Haje Jan Kamps
What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock?
There is a tweet floating around saying that if you had bought Apple shares instead of an iPhone every time they came out, you’d have hundreds...
Your traction slide needs to describe the risk you’ve designed out of the business
When I work with early-stage startups on how they can tell their story, the traction slide is often a sticking point. How do you show traction when you haven’t brought a product to market yet,...
In March, DPReview announced that parent company Amazon was shutting it down, and the photography world entered a dual state of shock and disbelief.
For 25 years, DPReview had served as a consistently reliable and authoritative voice on photography gear. But photography enthusiasts didn’t just go to DPReview to...
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It seems like the fizzle has gone out of the VR conversation altogether, as every manufacturer and conversation is refocusing its attention on AR. That wasn’t particularly new, but Apple’s flagship headset is a...
Plastic in ocean bad. Plastic not in ocean good. That’s, in a nutshell, the pitch for CleanHub. The company has designed a whole business model and a track-and-trace model around that, so brands can rest assured that their plastics don’t end up in the oceans. Who these brands...
AR ate it and has an equally murky future
It’s hard to believe that it was only 11 years ago that VR captured the zeitgeist. In April 2012, Oculus hit Kickstarter with the Oculus Rift developer kit, and the tech world whipped itself into a “this is the future”...
A few times per day, I get a message that asks something along the lines of: “How much do you charge for a guest article on TechCrunch?” People are trying to get inbound links from TechCrunch for SEO reasons. The theory is: A link from TechCrunch gives your...
In a world where people working from home still need access to networks and a ton of other use cases, Netmaker lets users create and manage VPN connections without the learning curve, as Romain wrote last year when the company announced its seed round.
Netmaker submitted its pitch deck...
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The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer. You wanna know how close? The climate deadline...
Venture capital, as an asset class, is an industry of short-term wins. Most funds have a 10-year cycle: two years of initial investments; then two to three years of company building and follow-on investments; after that, five or six years of thumb-twiddling and waiting for the ship to...
