A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
MARCH 6, 2023
Last Thursday, three new blog posts hit USV.com announcing our three new analysts: This is our tradition at USV. When someone starts at USV, we ask them to write a post on the USV blog introducing themselves. This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies understand the folks they will be talking to. Grace joins us from Silver Lake where she was working on their ESG strategy.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 6, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The demand for digital stationery content related to learning and writing is increasing. Korean startup Noutecompany has launched a web-based C2C digital stationery platform called WeBudding , which offers a range of templates for digital diaries, notepads, letters, planners, and stickers.
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Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 6, 2023
As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. The core engineering team ships the product & focuses on reliability. For most companies, the data science team analyzed data & wrote machine learning models to support the business functions : sales, marketing, customer support.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 6, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Mapxus, a Hong Kong-based indoor Geographic Information System GIS platform, has announced raising $5 million in a Series B funding round anchored by Japanese corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries. In a statement, the fresh funding will be used to continue the development of its technology.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Stefanie Palomino Contributor Share on Twitter Stefanie Palomino is chief product officer and general manager at ROOM3D , an immersive and gamified virtual meeting platform. Remote work lends people a certain amount of freedom in how they go about doing their jobs, so it’s not surprising that an asynchronous style of working would be one of the side effects of not working from a centralized location.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Catch co-founder Kristen Anderson tweeted Monday that the health and retirement benefits company she and co-founder Andrew Ambrosino started six years ago is shuttering. Anderson and Ambrosino created Catch, and as she explained in a Twitter thread and post on the company’s website , “with a crazy idea that our benefits shouldn’t be tied to traditional employment and a W2 form.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 6, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register HRtech startup Weploy has expanded its geographic reach beyond Australia as it makes it official entry into the Vietnamese market. The company, which offers digital solution that facilitates fast, easy, high-quality, and professional staffing across multiple industries, said its expansion is supported by a funding round that raised $5 million from an international investor.
TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. “I’m not a big fan of governance; I think if you engage as a team member with a founder, you have much more influence than if you’re sitting on a board and voting,” he said.
Jason Malki
MARCH 6, 2023
I had the pleasure of interviewing Varun Jain. He is a three-time founder, who has scaled his current startup, Default , to $1 million ARR. What motivated you to launch your startup? Learning excites me, especially across domains, doing a startup fulfills that As to specifically this startup, tech hiring is a notorious and well-known problem all over the world.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. Growfin , a Singapore- and San Francisco–based fintech startup that provides SaaS for finance departments to track and collect payments and to help manage the accounts receivable process, has raised a $7.5
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 6, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Startup founders wanting to pitch to investors to raise money should not get into the “sell now” part of the conversation immediately but must instead lay the groundwork first, according to James Walker, Associate Counsel and Investor at Draper Associates.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
MARCH 6, 2023
The 3 conditions of app infectiousness and why all apps tend toward abomination.
OurCrowd
MARCH 6, 2023
Lightico, market-leading provider of digital customer interactions, announced today its integration with Innovis, a leading provider of fraud prevention solutions, to provide its authentication tool, FailSafe®, to manage fraud risk. The phone ID verification tool will assist current and future Lightico customers with fraud detection and prevention. Read more here.
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Derek Sivers
MARCH 6, 2023
When you think something nice about someone, you should tell them. People don’t hear enough compliments. Even well-known people. We assume they must hear it too much. But famous people often say the thanks from the public is the best part of the job. They work really hard to spread their creations widely. They could just sit home and keep their thoughts to themselves, but instead they do the hard labor of turning their ideas into something digestable, then brave public critique in the media, all
StartupNation
MARCH 6, 2023
Earlier this year, we wrote about why the constant headlines about layoffs in the tech industry shouldn’t be… The post These Tech Workers Quit Or Were Fired. Now They’re Entrepreneurs. appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Are you tired of bad news for startups? Bored of the layoffs, budget cuts and sermons from folks who suddenly discovered the efficiency gospel? Well, how about some good news? I have some for you: Software valuations staged a modest comeback this year. When we refer to startups, we generally mean tech-focused upstart companies. Sure, there are restaurant chain startups and, I suppose, ceramics startups and all sorts of quickly growing businesses out there.
StartupNation
MARCH 6, 2023
The following is an excerpt from “SWIPE: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start” by… The post SWIPE: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start appeared first on StartupNation.
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Gust
MARCH 6, 2023
Starting and building any business other than the very tiniest one-person shop is a complicated task. Thus, the majority of businesses that aspire to become high-growth companies of the future—are launched by a founding team of two, three, or more people. Combining the strengths, insights, experiences, talents, connections, and resources of a few people often gives a new business a greater chance of success than resting entirely on the shoulders of even a highly talented single individual.
StartupNation
MARCH 6, 2023
When it comes to making extra income, one of the coolest and most profitable side hustles over the… The post 12 Keys to Choosing and Developing a Side Hustle Idea appeared first on StartupNation.
TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Cannabis startups have to navigate some rough waters: They can’t access federal funds or work with traditional banks, and they have to find customers across a fragmented market while adhering to local laws. But at least on the advertising front, a new Twitter update might signal smooth sailing ahead. Twitter updated its advertising rules to allow cannabis companies — including those selling products containing THC and CBD, in addition to related accessories — to advertise on the platform under a
Founder Bounty
MARCH 6, 2023
There are many email marketing tools available for creators, but here are some of the best ones: Postr : A great tool for email marketing to supercharge your business and help you grow, this has all that you need. ConvertKit : This is an email marketing tool designed specifically for creators. It allows you to create automated email sequences, tag subscribers based on their interests, and track your email performance.
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TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
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Jason Malki
MARCH 6, 2023
I had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Bentley. The CEO of the Jed Mahonis Group , a digital product agency that specializes in building digital tools: mobile apps, APIs, Custom websites, and more. Rob graduated from North Central University in 2011 with a degree in Business Administration. When he’s not busy developing software, Robert enjoys spending time with his family, taking walks, mixing EDM, painting, and playing video games He hosts a small cooking show on Instagram, with a focus on
TechCrunch
MARCH 6, 2023
Alerzo , a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 employees (half of which worked full-time) across Nigeria before the first layoffs last September, which affected 5% of its full-time wor
Founder Bounty
MARCH 6, 2023
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