TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Colleagues were using everything from the standard Google or Word documents to spreadsheets, but Sharkey wanted a more digital approach. He and his team built Meez to be a collaboration tool, recipe keeper and progression, training and prep tool all rolled into one — Sharkey referred to it as a “Google Drive for chefs.”. Meez software.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

WHY USE BRAND AMBASSADORS? Product use: Have they already purchased your products? According to Founder U’s guide on how to promote a product : “Do you notice that some of your customers rave about you on social media without any prompting from you? Use RivalIQ’s 2018 Benchmark Report to compare. Promote New Products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 9, 2018

As a vulnerable new business founder, it’s easy to submit to sunk cost thinking. For example, you might’ve chosen the wrong project management tool but continue to use it because you feel guilty about “wasting” money. By continuing to use it, you certainly won’t recover the cost. Learn more about how to apply today. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Other existing investors include Matthias Biilman and Chris Bach, co-founders of Netlify; Jon Dal CEO and co-founder of Mux; and Edvard Engsæth, co-founder of NURX. These days, the medium, as they say, is the message, and in that regard “publishing” has taken on a new meaning in the digital age.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They include lead investors Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital and participating investors JAM Fund (led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen), YC Continuity Fund, a large unnamed Saudi-based fund, Shorooq Partners, 4DX Ventures and logistics giant Flexport.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. The fresh funding allows us to bring these possibilities to even more people across the world.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

But as a point of reference, when it closed its Series B (as Shedul; the company rebranded in February 2020), it was valued at $105 million. We wanted to consolidate the supply side of the software, gather data about the businesses, how they use what they use.” Chances are that figure is significantly higher now.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. Ruiz-Múzquiz refers to this as “the handoff mindset.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s been a profusion of startups emerging in the last year around the concept of rolling up smaller e-commerce businesses — operations that mainly sell and distribute their products on marketplace platforms like Amazon’s — using economies of scale to bring them together to run and grow them more efficiently.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Sana Labs — which provides an AI-based platform to help people manage information at work, and subsequently to use that data as a resource for e-learning within the organization — has closed a round of $34 million after seeing ARR grow seven-fold in the last year. Menlo Ventures, the U.S.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We work with founders to help them tell their company stories, so we get to see hundreds of decks and talk to dozens of companies every month. The most common problem we see is founders getting caught up in the slides, the details and the “rules” when they focus on the story. You could even use it to refer to a movie pitch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” . Part of Jenfi’s Series A funding will be used to develop automated analytics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. cards in the mix with rare Kobe and autographed Kaepernick cards. cut on each sale). cut on each sale).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

His co-founder, John Hering, was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Lookout. “If they’re in a place where they can be touched by law enforcement, that can be used to get them to stop,” he said. “It was the universe telling me to use the name,” he said with a little smile. Cyber Command.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The idea of the Orbacam is to create quick and easy videos that Artiphon refers to as “Musical Selfies.” We believe that music is always a multisensory experience, and we designed Orbacam as an auditory, visual and tactile experience that anyone can play immediately,” says Artiphon’s CEO and founder Mike Butera.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa. A lot of confused, raised brows, “Wait, aren’t unions bad?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience — with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too. “One is the idea that you should work with your email in groups,” he said, referring to Inbox’s ability to bundle emails by topic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

chances are you’re selecting products off shelves that have made it there using Hivery’s core product,” he told TechCrunch. In retail, “assortment optimization” refers to the process of selecting the right mix of products to stock on store shelves.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

San Francisco-based Heyday — which buys up and then grows direct-to-consumer merchants and brands that have found initial traction, leveraging the Amazon marketplace — has raised $555 million, a Series C that it will be using to continue expanding its technology, investing in business development, and to buy up more assets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, from a duo taking on auto insurance to a team rethinking how we virtually learn. I did both,” Hamilton adds over Twitter DM.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. What founders really want to know is: what are investors looking for right now ?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Its software is used across some 130 countries, although the majority of the consumers engaging in the events themselves are based out of North America and Europe, Simpson said. She said they thus refer to the category with a distinct term: “experience commerce.” Since closing a seed round of $4.5 ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Berlin-based Gorillas, which also focuses on fast-delivery of groceries and essentials, raised $1 billion last autumn and like its rival out of Turkey, Getir , has been using some of that cash to buy up or invest in would-be competitors in other markets, for example Frichti in Paris.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

One of the most common questions we hear from founders is “How do I manage my board?” It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

. “Working on trustworthy AI for almost five years, I’ve constantly felt a mix of excitement and anxiety,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview. Really exciting new tech is emerging — new tools that have immediately sparked artists, founders…all kinds of people to do new things. “They haven’t.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

For example, Cliffs Variety, an independent home goods store in San Francisco’s Castro district, uses a Facebook page to alert neighborhood residents about store openings, pickup times, and product availability. Brands actively refer their retailers to Faire because they benefit from managing their wholesale business on a single platform.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Google for Startups Accelerator. Notley Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The company has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, money that it will be using to continue building out the range of BNPL-type services that it provides to organizations buying goods to run their businesses, both in Europe and further afield after passing 100,000 customers earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

If Docugami’s product works as planned, anyone will be able to take piles of documents accumulated over the years and near-instantly convert them to the kind of data that’s actually useful to people. We humans understand when the renter is named as Jill Jackson, that later on, “the renter” also refers to that person.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

That’s why Ron Miller interviewed three entrepreneurs who have each built multiple companies to uncover some essential truths about achieving product-market fit: Pouyan Salehi, CEO and co-founder, Scratchpad. Rami Essaid, CEO and founder, Finmark. Melonee Wise, CEO and co-founder, Fetch Robotics. Have a great weekend.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Founder and CEO Chris Stringer was Jony Ive’s first hire at Apple and worked at the company for 21 years. Other investors include Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, Lionel Richie and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia. Syng has closed a $48.75

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The mix of debt and equity is typical for a company building, effectively, a leasing business: it is the same approach Grover took when it raised $71 million for its Series B a year ago. Sometimes those resources were used goods being passed on or sold cheaply to others: it opened the door to a different way of thinking for a lot of people.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Pricing a product actually involves a lot more psychology and art than science and is one of the most challenging problems my co-founders and I have attempted to solve when launching Uizard , an easy-to-use design tool for non-designers. It’s far from perfect but it allows a startup to make a data-backed estimate to start with.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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