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

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. First off, hello to all the new Startups Weekly subscribers who joined us after last week’s newsletter. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s complicated, and I may be entirely wrong.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. First impressions are important on social media.

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Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence

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Thankfully, it fell during the easiest, slowest news cycle we’ve had since the beginning of the grocery delivery wars and WeWork. What’s in a name and more from the world of AI, including where we’re seeing companies race to build the new tech into their products. Just kidding.

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Chasing hype is human nature: The tyranny of startup trends

TechCrunch

I think it’s important that we explicitly discuss something that every VC instinctively knows: The hype around a given business or category has become a form of bias for investors and founders when vetting ideas to pursue. At any point in time, you can find FOMO-flavored bad business decisions based on false market signals somewhere in tech.

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The upcoming TripActions IPO has us hype

TechCrunch

News from Insider indicates that TripActions, a unicorn in the corporate travel and expense category, has filed confidential paperwork to go public. Nothing like a little new data to fill in the gaps in our understanding of today’s market. Hell yeah, we’re excited.

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Is the Great 2020 Tech Rally slowing?

TechCrunch

Yesterday’s earnings deluge made plain that tech shares are not rocketing higher as 2020 comes to a close. But in most other reports there were signs of weakness or underperformance compared to expectations that could undermine the relentlessly bullish attitude tech shares have enjoyed for several months. Good news, bad news.

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Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle

TechCrunch

Alternatively, the company is “hyping” itself ahead of a sale, as is often the case with “hot” startups. Tech news site The Information first reported details on the Clubhouse funding on Friday. Twitter reportedly broke off talks to acquire the startup at a $4 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg.

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