#SeoTips Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Elon Musk just convinced Tesla shareholders to approve his $56 billion pay package...
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Tesla makes Musk best-paid CEO of all time and Fisker bites the dust #Ecommerce
Friday, June 14, 2024
Pitch Deck Teardown: Kinnect’s $250K angel deck #Ecommerce
#SeoTips How well did the company do telling its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let's take a look. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje Jan Kamps, Khareem Sudlow ...
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere. #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Well, folks, it looks like Techstars’ drama just got a new plot twist. CEO Maëlle ...
Friday, May 17, 2024
Pitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Flock Safety’s solar-powered cameras could make surveilliance more widespread #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Flock Safety is a multi-billion dollar startup that’s got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the company’s new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and using wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to insta...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera #Ecommerce
#SeoTips NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper takes a different approa...
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Ember’s first Indiegogo campaign drew sideways glances when it launched in 2015. Would anyone actually buy a $129 heated coffee mug? Nearly a decade later, however, it’s clear that the initial pitch was merely the tip of the startup’s heat...
Friday, March 29, 2024
Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck #Ecommerce
#SeoTips It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool gener...
Monday, March 4, 2024
When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The problem here is that the company has given up more than two-thirds of its equity to raise $3.3 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje Jan Kamps, Khareem Sudlow ...
Thursday, February 15, 2024
These founders want a more ethical company structure for startups #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Called Regenerative and Circular Operations, this organizational model aims to be a practical approach to integrating sustainability at the core. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com ...
Monday, November 27, 2023
Your pitch deck needs to be machine-readable #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Keep the machines in mind; they are more pervasive than you might think. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje Jan Kamps, Khareem Sudlow ...
Thursday, November 23, 2023
If I’m being honest, I didn’t have what it takes to be a founder #Ecommerce
#SeoTips If I map myself against the standards of fundraising today, none of those startups would’ve had a gnat’s shadow’s chance of raising money. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje J...
Friday, October 27, 2023
Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck #Ecommerce
#SeoTips This pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let's dive in and see if we can spot what happened and how. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Haje J...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Macrofab’s approach may be key to nearshoring PCB manufacturing in the US #Ecommerce
#SeoTips There’s a growing trend, fed by everything from IP concerns to Suez Canal traffic jams, to bring manufacturing back to North America. This is more than just a commercial idea: The U.S.’s lack of manufacturing capabilities when it comes to ...
Monday, May 1, 2023
How this investor widens its net by refusing warm intros #Ecommerce
#SeoTips I have often been annoyed by warm introductions. I get why investors insist on them, but it has always struck me as lazy and un-inclusive. So I was filled with great delight and curiosity when I was introduced to GoAhead Ventures. The firm...
Monday, April 24, 2023
Aventurine helps early-stage founders find their footing #Ecommerce
#SeoTips “There’s a ton of stuff that really could be impacting the lives of everybody on Earth, that is not making it out of the lab and into practical application,” said David Van Wie, founder and chief investment officer at Aventurine Capital Gr...
Friday, March 24, 2023
Pitch Deck Teardown: Prelaunch.com’s $1.5M seed deck #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Hardware startups have a serious disadvantage over SaaS companies: Once you ship, it’s somewhere in the hard-to-impossible range to make changes to the product. That means you’d best get it right. But knowing what to ship can be challengin...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think #Ecommerce
#SeoTips There’s a persistent theory in hardware that manufacturing overseas is the cheaper/better/more efficient option. You manufacture there, assemble somewhere else, and finally approve and get to market in the United States. But it turns out t...
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Go plug yourself, Apple — Can we please just have USB-C on the iPhone already? #Ecommerce
#SeoTips As part of the Hardware team here at TechCrunch, I love me a good Apple event, and this one was, er, eventful. I’m an active human who loves scuba diving, so the Apple Watch Ultra seems like an underwater match made in heaven. The new iPho...
With iPhone 14 Pro, your screen can always be on #Ecommerce
#SeoTips You know what sucks? Having to turn your phone’s screen on just to check whether you have notifications or to check the time. With the new Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iOS 16, Apple introduces its ‘always on’ display. By dropping the refresh ra...