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Bay Area baby belly beholding Battlefield bounty

This week, the TechCrunch team descended on San Francisco’s Moscone Center to celebrate one of the biggest to-dos in the startup world: TechCrunch Disrupt.

How angel investors lose their money, in 7 easy steps

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I know it’s perhaps unfair to assume that angels have the same approach to investors as professional, institutional pre

When scaring us is great for business

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. All right, all right, all right. Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to Matthew McConaughey’s memoir Greenlig

As a founder, how do you address climate change?

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. It’s sometimes hard to remember that, as a startup founder, you have influence over aspects of your business that you w

All products are garbage, and for good reason

The spirit animal of capitalism is bamboo: Hyper growth above everything.

Bad CTOs mean startups have millions of dollars’ worth of cap table dead weight

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week, I’ve been looking at the evolution of tech startups. The journey from two or three co-founders to an exit or

When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you

We sigh, as humans spool up to take a break, while the semi-sentient machines continue writing their poetry in their air-conditioned underground data-center homes. n my column this week, I spent a bit

AI is going 4-dimensional

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday morning. State-sponsored bad actors have long been able to make “deepfake” videos that are good enough to tric

If it hadn’t been for them meddlin’ kids

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Not to get all GrumpyManYellsAtCloud.gif, but I’m getting pretty tired of the myth of the dropped-out-of-college founde

Goodbye VR, hello AR, and can AI be more human, plz?

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. It seems like the fizzle has gone out of the VR conversation altogether, as every manufacturer and conversation is refocu

Startups, be careful who you sell to

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As a photographer, the saga of Amazon buying Digital Photo Review (DPReview among friends) before slowly grinding it into

So, how are Europe’s startups doing?

Are corporations too influential?

This week, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how some of the biggest companies in the world have as much — if not more — power than entire countries.

When AI bots pose as humans

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday afternoon. This week, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the implications of artificial intelligence. One of the mo

Here’s why it’s scary that investors believe they can monetize the climate crisis

The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer. You wanna know how close? The climate deadline is close enough that it is inte

Secure your startup’s future by watching the big corporations

As a startup founder, wouldn’t it be awesome if you could predict the future a little bit more than you currently do? It turns out you can: By paying close attention to what the behemoths in your sp

AI scares the bejesus out of me

Welcome to this week's edition of Startups Weekly.

Well that’s one way to hire a new CEO

Welcome to Startups Weekly, with your shiny, newly minted host, yours sincerely. If you’ve seen my name on TechCrunch, it’s probably because of my popular Pitch Deck Teardown series, where I take

A pivot, in this market‽

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas.  Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of m

Pitch for the check you want 

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s gu
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