TechCrunch+ Roundup: How to pitch 7 VCs, building AI moats, immigration law Q&A
Meeting investors is easy. The hard part is crafting a story that’s so convincing, they’ll wire you some money.
The quest to keep organs alive outside the body
This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of organ banks—stores of human organs that can be preserved…
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Startups may have trouble finding their enterprise footing
According to a survey from Battery Ventures, the percentage of respondents that let their engineers self-select tools fell from 74% in Q3 2023 to 44% last quarter.
BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users
Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos. However, in the months since, BeReal’s traction has declined, according to a new report from Similarweb, despite its rollout of new features like […]
Trust Should Be the Foundation of Your Business — Here’s How to Earn It.
Here are five areas entrepreneurs and business leaders should tackle and invest more in to fuel a reputation for being incredibly reliable, which will help you drive greater customer trust, loyalty and success.
Get This ChatGPT Educational Bundle for $40 Off
Save $40 on this bundle and start running your business more efficiently.
A Billionaire’s 25,000-Bottle Collection of ‘Rare’ and ‘Mythical’ Wines Is About to Be Auctioned — And It’s Expected to Fetch a Staggering Sum
The Taiwanese billionaire has referred to wine as the “ninth art.”
5 Solopreneur Mindset Shifts and Why They’re Critical to Your Success
As a solopreneur, don’t reinvent the wheel or start from scratch. You are here because you have two things: an idea and passion.
How to pitch me: 7 investors discuss what they’re looking for in September 2023
If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.
Google Pixel Event 2023: Pixel 8, Watch 2 and everything else we expect
It’s been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We’ve already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and now it’s time for Google to get in on the action. After all, being fashionably late to consumer electronics is kind of Google’s thing. Spoilers […]
So what happened to Blue Apron?
How Blue Apron got to where it is today an interesting story, and one that we should trace from the company’s IPO through to today.