TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. The Great Resignation, the economic trend of people quitting their jobs in pursuit of other opportunities, has been greeted by a harsh reality: the Great Reset. This week, a spate of tech companies – largely those valued above $1 billion from their venture capital investors – announced reductions in their workforce.

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Feedough

MAY 7, 2022

Remote work is not new, but for many organisations, the. Read more. The post How to Avoid Time Theft in Remote Teams: Complete Guide appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Hi friends. In case you missed it last week: I’m Greg , and I’m handling Week in Review now that Lucas is off with Anita building their new crypto-focused podcast/newsletter, Chain Reaction. I’m teeeechnically supposed to be on vacation today, but I figured it was probably not cool to throw the newsletter to someone else ONE WEEK after taking over, so I popped back in for this one.

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Derek Sivers

MAY 7, 2022

If you make your own website, consider making short URLs. This is not about a URL shortener. This is about making your original URLs short in the first place. Instead of: yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html. … consider just: yoursite.com/short. Why? Short URLs matter for a few reasons: I can remember my URLs. I can avoid the search engine step.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

The era of free money is now officially behind us: The United States Federal Reserve raised a key interest rate benchmark by 0.50%, or 50 basis points, this week. Startups have long basked in the sun of effectively zero-cost money. As a result of a historic period of low rates, the comparative attractiveness of investing in bonds and other safer, if lower-yielding, assets was reduced, meaning investors around the world were looking for a place to park funds and have a shot at material incomes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Jill Gunter is no stranger to crypto — she’s seen the market through its ups and downs, conducting research on blockchain protocols, working at multiple crypto startups and co-founding her own , and investing as a crypto VC at Slow Ventures. Gunter first started following the crypto space in 2011, when she was working in the traditional finance world as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs and when Bitcoin was the only major layer-one blockchain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. . When you start a project, it’s easy to get caught up in it. Then time passes and suddenly it’s been a half decade. Equity, a podcast I got to help start when I was wasn’t even working here, is one such project.

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