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IT総合 The debate happening inside of every VC firm
Precursor’s Charles Hudson wants to be cautious but not too cautious. The venture capitalist was at an AI confab last mo...
IT総合 Venture-backed everything for real world problems, please
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 The Mint, started by Better Tomorrow Ventures, wants to be the accelerator fintech needs
Better Tomorrow Ventures’ Sheel Mohnot landed some of his biggest wins before he ever started a venture firm. The invest...
IT総合 How do you know when it’s time to shut down?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 This app, backed by Marissa Mayer and Peter Thiel, is making texts more expressive
“The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves R...
IT総合 Mayfield raised just shy of $1B to avoid unicorn hype
Navin Chaddha, the storied investor running Mayfield Fund, doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of...
IT総合 This week in tech acronyms: FRB and GPT
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host ...
IT総合 OpenAI’s ChatGPT is shaking up the edtech markets
Shares of edtech company Chegg fell off a cliff this week after the company reported Q1 results that bested analyst expe...
IT総合 Aaron Burr’s tech angle, blue skies, and no photos at this time
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 The outside advantage that your investor may be interested in
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Ann Lai says she was fired from Bullpen Capital after helping deliver a $145M fund
Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termin...
IT総合 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 ...
IT総合 Is First Republic just a victim of SVB’s collapse?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff
Clubhouse, a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its...
IT総合 Chief, a professional network for women leaders, cuts staff amid restructuring effort
Chief, a professional network designed for women in leadership, has cut 14% of staff, or 43 jobs today, saying in an ema...
IT総合 Founders change their pitch
Entrepreneur Vera Kutsenko’s seed stage vision for her startup was more literal back in 2021 when she co-founded a busin...
IT総合 A modern take on what an entrepreneur can, and should, spend their time on
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 Despite regulatory concerns, the US is far from losing its venture crown
Coinbase is open to leaving the United States in the wake of a regulatory dispute with the government. A tone shift of t...
IT総合 Hear ClassDojo and SignalFire unpack edtech’s opportunity ahead on TechCrunch Live
Sam Chaudhary takes his time. The founder of ClassDojo, an edtech consumer app that focuses on student classrooms, spent...
IT総合 Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas...
IT総合 Unicorns are rare, but what about real?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 This fintech startup ideally wants to be ‘a lot more boring’ than Robinhood
Soon after launching Ocho, a startup offering personal finance support for business owners, Ankur Nagpal realized that t...
IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank’s chief risk officer is out, months after taking the job
When Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse was first unfolding, a belated disclosure colored some of the chaos: The bank spent ...
IT総合 In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date
Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during ...
IT総合 Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 2
Over 20,000 applications flew into Y Combinator, which ended up plucking out 282 startups for its latest batch. And now ...
IT総合 Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2023 Demo Day — Part 1
Here’s a crazy statistic: More than half of the companies in Y Combinator’s latest cohort were accepted to the accelerat...
IT総合 Y Combinator is back to bet on the Bay Area
Y Combinator, the startup accelerator that has launched the likes of Instacart, Stripe and Airbnb, has broadened its inv...
IT総合 Amazon wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe
Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was...