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Always grateful for the YC fam! 🧡 Last night, I hosted a @ycombinator alumni dinner to celebrate S22! 5 countries & 5 batches represented 🎉 https://t.co/2p3gemkFA2

Web3 development is siloed. @QuickNode (YC W21) wants to change that with the launch of its infrastructure marketplace, allowing different blockchain applications to offer Web3 tools to the almost 100,000 developers on its platform: https://t.co/OovKVsPS36

Beware of those who over-embrace secrecy within a startup. Keeping users' secrets is good. Keeping employee secrets is also good. When keeping organizational secrets you should always try to understand the harm you are creating by not being transparent.

VC intros and startup stories at my first founder meetup in SF since 2019! The @ycombinator community keeps on giving 🚀 https://t.co/jfhYQKyo9U

YC reunion 2022 Great to have these dinners happening again. Meeting amazing founders from recent batches, @ycombinator is the gift that keeps giving. https://t.co/fehetaVaOi

Startup India is promoting entrepreneurship across India via Seed Fund Scheme, allowing budding entrepreneurs to avail funds up to INR 50 Lakhs to grow their startup. Apply now:​ https://t.co/QmSDyptuNF #StartupIndia #Startups #SeedFundScheme #SeedFunding #StartupFunding https://t.co/AnZyRNaTTr

Should I incorporate in Singapore or the US?

I’m writing a business plan for which involves a free mobile app and selling IOT devices online to customers which extends the benefits of the mobile app and allows interacting with them via and/or their Apple HomeKit/Alexa/Google Home. I also plan to have a subscription service with advanced features. For now, I’m just targeting the US market and I want to get the mobile app into the Apple & Google app stores which I believe takes 30% of all purchases. Given all that I’m wondering if there are any advantages to incorporating in Singapore instead of the US and how that might affect taxation in terms of selling the hardware and the monthly subscription service. And on the subject of raising capital, I’ve learned from some light reading that startup investors prefer US based C-corps but Singapore is known as a tech hub in Asia so I imagine that there is plenty of investment opportunities as well. Thoughts?

Will a cheaper Spotify clone work?

Please excuse my naivety, but if I develop a music streaming app just like Spotify and made the subscription at 2.99$ a month only (or even 1.99$), will I succeed? If not, why not? I have very low development costs... This seems like an obvious and easy way to make money, and of course someone else has thought about it before but why didn't they try it or followed through with it? Thank you

🚀💡 Bilbao-based @Innomylabs picks up €1.3 million to make mushroom-based alt-protein 🍄 Juan Pablo De Giacomi: "Our mission is to respond to consumers that demand good food products for their health but also for the planet’s wellbeing." https://t.co/FQJO7c6gAU

🚀Today's #InnovationRadarAlumni #SuccessStory is on @selfback_eu, a Norge AI-driven digital therapeutics solution providing tailored treatment for low back pain. Besides coaching, https://t.co/to60lPiyUu introduced them to +120 investors. 👏https://t.co/h5zNq7izHI https://t.co/QakOEXnd13

🌟 Start Up Festival Malta is coming back with a bang for a second year! 🌟 This year’s Festival will again live up to its name with matchmaking for startups and scaleups looking to strike deals 😎 @maltaenterprise https://t.co/u0JMyDNBf7

‘Made in India’ toys spreading joy in global markets! India’s export of toys registered a tremendous growth of 636% in April-August 2022 over the same period in 2013. https://t.co/sj06RIV9dR