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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher.Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take

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Daily Crunch: Second-day trading surge launches Robinhood stock into meme territory

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 4, 2021. It’s been hect

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What Square’s acquisition of Afterpay means for startups

On Sunday Square announced it was gobbling up Afterpay in a deal worth $29 billion at the time of announcement. Alex followed up yesterday with more details on why the deal made sense for Square and A

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China's 3 new naval ships: What are they and why are they important?

Warships on display at a naval port in Hainan Province, China, April 23, 2021. /Screenshot from CMGThe Chinese navy welcomed three new ships on Friday in Hainan at a co

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China unveils top 10 scientific advances of 2020

China on Saturday unveiled its top 10 national scientific advances of 2020.More than 3,200 experts from national academies and laboratories voted for 31 nominations from four scientific fields. Here

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Xi calls for inheriting, developing traditional opera

President Xi Jinping has expressed high expectations for art teachers and students to inherit and develop traditional Chinese opera.Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Ce

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Here’s what’s happening at Disrupt 2020 today

Rise, shine and build your business startup fans. It’s day four of Disrupt 2020, and this is your daily snapshot of just some of the heavy-hitters, events, breakout sessions and all-around opportunity

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China scales up efforts in depression prevention amid COVID-19

China's health authority on Friday unveiled an action plan for depression prevention and treatment, particularly among vulnerable groups such as adolescents, pregnant w

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Welcome to the most important panel on product development in the history of Disrupt

In a few short weeks, some of the best product developers from some of the world’s most important tech companies will take to the virtual stage of our virtual Disrupt this September 14-18 to sha

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An art protected, then perfected

Nyima performs Jiuhe Zhuo dance in Jiuhe village on July 1, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] The history of Jiuhe Zhuo dance, which originated in Chonggyai county, Lhokha city, in the Tibet autonomous regi

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Pic story of Jiuhe Zhuo dance native to SW China's Tibet

LHASA, July 20, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Jiuhe Zhuo dance, or "waist drum dance," originating in Qonggyai County of Shannan, has a storied history of more than 1,300 years. It is a popular dancing form for t

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Xinhua Photos of the Day (July 21)

BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.Nyima and his apprentices perform Jiuhe Zhuo dance in J

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(InTibet) Jiuhe Zhuo dance inheritor in SW China's Tibet

(Xinhua/Zhan Yan)LHASA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Jiuhe Zhuo dance, originated in Qonggyai County of Shannan in southwest China's Tibet, has a history of more than 1,300 years. It has been a favorite danci

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Pic story of Jiuhe Zhuo dance inheritor in SW China's Tibet

LHASA, July 20, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Jiuhe Zhuo dance, originated in Qonggyai County of Shannan, has a history of more than 1,300 years. It has been a favorite dancing for

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Macro just raised $4.3M to make your never-ending Zoom calls more useful

In this pandemic world, in-person meetings are a thing of the past. Most meetings these days are done via video conference, and no company has capitalized on the shift quite like Zoom.Macro, a new Fir

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Daily Crunch: Apple and Google block banned apps in India

Banned Chinese apps are beginning to disappear from India’s app stores, Palantir is raising more funding and Venmo starts testing Business Profiles.Here’s your Daily Crunch for July 2, 202

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Top LA investors discuss the city’s post-COVID-19 prospects

When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise.In the past year, it’s seen one of the most profitable venture-backed exits of any tech ecosystem (with the $4 billion sale of