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Friday, cha-cha-cha! Friday! Cha-cha-cha! To celebrate the arrival of the first weekend in February, he’s doing a little fun two-man conga line around a virtual Daily Crunch editorial Zoom meeting. Yes, it looks silly. No, even if we took every ounce we had and poured it into something we didn’t care too much about, we couldn’t care less.
A few quick questions for startups: If you’re attending MWC, please vote in TechCrunch Early Stage fireside chats, breakout sessions, and roundtable discussions!
And for today’s Black History Month pick, I recommend Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. An extraordinary read that rekindled the desire for criminal justice reform when it was published ten years ago and remains poignant and relevant today. — Christine and he came
TechCrunch Top 3
- Subscriber-based Big Apple: Apple may have missed its fiscal first quarter revenue targets (see Big Tech section), but the consumer tech giant now has $935 million in paid revenue across all of its products. It’s honking bottles and horns after announcing it’s getting subscriptions. Ivan There are more.
- who’s at the door?: Christine We just got the scoop on Jokr’s new funding round. Grocery delivery companies have set aside about $50 million to boost valuations, now up to $1.3 billion. Jokr plans to use the funds to expand its services in Brazil.
- A difficult order for some shorts: YouTube’s persistence in making the shorts visible to everyone paid off. Ivan report.
Startups and VC
TechCrunch Live is back. mat It was my pleasure to host a conversation with Cambly CEO and Co-Founder Sameer Shariff and Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel. In this one-hour event of his, you’ll hear how Cambly used a failed Series A funding to propel the company into a cash-plus position.Of course, once the company didn’t need Outside of capital, it suddenly became available and the company has raised the following two funding rounds.
In addition, there are five
Pitch Deck Breakdown: Laoshi’s $570,000 Angel Deck
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The Laoshi founder has raised a $570,000 angel round to scale up an app that helps users learn to read and write Chinese.
To help other very early stage founders, they shared 15 slides from the deck.
- cover slide
- problem slide
- market slide
- Solution slide
- competition slides
- Roadmap slide
- team slide
- teacher growth slide
- teacher holding slide
- Summary slide
- “Contact Us” slide
- Appendix cover slide
- Appendix I: Viral Impact Slides
- Appendix II: Business model slides
- Appendix III: “Question” Slides
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Dear Seinfeld fans, Amanda came across this gem on Twitch, the “Seinfeld” impersonator of the “Nothing, Forever” AI. she said: eternally. ” Gathering around the stream is the community, making the project feel like this generation’s ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’. Enjoy!
Our team was profitable and now we have great insights from Ford, Apple and Amazon.
Non-earnings items for Friday fun include:
