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Venture Capitalists Heart Late-Stage Startups
Editor’s Morning Note: Happy Monday and welcome back to the work week. This morning marks the kickoff of earnings season in tech, so strap in. Our main focus today is… Read Full Article
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Bitcoin Mining Revenue Falls By More Than Half
Editor’s Morning Note: Let’s end the week with a chart that points down. Bitcoin Mining In Action. Via NSA Archives. Happy Friday, friends, and welcome to our final entry together… Read Full Article
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The US Tech IPO Market Is Four For Four So Far In 2016
Editor’s Morning Note: Line’s strong debut this morning puts the fourth straight US-market IPO success on the board. How the author imagines the world looks through the lens of HFT.… Read Full Article
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Four Things Every On-Demand Company Needs To Nail
tl;dr: Building an on-demand company? Here are four things that you need to get right if you want to succeed. The explosion of “on-demand” companies built over the last few years has been… Read Full Article
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Stars Align For Line
Editor’s Morning Note: Line hopes to make a splash with its IPO tomorrow. Early indicators show strong demand for the equity as markets set new highs. It’s nearly time for… Read Full Article
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Here’s What You Need To Know About Q2 VC
tl;dr: VC investment into US companies slowed in Q2, but the first half of the year posted some positive indicators. Instead of burying you under a pile of numbers this quarter,… Read Full Article
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Understanding Dropbox’s 200,000 Business Customers
Editor’s Morning Note: Let’s chat about Dropbox’s recent business milestone. Dropbox, a popular storage and collaboration tool, announced yesterday that it has “almost 200,000 Dropbox Business customers.” The news comes… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Stocks Hit Record Highs Ahead Of Line’s IPO
Good Monday, comrades, and welcome back. With an IPO on deck it should be an interesting week. Today we’re taking stock of Line’s final IPO figures to help understand private… Read Full Article
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Making Sense of Why Series A Investment Is Slowing
tl;dr: After a long run, global macroeconomic uncertainty prompts Series A investors to take a breather. Series A investment trends can provide a good approximation of the health and sentiment of the… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Counting Backwards From $9 Billion
I presume that you were up late last night taking in the news, so we’ll be brief this morning. It doesn’t seem like the most perfect time to crack lengthy accounting… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Yahoo’s Expensive Mozilla Deal
The mid-year tech news lull is in effect today as San Francisco celebrates July by being cold. Ah, summer. What would we do without you. This morning we are taking a… Read Full Article
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Series A Rounds Slip In Q2 As Dollar Volume And Deal Velocity Recede
TLDR: Dollar-denominated Series A rounds dipped in Q2. Regardless, Series A rounds remain strong on a historical basis. Raising a Series A round of capital is an important milestone for a… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Q2 VC Preview And Apple’s Long Shadow
We are midway through a holiday week, meaning that you are closer to sleeping in than you might have thought. Congratulations for making it this far. You can do it. Today… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Talend To Test The American IPO Market
Happy Not Really Monday, everyone. The American markets are back open, we’re getting our hands around the full-return of the second quarter, and hot dang do we have a new IPO filing… Read Full Article
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Taking A Fresh Look At The Chinese Venture Capital Market
tl;dr: The Chinese venture capital market may be larger than we thought. Understanding the Chinese venture capital market can be difficult, as estimates for venture activity in the country often vary widely.… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Zenefits Cuts Itself To Size As Another Unicorn Is Born
Happy Friday and forthcoming Freedom Bacchanal. May you close many tabs, and eat far too much. This morning we’re taking a short dive into the Zenefits situation to make sure we… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Q2 Venture Capital Ends With A Bang
Following Brexit panic swept through the markets. Shares tumbled at home and abroad. And then, after a few days, things quieted down. The key United States markets have largely surfaced from losses that… Read Full Article
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Which VCs Have The Most Portfolio Companies With $100M Or More In Funding? $250M?
tl;dr: The number of VC firms with four or more portfolio companies that have raised more than $100 million has tripled in less than two years. In September of 2014, Mattermark… Read Full Article
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Taking A Second Look At Lyft’s Leaked Financials
Editor’s Morning Note: Today we’re digging into Lyft’s recently leaked financial performance. This is the moment to make a pun about checking under Lyft’s hood, but we won’t stoop to such lows.… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: Reticulated Sp(Line)s
Following tales of certain doom the Nasdaq is up over a point today, pushing it comfortably above the 4,600 mark. Barring something tectonic, the short-term Brexit impact on American public tech companies… Read Full Article
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Here’s What One Hot YC Startup Learned Raising A $1.4M Seed Round
tl;dr: Raising early-stage capital today is more challenging than you might expect, even with traction, hype, and a strong pedigree. Truebill, a graduate of the most recent Y Combinator class,… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: What’s The Opposite Of A Party?
It’s Monday, the markets are down, it’s probably raining in London, and no one knows what’s coming next in the worlds of startups and finance. Welcome back to the work… Read Full Article
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This Is What Brexit Means For You And Your Startup
tl;dr: Why the hell are you worrying about global GDP growth when you are riding a secular shift? The UK has voted to leave the EU, and the media is… Read Full Article
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Editor’s Morning Note: And Blah Go The Markets
What a difference a few hours can make. Following an up day in the local markets and a strong performance by Twilio in its public offering, the world was thrown… Read Full Article