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AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded 

TechCrunch

While Kutcher’s firm has been around for a long time and has lived through enough hype cycles to not be easily swayed one way or another, the filing made me curious. Especially since crypto, the hype train’s ol’ favorite sector, has sputtered and struggled in recent months? TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20.

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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke

The Verge

To put Musk’s claims in context, remember that Boston Dynamics, a company which makes Atlas, the most advanced bipedal robot in the world, has never described its machines as anything but R&D. Atlas, says Boston Dynamics, is simply a way to push the cutting edge of robotics: it’s not even close to commercial deployment.

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

TechCrunch

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They also include geo hashtags in their captions, in this case, the neighborhood of #Roxbury in Boston: Also, if you are a location-based nonprofit, don’t be bashful about geotagging yourself. It helps build your location page. That said, when “Donate” buttons come to posts in the feed – that will be a gamechanger!

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Connect and collaborate with new founders at TechCrunch Early Stage 2023

TechCrunch

Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve. Top early-stage VCs: They’ll share best practices when it comes to issues like securing funding and improving your pitch deck. It’s prime networking territory.

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Daily Crunch: Microsoft dumps Yammer and makes Viva Engage its preferred enterprise social platform

TechCrunch

Hello, it’s more funding calling : In PhonePe’s quest to raise $1 billion, an investor group that included Tiger Global and Ribbit Capital invested another $100 million into “India’s most valuable fintech startup,” which is valued at $12 billion, Manish writes. million worth of funding so far. billion , up from the $1.3

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A look at how proptech startup Knotel went from a $1.6B valuation to filing for bankruptcy

TechCrunch

Jonathan Pasternak, a partner in the bankruptcy, restructuring and creditor rights group at New York-based Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, believes the company’s Chapter 11 filing was inevitable despite it reaching unicorn status after raising $400 million in Series C funding in August 2019.

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