TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? On the road to funding. Apply for free grants. For veterans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Course Hero and Mystery Science deals show us that edtech businesses are hungry for personalized, targeted content. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. Content, to an extent, is commoditized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But while aggregated data is useful for charting larger and slower-moving trends in the startup market, we care more this morning about near-term changes. However, we’ll continue to hunt for data of this sort from the company and its peers as the year progresses. We’re only discussing the U.S. Now, into the data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The first is on some former Googlers rallying around their peer Caesar Sengupta, who raised $90 million to scale Arta Finance, a company that will provide individuals similar access to alternative assets that are usually reserved for the ultrawealthy. PDT, subscribe here. Hellooooo, guess what? It’s November! Christine and Haje.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. Reporting out in batches of five.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

In that year 18% of valuations of TCA funded companies were in the $1-3 million range, but by 2023 this dropped to only 3%. Also in 2016, valuations in the $3-6 million range comprised 42% of funding, yet by 2023 that has dropped to 10%. Here are some possible explanations: There is still too much money chasing deals.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way. But first, what’s the purpose of a board? option grants). A note on board composition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing its $30 million Series B funding that was raised in September of last year. It also declined to disclose its valuation when asked.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. I’m Travis Bryant.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Credit card rewards often play a significant role in attracting users to a particular card over its peers. Kard ‘s rewards-as-a-service API streamlines the process for card issuers, allowing them to create a customized rewards program tailored to their particular customer base by choosing from Kard’s set of merchant partnerships.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. The COVID pandemic, and most importantly, the global policy response to it, pulled forward decades worth of societal trends in a very short period of time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup. With a credit line, early-stage companies can ramp up hiring and product development, using additional resources to validate ideas in the marketplace. Seems like a long time ago.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

The pandemic has just pushed edtech mainstream, but language-learning startup Duolingo had already spent the past decade figuring out how to build a successful edtech app. Want this kind of coverage on a different company or sector. Check out our ever-growing list of EC-1s , which include recent profiles of Klaviyo, StockX, Tonal and more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

All background that makes his latest bet all the more interesting: Mixing Board , a startup to bring together communications and marketing leaders in one spot to help clients avoid “the BS PR stuff.”. Right now, it’s free for comms leaders to join Mixing Board. Over 200 people are in the community to date.

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