tl;dr: Microsoft’s cloud business continues to grow. We’ll examine the pace of that growth, and compare it to other recent figures. All that and margins. To paraphrase In Flames, perhaps… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: New notes from Uber’s CEO shed fresh light on Uber’s financial situation. TechCrunch’s Matthew Lynley recently reported new corporate disclosures from Uber’s CEO, with the executive describing… Read Full Article
tl;dr: We find out where your startup is most likely to survive from round to round. In breaking news, it turns out there is more than one city in the United… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Tech discovered that money can buy things, like influence. Major technology companies are spending record sums to influence the government. According to Bloomberg, leveraging data from the… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jerry Neumann of Neu VC joins Dave Lerner on Venture Studio to discuss the art and science of seed investing, pros and cons of boards at small… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Have you ever been told that you should only talk to partners at venture firms? That may not be the best advice. A lot of founders these days are being… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Yesterday Twitter’s market cap fell below Weibo’s, a service that is sometimes called a clone of the popular microblogging network. Twitter has since reversed the inversion. Shares… Read Full Article
From the Investors Eric Paley of Founder Collective declares that amount of capital raised is a vanity metric and analyzes IPO metrics from the past five years in “Overdosing on… Read Full Article
tl;dr: The nerds are fighting, but this time it’s about something more important than quicker food delivery. Also, please read the disclosure at the bottom of this post. After it became… Read Full Article
Editor’s MornIng Note: The micro VC bull cycle isn’t nearly over. Only the finest stock-ish image for Monday, naturally. It’s a good time to be a venture capitalist. In fact,… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: And lo, did the Fed leave us with a gift even as ZIRP threatens to fade into our memory like QE1, 2, and 3. Yellen has made… Read Full Article
From the Investors Jean-Baptiste Dumont of Serena Capital dives into how data is a new medium between humans, machines and nature allowing us to leverage on our new digital abilities… Read Full Article
tl:dr: How Shippo bootstrapped its B2B startup by focusing on small businesses. You are building a product geared for other businesses. You’ve talked to potential users, and you have your… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Twilio shares are off again today, continuing the company’s recent declines. Let’s explore what’s up with what was tech’s hottest 2016 IPO1. The Internet is a series of… Read Full Article
From the Investors Raph Crouan of Startupbootcamp gives insight into the trends and startups they’ve seen whilst running their IoT and hardware accelerator in “The Future of IoT” Victor Gutwein… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Civic Tech companies aim to make interacting with government less painful and contributing to society easier, but they face logistical hurdles. Remember the documentary Startup.com? It’s a canonical film about… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: While Spotify remains in an IPO play, new offerings out today from Amazon and Pandora further complicate the industry. A quick hit this morning, friends, on what… Read Full Article
Markets React As Some Of 2016’s Biggest Tech IPOs Ask For More Some recent tech IPOs are looking to bring in more cash. Here’s what the market thinks. From the… Read Full Article
tl;dr: What is Rocket Internet, why does it matter, why is its value in decline, and how might that impact startup valuations? Take a seat. We have a few things… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Some recent tech IPOs are looking to bring in more cash. Here’s what the market thinks. Area Unicorn CEO Discusses IPO Pricing Strategies. Twilio and Acaia Communications’… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Conventional wisdom says that Twitter’s sale is a foregone conclusion. However, the company would perform better on its own. Here’s why. If Facebook is the mall, Twitter feels like the… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Snapchat’s purported, hoped-for IPO valuation is now more than twice Twitter’s current market cap. That’s notable. Shares of Twitter are down sharply today in the opening trading… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Today we try to understand why Snap may be worth $25 billion, while Twitter is valued at a far more modest $14 billion. Twitter’s share price, visualized.… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Venture investment into US-based companies weakened in the third quarter, with total rounds and dollars disbursed falling on both a sequential quarter and year-over-year basis. So close, yet also so… Read Full Article