IT総合 Mindtrip wants to become your AI travel agent
Once upon a time, we used to use travel agents to book our flights, book our hotels and maybe even make recommendations ...
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IT総合 IT総合 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 ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Tanbii’s $1.5M pre-seed deck
About a year ago, I tore down a pitch deck by Mi Terro, founded by Robert Luo. Guess who’s back with another compa...
IT総合 All products are garbage, and for good reason
The spirit animal of capitalism is bamboo: Hyper growth above everything.
Source: TCじゃぱん
IT総合 That 30-slide deck won’t cut it anymore
Founders are ditching the narratives around purpose, problem and solutions.
Source: TCじゃぱん
IT総合 Steve Blank: AI will revolutionize the ‘lean startup’
Entrepreneur Steve Blank says we’re collectively underestimating the potential of generative AI.
Source: TCじゃぱん
IT総合 Never express your ‘use of funds’ slide as percentages
When investors look at a startup slide deck, they are looking for something very specific. Yes, they want to know if the...
IT総合 How founders raised money so far in 2023
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This week, DocSend dropped a big load of ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: BusRight’s $7M Series A deck
As soon as I saw the cover slide for BusRight, I knew I was looking at something really interesting. BusRight is a schoo...
IT総合 5 trends in VC funding for pre-seed startups
Silicon Valley’s image as a shiny, money-spewing beacon on a hill of boundless opportunity has gotten a bit of a r...
IT総合 IP for startups: When (not) to patent your inventions
When it comes to intellectual property, “patents” might spring to mind. A good patent can give startups a competitive ed...
IT総合 Bad CTOs mean startups have millions of dollars’ worth of cap table dead weight
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This week, I’ve been looking at the evolu...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: DeckMatch’s $1M seed deck
I recently wrote about DeckMatch’s $1 million seed round. Given that the tool evaluates pitch decks, it’s on...
IT総合 Most VCs have no clue what a CTO does
Venture capitalists look at businesses from many angles. Is the market big enough? Do the founders have good founder-mar...
IT総合 How Pilea helps founders break down stigma around mental health
Startup founders believe so strongly that something is wrong in the world that they can will an entirely parallel dimens...
IT総合 VC associates, this AI is coming for your jobs
The unfortunate reality of being an investor is that the vast majority of inbound pitch decks are completely irrelevant ...
IT総合 When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you
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Fri-yay indeed. We sigh, as humans spool ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: ANYbotics’ $50M Series B deck
A couple of weeks ago, Brian wrote about ANYbotics’ $50 million Series B fundraise, which made me realize it’...
IT総合 Imagine for a moment that you’re an AI
Suspend your disbelief for the briefest of moments, and imagine that we live in the 1970s, when people still turned comp...
IT総合 Taking another look at venture debt
Silicon Valley Bank’s nosedive has soured many on venture debt, and for early-stage companies, it bears being cautious. ...
IT総合 AI is going 4-dimensional
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State-sponsored bad actors have l...
IT総合 6 startup founders gaze into a future-of-work crystal ball
The excitement around remote work reached fever pitch during the pandemic, when most people with an office job were forc...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: SquadTrip’s $1.5M pre-seed deck
For our 60th (yes, there’s 60 of them now!) pitch deck teardown, we’re taking a closer look at a $1.5 millio...
IT総合 The future of AI is video, and it’s coming at us fast
Does a future with AI scare you? Excite you? Both of those things? Does it feel as if it’s opening up a world full of po...
IT総合 Where founders go wrong with pitch decks
I’ve broken down the wins and fails of more than 60 decks for TechCrunch+. But if we’re being honest, these Pitch Deck T...
IT総合 If it hadn’t been for them meddlin’ kids
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Not to get all GrumpyManYellsAtCloud.gif,...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Unito’s $20M Series B deck
Unito is a platform that takes a different approach to managing SaaS apps. Today we’ll take a look at how the comp...
IT総合 I visited the dark web, and all I got was…
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Haje: The dark web is a lot of things; particularly user-friendly ain’t one of them. The othe...
IT総合 Startups aren’t (just) a young person’s game
There’s a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley: Startups are only founded by a bunch of 20-year-olds who recently dropped ou...
IT総合 Finding CEO: It’s the new ‘Finding Nemo’
When you think about replacing a CEO, what springs to mind? The drastic action of a desperate board struggling to right ...