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Listen to the TechCrunch staff’s YC Demo Day wrap-up call here
It’s been a bonkers week in the world, with markets gyrating, companies fretting, investors tweeting and founders re-cutting their 2020 forecasts. But for one collection of startups, the past few days weren’t about work crises or the latest Slack share price. Instead, for Y Combinator’s Winter batch, it was Demo…
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Big opening for startups that help move entrenched on-prem workloads to the cloud
AWS CEO Andy Jassy showed signs of frustration at his AWS re:Invent keynote address in December. Customers weren’t moving to the cloud nearly fast enough for his taste, and he prodded them to move along. Some of their hesitation, as Jassy pointed out, was due to institutional inertia, but some…
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All Raise CEO Pam Kostka on how the world isn’t ending
‘What we know for certain is that the next great companies are born from these correction cycles’ Natasha Mascarenhas @nmasc_ / 7 hours This isn’t the first economic downturn All Raise CEO Pam Kostka has been through. “I was here during the dot-com bust and rush, and here during the…
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Where top VCs are investing in remote events
The novel coronavirus pandemic has rapidly moved companies into a remote-first world. Nearly all of the world’s largest events have been canceled, put on pause or pivoted to online-only. In the tech world, event cancellations thus far have included SXSW, GDC, Mobile World Congress, Google I/O, Facebook F8, E3 and…
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Dear Sophie: How do I get visas for my team to work from home?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Here’s…
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What we’re getting right and wrong about coronavirus and VC investing
It has only been nine days since I wrote an overview of the state of VC investing during the rise of the novel coronavirus pandemic. And what a week it has been: The markets have triggered circuit breakers for an unprecedented third time, a global economic depression seems in the…
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