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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history.

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OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, a startup attempts a humanoid robot, and Salesforce turns it around

TechCrunch

Disrupt, TechCrunch’s flagship conference, will also be well worth the trek. This year, Disrupt will feature six new stages with industry-specific programming tracks, inspired by our popular TC Sessions series. Trust me, it’ll be worth the trek.

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How to Achieve Startup Success from Day 1

StartupNation

million in the last decade , more and more people are breaking into the startup ecosystem. For me, my ax to grind was the inefficiency of traditional consultancies within the engineering industry, but I only came to that challenge by working in those traditional consultancies. million to $4.6

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

Tex Andersen (2015) became CTO of Talentvine , a Brisbane tech startup that makes outsourced recruitment affordable, transparent and simple. Matthew Brown (2015) left a role at one of the big 4 consulting firms to join Maxwell Plus , a medical tech startup rethinking the way we detect and diagnose disease (and are doing pretty well ).

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. —– Indie.vc They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. —– Indie.vc They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0,

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

TechCrunch spoke to Francisco Polo, Spain’s high commissioner overseeing delivery of the entrepreneurial strategy, to get the inside track on the plan to grow the startup ecosystem and find out which bits entrepreneurs are likely to see in action first. “We are a new generation of young people in government. .”

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