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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

Education may well be the most important activity we conduct as a society — and it may also be the hardest space to build a startup in. Engagement and education feel aggressively at odds, which limits the way that startups can scale and succeed. It’s a language-learning app that has caught fire.

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Playbyte’s new app aims to become the ‘TikTok for games’

TechCrunch

While typically, game creation involves some aspect of coding, Playbyte’s games are created using simple building blocks, emoji and even images from your Camera Roll on your iPhone. After you play a game, you can like and comment using buttons on the right-side of the screen, which also greatly resembles the TikTok look-and-feel.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

The story of Oyo — in which currently SoftBank has over 45% ownership — starts with Agarwal, who left his rural town in search of a better education in Rajasthan. Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. It doesn’t promise any minimum guarantees to those partners. Oyo’s offerings.

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How Duolingo became a $2.4B language unicorn

TechCrunch

At the heart of Duolingo is its mission: to scale free education and increase income potential through language learning. How do you design a startup that isn’t too hard to lose people, but isn’t too easy to compromise education? How do you balance monetization goals while also keeping education as a product free?

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How to Make a Tough Hiring Decision

ExactHire - Startups

Assessing education and work experience is the easy part. When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates.

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Leveling Up

Andreessen Horowitz

The classic 3D creation uses these heavyweight blenders, 3D Studio or Maya. Roblox Studio uses these things. For a while, at Roblox, we were thinking, “How do we make Roblox Studio easier to use? Two million people use it.” We want to use all of the data in an opt-in fashion to help make these better.

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How to Make a Tough Hiring Decision

ExactHire - Startups

Assessing education and work experience is the easy part. When considering how to make a tough hiring decision, develop a data-driven hiring process that artfully mixes objectivity with sound intuitive judgement to choose the best candidate. Recruiters often find the internet brings mixed blessings in their search for top candidates.

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