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4 startup fundamentals to help avoid epic product fails

January 18, 2024

There are ways companies can better understand their customers’ pain points to develop the right products that solve the right problems at the right time.

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Briq, a startup that uses AI to automate finances in construction, brings in $8M extension at a $150M valuation

January 18, 2024

At a time where many startups are struggling to raise funding, or are raising – but at lower valuations, it’s notable when companies raise at flat or higher valuations. Especially when their last raise took place in 2021 – a time when capital was much easier to come by and valuations were climbing at crazy […]

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Instagram’s new ‘nighttime nudges’ aim to reduce teens’ time on the app

January 18, 2024

Instagram is introducing new nighttime nudges for teen accounts to limit their time on the app, the company announced on Thursday. The new nighttime nudges will appear when teens have spent more than 10 minutes on Instagram in places like Reels or DMs late at night. The notice will remind teens that it’s late and […]

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Kashable banks $25.6M to offer employment-based lending

January 18, 2024

Kashable integrates with a company’s payroll systems and then uses that data to power its fully-automated underwriting ability to extend affordable credit to that company’s employees.

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Welcome back to the Unicorn Club, 10 years later

January 18, 2024

Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams build aspirational companies. She has over two decades of experience starting at seed stage and staying involved for many years beyond. Allegra Simon loves working closely with incredible […]

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