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Disney’s trouble with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is a great lesson for startups in a crisis

Like most other companies, my tech- and design-startup has felt the impact of COVID-19. People taking more time with decisions. Growth is pretty much paused in some markets. Teams are working from home and creating new kinds of cultural habits in the textannotation”>organization. We’ve grown from nothing to a company with customers in 130 countries

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EverC, which provides banks and payment processors support to detect and prevent online money laundering, raises $35M Series B led by Red Dot Capital Partners (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)

Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: EverC, which provides banks and payment processors support to detect and prevent online money laundering, raises $35M Series B led by Red Dot Capital Partners  —  Investors in EverC, formerly called EverCompliant, include Israeli VC Red Dot Capital Partners, Viola Ventures, Arbor Ventures, and American Express Ventures EverC,

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India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India’s Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs  —  Times Internet said on Thursday it reaches more than 557 million active users in India each month and over

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Replicant, a customer service platform that uses text-based chatbots and AI assistants to help human reps, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Replicant, a customer service platform that uses text-based chatbots and AI assistants to help human reps, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners  —  Hundreds of millions of consumers use voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Apple’s Siri for simple tasks in their daily lives. Replicant, a customer

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Coin Metrics: Coinbase-backed stablecoin USDC's supply has grown more than 250% this year to reach $1.8B, while Binance's BUSD offerings grew 725% to $255M (Alexander Behrens/Decrypt)

Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: Coin Metrics: Coinbase-backed stablecoin USDC’s supply has grown more than 250% this year to reach $1.8B, while Binance’s BUSD offerings grew 725% to $255M  —  There seems to be no stopping the growth in the supply of stablecoins, but Coinbase-backed USDC in particular has reported massive gains … Coin Metrics: Coinbase-backed

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Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B  —  – Transaction could be valued at around $5 billion, people said  — Blank-check company is led by chairman Chamath Palihapitiya Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and

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