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Jitx wants to change the way engineers design circuit boards using code

TechCrunch

So Jitx is changing that by letting engineers write code to create their designs, and that brings the benefits of software to hardware design,” co-founder and CEO Duncan Haldane told TechCrunch. As the idea of code-based circuit design grew, he connected with his co-founders and started the company in 2017. Image Credits: Jitx.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Your product demo crushed. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. But your co-founder had been senior at one of the big enterprise software companies and if I remember correctly American Express had run a big pilot with you. I remember.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. It needs to go house to house--founders and employees getting matched through individual e-mail intros, deals happening over handshakes, and startups getting recruited into your ecosystem one at a time.

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Empowering Web3 Communities and Revolutionizing Fan Engagement: Meet Manuela Seve, CEO of Alphaa.io

Jason Malki

She is the CEO and co-founder of alphaa.io , a women-led Web3 company that is revolutionizing fan engagement across sports, fashion, CPG, tourism and more. If you had to share, “words of wisdom,” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

YC Demo Day(s) happened this past week , and fellow fintech reporter and Equity Podcast co-host Natasha Mascarenhas brilliantly led editorial coverage of the event. Founder Steve Latham told me via email: “Few investors are unaware that by donating stock they can avoid capital gains tax while deducting the market value of the gift.”

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

We ha d several folks from my team, several of our longest-tenured PMs, all the co funders, most of the exec team. But I’m curious, Tido, now that you are founder and CEO of Koala, you’re leading both engineering product and sales. But on another team, the salespeople do the demo themselves. Tido: Yeah.