TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneursh

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 25, 2022

Scaling from 3 Employees to Huge Advances in the Cure for Cancer W/ Jason Foster Learn from Ori BioTech CEO [link] Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Start-up expert and Ori CEO Jason Foster tells the story of how he went from a $19k a year job to becoming CEO of a company helping patients get access to life-saving cancer treatment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. CEO Julian Green said that the proceeds will be put toward product development and expanding the company’s workforce.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 25, 2022

Be prepared for the giant to take your market with a “good-enough” product Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

John S. Kim. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John S. Kim is the CEO of Sendbird , the leading API provider to embed chat, voice and video experiences inside of mobile apps. More posts by this contributor. We’re building a social+ world, but how will we moderate it? Leasing Creative Office Space? Don’t Get Screwed. Companies are clamping down on budgets, but startup CEOs shouldn’t assume that costs will go down just because it was decided they need to.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. The company purchased education startup ChainShot , which runs coding bootcamps for aspiring web3 developers, Alchemy cofounder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan told TechCrunch exclusively.

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OkDork

AUGUST 25, 2022

Die With Zero by Bill Perkins introduces an interesting concept about money. Your life isn’t about making as much money as possible. It’s about using money as a tool to create memories and fulfill needs—and you should use it during times in your life when it can provide the biggest impact. Not saving it all until you’re 80. If you like books about money and psychology—you’ll love Die With Zero.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

News that T. Rowe Price cut the value of its stake in fintech giant Stripe is making headlines this week, the new data point coming in the wake of similar cuts by other investment houses regarding their ownership in late-stage startups. However, while it is true that T. Rowe Price reduced the value of its stake in Stripe, part of its Global Technology Fund, the latest reduction in its worth is not unique.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 25, 2022

It’s time for your startup to fundraise. You prepare a deck, practice your pitch, and start reaching out to investors. If a first meeting goes well, it often ends with a request to share your “data room.” But what is a data room, and what should be included in it? What is a data room? Read More. The post The Insider’s Guide to Data Rooms: What to Know Before You Raise appeared first on Future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 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. Hello, you sparkling souls! Thursday is upon us once again. Have you ever noticed how Thursdays seem to keep coming along with alarming regularity? It feels like roughly once per week, but that’s anecdotal. More research may be required.

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Feedough

AUGUST 25, 2022

Social media sites have become the primary place where startups. Read more. The post 30 Best Online Startup Communities for Entrepreneurs appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ross Haleliuk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ross Haleliuk is a venture capitalist and head of product at LimaCharlie.io. More posts by this contributor. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. Product-led growth (PLG) is more about the company’s mindset than it is about the product. There is a lot a company needs to do to succeed with a PLG strategy, and hiring product managers is not enough — neither can it be the first step.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 25, 2022

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Ah, email. Why did you send my friend’s birthday party invite to my spam folder? Why do you make it so easy to archive an email when I don’t even know what that means? Why are you … blue now … Gmail? Email is a necessary evil. So whenever I hear about startups looking to innovate on the decades-old communication tech, I’m instantly intrigued considering the huge number of potential areas of improvement.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s set the scene. One of the CEOs I used to coach started his day by walking the floor of his extended facility and checking in with managers and employees of the various departments, especially the call center. He tried to feel the pulse of the company by the intensity of motion, the metrics of backlog, and the stated problems brought to him as he asked.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Journalists care a lot about tension, drama, and signal. Often times that looks like good news, like when small scrappy startups get starter capital to take on the public giant, or well-capitalized late-stage giant, or that moment when you realize healthcare’s disruption is just at its infancy. As of recently, though, we’ve seen startups face a massive correction across all stages, from double rounds of layoffs to valuation cuts to complete shutdowns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs has asked Byju’s to explain why it hasn’t filed its audited financials for the year ending March 2021, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. Edtech giant Byju’s, which is India’s most valuable startup with a valuation of $22 billion, has missed the deadline to file its audited results by 17 months. The startup — backed by scores of high-profile investors including Blackrock, Tiger Global, UBS, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia India and Lightspeed Venture Partners

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

India’s financial crime-fighting agency conducted searches at multiple premises of the Bengaluru-headquartered CoinSwitch Kuber on Thursday, alleging the crypto exchange startup violated forex laws, four people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The Enforcement Directorate searched the office facilities and residences of some executives and also questioned many, including chief executive Ashish Singhal, two people said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private and sensitive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Healthcare startups often face unique challenges — something Well Health founder Guillaume de Zwirek understands. Together with Freestyle Partner, Jenny Lefcourt, the two will speak on the strategies used by de Zwirek as he built and scaled WELL Health into a leading healthcare startup. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 31 at 11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date. Why? Let me count the ways. (OK, fine, there are only two ways.) But let’s take a closer look: 1. This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for Simba Chain , a blockchain company that raised $25 million in a Series A.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

News that Haus, a consumer beverage brand looking to bring down the ABV in booze, had failed to close a funding round and was being forced to sell took many — this publication included — by surprise. Perhaps we should have been less taken aback. Tracking the value of recently public DTC companies is an exercise in zooming in as their valuations shrink.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

The presence of various payment forms and providers is one reason why businesses in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region have operational challenges in managing revenue and collection. These businesses often use outdated methods such as Excel sheets to keep a record of these collections, especially subscription-based ones, or build in-house automation systems , therefore, they miss out on vital data leading to loss of revenue and inefficiencies like hiring more accountants than required to

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is more people had flexibility to work remotely , and that meant they also had more flexibility to live where they wanted. As a result, more people chose to relocate — either temporarily or permanently — to other cities. For online rental marketplace Zumper , this meant a shift in user demand. The San Francisco company historically has connected renters to landlords for long-term leases, with short-term rentals only being a very small portion

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Startups looking to make it easier for people to rent apartments on a flexible, shorter-term basis are gaining momentum thanks in part to the rise of remote work. Last week, Dealbook reported that a flexible living startup, Flow, founded by WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, has locked down $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz. Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that an online rental marketplace, Zumper, just raised $30 million in a Series D1 round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins to help it bett

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Augmented reality headsets have been around for years, but none of the market players has really expanded beyond the techy demographic and broken into the mainstream. An AR startup hopes to change that by partnering with an eyewear fashion brand. Nreal , the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Thursday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster ’s parent company, IICOMBINED.

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