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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

I think it was just this incredibly powerful technology, and given that AI wasn’t quite there yet, [social media] was the main thing that there was to do, to apply all the technology to. You know, incumbents versus startups. But it’s a real problem for the incumbent, because they can’t compromise their brand.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. They were supporting me, and stuff like that. But it was more that this opportunity came up that was not something that was in my purview, which was working at Patreon.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Hear from its creator Anatoly Yakovenko about the opportunities and challenges ahead as Solana seeks to take web3 to mobile devices in a push for mass adoption. They are founders that are not only building very interesting companies but have taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media. with Peter A.

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Amira Yahyaoui wants Mos to be a ‘radical’ fintech startup

TechCrunch

It’s an evolution from Mos as an edtech business built to help students navigate their way through applying and attending college into a fintech that can support the same user base through all of life’s similarly complicated demands. Banks are trying to become relevant, but students don’t buy the BS that incumbents are doing.”

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Radical Ethereum entrepreneurs are redefining what ‘rape kit’ means

TechCrunch

Support services, to complement the take-home kits, include therapy and transformative justice groups run by licensed facilitators. . “We We’ve also documented potential investors engaging with social media posts calling for us to be jailed.” . Critics cast the startup’s entrepreneurial approach as greedy opportunism.