Tag: Startup

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Mary Ann is taking the reins with another favorite from…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinBill Gates, who will become a grandfather early next year, weighs in on technologies being evaluated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that may help address some global problems. Getty Images Despite all the problems facing the world now–Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic, extreme weather–Bill Gates…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla shares rose sharply in pre-market trading on Monday after a majority of Twitter users polled by Elon Musk voted in favor of him stepping down as the social media company’s CEO, a move that could help address shareholder concerns about his leadership hampering his duties as the…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinA passionate marketer, CEO at iResearch Services, TechInformed & GivingforGood. getty Mindshare and market share are two of the most critical concepts in marketing right now. A 2019 blog post for AI-powered analytics software company Cortex does a great job of defining these two terms: “Mindshare relates to consumer…

The bad blood between tech boot camp MyTechBestfriend and many of its former students is anything but finished, according to nearly a dozen people who spoke to TechCrunch. In November, TechCrunch detailed the fallout between Mary Awodele, the founder of the Texas-based MTBF, and her students. Students accused Awodele of bullying and harassment while alleging…

Autonomous trucking technology company TuSimple plans to cut a chunk of its workforce, potentially as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited “people familiar with the matter.” While the Journal reported layoffs could affect at least half of TuSimple’s workforce, TechCrunch’s own source familiar with the matter said that number…

Bradley Tusk — who spent his early career in Democratic politics and later became a consultant and lobbyist for private companies battling regulators — spends much of his time these days as a venture capitalist. But while Tusk is a generalist, he insists he isn’t interested in just any startup; his expertise, he says, is…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. December is getting long in the tooth, there’s Christmas music on every radio station, and the poinsettias are in full bloom. It looks like the year is getting close to the end,…

A major factor driving corporate environmental strategy is public image. Survey after survey finds that environmental practices are increasingly starting to influence consumers’ choice to shop or not shop at a given company. A report by global strategy consultancy firm Simon-Kucher & Partners found that 85% of shoppers across different countries shifted their buying habits in…

Retail giants Walmart  (WMT) – Get Free Report and Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Free Report wage a fierce battle for business with Amazon having a much larger online presence with 2.5 billion average site visitors monthly compared to Walmart’s 429 million, Storebrands.com reported in October. However, Walmart has the brick and mortar dominance with the Bentonville, Ark.,…