Anna Heim

'No amount of salespeople or engineers can save you in the long run if your customers don’t love your product' When founders are laying off staff and cutting costs to face the downturn, it may seem like odd timing to tell startups to take their product as seriously as...

There are reasons to be optimistic about the region, so why are investors slowing down? Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 7 hours This column is fascinated by Latin America, a region of the world rich in history, culture and, recently, a massive boom in technology company formation and financing. The period of rapidly...

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Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. In recent weeks, several companies tweaked the free tiers of their products, from Slack and Otter.ai to Google...

Blank-check companies may be little more than a quick way to de-horn unicorns Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 17 hours Yesterday, we asked how low SPAC-led public debuts could go, and the answer was very close to zero. Some now-public companies that rode blank-check companies to the public markets have seen 90% or...

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Reading recently about Germany’s €30 billion plan for its startups, I was intrigued. Did the country start to...

How healthy is the market for technology products today? The question is too broad. Large markets can have varying internal results that contrast with top-line numbers. An example of this from recent history is disparate results in venture capital activity we’ve noted around the world. While the aggregate venture...

A downturn could 'accelerate the pace of financial inclusion in the region,' says CTV partner Ben Savage Looking at Latin America’s socioeconomic conditions these days, you can find plenty of reasons to be pessimistic, or at least daunted by how much is left to improve. Sure, problems are also...

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When I visited London recently, I found it hard to spend even one pound in cash: Cashless transactions...

Apparently not, if venture capital activity on the continent is any indication Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 14 hours Did no one tell European venture capitalists and startup founders that we’re supposed to be on the cusp of a global recession? With startups and VCs all heralding the doom of investment activity across the world, you’d...