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High Articles in August

We’re againfrom Labor Day (which an satirically moderately unkind Canadian EC subscriber notorious additionally takes put up north). August was once the most successful month for Additional Crunch since our begin about six months within the past — so thanks to the hundreds of serene and continuing contributors that again us abet quality journalism and diagnosis.

For those that took prolonged holidays final month, listed right here are the tip 5 most smartly-appreciated articles among EC contributors we published final month:

Y CombinatorDemo Day: We picked our favorites fromday oneandday twoand our venture capital reporterKate Clarkwrote an diagnosisof what the 160 startups within the batch perceived to gift aboutYC’s investment theses this day. YC remains as standard as ever if EC contributors’ curiosity with these articles is any indication.

How a Swedish saxophonist constructed Kobalt, the realm’s subsequent music unicorn: Our Additional Crunch media columnistEric Peckhamtraveled to Europe tofable out this deep diveintoKobalt, which is upending worn music rights management, and is closing in on unicorn residing as smartly. This starting up tale right here was once one of my favorites, since it showed how tenacity against impossible adversity can lead to success one day. I am editing Eric’s subsequent two ingredients of this EC-1 as I write this, so search files from those presently.

How Dropbox, Nike, Salesforce, MailChimp, Google and Pepsi welcome their serene hires: This was once moderately of a shock one for me. Our visitor creatorVladimir Polohas been collecting welcome kits from various companies for years, and hecompiled all of them for this fragmenton how various companies deem about welcoming workers.

WeWork’s S-1 misses these three key aspects:WeWorkis the most polarizing startup I enjoy seen in sometime. So I be taught thru the S-1 (yes, all 200-300 pages of the rattling component) to search outa few nuggetsI idea the firm was once lacking from the filing (which, in itself, was once a convention up of my EC diagnosis ofwhat we must search files from to gaze within the S-1within the most essential put).

How must B2B startups deem about growth? No longer worship B2C: Lastly, we had our visitor writersKevin BarryandTyler Ellistondiscuss the adaptations between advertising and marketing and rising a B2B startupand the method that compares with B2C startups. They supply an intensive files on the ways to deem about growth in B2B and the tactical tools that these startups can use.

Apple aloof has work to full on privateness

Over the long weekend, our privateness and coverage creatorNatasha Lomaswrote an insightful diagnosisof what all individuals is aware of aboutApple’s privateness guarantees given the news that the firm was once providing Siri recordings to contractors for grading. Lomas seesApple’sprivateness guarantees as moderately cynical given the context, however additionally sees a likelihood for the firm to honest appropriate its past wrongs.