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Financial flash mobs meet fundraising memes

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The whole movement, from its meme start to its poetic, and billionaire Ken Griffin-themed, end, was just too interesting for Equity to not dedicate an entire episode to.

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The ‘deal with it’ glasses are being sold as an NFT

The Verge

Another iconic meme is going up for auction as an NFT : the text and sunglasses used to popularize “deal with it” GIFs. The meme was listed by Ryder Ripps, the designer / creative director / “ art prankster ” who recently made headlines for falsely claiming to be behind the dystopian redesign of the CIA’s website.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” All that said, as social media managers, we need to read in order have moments when we are completely immersed in a story using our brains to process words, sentences, story structure, and plot lines – not just soundbites, headlines, tweets, and pins.

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Robinhood stops the games

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the team — Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace — recorded a bonus Equity Shot to help our listeners make sense out of the GameStop trading bonanza happening all over the internet.

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Equity Monday: Rich tech folks chat rich tech things on rich tech app funded by rich tech investors

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed. That’s a pretty bad look.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

It works in areas with slow internet. So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So it’s a great tool for areas that have low internet connection. . And here’s some headlines of some news I found.

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OMG, BuzzFeed is worth 1.5 billion?? WIN

The Verge

At first, BuzzFeed focused mostly on quizzes and memes, but in December 2011, Peretti hired Ben Smith from Politico to build out a news division. From the beginning, BuzzFeed did headline A/B testing — and the headline that got more shares was the one that won. People shared news, too, after all — and sharing was the point.

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