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How Alternative Proteins Can Win Consumers Over

Revolution

We've come a long way since the introduction of the first veggie burger in the early 1980s. Today, innovation has spurred a plethora of meat alternatives, but consumer skepticism and startup economics are still barriers to parity with real animal protein. But I believe we are on the precipice of a major shift. Millennials and younger generations are acutely aware of the consequences of global warming (and how cattle contribute to methane emissions) and they are using their purchasing power t

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WATI, a CRM tool built for WhatsApp, raises $23M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. But as they scale up, even WhatsApp for Business might not be able to keep up with their needs. That’s where WATI (WhatsApp Team Inbox) steps in. Built on WhatsApp for Business’ API, WATI has customer sales and engagement tools created for the messaging app.

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Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Photo by Matthew Osborn on Unsplash As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), I see many mistakes being made and have made many myself. What drives me crazy is that the same mistakes happen again and again. So here is my scary list of the most impactful mistakes founders make: Mistake 1: Scaling Early (Means Failing Early) The top three reasons why 90% of startups fail are “no money,” “no market need,” and “too strong competi

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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Matt Van Itallie. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Van Itallie is the founder and CEO of Sema , which provides codebase analytics for M&A. Investment activity is down now, but it’s likely to pick up in 2023. And when investments ramp up, so does M&A. Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn?

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Weekly 19: How to sell your startup to VCs in one minute

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Welcome to another edition of our new newsletter! You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we share: Why your pitch deck has one minute to sell investors on your startup The 7 types of startup founder, and why it matters to you Let’s do this. P.s. Listen to our latest podcast episode w/ Henri Pierre Jacques here How to grab a VC’s attention in just 1 minute When DC Palter receives a pitch, it has his attention for a minute.

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15 Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated When the Company Is Struggling

Startup Blogpost

Startup leaders, what is one way you keep your team motivated when the company is struggling? To help you find the best ways to keep your team motivated when your startup is struggling, we asked startup founders and business owners this question for their best insights. From asking the team for help to reminding them regularly of the vision, there are several ways you could get your team well motivated, as you work together to overcome challenging times at your startup.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

In films, screenwriters always include a moment known as the Promise of the Premise. It’s the part of the story where the audience settles in to the new world they’ve entered. One of my favorite examples is in the first Harry Potter movie, when Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, the magical shopping district that introduces him (and us) to the world of wizarding.

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Hustlers university does not exist and is not Andrew Tates hustlers university. Here are the legit alternatives.

Founder Bounty

Hu2 is not Andrew Tates hustlers university which has been shut down and has had many reviews. We have put together a few legit alternatives that can help you to start a new business. Hustlers university has shut down Yahoo news talks about it here Founderbounty University A great starting point to get a business off the ground. It has a wide variety of courses for you guys to get started in thinking about getting a business off the ground.

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Greener wants to help consumers and businesses be more sustainable

TechCrunch

Many consumers and companies want to reduce their impact on the environment but may not know where to start or how to sustain the necessary changes. Tom Ferrier, the founder of Greener , an Australian cleantech startup, wants to help. He argues that sustainability and climate action doesn’t need to be complicated. His startup is geared toward simplifying the decision-making process to help consumers and businesses understand sustainability and reduce their emissions, such as by making different

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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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Building a Business is Supposed to Be Hard

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A fundamental lesson about success and meaning Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Investors are sitting on mountains of cash: Where will it be deployed?

TechCrunch

Jeremy Abelson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Combining his experience as an operator and institutional investor, Abelson runs Irving as a multistrategy platform making long-term durable investments in both the public and private markets. More posts by this contributor. What am I worth now?

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

Engineering is typically the function that grows fastest at a scaling startup. It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. We’ve learned a lot about pace of execution in the past five years at Faire. When we launched in 2017, we were a team of five engineers. From the beginning, we built a simple but solid foundation that allowed us to maintain both velocity and quality.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Project’s $125k pre-seed deck

TechCrunch

I get a lot of pitch deck submissions for this TechCrunch Pitch Deck Teardown series from people who are raising friend and family rounds, and I mostly pass on them. Often, these decks aren’t very good, but it’s important to remember that they don’t have to be. For a small round (say $200,000 or below), most well-connected entrepreneurs will be able to find a group of people who believe in them and are willing to invest in them.

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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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9 Predictions for Data in 2023

Tomasz Tunguz

Yesterday, at the Monte Carlo Impact Summit I shared my 9 Predictions for Data in 2023. Here are the slides & I’ve embedded them below. These are my 9 predictions. A year from now, I’ll score them to see how I did. Cloud data warehouses (CDW) will process 75% of workloads by 2024. In the last five years, CDWs have grown from 20% of the workloads to 50%, with on-prem databases constituting the remainder.

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Station F turns its main startup program into an acceleration program

TechCrunch

Station F , the iconic startup campus in Paris, is revamping its Founders Program completely to turn it into an acceleration program. Founders who decide to join the accelerator will get many different benefits. They’ll also have to hand out a 1% equity stake to Station F. “We are changing the flagship program of Station F. Everything is changing but the name,” Station F director Roxanne Varza told me.

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Crypto market intelligence provider Glassnode acquires Accointing

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register On-chain and market data intelligence Glassnode has acquired Accointing.com, a crypto tax and portfolio tracking platform for an undisclosed amount. According to the announcement, the acquisition combines the services provided by both companies to bring users more value than ever before.

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Five questions to consider ahead of Big Tech’s Q3 earnings

TechCrunch

Today after the bell, Alphabet and Microsoft will report their calendar third-quarter financial results. Given the breadth of industries that each of these companies touch, their performance will provide us with rich data concerning different areas of the technology landscape. The fun will continue tomorrow when Meta reports its own results. And later this week, we’ll hear from Apple and Amazon, completing the “Big Five” technology earnings reporting cycle in just a handful of

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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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TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield alum Perygee helps secure building operations

TechCrunch

While TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2022 is still fresh in our minds, Perygee , a member of the 2020 group , has been helping companies keep their building operations elements secure. It looks at things like HVAC, elevators and sensors, keeping patches up-to-date and searching for vulnerabilities. Today the company announced a $4.75 million seed round, and the general availability of its self-service tier, which lets companies get started with the product without interacting with a sales team.

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AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware

TechCrunch

Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Unlike conventional chips, theirs was destined for devices at the edge, particularly those running AI workloads, because Del Maffeo and the rest of the team perceived that most offline, at-the-edge computing hardware was inefficient and expensive.

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