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The hidden cost of food delivery
Noah Lichtenstein Contributor Noah Lichtenstein is the founder and managing partner of Crossover, a diversified private technology fund backed by institutional investors, technology execs and professional athletes and entertainers. More posts by this contributor What Studying Students Teaches Us About Great Apps I’ll admit it: When it comes to food,…
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Mattermost CEO Ian Tien on building a successful remote team
‘It’s really about iterating and putting more and more systems in place as you grow’ Greg Kumparak @grg / 7 hours Mattermost is pretty open about what it is: an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack. The team didn’t originally set out to build a messaging tool at all; they wanted…
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A snapshot of the leading startups in Africa’s top VC markets
TechCrunch did a synopsis recently on Africa’s 2019 VC stats. Analyses from investment fund Partech and media outlets Disrupt Africa and WeeTracker came up with varied numbers, but there was a common trend: the top two countries for venture capital to startups across all three studies were Nigeria and Kenya.…
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This Week in Apps: WWDC goes online, coronavirus leads to more cancellations, sneaky spy apps exposed
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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NewView Capital’s Ravi Viswanathan on how mature companies can survive this market
Ravi Viswanathan has been an investor long enough to see some serious ups and downs. Viswanathan most recently founded NewView Capital a couple of years ago — a firm that launched with $1.35 billion from investors, largely to acquire the stakes of 31 companies that had been funded by New…
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How to buy back your startup from a tech giant like WeWork
When SEO and marketing company Conductor sold to WeWork in March 2018, it was a bit of a last-ditch effort. Leading up to the sale, Conductor’s executives and employees owned around 9% of the company, which had about $28 million in revenue. To make its mission a reality, Conductor needed…
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