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What do you call the opposite of the startup halo effect?
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As startup layoffs continue, some perspective
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Nuance? In this startup market?
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Footnotes on Sequoia’s startup memo
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TechCrunch Podcasts this week: Scaling web3, bulls and bears, falling tech valuations and UFOs
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Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo
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When your startup’s core mission is set to be overturned
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The Great Resignation, meet the Great Reset
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Slice and dice it all you want, that’s a seed round
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Deal terms feel like dart boards these days
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We’re still in founder-friendly market, kind of
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Crypto’s latest disruption may be investor expectations
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What 411 YC Demo Day pitches will teach you about startups
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We keep trying to reinvent startup accelerators
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Tiger’s stamp of approval is coming for the early stage
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Startups scramble in wake of Ukraine invasion
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Hire, then wire with a twist
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Hopin’ into lessons from Peloton
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It’s not a startup reckoning, it’s a recorrection
The final lesson from the pandemic bump, and later deceleration, is which startups are disruption-proof.
Edtech’s search for the magic metric
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