IT総合 How Inversion Art is trying to become the Y Combinator of the arts world
What if a little bit of investment, a splash of mentoring and practical support, a slew of introductions, and a whole lo...
Haje Jan Kamps
IT総合 IT総合 AI makes you worse at what you’re good at
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. If you’ve been following along with this ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Phospholutions’ $10M Series A extension deck
Phospholutions' pitch deck embodies the essence of an effective pitch. But it's also riddled with small issues that add ...
IT総合 With the power of AI, you can be mediocre, too
The heady, futuristic world of artificial intelligence brings us a new promise: The ability to be perfectly average.
© 2...
IT総合 Before you found a startup, think about your personal goals
If you're looking to make a significant difference in the world, your startup could be the vehicle that drives that chan...
IT総合 If your startup doesn’t seem impossible at first, it’s not hard enough
The key to a successful startup lies in its team and their ability to answer pivotal questions about the startup's purpo...
IT総合 Pitch Teardown: The CancerVAX crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine
For this edition of Pitch Deck Teardown, we're taking a close look at the CancerVAX campaign on the equity crowdfunding ...
IT総合 Your startup should solve an impossibly hard problem
Most obvious problems that have obvious solutions don’t need startups.
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...
IT総合 Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. For my column this week, I told the story...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck
This pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let's dive in and see if we can spot what...
IT総合 Spam is about to get even more terrible
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, it's becoming more adept at generating human-like text.
© 2023 TechCrunc...
IT総合 After helping sift through 400m photos, GoodOnes renames to Ollie
AI-powered photo-sorting app GoodOnes raised $3.6 million in seed funding earlier this year and dropped into the Apple A...
IT総合 Raising without a deck is more common than you think
There are, in fact, people out there raising lots of capital without employing a deck at all. I was really intrigued to ...
IT総合 Pirr raised an angel round to help you co-write erotica with an AI
Generative AI — is there anything it won’t do? Well, truthfully, most of the time you’re not going to be able to c...
IT総合 Signos raises $20 million to sprinkle AI fairy dust on the weight loss industry
Signos, a metabolic health platform that utilizes a unique AI-engine with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to offer re...
IT総合 TAM/SAM/SOM is only for founders who think small
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. For VCs, market size is crucial, because ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: SplitBrick’s $200K angel deck
There are some major, fundamental problems with this deck that makes the company pretty much impossible to invest in.
© ...
IT総合 With X, Musk is playing the bottoms-up game
If you think Musk is ruining Twitter, then yeah, he is. That’s because he’s not in it for Twitter. He’s in it for X, and...
IT総合 Founders, are events useful?
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-...
IT総合 Climate investor Katapult shows off its 23 new investments
Katapult, the Oslo-based global investment firm with a penchant for fostering early-stage, high-impact, climate-focused ...
IT総合 Demos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch
Before you start planning how you’ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all...
IT総合 Ultra-portable monitor from Espresso Displays goes 4K
When I reviewed the Espresso Display last year, I concluded that it would be a great addition to a mobile office setup f...
IT総合 Pack away your mittens, startup winter is over
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As I sat down to write this week’s Startu...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Lupiya’s $8.3M Series A deck
For the 69th installment (nice!) of the Pitch Deck Teardown series, let's take a peek at how Lupiya told its story to cl...
IT総合 When predatory investors damage your chances of success
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my e...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Point.me’s $10M Series A deck
I like a good airline points flight just as much as the fuzzy feeling you get from knowing you've "beaten the system," b...
IT総合 Investors taking 30% of a startup in a round are short-sighted
Over the last couple of months I’ve spoken to a number of early-stage investors — both angels and VCs — who seem to be p...
IT総合 All venture funds use the 2-and-20 fee structure, right? Not really
Typically, a VC fund's management fee is 2% of AUM, but new data from Carta shows that the 2% figure isn't as universal ...
IT総合 Atlassian CTO: We were late moving to the cloud, on the ball with AI
The goal of Atlassian's CTO, Rajeev Rajan, and that of the two CEOs is to create one of the top tech companies at the wo...
IT総合 Open Robotics’ ROS is in safe grippers with Alphabet, says Intrinsic
The acquisition of Open Robotics received a mixed reception across the industry. “The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize...