TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expected. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Electric vehicle startup Rivian is now a publicly traded company after executing one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. Rivian, which has a steady CEO and founder and relatively modest goals for the next few years, could be a good test of all that hype.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Do you recall the pre-direct-listing hype Coinbase enjoyed? There have been other notable declines in value among some recently public, more technologically differentiated companies. To close out the week, a short meditation on value, or, more precisely, how assets are valued in today’s markets. Until it suddenly reversed gear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

cc "BY" license Photo by Cosmic Spanner What we're witnessing with the hype and anti-hype or schmype swirling around Web2.0 "Technology Trigger" The first phase of a Hype Cycle is the "technology trigger" or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. Fireside’s job posting claims “social media has failed us” by creating “antagonistic echo chambers with mediums for communication that only further an outrage culture and business models that incentivize spreading disinformation.” It’ll be a highly curated experience.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s the AI system once deemed too dangerous to release to the public by its creators. Now, Microsoft is making an upgraded version of the program, OpenAI’s autocomplete software GPT-3, available to business customers as part of its suite of Azure cloud tools. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The deal comes weeks after the Palo Alto-based company was said to have filed confidentially to go public in the second quarter of next year at a $12 billion valuation. The company also acquired a number of travel management businesses, adding to its now more than 2,500 employees. The upcoming TripActions IPO has us hype.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Should we believe the hype? If you have sensitive or proprietary business content, it’s always best to exercise caution and avoid sharing it in a public or unsecure environment.” “I’d Association marketers always want to feature members in their publications, but finding the right photo can be a frustrating search.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mara snagging $6 million for a business that had us all hype , and the Public-Otis tie-up from earlier in the week was also on the docket. to chat through the week’s news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

" or what we call "hype" - how does a small nonprofit avoid getting seduced by the hype? tools and business applications for it. apps - are they ready for business uses? As well as the publicity - it led to the creation of the online petition. and volcom sector adoption. Understand how web 2.0

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Pine Labs is looking to go public in the United States , China venture capital data is looking pretty strong , Assent Compliance raised a huge round and Arive is apparently a thing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We’ve compiled notes from Accel ’s Sameer Gandhi about views concerning Public as one of its backers and Index ’s Jan Hammer about Robinhood and its market, as well as comments from Public.com and M1 Finance about what they see regarding consumer trading interest in the future. We’ll also put similar questions to their backers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

I was curious about the company’s business plan. Note: Adyen’s results are required reading if you care about Stripe’s valuation and future public offering.). Which enjoyed a Congressional hearing this week that was mostly dull apart from some notes on the fintech giant’s business model. And from that it reported EBITDA of €236.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2021

Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha. Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable. Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable. New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals. Saying ‘yes, please’ to no code.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

But the fact that listed cannabis companies — many of which went public with nascent revenues more reminiscent of startup metrics than mature-company results — have seen their market caps crash is likely no coincidence. I have nothing against innovation, even when it comes to fundraising. ”

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

When a pop-cultural icon like Ozzy Osbourne announces an NFT collection, you can count on the project getting publicity. The launch of the “CryptoBatz” collection, a series of 9,666 digital bats, received coverage in outlets like Billboard , Rolling Stone , NME , Hypebeast , and Business Insider , among others. ETH ($5,046).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A French hosting company is going public , an Indian used-car marketplace raised a boatload of cash , and Amazon is investigating a bribe. It’s going to be a very busy few days. Pour some extra coffee, and get hype. And we are expecting IPOs from both Freshworks and Toast this week. Equity drops every Monday at 7:00 a.m.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

“The models are not failing,” says Maria De-Arteaga, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. The problem is pervasive: In one 2024 study , chatbots got basic academic citations wrong between 30% and 90% of the time, mangling paper titles, author names, and publication dates.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm studied information recently released by mobile gaming studio Jam City as it prepares to go public in a $1.2 In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This is not the time for doing business as usual. Avni and Mark Settle explore the myriad impacts of running a business partially on shadow IT. Startups that bridge the public and private sectors can build sustainable businesses with strong returns, says Tiffany Chu, SVP of mobility firm Via and former CEO of Remix.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Five Tips for Busy Fundraisers Every day brings some sort of new data point or insight that you’re expected to act upon. The post Decoding Nonprofit Research: Ensuring Authenticity Over Marketing Hype appeared first on Neon One.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And when available treatment options showed their limits , both the general public and regulators became more willing to look into alternatives – including psychedelics. While there has been a lot of focus on mental health and the promise of psychedelics to be truly disruptive, not all the hype is warranted or justified.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

Customers on the plan use 70 percent more data than a typical LTE customer, and Sievert says they’re using their 5G data connection in situations when they might otherwise have looked for a public Wi-Fi network to join. That free 5G phone is just the start of what the carrier hopes will be a long and, ultimately, lucrative relationship.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

As everyone not deemed an essential worker was told to stay home, businesses were faced with a problem: how to keep the lights on. No one can accuse the category of being a hype bubble. It hasn’t entered the hype cycle the way things like crypto and generative AI have. Public sector support will be very important.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Faraday’s continued regulatory woes are par for the course with EV companies that went public via SPAC mergers over the last two years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs (financial and social), the business models — may not be the most front of mind right now. Today a startup called Fetch.ai ” An earlier pilot Fetch.ai

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

“Our radar-based maps are 10 megabytes to cover a kilometer rather than hundreds of megabytes… Our business plan is to build a horizontal software platform like Microsoft’s.” They include FiveAI, another hyped autonomous startup out of the U.K. “Where we are good is in edge compute,” he said.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

So far it’s focused on bringing phone-based AR to consumers, but it’s hyped more futuristic ideas — like “Live Maps” for smart glasses — during past Connects. Consumer AR competition has thinned in recent months, with Magic Leap shifting to business and North discontinuing its smart glasses after a Google acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” Artificial Intelligence presents a lot of benefits for the social good sector. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Founders tend to think responsible AI practices are challenging to implement and may slow the progress of their business. They just call it “good business.”. It turns out, simple practices that make business sense and result in better products will go a long way toward reducing the risk of unforeseen societal harms.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For the company’s preceding investors, to see the company appear ready to at least match its preceding private valuation is a win as well, given how much damage Airbnb’s business sustained early in the pandemic. Expectations, hopes and hype. And if so, is Airbnb expensive or not?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We are beyond hyped about it. So, here’s what made the cut: Coinbase filed to go public. Our take is that the capital must mean that Reddit is a better business than we anticipated. Coming on the back of such a wild news week, we had to cut and cut from the notes doc to get the show to size. And then it happens again.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Mass transit and shared mobility provider Swvl went public today in a landmark moment for Egyptian and Middle Eastern tech ecosystems. It’s also a test for the company going public despite a market that’s been unfriendly toward combinations with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, of late. . SPAC merger. Swvl raised $121.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

First and foremost, we needed it to protect the company against the income loss we anticipated from customers who were having an especially tough time — namely, those who relied on in-person business as a major revenue source. It’s no different in business. Second, we needed cash in order to scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

based electric vehicle company that went public last year, has set itself a lofty goal. Responsible for the company’s business and product strategy and international expansion, Rugoobur oversaw Arrival’s public listing in March 2021 — the U.K.’s Arrival, a U.K.-based A lofty goal requires a bold plan.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

We get it — you’re a busy person. A publisher-focused alt to Twitter: Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media, has opened its doors to the public. The hype started to reach a crescendo this week as the U.S. We all are.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2021

The Pico team walked me through what’s changed at their business by describing the historical progress of creative digital tooling. Somewhat lost in our circles amid the hype regarding Instacart’s epic COVID period is the fact that most folks still go to stores to buy their fruit and veg, as our friends in the UK might say.

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