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Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration
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Community isn’t a buzzword, it’s a challenge
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I first covered Launch House in Oct 2020, when the co-founders
What 227 Y Combinator pitches will teach you about startups
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Y Creator, Y Competition
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When the party has confetti but no allergen-friendly appetizers
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A return and an ousting
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You’re not that special (I swear, there’s a startup angle here)
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Venture investors to founders: Turn down for what?
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The bootstrapped are coming, the bootstrapped are coming
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Great Resignation meets Great Reset meets (Great R…un down those valuations please)
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Market dissonance doesn’t always include an easy hot take
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Data shows who has been hit the hardest in the great tech layoff wave
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Tech doesn’t get more full circle than this
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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
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help y
Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo
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When your startup’s core mission is set to be overturned
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Hey Jane, a digital health startup that scales access to abort