Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Agnikul, an Indian space tech startup developing small-lift launch vehicles, has raised $26.7 million in fresh investment as it looks to begin commercial launches using its customizable satellite rocket. Companies — from big tech giants to startups — are looking to launch their small satellites (up to 500 kg in weight) to space to improve […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Selling into financial institutions (FIs) has long been the end goal for many software-oriented fintech businesses. With massive annual technology budgets and scaled distribution, the largest FIs are the ideal end-buyers. However, a fear of long sales cycles, heavy compliance requirements, and opaque organizational structures preclude many early stage founders from pursuing this go-to-market channel.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives spent $8 billion worth of customer funds on real estate, venture capital investments, campaign donations, endorsement deals and even a sports stadium, according to testimony from former senior FTX executive Nishad Singh. Singh’s testimony, which kicked off the third week of Bankman-Fried’s trial, provides fresh details of exactly where […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
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AsiaTechDaily
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register The Gyeonggi provincial government announced that it plans to create a total of 660,000 square meters of startup business space in more than 20 regions, centered around Pangyo Techno Valley, and support 3,000 startup companies by 2026. On October 12, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government held the “Startup Vision Declaration and Win-Win Partnership Agreement Ceremony” at the 2n
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AsiaTechDaily
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vietnamese biometric sensor and robotic prosthetics developer Vulcan Augmetics has secured undisclosed seed funding from Singapore-based venture capital firm Quest Ventures. Vulcan Augmetics specializes in creating customizable modular robotic prosthetics, harnessing the power of proprietary machine-learning software to enhance accessibility and affordability for amputees, particularl
Entrepreneur's Handbook
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The next level requires new behaviors, habits and mindsets Image credit: Ritual Visuals Baggage. We all have it. We carry it from relationship to relationship, job to job and business to business. Whatever you’re doing now, your past experience will affect your actions. Consciously and subconsciously, you’re carrying around outdated habits and using old ways to do new things.
AsiaTechDaily
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register UwUFUFU, a South Korean data platform targeting Gen Z and Millennials, has gained 1.1 million monthly active users (MAU). Reportedly, each month, users participate in over 2.7 million quizzes. Its 568% year-to-date growth shown by the platform is one of the highest amongst its industry peers.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Entrepreneurs are always stressed that they’re not making enough progress, but it’s because they’re measuring progress the wrong way.
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Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this episode from February 2021, early Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr — in conversation with a16z’s Sonal Chokshi — go beyond the well-known artifacts of Amazon innovation, like the memo and the press release, and share the leadership principles, decision making practices, and operational processes that helped Amazon continue to innovate, invent new products and learn from its mistakes, as it scaled.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The most common business plan that I see for subscription products is: Figure out the product Add a free tier Raise a big round to “scale marketing.” Make a lot of money The big problem is that many companies die between steps 3 & 4 and struggle to understand why. This plan makes sense in theory. We will build the product and attract more people with a free tier and then attract even more people with paid media.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection. They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve
Ben Franklin Technology Partners
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The Erie community came together today to celebrate local innovators who’ve successfully made the leap from start-up to up-and-running. Nearly 30 companies either received or paid funds forward to contribute to new startups, totaling an amount of more than $9.4 million. Investments were contributed by local and regional entrepreneurial support resources helping to drive the entrepreneurial ecosystem and economic impact of our region, including Ben Franklin Technology Partners / Central & No
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it would roll out a raft of new AI-powered tools across the business. Today, it’s making a different kind of announcement focused on the future: The company is laying off 668 employees. We understand from a reliable source that the majority of the layoffs, some 563, will be in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this episode from October 2019, People.AI founder and CEO Oleg Rogynskyy and a16z partner Peter Lauten discuss with Das Rush about what the rise of AI in B2B means for enterprises, workers, and startups. They explain why AI provides a strong first mover advantage to enterprises that adopt it early; how it can automate lower level tasks, maximize our focus, and, ultimately, make our work more meaningful; and for startups, they provide a playbook for seizing the next AI opportunity.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Bandcamp has officially changed hands from its old new owner, Epic, to its new new owner, Songtradr, and lost half its employees in the process. Songtradr confirmed that “50% of employees received offers” to continue on under the new ownership — and naturally the other 50% didn’t. The venerable digital music marketplace was acquired by […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Gross margins–which are essentially a company’s revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers–are one of the most important financial metrics for any startup and growing business. And yet, figuring out what goes into the “cost” for delivering products and services is not as simple as it may sound, particularly for high-growth software businesses that might use emerging business models or be leveraging new technology.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
CapCut, the ByteDance-owned video editing app that’s the company’s second to hit $100 million in consumer spending after TikTok, is now expanding into business tools. Known today for its easy-to-use templates, tight integration with TikTok, and rapid adoption of AI effects and filters, CapCut has been a top consumer video editing app that now regularly […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Every founder’s journey is unique, and a16z general partner David Ulevitch’s is no exception. From working in tech during the Dot Com boom to founding and guiding his own startups to successful exits to becoming an investor, he shares his story with The Modern CTO’s Joel Beasley. But while every journey is different, some of the lessons remain the same.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should approach children’s safety online. The framework, titled the “Legislative Framework to Protect Children and Teens Online,” is the tech giant’s response to congressional child online safety proposals.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this episode from October 2019, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and former a16z podcast showrunner Sonal Choksi bring on MIT economist and bestselling author Andrew McAfee to discuss why the lessons of human growth in times past, from the Industrial Revolution onwards, might not apply to our future. It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment.
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As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Ahead of TwitchCon Las Vegas, Twitch is launching stories for streamers to connect with their audience even when they aren’t live. Partners and Affiliates who have streamed at least once for 45 minutes or longer in the last 30 days are eligible to post stories, which are viewable for any of their followers and subscribers […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google) share stories and lessons learned from doing whatever they could to help their companies survive in hard times, including making and living through major pivots, selling new products before they were ready, figuring out financing with market and industry headwinds against them, and more.
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Kia has started taking reservations for its EV9, the full-size SUV that has been positioned as the flagship for the company’s EV portfolio. Reservations for the Kia EV9 are $750 and can be applied to the purchase price, according to the company. Kia taking reservations for an EV is a relatively new strategy for the […] © 2023 TechCrunch.
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In this crossover episode from new show “web3 with a16z”, a16z general partners Chris Dixon and Ali Yahya and a16z crypto head of research Tim Roughgarden, with host Sonal Choksi, set context and discuss the connections between blockchain, crypto, and web3, as well as how lessons from earlier eras of the web do and don’t apply to the current moment.
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