The ongoing fintech revolution continues to level the playing field where legacy companies have historically dominated startups.To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers cred
The digital transformation currently sweeping society has likely reached your favorite local restaurant.Since 2013, Boston-based Toast has offered bars and eateries a software platform that lets them
Forget what you’ve heard: There are many shortcuts to success.Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton
It was once common practice for doctors to visit sick patients in their homes: In 1930, 40% of all consultations were house calls. By 1980, that figure was less than 1%.Today, urgent care centers occu
If you’re a founder who finds yourself in a meeting with a VC, try to remember two things:You’re the smartest person in the room.Investors are looking for a reason to say “yes.”
In 2010, Google’s autonomous vehicle project placed self-driving cars on Bay Area streets and freeways, but practical applications were thought to be at least a decade away.The futurists were ri
Although older adults are one of the fastest-growing demographics, they’re quite underserved when it comes to consumer tech.The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion b
Before you hire a marketing consultant who doesn’t understand your products or commit to a CMO who has several years of experience — but none in your sector — consider influencer marketing.If th
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
Square paid around a quarter of its present-day value for Afterpay, Alex Wilhelm notes in The Exchange. That seems like a lot. But was it too much?“Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a
This year, livestream viewers in China are projected to spend more than $60 billion on digital shopping experiences that let them interact with influencers in real time.Promoting everything from cosme
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
Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach
On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live, Retail Zipline founder Melissa Wong and Emergence Capital investor Lotti Siniscalco joined Managing Editor Jordan Crook to walk attendees through Zipline̵
The numbers don’t lie.According to DocSend, the average pitch deck is reviewed for just three minutes. And if you think a senior VC is studying the presentation your team crafted for months as i
Yesterday, China ordered ride-hailing company Didi to stop signing up new customers after regulators announced a cybersecurity review of the company’s operations.As of this writing, Didi’s
Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture.There’s a kernel of truth in every j