Editor’s Morning Note: Earnings are boring and you are busy so let’s get you up to speed in record time. This week, a number of major technology companies reported their third-quarter… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: You were asleep, so here’s what you need to know about Twitter’s quarter. Early this morning, Twitter announced its recent operational results. The company bested expectations, reporting… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: 2016 tech IPOs are off nearly a third from their highs, which may raise a hackle or two.1 I carefully cropped out the ‘2015’ in this image. Pretend… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Twitter is in the middle of yet another critical week. Here’s what’s coming next. Create your own metaphor here. After Twitter’s potential suitors dropped out like wayward 2016… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Apple and Microsoft have more than divergent histories, they have conflicting charts! There’s no shortage of high-quality Apple-focused photography on Unsplash. It’s going to be a busy week.… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Slack recently released new growth metrics. Let’s see what we can squeeze out of them! Slack, the unicorn’s whose product you likely use the most by hours daily,… Read Full Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Editor’s Morning Note: Following other recent technology IPOs, Coupa’s offering enjoys a big first day following its above-range debut. Breakfast of champions. After pricing its IPO at $18 per share, Coupa opened… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: The final month of the third quarter didn’t save the period from being a disappointment. Twice during the third quarter, Mattermark reported that venture capital activity into… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: After a rough 2015 and no better start to 2016, investors are finally warming back up to Box. Shockingly, finding interesting pictures of boxes leads to a… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Ding, dong, the third quarter is dead. Good morning and happy Monday. Ensconced as we are now in the fourth quarter, it’s the perfect moment to look… Read Full Article