How to claim a student discount for Extra Crunch
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Digital transformation depends on diversity
Across industries, businesses are now tech and data companies. The sooner they grasp and live that, the quicker they will meet their customer needs and expectations, create more business value and grow. It is increasingly important to reimagine business and use digital technologies to create new bu
The Station: An ADAS business bidding war, the gig worker fight heats up and Biden’s executive order
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Building vulnerability into your workflow
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I spoke to my editor this week about the usual: upcoming stories, the future of the podcast and the existential dread of imposter syndrome amid a year-and-a-half of extreme change. The last bit
China roundup: Games are opium, algorithms need scrutiny
"">Hello and welcome back to technewss's China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.
The question for the tech news cycle in China these days has become: Who is Beijing’s next target? Regulatory clampd
Cities can have flying cars if they start working on infrastructure today
Nearly everyone knows the pain of sitting in traffic watching valuable minutes tick by. Just as bad is the maddening search for a parking spot, or even just a safe place to hop out of the backseat of an Uber on a dense, buzzing city street.
For emergency medical providers, these headaches can liter
Gillmor Gang: Time Delay
Writing our way out of the place we’re in is tricky. The words come easily enough, each measured for its emotional weight in the stream of issues we face. It’s possible this paragraph will disappear as I find my ground. Mandates, Cuomo, Olympic mental gymnastics, where we were two week
Daily Crunch: SpaceX’s stacked Starship and Super Heavy booster taller than Great Pyramid of Giza
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Growth roundup: Recruiting a team, writing successful newsletters, 14 questions for paid search ads
“The growth industry is definitely maturing. Less hacks, more teams, more focus on velocity,” Ward van Gasteren, founder of Grow with Ward told us in an interview this week. “Everybody within the field is getting to know the best practices very quickly and implementing them even quicker. So t
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 an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to jo
Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill
Biden's major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill.
The administration intends to pay for $28 billion of its planned infrastructure spending by tightenin
Indiegogo's CEO on how crowdfunding navigated the pandemic
Andy Yang joined Indiegogo at a turbulent time. As the crowdfunding platform's then-CEO stepped aside for personal reasons, the service also reportedly grappled with layoffs. Coming on board after a stretch with Reddit, the new CEO would have less than a year at the helm before COVID-19 turned
Kickstarter’s CEO on the future of crowdfunding
Kickstarter announced on Wednesday that backers have pledged $6 billion to more than 200,000 projects over the course of the crowdfunding site's history. The milestone comes a little over a year after the platform hit the $5 billion mark.
A matter of weeks before the company hit that last massi
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that beam the sun’s energy to the surface of the Earth. Even the price tag seems gleaned from pop fi