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Startups · Sep 14

TechCrunch’s latest Demo Day report points to harder infrastructure bets, with Atomarine’s floating data center plan as the pitch to study.

Treat deep tech pitches as milestone stories, not just ambition stories.
Use customer interest as signal, but wait for deployment proof before calling it traction.
Grounded valuations can give hard tech startups more room to prove real progress.

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