Patrick
@Patrick
390 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Giles
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almost 3 years ago
How pitch training can help startups get their story right
When you hire a marketing consultant, you don’t necessarily expect to wind up discussing your life’s purpose. Yet, that is what Spanish marketing expert and entrepreneur Alex Barrera often ends up doing with startup founders who hire him to help improve their pitch. They ...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Jerrold
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almost 3 years ago
WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech
WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the business. The company’s home-baked text-to-speech engine works faster than real time and produces natural-sounding clips of pretty much any...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Priscilla
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almost 3 years ago
Black teen barred from skating rink by inaccurate facial recognition
A facial recognition algorithm used by a local roller skating rink in Detroit wouldn’t let teen Lamya Robinson onto the premises, and accused her of previously getting into a fight at the establishment.But Robinson had never even been to the rink.The facial recognition sy...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
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almost 3 years ago
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through 2025
LG Chem will invest $5.2B in battery materials through Korea’s LG Chem has earmarked ₩6 trillion ($5.2 billion) over the next four years to build out its battery materials business. The investment comes as automakers and state regulators set targets to transition away fr...continued
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Devin
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almost 3 years ago
SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valua...
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y.The deal announced Thursday confirms TechCrunch’s reporting in June t...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Khashoggi murder: US softens towards Saudi leader
Over the course of two days Prince Khalid bin Salman held meetings with the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken; the president's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan; the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin; and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen Mark Milley. That list...continued
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Patrick
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almost 3 years ago
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Best Moment Is About the Horror of Mecha Warfare
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway, the latest entry in the beloved mecha franchise, isn’t really a movie that’s focused on its action. It’s more interested in the politics of its world than it is the giant robots that have made Gundam a merchandising powerhouse fo…
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almost 3 years ago
Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Artist Is Prescient
For me, and I suspect for many others, the pandemic has prompted much soul-searching about different aspects of my life. Foremost is my dependence on technology, which I found especially troubling over the past year. At a certain point, after months of social isolation pu...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be useful
Circle is a good example of why SPACs can be the wake of Coinbase’s direct listing earlier this year, other crypto companies may be looking to go public sooner than later. That appears to be the case with Circle, a Boston-based technology company that provides API-delive...continued
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Monserrat
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almost 3 years ago
Satellite operator Planet to go public in $2.8B SPAC merger
Satellite operator Planet to go public in $2.8B SPAC which operates a network of around 200 satellites that provides Earth imaging, as well as analytics of the data derived from that observation, is going public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising
Jalal Nasir is the founder and CEO of Pixalate, a global ad fraud intelligence and marketing compliance platform. Previously, he was one of the early engineers on Amazon’s fraud prevention and risk management team and held various product leadership roles building adtech ...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Here’s what’s happening tomorrow at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising
Here’s what’s happening tomorrow at TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and your bootstraps and get ready to wring every last ounce of education and opportunity out of TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing and Fundraising. Our two-day deep dive into the essential skills every early-...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Liliane
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almost 3 years ago
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early Stage
Citi Ventures head honcho Arvind Purushotham is coming to TC Early venture capital used to get a bad rap. The money flowed from corporations into startups when times were good, and quickly disappeared when the market turned.But startups and corporations discovered someth...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Nelson
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almost 3 years ago
Bringg nabs $100M at a $1B valuation for a last-mile delivery platform for retailers
With many consumers making the switch to online shopping in the last year due to COVID-19 and largely staying active on those platforms even after physical shops and the freedom to move about them have been restored, companies that are enabling those services are continui...continued
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Patrick
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almost 3 years ago
Bentley's Flying Spur Hybrid can travel 25 miles in EV mode
After announcing a shift to hybrid and fully electric cars by 2026, Bentley has begun showcasing the existing vehicles getting an eco-friendly makeover. Following the Bentayga Hybrid SUV, the spotlight is now on the more powerful Flying Spur sedan. Bentley's …
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Assunta
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almost 3 years ago
How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once
A massive chain reaction on Friday infected at least hundreds and likely thousands of businesses worldwide with ransomware, including a railway, pharmacy chain, and hundreds of storefronts of Sweden's Coop grocery store brand. Carried out by the notorious Russia-based REv...continued
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Patrick
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almost 3 years ago
How Women Can Save the Planet by Anne Karpf review – clear and invigorating
From water pilgrims to climate refugees, those who are suffering most from the climate crisis have done the least to cause it, argues this strong and inspiring analysisThe language around the climate crisis, the journalist Anne Karpf writes in How Women Can S…
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Cyril
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almost 3 years ago
This week in growth marketing on TechCrunch
TechCrunch is trying to help you find the best growth marketer to work with through founder recommendations that we get in this survey. We’re sharing a few of our favorites so far, below.We’re using your recommendations to find top experts to interview and have them write...continued
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Americo
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almost 3 years ago
In Case Against Trump’s Company, Echoes of His Father’s Tactics on Taxes
The indictment announced on Thursday accuses the Trump Organization of a new series of off-the-books maneuvers that, in some respects, resemble an updated version of Fred Trump’s model. In Mr. Weisselberg’s case, rather than simply receiving a higher salary, his base pay ...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Americo
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almost 3 years ago
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan’s Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge
Mr. Bragg said repeatedly during the campaign that he had sued Mr. Trump or his administration more than 100 times during his tenure at the attorney general’s office. He also said he expected to be attacked by Mr. Trump, who said this week that the investigation was a for...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Oren
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almost 3 years ago
Visier raises $125M at a $1B valuation for its big-data approach to HR analytics and planning
The world of work has changed massively in the last year, and with it a rush of startups have emerged with new technology and approaches to improve how it is shaped, and specifically how human resources departments do their jobs.In the latest chapter, Visier, a Canadian s...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Maureen
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almost 3 years ago
Pittsburgh’s Locomation puts a convoy twist on autonomous trucking
The Pittsburgh Strip District, once home to Industrial Age giants Alcoa, Heinz, U.S. Steel and Westinghouse, has evolved over the past decade into a technology and robotics hub, and notably, a testbed of autonomous vehicles. That activity has more recently spilled out be...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
Giles
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almost 3 years ago
Startup Alley tickets are selling out in record numbers
Startup Alley spots at Disrupt are almost sold out – apply There isn’t much time left to apply for Startup Alley. Take advantage of this opportunity before it’s too late.When you purchase a ticket for Startup Alley, you can opt into being considered for a spot in our ina...continued
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Patrick upvoted the following post almost 3 years ago:
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almost 3 years ago
ShelfLife, a marketplace for raw materials, raises $3 million seed round
Two years ago, Lillian Cartwright teamed up with some fellow Harvard Business School students to launch a new spiked seltzer brand called Astrid. Despite all the tools that make launching a D2C brand easier than it’s ever been, the team ran into complications when it came...continued
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Patrick
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almost 3 years ago
From Apples To Orchards
In Sun Valley, Idaho, locals are said to either have three houses, three jobs, or three roommates.
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