TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Word to the budget-wise: don’t miss out on early-bird savings. Buy your early bird pass before prices go up on July 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT and save up to $1,300. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 22, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fairbanc, the Indonesian and Silicon Valley based technology platform that enables B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) for micro-businesses in Indonesia just secured $4.8M in pre-A note led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Companies, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Accion Venture Lab (AVL) also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

I won’t use this space to dissuade anyone from launching a startup, but founders should embrace the fact that investors are looking for reasons not to give you money these days. Perhaps you don’t have much revenue. Or maybe, too much of your cash flow depends on a single customer. Oh, and when are you on track to join the $100 million ARR club? Given current conditions, best practices for fundraising and finding investor alignment are less relevant than they were a year ago.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) ( Note to reader: this week’s essay is a continuation of my piece from last week, “A Samurai, a Knight, and a Yankee”. I recommend reading that entry first before diving into this one.

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This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Luisa Rubio Arribas. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Luisa Rubio Arribas is the head of Wayra X , Telefónica’s digital innovation hub offering funding, connections and expertise to mass-market-ready B2C startups. More posts by this contributor. The corporate venture comeback: What startups considering CVC need to know. As venture capital flows continue to fluctuate, founders have to double down on the terms they agree on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The wig industry aimed at women of color has an estimated market in the neighborhood of $13 billion. Black women face unique issues when it comes to building these wigs, and the process traditionally has involved sitting with a stylist for eight hours or more. A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology.

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OkDork

JULY 22, 2022

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to my buddy Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Ramit is a well-known financial advisor and entrepreneur. His bestselling book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich , helps people who didn’t grow up with rich parents or didn’t learn anything about money at school, make smarter financial decisions so they can live their rich lives — whatever that means to them!

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Evan Kipperman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Evan Kipperman is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. He helps growth-stage companies, VC firms, family offices and high-net-worth individuals achieve their business goals. Paul Hughes. Contributor. Paul Hughes is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) Betwixt a placid pond and the high road rests an inn. That is where you shall find me, a humble inn keeper. Many interesting travellers traverse the road from here to hyperinflation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

A year ago, Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta left his role as chief executive of the grocery delivery unicorn and took on an executive chairman position. Now, as the company he started nearly a decade ago prepares to IPO, Mehta says that he will be stepping down as executive chairman and transitioning off the board of directors once the company goes public.

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Reforge

JULY 22, 2022

Table of Contents What Is An Engineering Manager? Engineering Manager Responsibilities & Challenges How To Become a Successful Engineering Manager Level Up As An Engineering Manager Depending on your niche, industry, or company size, an engineering manager could be put in charge of a lot of different initiatives and teams. Some days you may be stuck in cross-functional meetings with other departments, flexing your soft skills.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

World Fund, a newcomer in climate-VC land, is taking the lead in a $128 million round for IQM , with hopes the Finnish quantum computing company will one day deliver carbon cuts by the megatonne. Quantum computing trades the bits of conventional computers for quantum bits, and in theory, quantum machines may be better suited for solving some highly complex problems in fields like chemistry and machine learning.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 22, 2022

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Botsync, a Singapore-based manufacturer of heavy-duty, intelligent, industrial autonomous mobile robot (AMR) solutions, has successfully raised US$3.2 million to date with its latest pre-Series A funding round. The funds will be used to scale the company’s automation solution offerings and support the growing demand for automation across existing factories and warehouses.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

When it comes to video-based data, advances in computer vision have given a huge boost to the world of research, making the process of analyzing and drawing insights from moving images something that is scalable beyond the limits of a small team of humans. A startup called Theator has been applying this concept to the world of healthcare: It’s using AI to “read” video captured during operations, to look for best practices but also to help identify key moments when an operation

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2022

Joe Freedman, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO ) member in Nashville is the founder and CEO of Event Works Rentals. Joe saw a need for entrepreneurs to help the Ukrainian people fight their war and tapped his entrepreneurial skills and resources to do so. Here’s what he shared about the experience: During a recent trip to Ukraine to deliver donated drones, I visited Auschwitz across the border in Poland.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Fri-yay! Grab your calendar and mark November 17, 2022, on it, and then snag yourself an airline ticket to Miami, Florida. That’s right, TC Sessions continues, with a Crypto special event. It’s our first dedicated crypto event, so come along, get your NFTs, blockchains, and web3 on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Yesterday was a big day for the crypto industry. A former Coinbase product manager was arrested alongside his brother and a friend, and charged with running a cryptocurrency insider trading scheme by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). At the same time, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a separate document on the case, designating a number of the assets traded by the group as cryptocurrency securities, a classification that raised eyebrows. “I think it’s odd the SEC

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Once seemingly unstoppable, big tech is now in reset mode. We’re not talking about Snap’s earnings sending its stock plunging, or Twitter’s lackluster earnings report from earlier this morning. No, we’re talking about big tech. The world’s largest tech companies are pulling back in a way that could, perhaps, clear some brush for startups still making their way through the wild (the private markets) towards the promised land (the public markets).

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann got together with Grace once again this week for our weekly roundup show, and as often happens, news broke as we were gearing up to record. So we had to touch on the huge Amazon-One Medical deal to get started.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The fintech funding boom of the past several years saw huge amounts of capital flowing into so-called neobanks, digital financial companies offering banking services to markets general and niche. The overarching idea behind the push made sense — many traditional banks are IRL-first and digital second, and their brick-and-mortar way of doing things engendered costs that were passed on to consumers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Ride-hail startup Alto thinks the current gig worker-based market is inherently broken. Drivers’ salaries are squeezed by the costs of owning and maintaining a vehicle; riders aren’t guaranteed a high-quality service; cities have had to deal with angry taxi drivers; and the app-based companies themselves that have undercharged users to expand into new markets are still not seeing the profits from a growth-at-all costs mindset.

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