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Extra Crunch roundup: UiPath's IPO filing, predicting revenue, how to pivot properly, much more
This is not a boast, but a warning: I could write a how-to article on almost any topic. Give me enough time to do some research, and I can put together a reliable step-by-step for building a custom gaming PC, installing a hot water heater or…
What does it take to create a startup ecosystem?
Say it louder for the people in the back: As tech grows bigger by the minute and venture capital adds dollar signs by the day, a startup hub's success is not an either/or situation. The next Silicon Valley is a tired narrative, when in reality…
Why it's not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It's broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. If you want it in your inbox every Saturday…
Breaking Down What The NFL's Sportsbook Agreements Mean: Both Now, And In The Future
Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In March 2017, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league and its owners still would “strongly oppose” legalized sports betting, despite the fact that the owners had just voted 31-1 to approve…
Poppy Gustafsson: the Darktrace tycoon in new cybersecurity era
Poppy Gustafsson runs a cutting-edge and gender-diverse cybersecurity firm on the brink of a £3bn stock market debut, but she is happy to reference pop culture classic the Terminator to help describe what Darktrace actually does. Launched in…
Daily Crunch: Squarespace files to go public
Image Credits: Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for New York Magazine Squarespace is going public, Apple shares some music payment details and Twitter bans the founder of the right-wing media organization Project Veritas. This is your Daily…
Billionaire Mark Cuban invests in NFT data platform CryptoSlam
Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the basketball team Dallas Mavericks has made a strategic investment in NFT data platform CryptoSlam. Cuban invested in the startup via his venture capital firm Radical Investments. CryptoSlam declined to share…
Europe's leading crypto VC on investing strategy, pitching tips, KR1
KR1, which launched in 2016, is one of Europe's leading digital asset VC firms. The two co-founders break down the firm's investment strategy and what they look for from pitches. And share how they recently made $1.8 million from Polkadot staking.
Goodbye Jeff Bezos, Hello Brian Armstrong - the billionaire life cycle
Hello, and welcome to this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including: Soundtrack: This week's newsletter has been specially designed to be consumed while listening to Michael McDonald's…
The Games Fund launches with $50M to support devs in US, Europe
A team of game industry investors and creators has launched a new $50 million fund with the goal of putting its resources behind game developers seeking investment and access to the expertise of established professionals in development, publishing…
Biodegradable chewing gum is here to save our pavements
The neon stripes running through the chewing gum Peter Juul Regnersgaard produced from his bag after a meal with colleague and roommate Morten Ebdrup in 2017 worried both men. Something about the lurid colour unsettled them – as did the wads…
For Big Tech whistleblowers, there's no such thing as 'moving on
Last summer, just before she published a viral Twitter thread about the discrimination she said she faced at Pinterest, Aerica Shimizu Banks crunched some numbers to see how long she could afford to be persona non grata in the tech industry. She…
4 years ago, Uber was a toxic mess. Insiders reveal how Dara Khosrowshahi 'cleansed' its culture and revived its bid to dominate transportation.
Dara Khosrowshahi prioritized fixing Uber's culture when he became CEO in 2017. Since then he's made decisions aimed at making Uber more ethical and transparent. His efforts have largely been successful, Uber employees and a Wall Street analyst…
Five Orders Of Magnitude | Pantera
It's pretty freaky deaky to have two data sets go up five orders of magnitude and have their relationship be perfectly constant. For every million new users, the price of bitcoin rises $200. It happened every time except for February 2016, when the…
The Tokenization of Time | Rise, Risks, and Roadmaps of Alchemix (ALCX) vs. Flashstake (FLASH)
The Time Value of Money (TVM) is a straight forward concept: Money you have now is worth more than the identical sum in the future due to its potential earning capacity. While time traveling in the physical world is something still reserved for the…
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