Startups are made or broken by product-market fit. Immediately before a funding round, founders know they need to show that they are growing rapidly. Throwing a bunch of […]
TC+ Roundup: Is Getir’s most recent acquisition a sign of what’s to come?
Good morning! We’ve got a full plate for you today, so let’s get to it. Fast-delivery startup Getir announced last week that it was buying FreshDirect, an online […]
AI makes you worse at what you’re good at
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. If you’ve been following along with this newsletter, you’ll have noticed that I’ve […]
This week in AI: OpenAI plays for keeps with GPTs
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]
Getir is a sign of what’s to come in the M&A market in 2024
Many people, myself included, predicted a wave of startup acquisitions in 2023 as companies rooted in good ideas but built on not-so-good business models ran out of money. […]
Meta and Amazon settle UK antitrust probes over use of third-party data to benefit marketplaces
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook’s parent Meta and Amazon to limit how they use data gathered from […]
Your startup should solve an impossibly hard problem
Mediocre founders aren’t able to articulate what’s hard about the problem they’re solving Haje Jan Kamps 7 hours I’m spotting a worrying trend among startup founders who seem […]
Japan’s SBI Holdings commits $40M to anchor Novastar Ventures future funds
SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services conglomerate and one of the largest venture capital firms in the East Asian country, has made a $40 million multi-fund commitment to […]
TC+ Roundup: What happened to the Adobe-Figma deal?
Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday! It’s been more than a year since Adobe announced that it intended to buy Figma for $20 billion, yet the two companies […]
Fortnite Hikes V-Bucks Price As Inflation Hits Epic’s Reboot
Everything’s getting more expensive, even inside Fortnite. Epic Games’ free-to-play battle royale is raising the price of V-Bucks today by roughly 12.5 percent. Being the last one standing just got a little more expensive, at least if you want to look stylish and rank up the season battle pass while doing it.
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