Its First Year, This Startup Struggled to Get 75 Clients. Five Years Later, They Have 18,000. Here’s How They Did It.
Financial planning startup Facet knew they were targeting a huge untapped market. But getting clients wasn’t as easy as they hoped.
Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in roughly the same window, creating all kinds of new opportunities; and AI has gone from a curiosity to, in Jobs’s words, a huge part of what Yosemite does. “I didn’t expect Yosemite to be moving this fast,” he said.
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Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review
For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that systematic reviews of literature — scholarly syntheses of the evidence on a particular topic — take an average of 41 weeks for a five-person research team. But it doesn’t […]
There’s a Scientific Reason You Can’t Stop Thinking About Unfinished Tasks. Learning to Harness That Energy Will Make You More Productive.
Why unfinished work captures our attention more than finished tasks, and how to leverage that psychological tendency for both personal and professional betterment.
Here’s How Critical Thinkers Unlock Unimaginable Success
On this episode of “The Jeff Fenster Show,” Contrarian Thinking founder Codie Sanchez breaks down risk-taking, deal-making, and the personal mental processes that will help you achieve your goals.
3 Biotech Stocks Offering Potential for Gains
Solid foothold of personalized medicine, increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, favorable government initiatives, and rapid digital transformation are opening new avenues for biotech companies. Thus, it could be wise to…
Notetaking app Goodnotes invests $1.9M in digital stationary company WeBudding
Weeks after launching a digital stationary store within the app, notetaking company Goodnotes said today it has invested $1.9 million into South Korea-based digital stationary company WeBudding. WeBudding was founded by Donghwan Shin, Donggyun Ko, and Chaeyoung Lee in 2018. The trio started by selling physical paper notebooks catered towards university students, but eventually, they […]
Google expands its subsea cable infrastructure with Nuvem, connecting the U.S., Bermuda, and Portuga
Google has announced another subsea cable system, as the internet giant strives to bolster its internet infrastructure and get more people using its array of cloud-based services. Dubbed “Nuvem,” the new cable represents one of more than a dozen cables that Google has invested in through the years, starting with Unity which went into operation […]
Why Does Jay Soloff Love This Income Stock?
This company is in the sweet spot when it comes to higher mortgage rates. Its required insurance product is in increasing demand as home prices outstrip the ability of most…
Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic as the e-commerce group steps up rivalry against Microsoft, Meta, Google and Nvidia in the fast-growing red hot sector that many technologists believe could be the next great frontier. The e-commerce group said it will initially invest $1.25 billion […]