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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch

Second, while financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed by the two companies, but we have confirmed other details with Go1’s co-CEO and founder Andrew Barnes: the acquisition is a mix of cash and shares. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

Maybe in-car calls need to be disrupted soon, too). “After physical well-being, we see intergenerational experiences (parent/child) as another interesting white space that plays into habit and human potential, and are in the early stages of developing a television series to explore this arena.”

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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Europe is roughly the same as the US. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!,

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

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. “Developers care about that.”

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Hormona wants women to track their ‘hormonal health’ with at-home testing

TechCrunch

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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History of The MP3

Unvalidated Learnings

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. These were the knob-twiddling soundboard jockeys who actually mixed the albums. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Flush with Series A funding, Daye unwraps the big gynae health mission

TechCrunch

The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. ” Daye is also planning to introduce more types of tests as it continues to develop the screening product — including screening for STIs.

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