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Do the celebrities help the startups or do the startups help the celebrities?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.What a week, yeah? Instead of the news cycle slowing

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'We've never found systemic fraud, not enough to overturn the election': Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger says

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Sunday that President Donald Trump lost the state of Georgia.He defended the integrity of the general election, saying that w

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Shop-Ware raises cash as cars make a comeback

Shop-Ware has been waiting for a year like 2020 since 2015.The startup, which sells software to neighborhood automotive shops to digitize their operations, had struggled to capture capital from ventur

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China's Peng Jianhua targets domestic record after six marathons

Peng Jianhua celebrates after winning the men's 5,000-meter in the National Athletics Championships in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, September 18, 2020. /CFP Peng Jianhua from east China's Jian

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Enterprise investor Jason Green on SPAC hopefuls versus startups bound for traditional IPOs

Jason Green has a pretty solid reputation as venture capitalists go. The enterprise-focused firm the cofounded 17 years ago, Emergence Capital, has backed Saleforce, Box, and Zoom, among many other co

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Enterprise investor Jason Green on SPAC hopefuls versus startups bound for traditional IPOs

Jason Green has a pretty solid reputation as venture capitalists go. The enterprise-focused firm the cofounded 17 years ago, Emergence Capital, has backed Saleforce, Box, and Zoom, among many other co

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Steve Case’s Revolution is targeting $500 million for its fourth growth fund

Revolution, the Washington, D.C.-based investment firm founded by AOL cofounder CEO Steve Case and former AOL senior exec Ted Leonsis, is raising $500 million for its fourth fund, shows a new SEC fili

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Is the internet advertising economy about to implode?

Advertising drives the modern digital economy. Whether it’s reading news sites like this one or perusing your social media feeds, advertising is the single most important industry that came out of the

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Inside Affirm’s IPO filing: a look at its economics, profits and revenue concentration

Last night Affirm filed to go public, herding yet another unicorn into the end-of-year IPO corral. The consumer installment lending service joins DoorDash and Airbnb in filing recently, as a number of

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Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders

I’ve long said that I don’t care where you come from, if your name is hard to say, or you have a “funny” accent. There’s a reason for that. For centuries, some of America’s big

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Musicians get the bulk of ticket sales with Bandcamp’s new live-streaming concert feature

The musician’s life is rarely an easy one. That goes double for these last, oh, eight or so months. Most artists who haven’t risen the ranks to rock-star levels make the lion’s share of their mo

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MacBook Air M1 review: The right Apple Silicon Mac for most

Reviewing hardware is an act of minutia. Occasionally something new or potentially earth-shattering comes along, but on the whole, it’s about chipping away. Documenting small, gradual changes designed

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Yeah, Apple’s M1 MacBook Pro is powerful, but it’s the battery life that will blow you away

Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you’re learning the ropes, understanding systems. Then you have mid-game where you’re executing and gathering reso

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The new Mac mini: The revival of the no-compromise low-cost Mac

There’s nothing small about the latest Mac mini.Never mind the Mac mini’s tiny size or low price. This diminutive desktop is a revolution for most users, thanks to Apple’s new chips

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Mr. Biden, wouldn't you agree with me?

05:06 Mr. Biden, I heard your victory speech. I know, for many people, the game is not over. But to many more, the curtain has fallen for Donald Trump and will soon lift for you and yo

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Review: Microsoft’s Xbox Series X is ahead of its time

Arriving seven years after the Xbox One first launched, the new Microsoft Xbox Series X console lands in a different world and a very different Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft is embracing subscription bun

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Tesla is a chain of startups, Elon Musk explains

Today during a call with investors and journalists, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked to expand a tweet from yesterday. In it, he stated: “Tesla should really be thought of as roughly a dozen techn