TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2023

” She later also joked that the innovations her company is developing stand to “compound over time, just like the interest that I will no longer be getting on my bank deposits,” which rightly earned laughs from the crowd.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

We joke about founders being “grown in a lab” to start certain companies, and the Wiz team embodies that perfectly: Assaf and his cofounders have spent two decades together, first co-founding Adallom, a CASB that they sold to Microsoft, and then building the Azure security stack as leaders at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

I joked with that they may have accidentally created a community-focused tech startup. And, beatboxing aside, Mohnot did manage take away a professional learning from the time management presentation: hire another EA. As a result of the event, not-so-jokingly there was some sponsor interest.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I used to joke that the company moves at “the speed of Jonathan,” referring to the founder’s incredible impatience with the status quo. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018. But in reality –and without jest?—?the

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Our industry needs more female leaders and they shouldn’t have to all quit their respective firms and raise their own funds to get a shot at running things. The fact that Kara doesn’t have what my wife likes to refer jokingly as my “Y chromosome problem” is beside the fact.

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Mark MacLeod

MARCH 30, 2022

Back when I was an investment banker, I joked regularly that bankers have a well-deserved bad reputation. The fact is, most bankers are useless. Especially in the mid-market (where most VC and PE funded companies are). They charge far too […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on April 20.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2015

After I told him, he joked that he''d shake out his couch cushions and make it happen. While I was well on my way to raising my $15 million dollar second fund, I wasn''t quite finished with that process yet. When I told him about my concern of adding a new partner in the middle of a fundraise, he asked me how big the target was.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 13, 2020

One of my favorite jokes goes something like this: Whenever a new position opens up, and I have to sort through a stack of resumes, the first thing I do is take half of them at random and throw them away. As with many good jokes, it’s funny because it has a nugget of truth to it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

First, I remind them of a joke from the famous comedian Henny Youngman : “The patient says, ‘Doctor, it hurts when I do this.’ How to solve Quiet Quitting in the mandated return to office When I show this data to my consulting clients , they often ask what they can do to address this problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Why they raised so much initial funding As I said in the interview, we at Upfront come from the land of small first rounds of financing. But Quibi has raised $1.4 billion and counting, before they’ve ever released a piece of content (I jokingly called it a $1 billion seed round). Meg shared their reasoning that Quibi would face two big challenges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

We’re hype, you’re hype, and we had some jokes. So, it’s happening everyone. At long last, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies is kicking off its IPO process. And in other mega-unicorn news, it appears that Microsoft is tempted to plonk down $10 billion for Discord. Why, you ask? Well why not.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

He brought resources to the table from personal experience to a great contact base and was able to help speed the time to market while introducing the company to great potential buyers at the right time in the process. His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall. and “working for food.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. Startups used to raise once every 18 months. The implication is the most sought after companies often receive offers, whether they are in market raising capital or not. Take a moment to think through that statement with me.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2020

As the team jokes, it’s the only real unicorn. And we’re grateful to be a part of the Dremio journey. Oh, and if you’re looking for a good conversation starter with a Dremio employee, ask them about the origins of their mascot, the narwhal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

Some investors spoke up, others pointed fingers, and even though Twitter was full of hot takes and ill-timed jokes, my DMs have never been more active with raw, real stories of how SVB’s collapse is impacting the people on the frontier of innovation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It goes something like this: Your trailing results don’t matter, and if your growth forecast is even off by a hair, we’re going to trash your value and call you names. Grow or die.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It is likely that is the way we are thinking, but we’re not exactly working on filing our S-1,” he joked. . “It makes a lot of sense for us to continue being an independent company and growing on this path that we’ve chosen, but that doesn’t mean we don’t see becoming a public company at some point.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 25, 2023

Emotion is used like a crude hook, a loud noise, a silly jingle, a dumb joke, intended to increase the essentially useless data point that is ‘eyeball time’. Emotional hooks don’t create emotional connection: businesses and marketers who do try to reach people’s emotions tend to wield it the same way Wile E Coyote wields a giant magnet.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Jokes aside, we had a good time digging into the following: THE GIST raised $1 million. For this week’s deep dive, Alex and Natasha dug into the burgeoning sports media, sports gaming and fantasy sports world through the lens of some early-stage startups. We are here to back up your priors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2023

A funny — but true — joke at TechCrunch is that the security desk might as well be called the Department of Bad News, since, well, have you seen what we’ve covered of late? There is a never-ending supply of devastating breaches, pervasive surveillance and dodgy startups flogging the downright dangerous.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

And it made a lot of sense and that’s how we started talking about it — first as a joke and then very seriously.” When you hit those big numbers with a partner, you start thinking if there’s potential for a merger? Would it make sense to combine the two companies?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

TechCrunch recently joked that it seems like “ there is infinite money for stock-trading startups ,” in light of the anticipated Public round, which has now has arrived. Let’s see who is next to take home a big check.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

As this joke shows, most businesses are struggling to evolve in the current environment. A version of the following article originally appeared on Entrepreneur Middle East. There is a popular meme circulating these days that asks, “Who is responsible for your company’s digital transformation?”.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2017

It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation. I have a good business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose deep thinking creativity and intelligence are admired by many.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

(One founder even played a prank once, listing that Andreessen Horowitz was an investor in his startup on Crunchbase; when other investors piled on looking to put money into his upstart, he explained it was a joke to show the poor quality of data on the platform, reports Bloomberg).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Back in the days when inside rounds were bad, SPACs were jokes and crypto a fever dream, there was lots of noise about investors who declined to place competing bets in any particular startup market. Worth a combined $420 million, the investments made for a contentedly busy morning. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

All jokes about robot armies and SkyNet aside, robotics are set to profoundly impact the future of how America works. And not in just a few industries, but across an ever-growing swath that includes agtech, automotive, construction, labor, logistics, healthcare and more. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

And then, as other guests made endless jokes, it became annoying. Years ago, I found myself at a party with someone who was wearing the same sweater, jeans and shoes, down to the manufacturer. We looked like we’d stepped out of a clothing catalog. At first, it was funny.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Please excuse the “Friends” joke in the headline, we are very tired!) Sure, we’re talking money up top, but I also dragooned Natasha into running us through her amazing reporting from over the weekend on all things SVB. Here’s what we got into: The stock market is suffering around the world, kinda.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Shelegu jokes that much of The Main Tab’s product sourcing comes from her being a “shopaholic” and her background in brands. “When you are running a business, this will hugely impact us if we normally do $20,000 a month in October, but may do $5,000 because they don’t have the stock,” Shelegu said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

TechCrunch jokes that, far from IPOs mispricing IPOs, that $4 billion price set in early 2020 was the real theft, given where the company was valued just a year later. The Roblox Gambit. The former startup then raised a Series H round of capital , a $520 million investment that boosted the value of Roblox from around $4 billion to $29.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Real-world testing looks like this , asking LLMs to produce Dad jokes like this zinger : I’m reading a book about gravity & it’s impossible to put down. And the iteration wheel improves ensuring that the Dad jokes from a model really are the best. Today, evaluations are rule based or human-in-the-loop evaluations.

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Derek Sivers

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A gorilla, speaking with sign language, makes a joke. A recovering hospital patient makes a joke. We’re amazed. She’s showing the fullest expression of a soul. But when a person is humorless, it’s the opposite. They’ve lost the point of life. We’re relieved. Not just their body, but their soul is alive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Domingues thought it was a joke but was shocked to learn that the food was from a catered event and that throwing out uneaten food was the norm in the food and grocery industries. The app was founded based on Flashfood CEO Josh Domingues’s personal experience in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2019

In fact, despite the potential that each reorganization and polished PowerPoint presentation promises, “Most had no effect, and some actually destroyed value,” the study concluded. And yet, there are a few notable examples of so-called “traditional” organizations successfully returning to their innovative roots.

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