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Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy

A famous poem advises us not to compare ourselves with others, “for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”The same holds true for startup fundraising; the size of

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VanMoof X3 e-bike review: Transportation revelation

Like some of the best consumer tech from the last decade, I didn’t know I needed an e-bike until I was on one, breezing down the bike lane contemplating my newfound freedom.Before buying a Ninte

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The head of Citi Ventures on how, and why, to leverage corporate venture arms like his

At our recent Early Stage event, we had the opportunity to talk at length with Arvind Purushotham, the managing director and global head of Citi Ventures, about how startups should think about corpora

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Inside Rover and MoneyLion’s SPAC-led public debuts

If we are not careful, every entry of this column could consist of SPAC news.Special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, whatever you prefer to call them, are enormous business to

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Japan's 'flying car' gets off the ground with a person aboard

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.Japan's SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of "flying car" projects around the world

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Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator was worth the wait

It’s been 14 years since the launch of Flight Simulator X, which long seemed like it would be the final release in the long-running series. When the company announced it would re-launch the fran

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German curator kidnapped in Iraq freed in security operation

A German arts curator who was kidnapped earlier this week was freed Friday by Iraqi security forces, security and government officials said.Hella Mewis was freed at 6:2

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Review: Handsome and nippy, new VanMoof e-bikes could be the shape of cities to come

I have to admit, I was an e-bike virgin. Sure, I’d tried out Uber’s Jump bikes and similar e-bikes, but these are more like normal bikes “with a little extra help.” So when I was offered t

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Four views: is edtech changing how we learn?

In the future, students might dismiss stories about weather-related school closures as folklore.The COVID-19 pandemic compelled us to experiment with edtech, but it’s still unclear whether atten

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Feature: E-scooters enter into Italian city streets amid pandemic, fail to please all

As Italy continues to ease coronavirus lockdown rules, pedestrians returning to the streets are finding themselves competing for space with a kind of vehicle that hard