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Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months

TechCrunch

The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal , comes as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world. According to the Journal, Stripe has hired Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan to help it evaluate which course of action makes the most sense for the company.

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How to make the math work for today’s sky-high startup valuations

TechCrunch

Venture capital price discipline is out the window ; venture funds are looking to make faster, earlier deals; and more unicorns were minted in the last three months than during any quarter in history. It’s a busy time for startups and their financial backers. This yields some questions. The answer is maybe, but probably not.

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Why does TechCrunch cover so many early-stage funding rounds?

TechCrunch

It’s a healthy conversation, and one the Equity crew decided to discuss last Friday: Alex Wilhelm: Funding rounds are largely rose-tinted trade journalism, but they’re worth writing. Alex: Funding rounds are rose-tinted trade journalism, but they’re worth covering. So I won’t stop covering funding rounds.

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Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice

TechCrunch

A 2017 article published in the SSM Population Health Journal cites a 1999 study that found two-thirds of depression cases in the U.S. They learned through their research that journaling was a good way for people to sort out their feelings. So the first thing they did was build a free voice journaling app, also called Kintsugi.

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The big question on every startup’s mind for 2021

TechCrunch

Image Credits: oxygen (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. If those three words in a single subhed elicit a certain reaction from you, Danny Crichton has a bone to pick with you. I found myself head over heels and spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on just the most ridiculous stuff — pretty much just junk gifts,” he says. “I

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NerdWallet’s IPO proves you can write your way to a unicorn valuation

TechCrunch

The company’s IPO dropped pricing details this week , giving us a window into its expected public-market valuation, and the good news for fans of making words appear for others to consume is that NerdWallet is set to command a unicorn price when it does begin to trade. Naturally, what NerdWallet does is different from pure journalism.

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Top 10 Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2019

The Crazy Programmer

It even helps the IT professionals to automate and control the administration work of the windows operating application and system that runs on the environment of windows server. It works on the wide range of platforms which includes the Mac OS, iOS, Windows, as well as on UNIX.