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How bottom-up sales helped Expensify blaze the path for SaaS

You’d expect an expense management company to have a large sales department and advertise through all kinds of channels to maximize customer acquisition. But like we’ve seen over and over throug

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Fintech all-star Nubank raises a $750M mega round

In 2013, Colombian businessman David Velez decided to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. He didn’t speak Portuguese, nor was he an engineer or a banker, but he did have the conviction that the sys

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Afghan Education Minister: Why women's education is important

Afghanistan still lacks schools and basic infrastructure. /CGTN Editor's Note: Three years after the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Rangina Hamidi founded the first woman-owned and woman-run soc

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US intelligence report does not confirm that UFO sightings are linked to aliens... nor rule it out

Dozens of sightings that have puzzled scientists and the military appear to have been left unexplained.

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Not on Nextdoor? You can still grab your neighbors’ stuff on Free Finds

Nextdoor, the app that helps neighbors connect, launched a new feature called Free Finds today, which will help people browse the free items available in their neighborhoods. Since the start of 2020,

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Tesla files trademark, hinting at Elon Musk’s restaurant concept plans

Tesla has recently filed a new trademark for its brand under restaurant services, a sign the company might be finally gearing up to deliver on an idea that CEO Elon Musk and other company executives h

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100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, the damage remains

A mural depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, U.S., May 27, 2021. /CFP The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as "Black Wall Street," was razed to the ground by an angry w

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7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida

If it seems like everyone you know is moving to Florida these days, there is evidence to back that up. Recent data from LinkedIn published in Axios put Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and the Miami-Fort Laude

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Datacy raises $2.4M to help consumers monetize their own damn data

This morning Datacy, a startup with its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, announced that it has closed $2.4 million in new funding to continue building its consumer-friendly data collection and mo

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LatAm-focused corporate spend startup Clara raises $30M months after its last round

This morning Clara announced that it closed a new, $30 million funding round and secured a $50 million revolving debt facility.The startup, which provides corporate cards to Mexican companies, raised

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Florida’s ban on bans will test First Amendment rights of social media companies

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a restriction on social media companies’ ability to ban candidates for state offices and news outlets, and in doing so offered a direct challeng

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Could Beto be back? O’Rourke mulling bid for Texas governor

There’s no road trip, no soul searching. No beard or blogging. But Beto O’Rourke is making a political life decision again.Three years after becoming Democrats’ breakou

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Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers

Every company wants to be innovative, but innovation comes with its share of difficulties. One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category

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LinkedIn is the reason Apple made the M1 chip

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week was good fun not only because we had the whole team together

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Top US, Russia diplomats spar firmly but politely in Iceland

Top diplomats from the United States and Russia sparred politely in Iceland during their first face-to-face encounter, which came as ties between the nations have deter

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Don’t tweet about $ASS

I am not a smart man.Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS, a cryptocurrency named after a dog. In this case, Australian Shepherds. And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became cho

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German minister quits amid thesis plagiarism allegations

A prominent German government minister announced her resignation Wednesday as a long-running controversy over allegations of plagiarism in her doctoral thesis nears its