Here’s your chance for something different: We’re excited bring back “So You Think You Can Pitch” at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, our annual founder summit taking place in Boston on April 25.
At TC Early Stage, three founders will get to present their pitch deck for 4 minutes in front of an expert panel of judges and secure essential insight before stepping up to bat.
How it worksTechCrunch will be selecting three finalists to present their pitch deck onstage for 4 minutes.
Selected finalists will meet with the TechCrunch team beforehand to prep for their session.
About TechCrunch Early Stage 2024TechCrunch’s founder summit on April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts, empowers early-stage entrepreneurs, from pre-seed to growth stages, on their journey to success.
The payment landscape in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is marked by significant fragmentation, with numerous payment providers and methods in each country, evolving regulations and diverse customer preferences.
This complexity is further compounded by challenges such as payment fraud, low checkout conversion rates, and high transaction failure rates.
Payment orchestration platforms streamline payment processes for merchants through unified payment APIs.
As merchants or companies launch their platforms, they often start by collaborating with one or two payment processing providers.
As their operations grow and expand into multiple regions, they onboard additional payment providers to meet their evolving needs.
Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
Weekend team, we have something both short and sweet for you: A dig into the Reddit IPO filing that came out just after we recorded our final, regular episode of the week.
Since we could not wait until Monday to talk about the numbers, we have an overview here for your delectation.
If you want to read along:The Reddit IPO could be this year’s public-offering starting gun, or it could be a wet blanket on the year’s liquidity cycle.
We’ll see how it prices, and even more how it trades when it does list.
We’re announcing an exciting addition to our speaker lineup for StrictlyVC Los Angeles on February 29.
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With rabbit, he leads a team dedicated to crafting intuitive experiences that redefine the way we interact with technology.
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That’s the driving idea behind Nile, a startup that aims to create this data system with serverless Postgres at its core.
This could be authentication, billing, and so on.”Unsurprisingly, that’s exactly the problem Nile tries to solve.
The idea here is that every SaaS company has a data layer at its core and since we are talking about SaaS companies, they all have to solve for multi-tenancy in some form or another, no matter whether they are in the B2B or B2C space.
Traditionally, the team argued, solving problems around data and database management was always an application problem rather than a database problem.
Nile is turning this on its head by making multi-tenancy a core feature of its Postgres solution and by separating the data layer from the compute layer.
They continue to labor under the dual misapprehension that ideas are sacrosanct and that technical supremacy is the key to startup success.
There is no shortage of exciting business ideas out there; indeed, its multiple founders frequently experience the same lightbulb moments and go on to develop near-identical business propositions.
What makes startups more likely to succeed is the quality of the team, their ability to execute, and their sense of timing — the most inscrutable element of company building.
What makes startups more likely to succeed is the quality of the team, their ability to execute, and their sense of timing.
Like many seasoned investors, I’ve been preaching the virtues of “team, timing, and execution” for years.
As Inngest founders Tony Holdstock-Brown (CEO) and Dan Farrelly (CTO) told me, the team added new flow control features, for example, which now make it easier to manage concurrency down to the user level.
Inngest will handle the queues and database state for these functions and the developers don’t have to do anything special to make that work.
Combining that with the new flow control features, Inngest argues, is unlocking a lot of new capabilities for users.
“The durability and the reliability, which we have, combined with the flow control aspect allows you to build into this reliability layer.
The Inngest team also expanded its language support from only offering a TypeScript SDK to also offering Python and Go SDKs — and users can migrate between them as needed without having to shut down their functions.
The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
The Apple Macintosh was first released on January 24, 1984 — 40 years ago today.
Wishing the Mac a happy birthday, the Folon Foundation shared a little-known anecdote: That Steve Jobs once commissioned Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon to come up with an illustrated character that would “live” in every machine and surprise the owner: Mr. Macintosh, aka Mac Man.
Mac designer Andy Hertzfeld recalled hearing the idea from Steve Jobs in 1982 in these words:“Mr.
Macintosh is a mysterious little man who lives inside each Macintosh.
My personal favorite: This original Mac Mac circuit board with Folon’s Mac Man emblazoned next to its copyright notice.
