Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes [CONTINUE READING]
Oren Yunger Contributor Share on Twitter Oren Yunger is an investor at GGV Capital, where he leads the cybersecurity vertical and drives investments in enterprise IT, data infrastructure, and developer tools. He was previously chief information security officer at a SaaS company and a public financial institution. More posts by [CONTINUE READING]
Delhivery, India’s largest independent e-commerce logistics startup, has raised $277 million in what is expected to be the final funding round before the firm files for an IPO later this year. In a regulatory filing, the Gurgaon-headquartered startup disclosed it had raised $277 million in a round led by Boston-headquartered [CONTINUE READING]
I’ve known Scott Wilder for well fifteen years or so. And in that time (and even before that) he has led community-building efforts at big tech brands like Adobe, Apple, Google, Intuit and Marketo. And now he’s heading up HubSpot’s engagement and community-building efforts. Earlier this week Scott and I had [CONTINUE READING]
From improving SEO to outsourcing, there are plenty of strategies you can use to grow a business. But which ones are right for your company? Here, members of the online small business community share their top tips. Go through the options and choose the strategies that are most relevant to [CONTINUE READING]
A Limited Liability Company or LLC as it is more commonly known is one of the most popular business entities for entrepreneurs. This is especially true for first-time business owners. In addition to tax benefits, an LLC protects the members of the company from personal liability for business debt. If [CONTINUE READING]
Laura González-Estéfani Contributor Share on Twitter Laura González-Estéfani is the founder and CEO of TheVentureCity, an international, operator-led venture acceleration model designed to make the global entrepreneurial ecosystem more diverse, international and accessible to fair capital. More posts by this contributor Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we [CONTINUE READING]
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A venture capitalist once told me candidly that whenever you see the phrase “democratization” in tech marketing material, think of it as a red flag. Democracy, generally speaking, often comes with an ironic caveat: It disproportionately benefits white and male participants. Now, you know me well enough to know that [CONTINUE READING]
The claim that Amazon is crushing competition is both novel and railroad baron-style old-school.
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