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Zombie startups

TechCrunch

This week I wrote about Getaway, which is taking on Pacaso with its own spin on the vacation home ownership market. She raised $101 million in 10 weeks for her inaugural fund, a process she thinks took too long but, clearly, resonated with a number of investors. Below you’ll see how she thinks about it. The do-it-all’s.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. On the one hand that sounds like precisely the kind of things you should fund.

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PayTalk promises to handle all sorts of payments with voice, but the app has a long way to go

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When Tawo was a kid, his dad tasked him with coming up with a formula to calculate the gas in the fuel tanks at his family’s station. ordering food from home, shopping online, etc.), Other “categories” of commands in PayTalk are very limited in what they can accomplish — or simply nonfunctional.

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Zero Acre Farms puts microbes (and $37M) to work on a better alternative to vegetable oil

TechCrunch

“It’s a new category of oils and fats, we can make compositions that are more suitable for food and better for people.” Oils aren’t just at the grocery store — they’re sold by the thousand-gallon tank to fast food chains or producers who need it as a basic ingredient.

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Spend management space sees a large raise, and layoffs, in the same week

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His answer: “I think eventually we will be a public company. I don’t think the market is there right now.” By Friday, unfortunately for First Republic, the stock had tanked even further at the threat of government intervention. We’ve raised around $1.4 billion to date and maturity wise, we are there, to be public.

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Eridan reinvents a piece of mobile infrastructure and calls up $46M in funding

TechCrunch

Most of the time no one has to think about how the mobile networks we all rely on work. “We did what you’d do, sat down with a bar napkin and a beer,” he recalled, and after filling the think tanks a bit, “It was one of those epiphanies. ” asked Kirkpatrick, obviously rhetorically.

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Monetize Your Knowledge To Start Your First Business – Shane Sams with Flipped Lifestyle

Smart Hustle Magazine

And by doing that, we think that everybody can go out and find 100 people to pay them $50 a month, make $60,000 a year on a membership site. Shane, one point of clarity I have is that is your vision for this, or what Flipped Lifestyle is, I’m working, I have a full time job, I’m a lawyer, I’m a stay at home mom do it.