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How a Tourist Can Help you with Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I found that I was always more curious about issues like “why do you charge for your web hosting services this way when newer non-incumbent players do not?&# There’s a famous line about consultants that clients love to repeat, “consultants take your watch and then tell you the time.&#. Such is leadership. Persuasive.

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8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022

TechCrunch

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. That level of interest can’t have vanished entirely, but there will definitely be winners and losers.

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Despite its many troubles, the insurtech market is ‘far from dead,’ investors say

TechCrunch

As the markets turned early this year, insurtech left most generalist investors’ playbooks almost as fast as Metromile and its peers’ plummeting valuations. The bulk of the buyers, however, would likely be companies involved in insurance themselves – either insurtechs acquiring some of their peers or legacy players.

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EnquireLabs aims to pull back the curtain on consumer behavior

TechCrunch

This is where he says the differentiator is between his company and the incumbents, like Momentive/SurveyMonkey or Typeform, which focus more on the research space, while EnquireLabs is focused on how to put the data to use in real time. questions after the customer made a purchase. Typeform takes $135M to tickle more marketers.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

You can try it out at HubSpot.com. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. Brian is on Twitter @bhalligan and Kevin is @ilikevests. 00:00 – Brian’s an introvert that likes to work from home. He also runs a public company. How does he do both? 1:45 – How does he manage his calendar as an introvert? Google Play.