to micro and small merchants in South Africa, has raised $1.2 Its typical business customer is a seller without a storefront that sells digital products to immediate communities and networks informally. million in seed funding a year after closing an undisclosed pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Monthly active users have almost doubled to 120 million this year and the company has seen 800,000 downloads a day thanks, in part, to the wildly popular game Among Us (which received a ringing endorsement from the popular congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ). AOC’s Among Us stream topped 435,000 concurrent viewers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Now with over 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close of its £4.6 Leveraging a freemium model, Uppbeat allows creators to sign up for an account that provides access to around 50% of the site’s catalog and provides 10 downloads per month. mo) provides full access and unlimited downloads. (A

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? It was a humbling year that, for much of the tech community, was mostly spent inside, away and alone. TechCrunch wants to meet your startup. Across the week.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. Sketchfab has been building a platform to upload, download, view, share, sell and buy 3D assets. Epic Games buys artist community ArtStation, drops commissions to 12%.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Since its launch six months ago, Serverless Stack has grown to over 2,000 stars on GitHub and was downloaded more than 60,000 times.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. I would argue that social media has always had limitations when it comes to representing all interests and communities. The information was right there in front of us: easily accessible and ready to be used in order to benefit our community.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

If your startup/organization/team struggles with ideation (the process of coming up with ideas), you fall into one of two camps: Those who struggle to come up with any ideas. Here is what the 4×3 foot poster looks like: Download & print the 4×3 ft poster , grab some sticky notes, and follow along. The Short Version.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times. Today, they have 500 companies using Prodigy including Microsoft and Bayer in addition to the huge community of millions of open source users. “Open source is a community of users, customers and employees.

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