Startup News

Reopening California theme parks: What’s the rush?0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 17, 2020
A Disney employee runs a line to get in to the virtual queue for World of Disney on the reopening day of the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, CA, on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) Shirley Wong, left, and her husband, Gary Lam, head toward the exit after a…
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Benchmark’s Peter Fenton: ’10 to 20 years of innovation just got pulled forward’0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 17, 2020
Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, venture capitalist Peter Fenton joined us to talk about a variety of issues. Among them, we discussed how he’s putting his stamp on Benchmark now that, 15 years after joining the storied firm, he’s its most senior member. Fenton said that he’s mostly focused on ensuring that the firm doesn’t…
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How One Startup Went From Almost Shutting Down to Raising More Than $1 Million 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 17, 2020
RAMP DEFI CEO Lawrence Lim reveals how his company kept themselves afloat.
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Google claims net zero carbon footprint over its entire lifetime, aims to only use carbon-free energy by 2030 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 17, 2020
Google was at the leading edge of large technology companies seeking to go completely carbon neutral, having declared that status in 2007, and subsequently matching all of its global electricity consumption with renewable energy. Now the company says that it is breaking new ground by becoming the first major company to effectively eliminate its entire…
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Snowflake IPO: Stock price more than doubles on first day of trading 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 16, 2020
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business (CNN) — There was a blizzard on Wall Street Wednesday. Shares of Snowflake, the San Mateo-based cloud data warehousing firm, saw their price more than double on their first day of trading in the biggest software IPO ever. Snowflake priced its initial public offering Tuesday night at $120…
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The art of pivoting with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica Matthews 0
- Startup News, Uncategorized
- September 16, 2020
Building and growing a startup is hard, but pivoting said startup into something new and then achieving that same growth is even harder. But it’s not impossible. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder and CEO of PromisePay, and Jessica Matthews, founder and CEO of Uncharted Power, both have experiences doing this. At TechCrunch Disrupt, they shed some light…
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