Category: Growth and Monetization
Hustle CEO Sam Parr & SmartNews co-founder Rich Jaroslavsky on the future of media
Tim Hsia & Neil Devani Contributor More posts by this contributor The first hires are the hardest Getting press for your startup: the true role of communications Welcome to this edition of The Operators, a recurring Extra Crunch column, podcast and YouTube show that brings you insights and information from inside…
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How this startup built and exited to Twitter in 1,219 days
By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy. Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisions. Inspired by Siri, he left to start Timista, a…
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Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Profitability is ‘more achievable than a Series A round’
Despite all evidence to the contrary, there’s more to building a startup than raising venture capital. Founders are finding success without overly relying on VC dollars; some are even sharing profits with their respective employees and customers without the help of traditional funding and Silicon Valley power dynamics. As some…
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The startup cash countdown begins
Startups look to extend runway as VCs pull back Alex Wilhelm 14 hours Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. As global startup markets enter a slowdown — more on that shortly — we’re starting to get…
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The good, better and best of cloud and SaaS growth
Your startup must be this ‘good’ to ride Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. The crew at Bessemer released their new, yearly cloud report this week. It’s a useful lens into how…
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This Week in Apps: Layoffs at VSCO, Google Play’s new guidelines, TikTok rolls out parental controls
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019,…
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