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Managing Your Startup In 2016: New Rules For A New Environment
It’s a new environment for startups in 2016. Financing will get harder. Valuation inflation will dissipate. Profitability will be in vogue again. And old-fashioned business fundamentals will balance out the disruption frenzy of the past five years. Given the new investment climate, what’s an entrepreneur to do? To answer that, let’s first examine the factors behind Silicon… Read More
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HYP3R’s Location-Based Engagement CRM Wins The “Future Stadium” Category At 1st and Future
We’ve reached the end of 1st And Future — a sports-centric startup competition thrown as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and TechCrunch.
The final of three categories in the competition today was “The Future Stadium”, focusing on technology that would advance the stadium experience of tomorrow. Read More
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LiveLike’s VR Spectator App Wins The 1st And Future Bringing Home The Game Category
Virtual reality, body cameras, and the Internet Of Things are poised to change the way we watch sports. Today we saw how at TechCrunch’s 1st And Future startup competition held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The home viewing category winner, LiveLike, lets you watch games in virtual reality from multiple angles. The contest featured twelve finalists competing in three… Read More
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Revolut Gets More Funding For Its Mobile Foreign Exchange Service
British startup Revolut just closed its seed round. After announcing having raised $2.3 million this Summer, the company has added a couple of new investors. In total, the company has raised $4.8 million (£3.2 million) from Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp and Point Nine, Venrex and business angels. Read More
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Meet The Finalists For The NFL’s 1st And Future
It’s here! 1st and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and your favorite tech blog, TechCrunch, is tomorrow!
We’ve scoured fields, courts, arenas and stadiums around the world to find the most promising startups bringing technology to sports. These companies help athletes move faster, stay safer and ultimately perform better. Read More
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Hamster Pad Helps You Find Cool Slack Communities
Are you a Slovenian web dev? A French iOS programmer? A sad person in need of friends? Get thee to the Hamster Pad. This new site Matt Schlicht and his buddy Adam McKenna aggregates hundreds of Slack communities, from programming-centric rooms to rooms for writers. “Nothing like Hamster Pad exists right now. We have literally taken the Slack API and started to create an entire social… Read More
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Don’t Miss The TechCrunch Mini-Meetup During Mobile World Congress, Feb. 24!
We are planning on holding a mini-meetup in Barcelona during MWC, offering you a chance to pitch TC writers as part of a pitch-off. Winners get free tickets to Disrupt New York. But we need your help. We have a venue, but we need more sponsors. Things are still in the planning stage but we will hold the event on Wednesday, February 24 in the evening. Sponsors would be responsible for… Read More
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CustomInk Acquires Represent, A Custom Merchandise Marketplace for Influencers
CustomInk, a leading player in the online custom appeal space, has announced it is acquiring Represent, a Los Angeles-based social commerce startup. Sources close to the acquisition tell us the price tag was approaching $100 million, with it being a cash and stock deal. Founded in 2014 by Bryan Baum, Andrej Pancik, and Leo Seigal, Represent is similar to CustomInk in that it lets anyone… Read More
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Curioos Opens Up Marketplace For Its Digital Art Platform
Curioos has been selling art prints from digital artists for a few years now. But it’s been a cumbersome work to add new artists to the website. That’s why the company is automatizing the listing process by switching to a marketplace approach. Any digital artist can now submit their work and get revenue from Curioos prints. Read More
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3 Nearly Free Growth Hacks
“Growth hacking” is a term that people seem to think means “magically market any product or company for free.” I wrote a post called What is growth hacking? to clarify the difference between efficient, effective marketing and mythical marketing pixie dust, yet still people don’t seem to understand. Before I give you three tips for powerful, nearly free marketing,… Read More
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