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Score weeklong Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings on passes to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

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Will this Congress ever pass an omnibus deal? We don’t recommend holding your breath. Instead, consider the uncontentious Black Friday meets Cyber Monday deal we’re offering on passes to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 — our daylong startup founder conference — on April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts. We’re celebrating the season of sales by rolling Black Friday and Cyber Monday savings into a weeklong omnibus event! Starting today — and running through Tuesday, November 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PST) — all TechCrunch Early Stage founder and investor passes are just $99 each! Reap cyber savings on passes to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 We just love a great deal. Take a gander at the pass price differentials. Take early action and ride this omnibus to the bank. Buy your pass before Tuesday, November 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PST) and kickstart your early startup into gear for a mere $99 investment. What does TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 offer? This bootcamp experience features a mix of panel discussions, workshops and small-group roundtable discussions that provide plenty of time to …

Time for moderation? | TechCrunch

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Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Does freight logistics need a one-stop shop? That’s Flexport’s take, and maybe that’s one of the reasons why Convoy didn’t work out; however, it might be too early for this approach in Latin America. On a different note, investors still seem willing to support startups that help people drink less alcohol, as long as there’s AI involved. By the way, this newsletter will be taking a break next week, but I’ll be back December 2.— Anna Lessons to learn? Entrepreneurs often write postmortems after shutting down or selling their companies, but it is less common for these lessons to be drawn by their acquirers as well. Yet, that’s what happened to Convoy, a failed digital freight unicorn whose tech backbone — including a few team members — is being acquired by Flexport. In a memo quoted by FreightWaves, Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen made it …

Grab a group bundle and save on passes to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

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TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 returns to Boston, Massachusetts, on April 25! Ready to turn your startup dream into a reality? Want to be prepared when you join the startup world after graduation? Interested in a first look at up-and-coming startups? The TechCrunch Early Stage conference — designed for new and aspiring early-stage founders and the investors who want to meet them — is the only early-stage startup conference featuring expert-led, hands-on sessions that provide actionable tips and strategies you can use right now. Buy a bundle to save a bundle at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 True fact and real savings: Learning with friends and colleagues is more fun. Bring your group and save 20% when you buy bundles of four or more passes — no code needed. Group bundles available for founders, investors and students. What to expect at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 You’ll receive the essential knowledge that every early-stage founder needs to build a solid foundation — from people who have already done the hard work in the trenches. You’ll also have ample …

OpenAI hosts a dev day, TechCrunch reviews the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and Bumble gets a new CEO

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Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference, where the Microsoft-backed AI startup announced a host of new products. But that was far from the only item of note. In this edition of WiR, we spotlight Brian’s review of the 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Air and M3 iMac 24-inch; Mozilla betting on a decentralized social networking future; Ford shuttering a company that was building an app for plumbers, electricians and other trades; and Tim Cook’s thoughts on generative AI. Also on the agenda is WeWork officially filing for bankruptcy, Bumble getting a new CEO, and the spectacular failure of EV startup Arrival. It’s a lot to get through, as always — so we won’t delay. But first, a reminder to sign up here to receive WiR in your inbox every Saturday if you haven’t already done so. Most read OpenAI throws a dev day: OpenAI hosted its first-ever developer conference on Monday, and the company had …

So long, Twitter Circles | TechCrunch

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If tic-tac-toe has taught us anything, it’s that Xs and circles cannot peacefully coexist. The app formerly known as Twitter, X, has shut down the Circles feature, which allowed users to post to a small, exclusive audience. Like an Instagram Close Friends story, Circles — née Twitter Circles — offered a more intimate social media experience. In other words, you could overshare about your life to an audience of friends only, rather than the whole internet. And isn’t one of the greatest joys of the internet to emotionally shitpost without worrying about the consequences? But, as the whims of the Circle reminded us, nothing we say on the internet is ever actually free from consequence. The feature worked almost all of the time. Almost. And anything less than 100% efficacy is not ideal for a feature that people used to share private thoughts with trusted friends. As early as February, some users reported that their Circle tweets were reaching a wider audience than they were supposed to. These glitches showed up again in April, and …

Max Q: Psyche(d) | TechCrunch

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Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: SpaceX launches NASA asteroid mission News from Relativity Space and more Godspeed, Psyche. The large NASA spacecraft is officially en route to a metal-rich asteroid (also named Psyche) after taking off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket last week. The mission marked the first time a NASA science mission has used SpaceX’s larger rocket for a launch. Psyche (the spacecraft) will now embark on a six-year, 2.2 billion-mile journey to Psyche (the asteroid), which sits in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Before the spacecraft reaches its target, it will conduct a technology demonstration of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment. If successful, it would be the first time optical communications are demonstrated beyond the Earth-moon system. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, Friday, October 13, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image Credits: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani More news from TC and beyond Astra Space is reportedly weighing up selling a 51% …

Founders, are events useful? | TechCrunch

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Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, tweeted that if he could go back in time and do one thing differently when he was building Reddit, he would have spent significantly less time attending events. Personally I have a different experience — I always regret getting on a plane (or in an Uber, for that matter) to go to an event. However, as I’m traveling back, I’ve never regretted it: There’s always something magical that comes out of going to an event, in my experience. Our TC+ team is not interested in anecdotes, however: neither mine nor Alexis’. So, like the data-driven journalists they are, they surveyed more than 50 founders, trying to figure out whether attending events still makes sense in 2023. Spoiler alert: There isn’t a real consensus, but there are some really good pros and cons. The article is well worth a read, to figure out in which circumstances you can expect a decent …

VidCon is still kickin’ | TechCrunch

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VidCon is a weird event. Over the last 13 years, the event has transitioned from just a fan convention to an industry-forward gathering where you’ll mingle with venture capitalists and Hatsune Miku cosplayers alike. Now, after pulling off its first ever east coast event, VidCon will return to Anaheim, California on June 26-29, 2024. VidCon is the premiere event for online creators, founded by two legendary creators themselves, John and Hank Green. The brothers sold VidCon to Paramount in 2018, but the conference’s events were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic. Still, attendance is on the rise. The flagship event in Anaheim drew 55,000 attendees this year, up 10 percent from the previous year. When VidCon announced its first attempt at an east coast gathering in Baltimore, reception was mixed — it’s hard to imagine such a monstrously large event taking place in a satellite location, let alone one that isn’t known for its entertainment industries. As expected, VidCon Baltimore turned out to be significantly smaller than the Anaheim event. While …

TechCrunch+ Roundup: AI investor survey, calculating TAM, inside the FTX trial

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Follow-on financing is harder to raise these days, which means founders must watch their spending like hawks while keeping the peace with their investors like sweet, cooing doves. Which proofs are investors looking for before they’ll commit to additional funding, what’s an acceptable burn rate, and how much runway do you need before raising more? At TechCrunch Disrupt, I spoke to three early-stage VCs to get their unfiltered advice for founders who are trying to keep the lights on long enough to reach product-market fit: Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Anamitra Banerji, managing partner and founder, Afore Capital Frédérique Dame, general partner, Google Ventures Rick Yang, partner and head of technology, NEA TL;DR — If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already. Thanks very much for reading TC+, and be well. Walter ThompsonEditorial Manager, TechCrunch+@yourprotagonist 10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype …

TechCrunch+ Roundup: SBF’s trial opens, Series A tips, how to roll out AI features

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Follow-on financing has become harder to raise, which leaves startups striving for a Series A in a real bind. Pre-downturn, startups with strong growth could be more confident about finding additional funds. Today’s investors are looking for product-market fit and hard numbers that trend toward profitability. If you’re fundraising and someone wants to advise you on “storytelling,” you have my permission to skip that meeting and work on your data room instead. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Tim De Chant interviewed three VCs to get their advice for founders who want to reach the next level: Maren Bannon, co-founder and managing partner, January Ventures James Currier, general partner, NFX Loren Straub, general partner, Bowery Capital Thanks for reading; have a great week! Walter ThompsonEditorial Manager, TechCrunch+@yourprotagonist Adapting to a world with higher interest rates — a guide for startups Image Credits: Mike Kemp (opens in a new window) / Getty Images I once found myself driving a …