We’ve been working on several gift guides over the past few months. Devin’s guide to gaming headsets is out today! If you missed any of our gift guides, here’s our complete set so far!
Our favorite gifts are “more hours a day” and “a week’s sleep,” but if that weren’t enough, maybe some hot chocolate and a three-hour block of uninterrupted book reading will do, too. 🇧🇷 Kristina j hahaha
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Create 3D Text: This is new to OpenAI as it features Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models. And no model Kyle he writes, “Creates point clouds, or discrete sets of data points in space, that represent a 3D shape, hence the cheeky acronym.”
Someone calls the 911: There’s a Porsche 911 that runs on synthetic fuel from the automaker’s Chilean pilot plant. The change comes after years of just talking about it Tim Stevens he is writing
More AI: Kyle there was another well-read AI story, this time about Petals creating a free distributed network to run text-generating AI. Startups and VCs
It’s been a year, folks. Brian🇧🇷 Kyle🇧🇷 maria annj Natasja m. to indicate that it wasn’t exactly fun writing this year’s blurb. No one wants startups to fail, but we all know that most fail at some point. An often quoted figure is that 90% of these companies will eventually go bankrupt. But even in that sense, 2022 turned out to be different… Here’s “Remembering the Startups We Lost in 2022”.
For the reporting year Miranda collected the best photos from the TechCrunch+ team, including Amazon’s purchase of One Medical, interesting theses about startups, and whether the TC team would be sad if Twitter disappeared from our screens.
And of course we look to the future ConniReports on Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures and the three counter-intuitive 2023 predictions on Musk, SFB and even Kraft.
Well, that’s enough about the past and the future. Here are five stories from the here and now.
Remove vanity stats from your startup pitch deck
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It’s legitimately nice to give your hard-working team goals to work towards, but vanity stats (e.g. X email signups on Y days, 20% more retweets) are like a little competition dinner. Everyone goes home a winner!
“The truth is investors know what traction feels like,” writes Haje Jan Kamps, meaning wealth metrics have no place on a pitch deck.
“Don’t confuse cute numbers and vanity statistics with your go-to-market strategy.”
Three more from the TC+ team:
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You saw the video in your feed, but now TikTok tells you why the algorithm chose it for you. aisha writes, “This feature is one of many ways we’re working to provide meaningful transparency to people using our platform, and builds on a series of steps we’ve taken to achieve that goal,” the company said.
And we have four more for you:
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Jason Jack is an experienced technology journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in computer science and engineering, he has a deep understanding of the latest technology trends and developments. He writes about a wide range of technology topics, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, and cybersecurity.
