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TechCrunch+ roundup: Dotcom crash history lessons, post-M&A strategies, climate tech heats up

Today at noon PT/3 pm ET, Anna Barber, partner at M13, will join us on a Twitter Space to talk about how today's startup operators can avoid many of the missteps founders made in past downturns.

Week in Review: Pet startups will be the death of Silicon Valley

Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into your inboxes yet again. I’m in Berlin. where TechCrunch just pulled off another great Disrupt event — we’ve got a lot of great Europe-fo

Luxury consignment e-tailer The RealReal to enter the unicorn club with new funding

The RealReal has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares in a round that could value the luxury consignment shop at $1.06 billion.

In 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold-out’ show

Among the many myths that were laid low in 2018, perhaps none was as welcome to throngs of live-event fans as the fantasy of the sold-out show.

Put down your phone if you want to innovate

We are living in an interstitial period. In the early 1980s we entered an era of desktop computing that culminated in the dot-com crash — a financial bubble that we bolstered with Y2K consulting

ICOs like to move fast and break (lots of) things

Startup life is full of quick, lateral thinking. “Move fast and break things” is the mantra. However, with the rise of token sales – essentially vehicles for untested startups to rai

Marc Andreessen Champions Innovation Through Trial and Error, And Error, And Pets.com

This evening at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/14/andreessen-horowitz-isnt-selling-facebook/">Andreessen Horowitz</a>'s offices in Menlo Park, founding partner Marc Andreessen sat down with W

From Diapers To Pets, Amazon's Quidsi Introduces Wag.com

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wagcom.png"> Everything comes around. A decade after the Pets.com sock puppet became the symbol of overreaching Internet startups, <a href

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad App World

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bubble-catcher.jpg"/> <em><strong>Editor's note</strong>: Contributor J<a href="http://www.rezendi.com/">on Evans</a> is an author and soft