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You've just witnessed the birth of the Startup Melange. With email apparently being the platform of the future, we've come to the conclusion that we should provide our +5000 newsletter subscribers with more value in the future. No more complicated separation between event & community newsletter and much more insightful and inspirational content right in your inbox. From now on the weekly Startup Melange will provide you with everything you need to survive the next 7 days in Austria's tech scene. We'll make sure you know all about the latest community talk, the most interesting news, the most insightful readings and the most exciting events - curated with ❤️ by the AutrianStartups Team. 

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This Week's ...

Fact

89% of Austrians aged 16-24 have at least basic digital skills

Surprise 

Instagram will roll out its  TikTok clone 'Reels' in the U.S. during next month

Deal 

Hotel Software Startup Avisio got a 6-digit investment

Good to Read

How Remote Work Could Destroy Silicon Valley

 "Tech serendipity is the means to an end in Silicon Valley. “You bring together a density of entrepreneurs and capital with a belief in crazy ideas and a readiness to fund them, and you manufacture serendipity at higher rates than if it were evenly distributed. (...) But in a future remote dispersion of workers that all but excludes the unexpected, face-to-face encounter, what will Silicon Valley lose? And really, was it already lost long ago?”

OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin

"I predict that, unlike its two predecessors, OpenAI GPT-3 will eventually be widely used to pretend the author of a text is a person of interest, with unpredictable and amusing effects on various communities. I further predict that this will spark a creative gold rush among talented amateurs to train similar models and adapt them to a variety of purposes, including: mock news, “researched journalism”, advertising, politics, and propaganda.”

Hungry for More?

#31 - The Rise of Subscription Models, Uber buying Postmates, Farewell Soup.io

Markus Raunig and Daniel Cronin talking about Uber taking over Postmates, Sony's portable air conditioner, the end of Soup.io, Trump's turnaround regarding international students in the U.S. and next level company retreats. Deep Dive: The rise of subscription models: From Walmart to Twitter (in German)

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