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Everything you missed from TC Sessions: Justice

TechCrunch Sessions: Justice covered a wide variety of topics. From DEI to labor to accessibility, the sessions went deep on the issues that matter most in the tech world.For example, we had an illumi

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Investors discuss alt-financing and the role of venture capital

There are so many ways to secure capital for your startup beyond traditional venture capital, from crowdfunding to debt financings to revenue-share agreements. But is all money created equal if you ar

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TC Sessions: Justice 2021 kicks off in two weeks

We’re only two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021, a virtual conference focused on making diversity, equity, inclusion and labor as integral to tech as data, software engineers, startups and ve

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Justice

TC Sessions: Justice, our second-ever dedicated event to diversity, equity, inclusion and labor in tech, is coming up on March 3, 2021. This is a virtual one-day conference featuring the brightest inn

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Learn how to creatively navigate remote fundraising from top investors

As the COVID-19 era drags on, first-time founders need to find new ways to raise capital needed to keep startups offensive (and defense). Luckily, a trio of investors from top venture capital firms ar

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Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns

Silicon Valley has a unicorn problem.While no one is calling for startups with high valuations to go extinct, there ought to be a lot fewer of them. At least that’s what many young founders have concl

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Daily Crunch: Netflix sets some content free

Netflix tests a free promotional offering, Amazon’s drone delivery gets trial flight approval from the FAA and Neuralink shows off its human-brain tech. This is your Daily Crunch for August 31,

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There’s a growing movement where startup founders look to exit to community

Traditional roadmaps for startups center around this idea of the exit. Oftentimes, the ideal exit in the minds of startups and venture capitalists goes one of two ways: IPO or acquisition by another c

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Human Capital: ‘People were afraid of being critical with me’

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we break down the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week, we’re looking at the launch of the Diversity Riders initiative in venture

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Early-bird savings for Disrupt 2020 ends next week

Whether you’re an early-stage startup founder, investor, enthusiast or another integral member of the community, you can’t afford to miss Disrupt 2020 — THE tech conference at the epicenter of the sta

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Learn how to build a company that puts profits and users first, and VCs last at Disrupt SF

Contrary to popular belief, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to success in Silicon Valley. Beyond raising traditional venture capital and beyond pursuing growth at all costs strategy, there are

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London Zoo joins in World Selfie Day with shots "taken" by animals

The Zoological Society of London (ZSL), a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats, released a gallery of "animal selfies" to mark the World Selfie Day on Sunday. I

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Black tech leaders issue call to action to combat racial injustice in the Bay Area

As a tumultuous week of protests draws broad attention to America’s open wounds of racist police violence, a coalition of Black founders, advocates, investors and other leaders are issuing a cal

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What motivates innovative entrepreneurs: Money or altruism?

In today’s new world completely engulfed by COVID-19, all sorts of innovations are emerging to help the world overcome this difficult time: 3D printers are cranking out medical supplies; rapid advance

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Startups Weekly: Remote-first SaaS products boom as workers stay home

Silicon Valley companies had already been going remote-first when the coronavirus became a global pandemic. This means there are lots of great software tools already on the market, that are seeing a h

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Inside the effort to turn startups into zebras, not unicorns

The priorities of venture capitalists don’t always align with those of startup founders and their workers.That’s why we’ve started to see more conversation and activity around cooper

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Everyone loves the coronapocalypse

The 2019-nCoV coronavirus is a global public health emergency of significant concern. It is also, simultaneously, a fount of misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, and both over- and under-reaction