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To get a roundup of \u2019s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT,<\/em> subscribe here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Hey there, you deep-fried morsels of delight. Deep fried, because that\u2019s the thing that made you crunchy. No? Because this is the Daily Crunch?<\/p>\n The team got so competitive in this season of the Great Tech Bake-off, cooking up an incredible amount of scrumptious news over the past 24 hours, that it has taken us damn near 24 hours just to ingest the full tasting menu. Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve selected some of the juiciest, most Michelin-starred news for you, served in bite-sized pieces.<\/p>\n This whole food simile really isn\u2019t working, is it. Okay, fine, we\u2019ll workshop this some more in future newsletters, so you have that on the menu.\u00a0 \u2014 Christine<\/a> and Haje<\/a><\/p>\n Iconic New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau announced $230 million in additional funding across two new funds: LH Seed VIII, which focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies, and LH Select IV, which invests in companies from Series A to C, Christine<\/a> reports. Oh, and Ben Lerer is back at the firm full-time after completing the sale of Group Nine Media to Vox Media earlier this year.<\/p>\n Go on, feast on these:<\/p>\n Image Credits:<\/strong> Martin Diebel (opens in a new window)<\/span> \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There\u2019s no nice way to say this: When it comes to onboarding new employees, most early-stage startups are either inept or uninterested.<\/p>\n At that point in a company\u2019s development, speed and growth are considered more important than basic paperwork. And since most first-time founders have no management experience, problems will eventually arise.<\/p>\n In her second article for TC+, attorney Kristen Corpion explores the risks associated with noncompliance and describes four common mistakes that create problems down the road.<\/p>\n \u201cBy being proactive with addressing employment law issues early on, a startup can set itself up to scale more seamlessly,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n Let us cater to your TC+ desires:<\/strong><\/p>\n + is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.<\/em> You can sign up here<\/em>. Use code \u201cDC\u201d for a 15% discount on an annual subscription!<\/em><\/p>\n Spotify, more like Bookify, launched its audiobook streaming service today with over 300,000 titles. Sarah<\/a> writes that what is unique about Spotify\u2019s services versus other platforms is \u201cevery title is individually priced instead of there being a single, consistent price across all books in the catalog. Spotify intends this to be one of the key differentiators and competitive advantages of its service.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re an Nvidia fan, Devin, Rebecca<\/a> and Kyle<\/a> covered different aspects of the company\u2019s GTC event. We\u2019ve got the new high-end RTX 4090 GPU, the Drive Thor chip for autonomous vehicles, services for training large language models and new products for robotics developers.<\/p>\n More from the cafeteria:<\/p>\n<\/div>\nOur most popular dishes<\/h2>\n
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