VC Lab introduces free fund formation documents to make startup investing cheaper and easier
There may be plenty of funding for some startups these days. But plenty of companies will tell you otherwise. VC Lab, an accelerator for venture capital firms, wants to create investors who will back the rest of the world.
A basic hurdle to this goal is the standard paperwork you need to set up a n
Daily Crunch: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 15, 2021! Happy Friday to you and yours; I am proud of us all for making it through a week that was more than hectic
How our startup boosted productivity with ‘get s*** done’ day
During the pandemic, we realized that we were swamped with work and overloaded with information. So we came up with an idea to fix that.
At Travelpayouts, we plan a strategy for a year, then each team plans iterations for every quarter, and within a quarter, we plan for two weeks ahead. By doing it
Netflix fired the employee who organized a walkout in solidarity with trans workers
Netflix fired an employee who led the company’s trans employee resource group and planned a walkout on October 20, a current and former Netflix employee with knowledge of the situation confirmed to technewss. The termination was first reported by The Verge.
Netflix workers planned the walkou
The hyperactive open banking market of Latin America: How the region is being APIfied
We are only in the first chapter of Latin America's long journey to tech growth. But with the region's thirst for innovation, the market is expected to expand nearly tenfold over the next decade, with open banking through the use of APIs leading the way and acting as digital transformation
Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)
We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear, which is held annually each fall and features (blessedly) just a dozen or so very nascent startups.
Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive tra
Bringing it in-house: What to look for when hiring a general counsel
A recent Corporate Counsel article highlighted a growing trend: More senior legal leaders are migrating to startups to take on general counsel roles. For some, it's an attempt to find a better work-life balance (whoops!), while others are eager to build and manage their own team or see it as an
Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user
A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an ad exclusively to a single individual if you know enough about the interests Facebook’s platform a
A road map for climate investors
Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good.
Wildfires in California have consumed entire towns; thousands of miles away, New Yorkers inhale the ashes. Across Europe and Japan, flash floods wreak widespread devastation. We all see the videos on YouTube and CNN.
Pandora is partnering with SoundCloud to launch a new station
SiriusXM-owned Pandora is partnering with SoundCloud to launch “The Lookout by SoundCloud,” a new station available on Pandora that aims to showcase music from the “hip hop superstars of tomorrow.” Today's announcement comes as Pandora's parent company, SiriusXM, recently pa
Meet the startups changing mobility for emerging middle classes
In emerging economies, where spending billions to build public transit infrastructure can be out of reach, startups are using technology to meet the mobility needs of a rising urban middle class.
Swvl, Treepz, Jatri, SafeBoda, Urbvan, Chalo and Buser are just a few of the startups that have popped
Mike Shebanek and Matt King share W3C accessibility project at Sight Tech Global 2021
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Millions of people who are blind or visually impaired use a technology known as a screen reader to access the Web. However, few websites are coded to work properly with screen readers. Global web standards that specify how to support screen reader users as well as other
You can preorder the Xbox Series X Mini Fridge on October 19th
As promised, Microsoft will start shipping its Xbox Series X Mini Fridge in time for the holidays. The company said the fridge costs $100 and pre-orders start on October 19th. It will ship in December.
The mini fridge has its roots in an image Xbox tweeted to show the scale of the Xbox Series X ver
F12 isn’t hacking: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data
Missouri governor Mike Parson is facing a monumental backlash after threatening to prosecute a journalist for responsibly reporting a serious security lapse in the state's website.
Earlier this week, St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Josh Renaud reported that the website for the state's D