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Opaper takes the friction out of social commerce

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After graduating, McIntosh’s professional life became decidedly more high tech—she was senior product manager for data and machine learning platforms at Streetlight Data and then Lacuna Technologies. Opaper was launched to give social commerce sellers the same type of convenience.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

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This slump is a particularly unpleasant setback for entrepreneurs hoping to advance climate-focused principles and social change. You probably presented a minimum viable product and initial consumer research, and were backed for that. When it becomes repeatable, you can scale it.

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

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You need a minimum viable company, not a minimum viable product. In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.”

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Hustle Fund wants to help spawn a new generation of angel investors

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As someone whose own company focuses exclusively on strategy in social impact organizations, I am also looking for how founders identify and bring to market creative solutions to complex problems, as well as exposure to a network of innovative people looking to solve hard issues in smart ways,” Penn said.

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Skidattl’s augmented reality beacons are ‘like a Bat-Signal for fun’

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Like any new social media app, Skidattl will have to battle the chicken-and-egg problem — no one will want to use it if there’s not plenty of beacons already lit up, but there can’t be any lit-up beacons without people on the app. ” (It goes without saying, but TechCrunch ad sales are totally separate from editorial.).

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Global VC Flourish launches Madica, an Africa-focused program to back pre-seed stage startups

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And while venture capital and founder support programs within the continent are growing, a lot still remains to be done to meet the financing, technology and social capital needs of the especially marginalized groups like women founders. This is part of its push to ensure a pan-African reach by supporting local, and women founders.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Automattic TC-1, federal startup grants, ‘getting s done day’

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At 16 years old, the company is growing into a major media player: Its purchase of Tumblr expanded its reach into social media, and WooCommerce, its open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress users, integrates with POS systems in the real world. Part 3: Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?