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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS burn multiples, 8 fintech VCs spill the tea, all my apes gone

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Despite the ongoing correction in the public markets, mass layoffs in the tech sector and high inflation, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says we’re not yet in a recession. At the same time, it’s taking a lot longer to secure startup funding than it did just a few months ago, which means many companies are burning cash faster than they can raise it.

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6 Reasons You’re Involuntarily Repelling Customers With Your Sales Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

If you don’t want to know the real reason your energetic, no-brainer pitch isn’t bagging you $10k a month, skip this one. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings

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Yousuf Khan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and vice president of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys and Hult International Business School. More posts by this contributor. 10 tips for running effective board meetings.

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Why experimentation must be the ethos of your company

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like many companies at the beginning of the pandemic, we knew that if we wanted to survive, we couldn’t wait for lockdowns to end. We had to think differently and make experimentation the ethos of our company. In the past, we looked at trying new things as another “goal” to add to the list. But we couldn’t get hung up on perfection as revenue declined.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Kompliant secures $14M to help companies tackle financial compliance challenges

TechCrunch

Kompliant , a startup delivering an “AI-driven” business onboarding and risk scoring platform, today announced that it raised $14 million in a seed round led by Level One Fund with contributions from former Visa president John Partridge and Current CEO Stuart Sopp. The funds will be put toward supporting Kompliant’s product development, CEO Edward Katzin told TechCrunch, as well as expanding the company’s customer base and hiring additional team members.

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A startup is charging $1.99 for strings of text to feed to DALL-E 2

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Figuring out the right text prompts to yield the best results with AI systems like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 has become a science in its own right. Now a startup is looking to let “prompt engineers” cash in with an online marketplace that sells these finely tuned phrases. PromptBase , launched in June, allows users to sell strings of words that net predictable results with particular systems.

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Celebrating Milestones Doesn’t Kill Your Ambition. I Realized This Too Late To Enjoy Many Of Them.

Hunter Walk

One of My Liabilities as a Leader Was Not Acknowledging the Wins Along The Way. “I don’t want praise, I want to know what I could have done better.” For years this was my default response to even the smallest of positive feedback. Forget the PROS, I just want the CONS. There were a variety of reasons for this posture: a strong conviction in the value of lessons learned, a desire to learn from those I respected.

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Polymath Robotics launches plug-and-play autonomy software for any industrial vehicle

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“Robots suck.” It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots — or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. But Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, who previously founded and led the now shuttered autonomous vehicle startup Starsky Robotics, is trying to make a point. “They’re really difficult, they break all the time and getting to a stable product is really hard,” Seltz-Axmacher said

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Introducing the Green Zone Framework to Optimize Your Work & Life

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Give your productivity the green light Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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Crypto and securities, back of the postcard version

TechCrunch

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 hot dang was there a lot to talk about. So much so that we actually had to cut one topic from our notes.

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Shutterstock alternatives that will give you free pictures for your marketing

Founder Bounty

Shutterstock are the market leader but here is a list of places that can get you free pictures to download for your blogs, podcasts, newsletters and other stuff to get your self marketing and in front of people. Pexels A great free online resource is pictures from other social people. Definitely worth checking them out! 2. Pixabay An all round resource with tons of free pictures.

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The passage of the CHIPS Act could launch another US startup renaissance

TechCrunch

The U.S. Senate earlier this week approved the CHIPS Act, which includes $52 billion to subsidize domestic semiconductor production. It still has to struggle its way through the bureaucracy (here’s a quick refresher ), but clearing the Senate is a huge and important step toward the American chip fabrication industry getting a serious chunk of cash.

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The Art of Being (w/ Joe Hudson)

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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to Joe Hudson, he runs one of my favorite podcasts - Art of Accomplishment (my 2nd fav after this show!). When I was chatting with Joe in this episode, I talked about my anxiety of boredom, my life of “should”, and these crazy critical voices in my head.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Climate-focused VC stays scorching as Buoyant Ventures targets $100M fund

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Like a groundhog and its shadow, many venture capitalists see a shrinking economy and burrow away, resting their check-signing hand for better days. But climate-focused VCs are on a tear lately, pumping well over a billion dollars per quarter into startups that strive to mitigate emissions as the Earth bakes. Buoyant Ventures is one such firm building momentum for the sector.

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Clearco cuts 25% of staff, considers ‘strategic options’ for international operations

TechCrunch

Clearco , a Toronto-based fintech capital provider for online companies, tells TechCrunch that it has laid off 125 people, or 25% of its entire staff. Those impacted will receive severance pay, a two-year window to exercise equity and job transition support from the leadership team, according to Clearco. The company did not say which teams and roles were impacted, or if any C-suite members were let go.

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Daily Crunch: Mac sales down 10%, iPhones up 3% — Breaking down Apple’s quarterly numbers

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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. Good morning, you wonderful specimens of humanity! It’s Friday, and I’m writing this from the hammock in my sunny North Oakland garden, so life ain’t all that bad. (I can only assume that WFH stands for Work From Hammock).

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