Natasha Mascarenhas
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Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of my own: I’m leaving TechCrunch! This is my last Startups Weekly issue, a newsletter that...
“The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves — text messages to be exact — deserve attention, too.
Traina is the CEO and co-founder of HiNOTE, an app that helps people create messages, set over personalized backdrops of anything from...
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It’s been a big week for tech acronyms. I woke up on Monday to news that First Republic Bank has been closed...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.
Tech’s guiding principles these days aren’t too difficult to find: discipline, focus and cash conservation. But I’ve always found those same focuses...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.
Y Combinator’s new era, with smaller batches, a refocus only on early-stage investing and a new chief executive, is in full swing....
Over 20,000 applications flew into Y Combinator, which ended up plucking out 282 startups for its latest batch. And now we’re getting our first look at them through Demo Day.
The first day’s demos included a healthy dose of artificial intelligence and open source, which is different from years...
Comics software, meat-based plants and Tesla spun-out heat pumps, anyone?
Here’s a crazy statistic: More than half of the companies in Y Combinator’s latest cohort were accepted to the accelerator with only an idea, no minimum viable product or revenue strategy needed.
Fast forward to today, where we’ll see how...
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Reporter’s note: Before we get into this, thank you to the Startups Weekly readers who pointed out that last...
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It’s hard to be proactive after the tide has already shifted. However, that’s what we’re seeing happen in the...
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Maybe it’s the fact that “Succession” is back next week, or maybe it’s the fact that Silicon Valley just...