TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In the last year, CEO and co-founder Andrew Barnes told me in an interview that Go1’s revenues, customers and learners all doubled, and it now has some 5 million learners taking courses through its platform. ” Another area where it would like to use investment is to bring more technological innovations into the Go1 platform.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. My friend Jason Hirschhorn Tweeted about this today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. The fresh funding allows us to bring these possibilities to even more people across the world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. Startup failure is easy to hold up as a type of martyrdom for progress, especially if the founders are starting out scrappy in the first place and trying to save the world. Subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2017

You need to recruit an amazing team, and ideally, have co-founders you trust and respect. Mix in humor to show your personality. Consider a website that separately contains useful materials, depending on the cycle of your business. Share definitive documentation with investors, including a capitalization table.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave. In an OTT-style play, in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Intelligent Implants uses wireless implantable electronics to stimulate, steer and monitor bone growth. Intelligent Implants is wading into the market to add a more tech-forward solution to the mix. The implant is then powered externally through induction, much like how your phone might use a wireless charging pad.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3 “We were coming of age when everyone in college was using apps like Snapchat and Instagram,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

unicorn goPuff is also in the mix — having acquired UK startups Fancy and Dija. “We are definitely aiming to cover London inside of the M4 by end of the year,” Kholiaznikov tells TechCrunch. The company is led by a very experienced team of founders and the current round would enable Jiffy to further accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The company has now raised some $150 million and while it’s not disclosing valuation, CEO and co-founder Micha? Borkowski confirmed it is “definitely” an up round for the company. Everywhere else, Brainly is currently free to use. (In That C round was raised specifically to help Brainly grow in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The startup up to now has been largely self-funded, and while Segal isn’t disclosing the valuation, he said it was definitely in the nine-figures (that is, somewhere in the large region of hundreds of millions of dollars). In all honesty, it seems like a small leap to use this for more consumer-focused events, too.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Gaming is at a crossroads these days: a decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic concepts is now engaged in a battle royale with innovations in areas like mixed reality, AI, blockchain, and networking, as it strives to connect with an increasingly fragmented consumer base.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sana Labs — which provides an AI-based platform to help people manage information at work, and subsequently to use that data as a resource for e-learning within the organization — has closed a round of $34 million after seeing ARR grow seven-fold in the last year. Menlo Ventures, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The new capital will be used on research and development and expanding Placer.ai’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, three alums that worked with data in the world of Big Tech have founded a startup that aims to build a “metrics store” so that the rest of the enterprise world — much of which lacks the resources to build tools like this from scratch — can easily use metrics to figure things out like this, too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Sandvik is also a renowned hacker and security researcher and, as of recently, a founder. RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. That’s definitely still a part of what I do.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

For Emily Elyse Miller, founder and CEO of OffLimits , launching during a global pandemic was “interesting to navigate,” but in the end, worked out. OffLimits uses whole ingredients, and its flavors are organic, vegan, gluten-free and lightly-sweetened with organic cane sugar. She even wrote a book on breakfast. s startup studio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Tiger Global led today’s investment with participation from Definition, Frontline Ventures and existing investors First Round Capital, Greycroft, Felicis Ventures, The Spruce House Partnership, B Capital Group, SVB Capital and Okta Ventures. It quickly followed with a $60 million Series B last April.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Husband-and-wife co-founders Stephen and Allison Ellsworth, former oil and gas researchers, launched the soda in 2020 after Allison Ellsworth began having stomach issues about two years prior. She went to doctor after doctor without a definitive diagnosis and decided to take to the internet to find some answers. Image Credits: Poppi.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

There are many different paths to success and many different definitions of how to succeed in business. No matter what your definition of success is, some of the ingredients of success will be the same. Most of you reading this know the value of content marketing , blogging and using video. Narrow Focus. Looking Legitimate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s said that you should measure what you value, and for founders, nothing is more valuable than growth. I’ve definitely been in companies where we’ve made that mistake before. One example from a few years ago at SeatGeek: We tried to build a media-mix model before we had something much more basic in place.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. The founder pair said they wanted to work with her because of her knowledge base of B2B marketplaces and experience in scaling this type of business.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 22, 2023

I got a chance to sit down with Bryan Helmig (@ bryanhelmig ), the CTO and founder of Zapier, to talk APIs, interoperability, and learn more about the company’s first-ever public API: Natural Language Actions (NLA). Ultimately we are using LLMs to make APIs easier to use for both humans and other LLMs! Definitely.

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

A solopreneur is an individual who owns, manages and runs a venture independently without the support of co-founders, partners, and employees, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. Influencer : These individuals use their media presence across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality. Why videoconferencing?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

It now has its software in use in 20,000 locations across 40 markets, with the number of locations doubling in less than a year. One thing that Deliverect sees is that demand for its services is definitely not slowing down. . It does see an opportunity to make acquisitions selectively to add more tech and talent into the mix.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. “We see that as a major opportunity, giving creators the chance to get inventory from elsewhere and push theirs out to other places.” ”

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The mix of debt and equity is typical for a company building, effectively, a leasing business: it is the same approach Grover took when it raised $71 million for its Series B a year ago. Sometimes those resources were used goods being passed on or sold cheaply to others: it opened the door to a different way of thinking for a lot of people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

“Coming from that insight we set out to build a model that can guarantee that when you order from us, every item in your cart always arrives as the freshest version possible. “The fact that us needing one big warehouse as opposed to like 10 smaller ones really effects our unit economics positively.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Pricing a product actually involves a lot more psychology and art than science and is one of the most challenging problems my co-founders and I have attempted to solve when launching Uizard , an easy-to-use design tool for non-designers. It’s far from perfect but it allows a startup to make a data-backed estimate to start with.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Series A is pegged for launching in the US (slated for Q1 this year) and the EU (Q2; where it’s eyeing Italy, France and Germany for starters), as well as expanding the product’s capabilities and feature-set with a focus on the buzz around Web3 and digital collectables. For now, Twig accounts are only available in the UK.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

I asked 10 investors who actively and frequently back fintech startups a few questions such as what criteria they use when evaluating potential investments and what is the best way to pitch them. Some other highlights: Index Ventures’ Mark Fiorentino noted that 2021 was the definition of a “founder’s market” in fintech.

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