TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

The startup plans to use the funding to expand into new markets, to hire more people and to continue adding more maintenance/repair services and partnerships into its wider home-warranty-by-subscription proposition. The funding it’s announcing today will be used in part to enhance how those monthly plans work.

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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

MAY 8, 2021

If you enjoyed my series, make sure to check out other EC-1s and subscribe to ExtraCrunch to support me, this newsletter and the rest of the team. GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise’s self-driving tech by 2030. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Do you agree?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. The next part of the margin mix online video companies must get control of is talent margins. Not so fast.

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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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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. Our movement stood for building a better world through the power of entrepreneurial solutions , supported by a powerful magic mix of inspiring spaces, vibrant communities and meaningful content.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B. Now fintech startups compete to offer the most appealing feature mix to net a target youth demographic. Its website also talks up its use of carbon offsetting and other initiatives to shrink environmental impact.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. It is trivially easy to spot a policy that uses confidence intervals rather than outcomes at the extreme. No network … no value.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking. I give direct, honest, blunt, polite and (I hope) useful feedback. Unsurprisingly, this one way best.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

As my college buddies used to say, “you could blindfold me with dental floss.&# Given that I hadn’t had time to change out of my t-shirt (I had promised Jonathan Strauss I would wear to support his company), I tried to keep a low profile here [full shirt: Effing Social Media, How Does it Work? It’s super cool.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 14, 2022

that’s where TOMS can support. This evolution provides us the flexibility to support what is needed most in a community. The power of this new proposition was demonstrated through the TOMS COVID-19 Global Giving Fund which generated over $2 million in support of global pandemic relief efforts. Identify absolutes.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2011

It's funny to think of him as the groom, because he is definitely the "best man". We have a very aspirational startup culture now where doing your own thing is cool--and there's plenty of money to support lots of people starting companies. You're bound to forget people, or not be using the same services as others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Use discount code CZECHIA to save 25% off a 1-year Extra Crunch membership. Respondents said they invest around 50% inside Czechia and 50% across Central and Eastern Europe, while some are more focused across CEE generally, with some percentage of the fund supporting startups that have scaled to the U.S. Vaccination.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.? Calendly speeds up scheduling for pitch call Q: What are the tools you’re using for your middle office: tracking, risk management, etc.? Q: Do you see any room to use AI to exploit your dataset? Yes, absolutely.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 22, 2023

We then allowed the model to call each one as a separate “tool” That was the fundamental design principle we used internally, and it helped us to expose this as the new NLA API – for any developer to add integrations into that products or internal tools in 5-10 minutes. Definitely.

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. To put the number in context, women-founded companies have accounted for around 24% of annual first-financing deals that we know had mixed-gender teams since 2017. The rest is noise. compared to 1.4x

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

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. That’s definitely still a part of what I do. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied). So, why the name Granitt? There’s a lot of bridge building.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2012

I can now: Post a photo of a Shake Shack burger to Instagram, Path, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foodspotting and now Medium, plus perhaps I still use Flickr or a service like Picturelife. I can mix the burger photos to make a photo collage on Mixel. The restaurant might collect those photos via Chute or Olapic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

That is definitely not the way any CEO wants to start their tenure, but the pandemic forced Klein to make some decisions to move his customers to the cloud faster. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Thanks for reading! Surprised by the revenue miss?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“This is especially useful to them compared to PO Boxes or Amazon lockers because it provides a single nearby location where the customer can get all their packages. With the right mix of locations signed up, the incentives do therefore look very well aligned.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Europeans all over, in every country, they know that they need to support their local producers but they also know that local producers really make the best products for them. “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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The funding will be used in part in an effort to tap more growth internationally to complement that existing base. Personio is an interesting company to consider in comparison to Hibob: it is bigger but also has smaller businesses in its mix of customers. G.Network, Revolut and Cazoo — are in the U.K. and other European markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The process of debating and agreeing the details of this startup ecosystem support framework is expected to take between six and nine months. TechCrunch: Now the draft startup law is with the Parliament, are you confident this support package contains everything the ecosystem needs to thrive and grow? Why did you draw the lines there?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? I definitely agree with your first comment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. I use WordPress. They’re more light weight and easier to use. hen you need to decide whether to use the “hosted&# version or the “installed&# version. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Absofuckinglutely.

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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]. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors. Now, and only now, are you prepared to start fundraising.

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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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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms. they are definitely at a disadvantage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Overall, local investors cited the country’s focus on global markets from day one, general support from the Israeli government and deep relationships with Silicon Valley and other global tech centers as additional factors that are powering it forward today. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two. Zoomin Software.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 8, 2020

These pandemics and disease outbreaks are not presented in chronological order but arranged differently to support a different narrative on their impact economically, culturally, and otherwise. A virus is a small infectious agent that uses other cells to replicate. Vaccinations have been the most widely used and effective.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The pandemic also called a halt to a major piece of research work the startup had lined up with a US university to study its hormone-tracking method for a key contraceptive use-case — a product it had intended to prioritize but could not bring to market ahead of the study which is required to gain regulatory approval.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Can’t follow what the customer support person at the other end of the phone is saying? As someone who speaks with an accent, I have mixed feelings about this technology. A lot of speech-to-text technologies use natural language processing (NLP) to take a qualified guess at what someone is saying.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

might never know that tweets were once an exercise in self-editing, thanks to Twitter’s new feature — Twitter Notes — that would support the publishing of long-form content on the platform. But I’m old. New tweeters (twitterers?) Sarah has the story. For those with small apartments especially, it could be a godsend, writes Brian.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees.

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