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I've spent a good bit of time talking about inventory on these pages. I'm always happy to spend a couple of paragraphs discussing far and away my least favorite part of working retail. The job is, in essence, data collection. As such, it's a prime candidate for automation — and th

I had a really interesting conversation with a founder this morning who said that around 70% of their sales were to consumers and that the remaining was to businesses. In the context of a pitch, they asked, how should they tell the story of their B2B sales? The simple answer is this: You don't.

Pitching investors is a big part of running your startup, but no matter the outcome of the meeting, the opportunity does not end there. You should not only be logging your hard-earned contacts into a CRM, but also keeping these relationships warm through investor updates. But what exactly is an inv

New technologies keep innovation going — however, when it comes to venture capital support for some of these earliest ideas, someone always has to be first. Dustin Rosen, managing partner at Wonder Ventures, is happy to be that “someone.” A fixture in the pre-seed investment scene in Los

In 2023, the global frenzy around artificial intelligence, fueled by the advent of ChatGPT, swept across the world. In China, where OpenAI’s chatbot is unavailable, startups and tech incumbents scrambled to develop their own AI models and applications, drawing upon the foundational pieces of

Naboo, a French company that was created just a couple of years ago, is trying to create a modern online experience for company seminar planning. The startup recently raised an $8 million funding round (€7.5 million) and already processes more than $1.5 million in transaction volume per month. On

The long-awaited launch of bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States this year helped engender a wave of optimism that the value of the well-known cryptocurrency would quickly appreciate. The logic was simple: With an easy, low-cost avenue now available for regular investors to purchase bitcoin, the s

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, two longtime VCs whose paths first crossed as children in Frankfurt, Germany, and who were brought in to reboot the storied venture firm Kleiner Perkins roughly six years ago. They've seemingly ac

Over the last 25 years, I've been a tech investor, founder, organizer, strategist and academic. I'm proud to be part of a growing group of diverse leaders shaping an innovation system that represents and benefits us all. But in recent months, I've become increasingly troubled by the abs

A stealth startup led by ex-Blue Origin leaders, focused on harvesting resources from the moon, has quietly closed a sizable new tranche of funding, according to regulatory documents. Interlune, a startup that's been around for at least three years but has made almost zero public announcements

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can't miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Garry Tan heads up Y Combinator, the most powerful startup program in the world. At the tail end of last week, he tweeted — I mean, X-ed

My career is rooted in the tech industry, but the lessons learned there are universally applicable across all sectors. Tech has always been synonymous with a frantic pace of change; the industry conjures up images of engineers working at breakneck speed to deploy new version after new version, with

The global pandemic put a spotlight on people's yearning for wellness and well-being. Niremia Collective, a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm, is tapping into that — and the gender disparity in VC — with its first fund of $22.5 million in capital commitments. Niremia Collective is

Following months of behind-the-scenes conflict, Byju’s and some of its biggest investors are now publicly airing their complaints about one another. Byju’s, once India’s most valuable startup, said Friday its investors do not have the voting right to seek leadership changes, a day