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Voice AI startup ElevenLabs gets unicorn status after landing $80m

ReadWriteStart

The venture was co-led by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz , former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and entrepreneur Daniel Gross, who were joined by Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Smash Capital, BroadLight Capital and Credo Ventures. Who are ElevenLabs? As a result, they set about designing a platform that could do better.

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SXSW Startups: Sceenic Connects Viewers

Austin Startup

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15.

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Six Words Of Advice From Our Small Biz Community

crowdSPRING Blog

Each week, we ask small business founders and owners to distill their advice to new entrepreneurs into six words, as part of our Small Business Spotlight series. Founder, Allen Burt, of EpicThrills. Founder, Jamie Beckland, of BookTurtle. Co-founder, Scott Mercer, of Volta Industries. Tell everyone.

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The Next Web introduces 12 local Startup Awards to celebrate entrepreneurship across Europe

The Next Web

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. Says Patrick de Laive, co-founder of The Next Web: “Europe needs real entrepreneurs to put itself back on the map again. Vigour and drive, the willingness to transform and develop are what’s required.

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Stock Options Stock Options are weighted heavily to compensate the people who take the most risk, namely, the people who join Fog Creek when its just a wee tiny company and were all jammed into one tiny office and we cant afford to buy your kids braces and sometimes you have to change the Poland Spring yourself. About the author.

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TNW Profile: Credictive founder Ela Madej on being ‘a woman in tech’, Rainbows and Unicorns

The Next Web

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. Me and my cofounders Joanna Socha and Mariusz Lusiak just got into Y Combinator. What are you currently involved with?

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An interview with Hollrr CEO David Hegarty

Jeff Hilimire

I find founders of companies like this extremely inspiring and he certainly didn’t let me down with his answers in this interview. I posted a blog recently about Hollrr but the easiest way to describe it is FourSquare for products. Tell me how you came up with the idea for Hollrr. David: I’m a sucker for discovering new stuff.

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