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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas.  After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind…

Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Y Combinator’s new…

We’re still talking about Y Combinator valuations
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Always be prompting

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Always be prompting

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The tide has shifted for solo GPs

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Let’s talk about succession plans 

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Maybe it’s the fact that “Succession” is back next week, or maybe it’s the fact that Silicon Valley just experienced…

Let’s talk about succession plans 

On Friday, I wrote about how Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators, which are now in charge of the bank’s deposits. The bank is set to reopen Monday,…

Silicon Valley Bank: Here’s a timeline of the bank’s failure

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

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AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded 

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Tech’s next great mafia? Laid-off talent

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Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’

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Dear founders, returning to the office is a numbers game

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The latecomer advantage in startups
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Tech forgot its umbrella

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.…

Tech forgot its umbrella

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The slow-burn standardization of venture capital

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Labor trends in 2023: Over-employment, fatigue and hope

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas.

Labor trends in 2023: Over-employment, fatigue and hope

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Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because…

Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week

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Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass
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Copycats can drown  

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Copycats can drown  

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.…

OK, I take back what I said about tech layoffs

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Hey, folks. It’s Kyle, filling in this issue…

What the midterm madness means for startups
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Tweep’s Twitter

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Tweep’s Twitter

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Venture capital will soon be brimming with ghosts

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Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022
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Zombie startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. People leave jobs for all kinds of…

Zombie startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I think it took maybe three days…

Toil and trouble and … startup acquisitions!

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. A multibillion dollar acquisition, IPO projections and some…

Welcome to spooky season in startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. When On Deck had to cut its…

Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I first covered Launch House in Oct…

Community isn’t a buzzword, it’s a challenge

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. In some ways, Y Combinator’s biannual Demo…

What 227 Y Combinator pitches will teach you about startups

Y Creator, Y Competition

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. YC had its biggest news in years…

Y Creator, Y Competition