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Operationalize Your Startup

Paul G. Silva

About The Workshop. Startups don’t die from laziness. They die from working really hard… on the wrong things. You’ve launched your venture… now what? The financial lives of your team depends on you. When do you raise money? From who? On what terms? Is it time to hire or keep your burn low? Should you pivot to a new market or stay the course? The pressure to make the right decisions is intense.

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Daily Crunch: The party’s over — Airbnb bans all disruptive gatherings in perpetuity

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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. Greetings, there is a lot of news to get into today, and my head is reeling a bit from some of that January 6 testimony today, so let’s get right into it. Oh, and TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! Save 50% on an annual subscription here.

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Two Start-ups Set to Take over the Metaverse with Their Outlandish Garments

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Young Designers Set Sights on Metaverse Fashion When we are subsumed into the metaverse, our digital selves will need digital wardrobes. After all, what avatar would be seen dead in some standard-issue shirt and pants? This isn’t Sim City anymore. Digital fashion is allowing designers to create garments free from supply chain concerns, gravity, and even basic physiology.

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Your startup pitch deck needs an operating plan

TechCrunch

Over the course of the past 10 weeks, I’ve taken apart 10 pitch decks as part of our Pitch Deck Teardown series. All the decks had their own strengths and weaknesses, but there was one glaring omission from most of the decks I reviewed: an operating plan. Leaving it out of your deck might be forgivable if you have an appendix or a more detailed financial plan, but those tend to be too detailed.

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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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Vietnamese e-commerce enablaer OnPoint secures $50m in funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnam-based e-commerce enabler OnPoint secured a $50 million Series B funding in a round led by SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund. SeaTown Holdings, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, run the SeaTown Private Capital Master Fund.

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Investing in Stoik

Andreessen Horowitz

Buying traditional insurance is a no-brainer if you want to protect assets of value—be it your life, your home, or your business. If you own, say, a building, chances are you’ll want to minimize your risk against fires, floods, and … The post Investing in Stoik appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Lightbits Labs lands $42M to speed up server data transfers

TechCrunch

Data centers with servers attached to solid-state drives (SSDs) can suffer from an imbalance of storage and compute. Either there’s not enough processing power to go around, or physical storage limits get in the way of data transfers, Lightbits Labs CEO Eran Kirzner explains to TechCrunch. “Since its inception, NVMe has been revolutionizing the data storage industry with orders of magnitude higher levels of performance at increasing cost-effectiveness.

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Fresh Factory scores $4.5m in East Ventures-led funding

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Fresh Factory , an Indonesian cold chain fulfillment business , announced that it has received $4.5 million in initial funding, led by East Ventures and backed by PT Prasetya Dwidarma, Number Capital, Trihill Capital, Indogen Capital, Saratoga Investama Sedaya TBK, Y Combinator, and angel investors.

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Social care SaaS maker Birdie tops up with $30M

TechCrunch

Birdie , a U.K.-based caretech software-as-a-service maker, has closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by investment firm Sofina, with Omers Ventures and Index Ventures also participating — the latter reupping its backing after leading Birdie’s Series A last year. Max Parmentier, co-founder and CEO of Birdie, said the latest tranche of funding will go on scaling into continental Europe where it’s started to sign partnerships with local care providers, as well as wider

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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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If You’re Interviewing With a Startup, Here Are Three Questions To Ask Their Investors

Hunter Walk

I’ve Spoken With Hundreds Of Potential Employees, Most Don’t Ask Everything They Could. The other day I was sitting in a New York City park, talking to a senior engineer who had an offer from an early stage startup we backed. His questions of me were pretty comprehensive — trying to understand our rationale for investing, getting a VC’s perspective on what they needed to accomplish for the next financing, and most importantly, gut-checking some important cultural attributes which mattered to him

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TechCrunch+ roundup: CEO pregnancy checklist, decision-tree planning, reassessing valuations

TechCrunch

Property technology has radically impacted the way we live and travel, but the real estate industry has successfully resisted most attempts to innovate. Prospective homeowners can qualify for mortgages from their mobile phones, but until there are more companies to help them find affordable housing or adequately plan for the largest purchase they’ll ever make, proptech can’t create optimal value for consumers.

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Freelancing Is Dead Simple: Don’t Take on Sh*tty Clients

Entrepreneur's Handbook

2 freelancing clients a month paying you $5k each = never have to work an assembly line, 8-hour workday again Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

TechCrunch

Opaque Systems , a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed a $22 million Series A funding round led by Walden Catalyst Partners with participation from Storm Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Intel Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund, and FactoryHQ. The new cash brings Opaque’s total raised to $31.9 million, which co-founder and CEO Rishabh Poddar says is being put toward product development and doubling the size of t

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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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VinaCapital Ventures acquires stake in Web3 data analytics firm M3TA

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Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register VinaCapital Ventures , the technology investment arm of VinaCapital Group with operations in Vietnam, announced that it has acquired a share in M3TA , a Web3 data analytics firm that aims to harness the power of data for the benefit of Web3 enterprises.

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Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession

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Gaetano Crupi. Contributor. Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. Over the past few months, investors from Sequoia to YC have sounded the clarion call to get their portfolio companies preparing for winter. At this stage, it does not matter if we agree or not: Enough momentum in the market has shifted that market behavior has become a self-fulfilling reality.

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[Liquid Instruments in PR Newswire] Liquid Instruments Brings Additional Capabilities and Flexibility to Engineering and Education Test Solutions

OurCrowd

SAN DIEGO and CANBERRA, Australia, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Liquid Instruments, an innovator in precision software-defined instrumentation, today announced an array of new features for Moku:Go, Liquid Instruments’ complete engineering lab solution for engineers and students, and updates to features on Moku:Pro, the company’s integrated platform for the most demanding research and engineering applications.

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Conversion Capital locks down its biggest fund ever to back early-stage fintech and infrastructure startups

TechCrunch

When Christian Lawless founded Conversion Capital in 2015, fintech was only starting to take off. But Lawless, who started the venture firm after serving in leadership positions in capital markets at Lehman Brothers and Barclays, had a vision that financial services infrastructure would be unbundled as companies moved critical operating infrastructure to the cloud.

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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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[Remilk in Calcalist] Land of milk & money: Tara will market Remilk’s cultured milk within a year

OurCrowd

As part of the innovation center set up by Tara’s parent company, the Central Bottling Company, an agreement was signed according to which Remilk will produce the protein, and Tara will use it for its products. Tnuva is a major investor in Remilk. Read more here. The post [Remilk in Calcalist] Land of milk & money: Tara will market Remilk’s cultured milk within a year appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Eclipse Foods isn’t out to substitute dairy — it’s on a mission to replace it

TechCrunch

Grocery store shelves, both online and in-store, are full of plant-based products created to be dairy substitutes. Oakland-based Eclipse Foods doesn’t want its sustainable, plant-based dairy products to be just another substitute; they want it to be so similar to conventional dairy in taste, texture and functionality that you won’t be able to tell the difference.

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[Cybersixgill in CSO] Russia-China cybercriminal collaboration could “destabilize” international order

OurCrowd

Read more here. . The post [Cybersixgill in CSO] Russia-China cybercriminal collaboration could “destabilize” international order appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Gloat nabs $90M to build AI-powered internal jobs marketplaces

TechCrunch

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. Generation, notably, is chaired by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. In an email Q&A with TechCrunch, CEO Ben Reuveni said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding Gloat’s presence, growing its team of over 250 employees and “strengthening” its R&D

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Oklahoma Grown! i2E Invests in BIO startups

Innovation 2 Enterprise

The post Oklahoma Grown! i2E Invests in BIO startups appeared first on i2E.

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OpenReplay raises $4.7M for its open source tool to find the bugs in sites

TechCrunch

When users on websites and apps find they have problems, developers have various tools to record what they are doing in order to find out what went wrong. But these can involve cumbersome methods like screenshots, and back-and-forth emails with customers. ContentSquare and Medallia are products that primarily target marketers and product managers rather than developers, who need to know where apps are going wrong.

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Recognizing the Next CRISPR-Level Tech for Biology

Andreessen Horowitz

Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her co-discovery of CRISPR/Cas9, a versatile genome editing platform. In the decade since its discovery the toolbox of CRISPR technologies has exploded, acting like rocket fuel for curiosity-driven science. It is also increasingly a foundational technology for many biotech companies. In this conversation, Doudna chats.

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Shop Circle wants to keep Shopify merchants from going ‘round and ‘round finding apps they need

TechCrunch

The global pandemic ushered in new consumer behavior of shopping online, giving a boost to a U.S. retail e-commerce industry likely to reach $1 trillion by the end of this year. E-commerce marketplaces, like giants Amazon and Shopify, support millions of merchants, which is helping the industry reach that valuation. Behind some of Shopify merchants’ tech stack is London-based Shop Circle , a technology company that acquires and grows e-commerce software.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.