TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

As companies adopt new tools to accommodate remote ways of work, it’s becoming tougher for their workforces to keep track of and manage information across internal services. It’s not just the C-suite that’s being challenged — lower-level employees, too, are having to wrestle with employers’ now-sprawling catalogs of apps. According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 7, 2022

Learn from the founder of Trends.vc Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today’s guest is Dru Riley, the founder of Trends.vc. Now, a few years ago, Dru did what many of us would love to do, he quit his nine to five and just traveled and took a sabbatical for years. He learned about himself. He learned about what made him tick, and eventually, he decided it was time to get back to work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Fyto wants our plants to work smarter, not harder. The San Francisco–based company is developing both hardware and software to automate and scale the production of aquatic plants, or what founder and CEO Jason Prapas calls “superplants,” in a controlled environment as a more resilient option for feed, food and soil health. Prapas launched Fyto out of MIT in 2019 and explained that he considers these plants “super” because of the speed at which they are capable of growing, due in part to some dee

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Gust

JULY 7, 2022

Welcome to the Gust Launch Founder Spotlight! Gust Launch supports a variety of exciting founders doing amazing things. In this ongoing series we’ll highlight the experiences of Gust Launch founders, in their own words, as they navigate the challenges of early-stage entrepreneurship. Want to share your story? Reach out at spotlight@gust.com. The Founder, the company, and why […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial intelligence. Robotics startups require expensive equipment — like industrial-grade sensors, 3D printers and controlled environments — for building and testing prototypes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Arwa Kaddoura. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arwa Kaddoura has worked for nearly 20 years in cloud GTM strategies and scaling startups and large enterprises. As CRO of InfluxData, she oversees global sales activities, including sales enablement, customer success, and technical support and services. Technology leaders don’t like to admit it, but sales has a perception problem that deters many fabulous candidates — especially women and minorities — from pursuing careers in tech sales.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

TAMPA, Fla., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tampa General Hospital patients now have a new option for care that combines the expertise of a world-class facility with the comfort of their own home. Tampa General Hospital (TGH)’s Hospital at Home program combines expert care and innovative technology with a focus on the needs of the patient. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Since departing his role as Casper CEO in 2021 , Philip Krim has spent the majority of his time investing and incubating companies via Montauk Ventures. The latest is an insurance company called Ranger , which aims to elevate the agents in the insurance industry, rather than replace them. Most of the new-wave insurance platforms out there have been squarely focused on the end-consumer.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Clinch, the leader in dynamic ad serving and personalization and creator of Flight Control, the Omnichannel Campaign Management Platform, has been recognized by Digiday Media Awards as this year’s Best Ad Tech Platform. The Digiday Media Awards is the industry’s annual recognition of the companies, campaigns and creatives modernizing media and marketing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

On June 24, Khadijah Robinson planned to offer a woman a job. As founder of the Atlanta-based tech startup Nile , she spent three years scaling the platform, which connects consumers to Black online businesses. That Friday, she was thrilled to finally find someone willing to relocate from California to Georgia to help grow the company. By early afternoon, the offer was on hold.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

Another leadership development bit? Yup. But if you have no time or are impatient, here are the three levels: visionary, strategic and tactical. Skip or stay with me; but think about your balance in your leadership methods either way. The conundrum of competing needs. As a leader, you must worry over issues from mundane to strategic, constantly reordering your priorities to accommodate competing needs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

I don’t know what is going on in the startup market and it’s a bit of a pain in the ass. The larger American economy, home to the largest technology startup and venture capital markets in the world, could be in a recession right now. We don’t know. To reach a technical recession, we need two successive quarters of negative GDP growth.

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Y Combinator

JULY 7, 2022

Both Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo and Zapier CEO Wade Foster made the decision to take a disciplined approach to fundraising. They flipped the equation of a typical startup founder: instead of raising money to enable a certain amount of growth, they eliminated the assumption of fundraising, controlled their spend, and evaluated how to ramp up spending based on what the business was bringing in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

We’re facing a pretty big climate change challenge, and I’ve long been skeptical about whether venture capital can be as big a part of the solution as it seems to think it is. This is why I was so excited when Harri wrote about fintech startup Enduring Planet. It’s playing a really clever card: trying to make rapid financing available to climate entrepreneurs in a win 4 situation — where investors, the startups, society and the environment all win.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 7, 2022

Peter Donnelly is a professor of statistical science at the University of Oxford and the CEO of Genomics PLC, which uses large-scale human genetic data to inform healthcare and drug discovery. In this interview he, Lauren Richardson, and a16z general partner Vineeta Agarwala discuss the concept of polygenic risk scores with and how this lets. Read More.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

From a global perspective, the venture capital market for startup investment is slowing. Data shows that venture investment totals are falling, with the second quarter adding to declines seen in the first quarter of this year. After reaching a peak in late 2021, startups are seeing private-market-focused wallets close just a bit — even as capital continues to flow.

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The Groove Blog

JULY 7, 2022

Flip a coin and you probably can’t go wrong. But if you’re here because you’re looking to choose the right platform for your specific needs and budget, you’ll find that the differences aren’t always small, either. The post 2022 Ecommerce Platform Guide: BigCommerce vs Magento appeared first on Groove Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Traba , a jobs board designed to help entry-level workers find available shifts at fulfillment centers and event venues, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series A round. Khosla led the financing with participation from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, SciFi VC and Atomic, valuing Traba at $120 million post-money. CEO Mike Shebat says that his experience as a warehouse manager at McMaster-Carr, an Illinois-based industrial supply company, inspired him to co-found Traba in 2021.

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Reforge

JULY 7, 2022

Table of Contents What Is Growth Marketing? Stop Calling Everything Growth Marketing Reset Your Expectations for Growth Marketing If we asked a hundred marketers to define growth marketing, we would likely get a hundred different answers. And all of them might be correct. Over the last two decades, growth marketing has continued to grow in popularity even though most executives and many marketers continue to maintain a fuzzy — at best — grasp of the concept.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new and awesome opportunity available for early-stage startup founders at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on October 18-20. It’s called the Startup Battlefield 200 , and it’s packed with perks and possibilities. Here’s the thing — it’s a time-sensitive application process, and you only have until July 31 to be considered.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

The food and entertainment chain has a new way to feed folks while they game. Read more here. The post [Zippin in The Takeout] Dave & Buster’s is watching you appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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B2B marketing

TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“I want to do some crazy stuff,” Jason Keats says with a laugh. “I want to bring back that GEM phone.”. He reaches behind him and pulls the strikingly slender device off a shelf. The battery’s dead, but as a prop, it still works. Essential released images of the prototype device in October 2019 — roughly four months before the company closed its doors.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Beyond Meat is now the official plant-based meat partner of Disneyland Paris. Read more here. The post [Beyond Meat in Plant Based News] Disneyland Paris partners with Beyond Meat to offer meatless option for every meal it serves appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In the construction business, time is money. But with so many moving parts, it can be extremely challenging for construction companies to manage the administrative aspects of their finances. Adaptive , an 11-month-old startup that has set out to give construction teams better tools to manage their back offices, has raised $6.5 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

ASHBURN, Va., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Anodot, the business monitoring company, today announced that it has been named as a Challenger and Fast Mover in the 2022 GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Financial Operations (FinOps) Tools report. Anodot for Cloud Cost was ranked as exceptional in the key criteria categories of flexibility, scalability, AI to predict future spending, normalized billing across multiple cloud vendors, identification of cost optimization opportunities, and container and

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