Hack Archives - Shot Ventures

In Apps, Developer, Enterprise, Funding, Fundings & Exits, Hack, Recent Funding, SaaS, Shortcuts, slack fund, Startups, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News, tiger global, workflow automation

Posted November 4, 2019

CTO.ai’s developer shortcuts eliminate coding busywork

There’s too much hype about mythical “10X developers”. Everyone’s desperate to hire these ‘ninja rockstars’. In reality, it’s smarter to find ways of [...]

By Shot Ventures

In Education, Entertainment, Exit, Fundings & Exits, Gadgets, Hack, Hardware, layoffs, MAKE, maker faire, Maker Media, Media, Personnel, robotics, Startups, Talent, TC, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News

Posted June 7, 2019

Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff

Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause [...]

By Shot Ventures

In Column, eCommerce, finance, Funding, Fundings & Exits, Hack, Startups, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News, Venture Capital

Posted April 18, 2019

The different playbooks of D2C brands

Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Ashwin Ramasamy is the cofounder of PipeCandy that provides algorithm-generated insights and predictions about eCommerce and D2C companies. His company helps [...]

By Shot Ventures

In Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Cloud, Developer, Entertainment, Fundings & Exits, Government, Hack, Hardware, robotics, Social, Startups, TC, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News

Posted January 11, 2019

Daily Crunch: Bing has a child porn problem

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can [...]

By Shot Ventures

In Apps, Fundings & Exits, Gadgets, Hack, Hardware, Mobile, Security, Social, Startups, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News

Posted January 9, 2019

Daily Crunch: Well Facebook, you did it again

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can [...]

By Shot Ventures

In Andreessen Horowitz, data security, Developer, Enterprise, Funding, Fundings & Exits, Hack, Recent Funding, Security, Startups, TechCrunch - Funding & Exits, Technology News, Very Good Security

Posted August 28, 2018

Very Good Security makes data ‘unhackable’ with $8.5M from Andreessen

“You can’t hack what isn’t there,” Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader tells me. His startup assumes the liability of storing sensitive data for other [...]