Her College Side Hustle Led to an Immediately Profitable Product That Sells for Up to $450 — and She Didn’t Even Consider Herself ‘a Business Person’
Dr. Amareen Dhaliwal’s STEM tutoring gig in undergrad set her on the path to entrepreneurship.
The Download: offshore rocket launches, and how DOGE plans to use AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off Want to send something to space? Get in line. The demand for rides off Earth is skyrocketing, with launches more than doubling over…
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Investors and founders can meet their match with Cherub, the ‘Raya of angel investing’
Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea. Today they are the co-founders of Cherub, a marketplace that pairs angel investors with entrepreneurs. Vuong spent nearly five years working in […]
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Consumer tech investing is still hot for Maven Ventures, securing $60M for Fund IV
Overall, 16% of Maven’s portfolio companies have reached a minimum $500 million exit or valuation, which is 10x industry average, the firm said.
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TechCrunch Minute: Why Tesla’s big layoffs happened, and what comes next
Tesla’s layoffs and executive departures took a bite out its share price this week. The well-known electric vehicle company shed around 10% of its staff, impacting an estimated 14,000 staff or more. Two well-known executives also decided it was time to move on. In response to the news, shares of Tesla lost ground. The company’s […]
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Silicon Valley prankster Danielle Baskin launches Moonlight, an online tarot platform
Bay Area artist Danielle Baskin is not a first-time founder – but this is the first time she’s started a tech company that isn’t a performance art piece, or an elaborate joke. Still, she has a tongue-in-cheek tagline to pitch her latest venture: “It’s SaaS for witches.” She’s not kidding. Moonlight is a free online […]
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I Want to Throw in the Towel and Quit My Business — Here’s How to Know When to Stick With or Let Go of Your Business
Entrepreneurship demands a lot of us. Prioritizing our self-care and seeking support will help us make the best decisions during tough times.
Substack’s Notes feature is getting more Twitter-like capabilities
Substack is adding new capabilities to its Twitter-like Notes feature that bring it more in-line with the social network now known as X. The company announced on Tuesday that users can now post videos directly to Notes in the Substack app and on the web. Users can now also embed Notes on external webpages. The […]
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WhatsApp is adding filters to easily find messages
For those who use WhatsApp more like an inbox, the app will now become more useful. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a handful of new chat filters for the app to access certain types of messages easily: All, Unread, and Groups. The “All” filter is selected by default and shows you an unfiltered version of your […]
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Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters
It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s. Loft Labs saw a similar problem with resource utilization in Kubernetes clusters that VMware saw with server utilization, and has built a virtualization tool to […]
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Crossword answers revealed
Give up? Here’s the solution to the May/June 2024 crossword puzzle “Not that MIT.”