Tracking startup focus in the latest Y Combinator cohort
First, some housekeeping, the day off tomorrow thanks to our new corporate overlords, so consider this the final chapter of The Exchange for this week.…
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Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets
Rent the Runway is set to price its IPO later today and begin trading the next morning, assuming all goes according to plan. Udemy is…
From the American heartland, a startup boom
When Sprout Social went public, it seemed like a coming-of-age celebration for the Chicago startup ecosystem, which has long had a leadership position in the…
Attest rises $60M to expand its no-code approach to research-surveys-as-a-service, which taps 110M consumers in 49 countries
Marketing teams and other corporate decision-makers have long relied on surveys to learn more about their consumers. However, they may be expensive to build, difficult…
Why I make everyone in my company be the CEO for a day
Leaders are great because of their ability to empower others, not because of their own authority. It is no secret that most IT businesses claim…
The rapidly changing investor calculus on China’s tech giants
With wave after wave of regulatory crackdowns dominating China tech news in 2021, it is easy to lose sight of what being regulated, who is…
Investors are doubling down on Southeast Asia’s digital economy
Southeast Asian tech startups are attracting investors from all over the world. Startups in the region raised more than $8.2 billion in 2020, nearly four…
There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open-source developer community
In the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg established Automattic, a key commercial sponsor of open source content management system WordPress, the tech industry has taken…
The first win getting early customers to take a chance with you
New businesses encounter numerous hurdles in fine-tuning their product and developing a viable revenue strategy. You may be planning on raising some capital and juggling…
Leveraging customer feedback and data to iterate on your product
One of the top worries at startups has always been how to iterate on products. They used to have to rely exclusively on client feedback…
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