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Saturday, November 02, 2019 By Eric Eldon

Welcome to Extra Crunch Saturday

Each week, we bring you news and analysis that can help you build your company and be more strategic about where you invest your time and money — here’s what we’ve uncovered since our Wednesday morning newsletter:

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Waymo's UX challenge is getting people to enjoy the ride

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Google has been working on autonomous vehicles for more than a decade, but it's learning that the hardest part might just be getting people to enjoy the ride, reports Ed Niedermeyer.

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Disrupt Berlin 2019: December 11 - 12

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Google's Fitbit purchase could reshape its healthcare ambitions

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Purchasing Fitbit for $2.1 billion vaults Google into the consumer health market and puts them in a head-to-head battle with rival Apple. Jonathan  Shieber looks at the challenges ahead, which include privacy and increased competition.

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Can a combined Google/Fitbit take on the Apple Watch?

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Brian Heater asks: it looks like Google is getting serious about wearables, but is it too late?

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How you react when your systems fail may define your business

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Your company’s worst day could be its most important. To learn about handling downtime, Ron Miller spoke to a group of highly-trained disaster experts to find out how to prevent outages from having a profoundly negative impact on your business.

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Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew is on the hunt for always-on media startups

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Jeremy Liew is known for making smart bets on startups like Cheddar, Giphy, HQ, SpecialGuest, Mic, Beme, Playdom, Duta and Flixster; Eric Peckham spoke to him about how he assesses the market for media startups.

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Manage your angel investors, or they'll manage you

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It's almost certain that an angel will play a role in your startup's journey, but if you don't manage them properly, these early backers could get in the way of your startup's success.

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What Berlin's top VCs want to invest in right now

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As we gear up for Disrupt Berlin in December, Eric Peckham talked to top VCs in Berlin's ecosystem to learn about what they’re looking to invest in right now.

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Turning Google traffic into leads, and what's new in SEO

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Pick up some new and advanced SEO strategies, study tactics for turning blog visitors into new leads and learn about retargeting in this guest post from Growth Report.

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Work permit delays disrupt foreign workers' career plans

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Immigration advocates are rightly fretting over the Trump administration’s latest efforts, but away from the spotlight, another crisis is quietly brewing that could affect virtually every foreign-born STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) student and worker.

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Government is a technology, so fix it like one

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Just as as tangible as airplanes, computers and contraception, the United States of America is also a human invention. But, like any tool, our systems of governance require maintenance to keep working.

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Reaction Engines' Mach 5 engine is just the tip of the new aerospace boom

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Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that cuts the journey between London and New York to around two hours; last week, the world got a glimpse of a new future via a project that’s been germinating for 30 years, writes Mike Butcher.

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