Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board
www.techcrunch.com Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. … Read More
Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill
www.techcrunch.com Biden’s major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill. … Read More
Foo Fighters Troll Westboro Baptist Protesters With Drive-By Disco Performance
www.huffpost.com “I deliver all of my love, and you shouldn’t be hating. You should be dancing!” Dave Grohl told the crowd picketing his concert. … Read More
Britney Spears’ Attorney Says Father Jamie Tried To Stop Her From Taking Hawaii Trip
www.huffpost.com The singer is trying to get her long-standing conservatorship dissolved. … Read More
Indiegogo’s CEO on how crowdfunding navigated the pandemic
www.techcrunch.com Andy Yang joined Indiegogo at a turbulent time. As the crowdfunding platform’s then-CEO stepped aside for personal reasons, the service also reportedly grappled with layoffs. Coming on board after a stretch with Reddit, the new CEO would have less than a year at the helm before COVID-19 turned the globe upside down. … Read…
Kickstarter’s CEO on the future of crowdfunding
www.techcrunch.com Kickstarter announced on Wednesday that backers have pledged $6 billion to more than 200,000 projects over the course of the crowdfunding site’s history. The milestone comes a little over a year after the platform hit the $5 billion mark. … Read More
A MIT robot can help you get dressed — Strictly Robots
www.mashable.com MIT scientists developed a new algorithm that assists robots in identifying motion plans, which will keep humans safe while robots help them. … Read More
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
www.techcrunch.com It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that beam the sun’s energy to the surface of the Earth. Even the price tag seems gleaned from pop fiction: one hundred million…
SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach
www.techcrunch.com With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of…
How to hire and structure a growth team
www.techcrunch.com Everyone at an organization should own growth, right? Turns out when everyone owns something, no one does. As a result, growth teams can cause an enormous amount of friction in an organization when introduced. … Read More