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Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy

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You need wide reach, influence, community and media properties all together,” Goldstein said. “I There’s this sort of veil of mystique that surrounds a lot of entrepreneurs and founders,” Goldstein said. Habitants of the Launch House use the pool for recreation and brainstorm sessions, called “pool-storms.”

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Daily Crunch: Meta decimates its staff as the social media giant lays off 11,000

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More social media struggles : Though the subject matter was a downer, Paul wrote a great story about Meta’s confirmed layoffs of 11,000 employees, explaining what happened, why and what it means in the greater context of Meta’s future. The TechCrunch Top 3. 3 tips for managing a remote engineering team. Wonder what he’s using the money for….

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Should You Really Sit on Other Boards When You’re a Startup Founder?

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read Brad Feld’s thought provoking piece encouraging founders to sit on the board of another startup company. I found it thought provoking because I’ve always believed startup founders need extreme focus on only their company to succeed. We have Ian Rogers , the CEO of Topspin Media on our board.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 R&D tax prep, social media for founders, managing remote teams

TechCrunch

If you have information, knowledge or experience to share that could help early-stage startup founders, investors and workers make better decisions, please review our submission guidelines and drop us a line. These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media. (L-R) Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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How Startup Founders Can Better Manage Their Time

Onevest

How long do you spend answering emails or engaging on social media with potential customers and investors? In some extreme circumstances you might find entire aspects of your startup's workday which need outright removal. This could be something as simple as a scheduling conflict, or something more serious like a manufacturing issue.

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Deal Dive: Tucker Carlson is a media startup founder — again

TechCrunch

Tucker Carlson has raised $15 million for a new subscription-based entity. But he'll need more than name recognition for it to succeed. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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DJ and crypto startup founder 3LAU explains the value behind music NFTs

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Blau sees utility in use cases for NFTs beyond the visual art world, but said he doesn’t think the same form factor and manifestation for those NFTs will apply to every different form of media. Music, for example, is invisible, so it wouldn’t make sense for music NFTs to be applied the same way as NFTs for visual art, he said.