TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. First, Austin was the next biggest thing, then Atlanta and, more recently, Miami. Pittsburgh has yet to have its moment, but all the signs are there that it could be next. Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. The Steel City has all the ingredients to be a hub for startups: a good university system, a cheaper cost of living — definitely when compared to places like New York and the

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 12, 2023

Startups are hard. I have been through techstars and know just how hard it is to create one. So many thinks can go wrong and you have to be aware of the risks before you venture into the journey. Its not for everyone and takes a certain type of person to build a business from scratch. So why is it so hard? Its hard because so many things can go wrong down the line which you cannot see.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Because they’re relatively affordable and can be programmed for a range of use cases, they’ve caught on particularly in the AI and machine learning space where they’ve been used to accelerate the training of AI systems. The global FPGA market size could reach $14 billion by 2028, according to one estimate, up from $6 billion in 2021.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 12, 2023

Don’t glamorize the future. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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 The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kano Computing (“Kano”), the venture-backed company best known for its DIY computer kits and software for teaching coding and STEM skills to kids, is spinning out its creative software suite and online community platform as an independent business. The move comes as the U.K. company has been shifting its focus away from its build-your-own PC roots in pursuit of profitability and longer-term sustainability.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

With our mysterious, unsustainable and psychological attachment to pets, combined with a boom in pet ownership since those lonely pandemic times, veterinary practices have come under increasing pressure. Pet ownership has increased (56 to 70% U.S. household penetration in the last 35 years). But, there are not enough vets. To meet demand, a vet currently needs to see more than 32 patients a day, and by 2030, the U.S. will need nearly 41,000 additional veterinarians on current trends.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 12, 2023

Learn from the CEO of Four Minute Books Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Today we have with us Niklas Goeke, the founder and CEO of Four Minute Books. It’s a collection of over a thousand free summaries available online. They only take 4 minutes to read and consume. Since 2014, Nik’s writing has garnered over 50 million views across a variety of platforms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. Teach yourself growth marketing: How to set up a landing page. Growth hacking is really just growth testing. Without customers, there can be no business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 12, 2023

Entrepreneurs are better off growing leaders inside their teams or hiring from other startups. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello, dear readers! We’re back once again ( like a renegade master ) with a wall of great tech news stories. Plug in some headphones and bop your head to that song while you catch up on what’s happening out there in the wider worlds.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. The surprising recurring revenue trap. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

The African tech scene was met with fanfare in 2021: Venture capital investments in the region totaled between $4 billion and $5 billion and produced five unicorns. In my piece detailing this progress, I predicted there would be more unicorns in 2022. Those predictions proved to be way off the mark by year’s end. Data from market insights trackers Briter Bridges and The Big Deal reveal that funding raised by African startups exceeded $5 billion (including undisclosed deals) in 2022 — a slight pe

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StartupNation

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having a successful small business is the dream of many entrepreneurs. But without proper financial management, those dreams… The post 5 Bad Financial Practices All Small Businesses Should Avoid appeared first on StartupNation.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Scalable production of alternative proteins continues to be a big challenge for companies in this sector, and No Meat Factory wants to help with that. The Canada-based company, which produces alternative proteins for third-party customers, took in $42 million in new Series B capital to build a bigger manufacturing facility in the U.S. No Meat Factory has now raised $60 million to date.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 12, 2023

I’d like to have a hero image atop each blog post. Readers dwell for a few seconds longer on blog posts with images. Plus, images garner more interest across social media. I wondered how the current wave of generative AI image makers like Midjourney, Dall-E, & Stable Diffusion would fare creating images for a few of my posts. Here are the results.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Product folks and engineers know what they are doing, and by and large, they — and the companies they work for — have a disproportionate amount of power about how the world is shaped. Over a 13-week course called Logic School (delivered free, with support from the Omidyar Network), the school aims to teach tech workers to organize to help identify and rectify structural inequities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 12, 2023

… The post Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Learning navigation platform Career Karma has laid off another 22 people across its global and domestic workforce, less than five months after it cut 60 staff members, according to sources. CEO and co-founder Ruben Harris confirmed the workforce reduction to TechCrunch. The cut shows that even as many edtech companies attempt to right-size their staff, there’s more work to do.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ukrainians Can Destroy a Russian Tank For About The Price of a Nirvana Artifact. One thing is for sure, I never should have tossed those hair metal concert relics and other memorabilia from my teens. You know, the ones that in the eras before social media you’d buy and wear to school the next day to show off that you were At The Thing. [Sidenote, my first concert was 1985 Madonna ‘Like a Virgin’ tour w Beastie Boys opening.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges. In a post titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview,” Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence surrounding the collapse and bankruptcy of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019 that went on to raise $2 billion in funding and achieve a valuation of a staggering $32 billion.

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OkDork

JANUARY 12, 2023

                                         . Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to Justin Welsh! This guy is IMPRESSIVE. He runs a one-person business that does $1.7 million dollars a year, spends ZERO money on ads, and operates at a 94% margin! That's right. He keeps most of the money.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sfara is one of several key players selected and funded by the German state of Hesse to explore developing a smartphone-based, multimodal traffic warning system for real-time accident avoidance. Read more here. The post [Sfara in PR Web] Sfara Technologies selected for project to improve German road safety appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

When Alec Hartman first decided he wanted a house after his first child was born several years ago, he was surprised by the lack of options. “I didn’t like anything I saw, and I wanted a new house and I couldn’t get one,” he recalls. “And like every crazy tech person, you have to ask questions like, ‘Why can’t I go online and get a house? Why is this so difficult?

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 12, 2023

JERUSALEM, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Freightos Limited today announced that transactions on its platform more than doubled in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared to the same quarter in the prior year. Read more here. The post [Freightos in PR Newswire] Freightos reports record 2022 transactions and gross bookings value appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Teams dedicated to boosting customer acquisition, retention and sales don’t necessarily have the time or tools to use data insights effectively. In a 2019 survey , NewVantage partners found that the percentage of firms identifying themselves as being data-driven declined in each of the past three years, with over half admitting that they’re not competing on data and analytics. .

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