This Week in Apps: In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan

{rss:content:encoded} This Week in Apps: In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan https://ift.tt/37svAja https://ift.tt/3AglAFS August 07, 2021 at 09:30PM 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...

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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO? Should your product person be opinionated or a team player? Are you even the best choice for CEO? ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair shared some of his thoughts about building a sturdy leadership...

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SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of rules. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit? SenpAI.GG, a company out of Y Combinator’s latest batch, thinks so. Much of that aforementioned gap boils down to practice, muscle memory and — let’s face it — natural ability....

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How to hire and structure a growth team

Sam Richard Contributor Share on Twitter Sam Richard is senior director of growth at OpenView. More posts by this contributor 3 data strategies for selling to developers SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers Everyone at an organization should own growth, right? Turns out when everyone owns something, no one does. As a result, growth teams can cause an enormous amount of friction in an organization when introduced. Growth teams are twice as likely to appear among businesses growing their ARR by 100%...

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Venture capital probably isn’t dead

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” As with nearly everything you read, the article in question is a bit more nuanced than its headline. Its author, Sam Lessin, makes some pretty good points. But I don’t fully agree with his conclusions, and want to talk about why. This will be fun, and, because it’s Friday, both relaxed and cordial. (For fun, here’s a long-ass podcast I participated in with Lessin last year.) A capital explosion Lessin notes that...

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