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History of The MP3

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Not only did the incumbents fail to grasp the potential value, but it would have made no sense for them to go after such a small unprofitable niche, which would have been irrelevant to their top line, and eating away at their bottom line (CDs were 90%+ gross margin products back then). most of the value created would accrue to new entrants.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

We’ll have the new Discovery Stage featuring in-depth demos and speaker Q&As, roundtables, networking, breakout sessions and more. Serena Williams is the greatest to ever play the game of tennis, and she’s already made a name for herself as a VC in the tech world. The State of VC in 2022. Acing Venture.

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These Y Combinator-backed startups are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X’

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“I released Yuma as a prototype for fun in mid-December 2022, and was overwhelmed with demo requests,” Luccisano said. But Ochoa argues that Lasso solves many of the setup problems associated with incumbent RPA solutions while remaining license-free. ” How well Lasso works in practice remains to be seen.

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YC’s latest batch cuts African startup presence by more than half

TechCrunch

One reason it attracts the most VC dollars is how expensive building a fintech product can be when factors such as integration, compliance and licensing are considered. Fintech is Africa’s hottest startup segment, and startups here make up the largest percentage of any typical YC cohort — in this case, five out of eight are fintechs.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

Demo slide. It makes sense; at a moment in which software has eaten most of the world, there aren’t actually that many people in VC who fully and deeply grok what it takes to build a hardware product. . “Five Flute is a connected issue-tracking platform for cross-discipline work.” ” — solution slide.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better.

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Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company

TechCrunch

video demos), or an ambassador program that coaches brand advocates on how best to spread the word. It’s worth noting that there are a number of other platforms out there that have raised significant VC money to power community-led growth at companies of all sizes. Talkbase: Ambassador program. million seed round.