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| Mar 14, 2025 | The Tug of War in Venture Capital: Valuation vs. Pricing | In the world of venture capital, the battle between valuation and pricing is a constant struggle. Founders and investors often find themselves in a tug of war, each pulling in different directions. This conflict can lead to misaligned inter... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | You Can’t Put A Price On Greatness | 1 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Consider this dilemma: Venture capital is the pursuit of outliers, and yet startups mostly get market-based prices using comparable companies.
This contradiction creates problems on both sides of the... |
| Aug 22, 2023 | Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC? | To put it simply: higher LTV:CAC → higher margins → higher valuation.
Investors often use 3x LTV:CAC as a rough benchmark of a consumer company’s financial health. If your customer lifetime value (LTV) is 3 or more times your customer acqu... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | Чему Тейлор Свифт может научить нас в бизнесе? | От вирусного маркетинга до определения размера рынка и дорожных карт продукта.
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Ни для кого не секрет, что я большой поклонник Тейлор Свифт. Почему? Билли Джоэл сказал это лучше всего, когда назвал ее “Битлз свое... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | VCs and red flags | Earlier today, renowned VC Bill Gurley put together a list of the many “red flags” that VCs should have paid closer attention to when funding FTX, suggesting in a tweet that this summary of warning signs might help keep VCs “out of the inve... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Why Legaltech Is Poised For Hypergrowth | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Raj Goyle
Five years ago, nobody believed legaltech was big enough to matter. Investors laughed at the idea. VC firms didn’t even list the vertical on their websites, despite it being a $500 bill... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Why Legaltech Is Poised For Hypergrowth | 45 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
By Raj Goyle
Five years ago, nobody believed legaltech was big enough to matter. Investors laughed at the idea. VC firms didn’t even list the vertical on their websites, despite it being a $500 bill... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | These are the top 53 voices in Silicon Valley teaching you everything you need to know about how to invest in VC and startups | All-in podcast/youtube This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Sep 24, 2021 | The great generational shift within venture capital | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Jun 28, 2021 | How will Benchmark change with this new era of venture capital? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| Jun 9, 2021 | VC Bill Gurley Explains Why Direct Listings Are Better Than IPOs | While people like free stuff, what they like better is easy money, and the traditional IPO process is essentially that for a privileged few, venture capitalist Bill Gurley said in a recent blog post.
Gurley makes a compelling argument for d... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight | Online marketplaces bring efficiency to traditional sectors. They offer a better user experience and increase margins for participants. They can accrue huge value by reducing friction and aggregating supply and demand — particularly because... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Benchmark fills out its, yes, bench, with Miles Grimshaw | Benchmark, the storied venture firm, has brought aboard a fifth general partner: 29-year-old Miles Grimshaw, a Yale graduate who joins the outfit from Thrive Capital, where he similarly joined a team of four other partners back in 2013, hel... |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Wall Street blunts the ‘delisting’ hype | |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Unicorns Get More Magical: 2020 Cohort Shows Huge Increase In Valuation On IPO Day | 57 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The initial public offering markets have opened up for high-growth tech companies, but most of those filing have been revenue-losing tech companies. As such, it seems like a good time to analyze the... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Unicorns Get More Magical: 2020 Cohort Shows Huge Increase In Valuation On IPO Day | 47 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
The initial public offering markets have opened up for high-growth tech companies, but most of those filing have been revenue-losing tech companies. As such, it seems like a good time to analyze the... |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Venture Capital At A Crossroads: Change Or Be Forgotten | Heading into the COVID crisis, Silicon Valley had reached a consensus that venture capital was going to get hit hard. In March, as the market crashed with alarming speed, new investments came to a grinding halt, and the IPO market froze com... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Why Bill Gurley Thinks LA Tech Executives Have Been ‘Too Transactional’ | The legendary Silicon Valley investor Bill Gurley thinks Los Angeles tech founders should be more focused on growing their business over the long term instead of selling to larger competitors too quickly.
"I think [they've] historicall... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Column: Why SPACs Are Today’s Best Option for an IPO | I have long been a proponent of going public because I believe it creates stronger, more disciplined companies that deliver greater shareholder value. It's great to see the pendulum in the founder and venture capital community swinging away... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | It’s Raining Biotech SPACs! | SPACs are all the rage today. With the IPO market booming and public investors seeking better returns, blank check companies called “Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” (SPACs) have been fueling up their tanks and chasing down their merg... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | From The Editor’s Desk: Two Direct Listing Debuts to Watch This Week | 7 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
After cloud warehouse giant Snowflake’s soaring IPO a couple of weeks ago, I waited for a familiar critic to chime in. Sure enough, venture capitalist Bill Gurley unfurled a long Twitter thread later... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | From The Editor’s Desk: Two Direct Listing Debuts to Watch This Week | 8 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
After cloud warehouse giant Snowflake’s soaring IPO a couple of weeks ago, I waited for a familiar critic to chime in. Sure enough, venture capitalist Bill Gurley unfurled a long Twitter thread later... |
| Sep 17, 2020 | Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman Talks IPO Pop: Narrative Of Lost Billions Is ‘Nonsense Talk’ | CEO Frank Slootman (second row, fourth from left) and the Snowflake team virtually rang the opening ... [+] bell at the New York Stock Exchange.NYSE |
| Aug 29, 2020 | Startups Weekly: With Asana, JFrog, Palantir, Snowflake, Sumo and Unity, we’re in peak season for tech IPOs | Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.
Pandemic numbers are looking better, it’s still a couple months before U.S. elections and a g... |
| Aug 27, 2020 | A faster, easier, cheaper way of going public | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is the fourth episode of the week, pushing our production calendar to the test. Happily... |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Benchmark’s Peter Fenton is joining us at Disrupt | Benchmark used to be the quintessential Silicon Valley venture firm. It was small. It was focused. It was aggressive while also remaining founder friendly. It stuck to its knitting when it came to its fund size, raising fund after fund in t... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Equity Monday: YC Demo Day, two funding rounds and where’s Palantir’s S-1? | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the coming week, digs in... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | $1 trillion in equity: How Carta is set to unlock the private markets | As longtime participants, observers and investors in technology companies, we spend a disproportionate amount of our time thinking about how large companies come into existence. Our thinking rests in part on our ability to recognize product... |
| Sep 30, 2019 | Reckoning Reflections | The post I wrote yesterday generated a lot of discussion. I followed it on Twitter and engaged with much of it there.
One of the best things about writing is all of the feedback you get. It helps to sharpen your arguments and also makes you... |
| Jun 3, 2019 | Startup-Insider #42 – Home24 – Outfittery – Google – Tourlane – Kik | Im ds-Podcast Startup-Insider liefern OMR-Podcast-Legende Sven Schmidt und ds-Chefredakteur Alexander Hüsing einmal in der Woche spannende Insider-Infos aus der deutschen Startup-Szene. In jeder Ausgabe gibt es exklusive Neuigkeiten, die bi... |
| Mar 13, 2019 | Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round | You’ve probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point — and companies wondering how else to trounce ... |
| Jul 21, 2018 | Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary | Aurich Lawson reader comments 913 with 358 posters participating, including story author
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| Oct 23, 2017 | От нишевого продукта до многомиллиардного маркетплейса — примеры Uber, eBay, Craiglist | Эндрю Чен, отвечающий за рост числа поездок в Uber, предложил четыре стратегии развития стартапов.
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Маркетплейс легко недооценить.
Когда маркетплейс растет, он может достигнуть больших размеров. Взять крупнейш... |
| Jun 27, 2017 | Dispatch From VentureCrushSF: Why Aren't There More Dead Unicorns in Venture Capital? | Last Thursday, over 800 venture investors, founders, senior executives at tech companies and others in the venture capital ecosystem mingled with winemakers and musicians for our 2017 VentureCrushSF event, featuring music from Grammy nomine... |
| May 9, 2017 | Benchmark just hired Sarah Tavel, the first female general partner in the firm’s history | The storied venture firm Benchmark has added a new general partner, Sarah Tavel, it announced this morning, saying that Tavel’s “career-long desire and commitment to be one of the world’s great venture capitalists” makes her an “ideal addit... |
| Apr 21, 2017 | A Midas List VC on the problem with the Midas List | Earlier this week, Forbes published its annual Midas List, which showcases who the outlet believes to be the top investors in the world. Stuart Peterson of Artis Ventures was on the list — very far down, behind the many VCs whose names are ... |
| Apr 11, 2017 | 2017 VC Market: U.S. Startup Investment Picks Up In Q1 | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Need more data? Click here to read the “Inside The Global Q1 2017 VC Market.”
U.S. startup investment activity somewhat rebounded after a downturn late last year, with larger rounds and an improving ... |
| Mar 28, 2017 | 7 Top VCs Say These Communication Skills Will Set You Apart | |
| Feb 11, 2017 | We’re not in a bubble — we’re in a revolution | Two hundred twenty nine. That was the number of private companies valued at a billion dollars or more—so-called “unicorns”—worldwide in January 2016, according to a report released by VentureBeat. The Wall Street Journal offered a more cons... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Scott Belsky Is No Longer A Full Partner with Benchmark | Scott Belsky is no longer a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark, just seven months after taking the job.
Belsky is a onetime Goldman Sachs associate who in 2006 founded Behance, an online multimedia portfolio platform where he... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Where Are All the Unicorn IPOs? | At last count, there were 172 venture-backed startups valued at $1 billion or more. That’s an unprecedented number. And while private valuations are not indicative of market cap, at least a dozen of those unicorns would have a shot at makin... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Recapalypse now | Craig Hanson Contributor
Craig Hanson is a general partner of NextWorld Capital.
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Military veterans provide a new competitive advantage for tech companies
Recapalypse now
Over the last couple of years of boom t... |
| Jul 31, 2016 | Startups: How to survive the Gartner Hype Cycle | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you work for or with startups, you’ve likely b... |
| Jun 26, 2016 | Uber’s hundreds of freewheeling outposts fueled its growth but also caused headaches | In 2014, Uber’s office in Lyon, France unveiled what’s now the ride-hailing company’s most infamous ad campaign: pairing “hot chick” women drivers with passengers for a 20 minute trip. The promo video, with close-ups of women’s breasts stra... |
| Jun 26, 2016 | Uber’s hundreds of freewheeling outposts fueled its growth but also caused headaches | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In 2014, Uber’s office in Lyon, France unveiled what’s now the ride-hailing company’s most infamous ad campaign: pairing “hot chick” wo... |
| May 20, 2016 | Is the new normal really new? | Alex Rosen Contributor
Alex Rosen is managing director at Ridge Ventures.
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The attributes that define the increasingly critical Data-as-a-Service industry
Building a Series A SaaS valuation estimator (2017 edit... |
| May 15, 2016 | Forget unicorns — it’s all about the narwhal | In November of 2013, Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, introduced us to the Unicorn Club. Since then, the club has grown from 39 members to several hundred. Earlier this month, we all read Bill Gurley’s much-circulated commentary on t... |
| May 2, 2016 | New VC Firm Wants Common Stock, Not Preferred | There has been a lot of talk in venture capital circles over the past year about “structure,” or all of the investor-friendly terms that have been tacked onto later-stage financing rounds for unicorn startups. Those are “dirty” terms (in th... |
| May 2, 2016 | Is the music still playing in 2016 for our dancing unicorns? | Tech VC Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital published an excellent post a couple weeks ago about the dangers (to founders, management, employees, investors, and LPs) of the unicorn financing market. Here, I’ll muse on Gurley’s mostly tech-cent... |
| May 2, 2016 | Jason Robins & 15 Other Tech 'Co-Founders' Join Jamie Goldstein's New VC Firm | After working at North Bridge Venture Partners for 18 years, Jamie Goldstein is launching a new venture capital firm with 16 CEOs and founders at some of Boston’s hottest tech companies, including DraftKings, Wayfair, Acquia and TripAdvisor... |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Handcuffed to Uber | Plenty of people would give everything to be an early employee at seven-year-old Uber. But Uber employees who’ve been with the ride-share company for at least a few years have discovered a considerable downside to their ride with the transp... |
| Apr 22, 2016 | The ‘unicorns’ of Silicon Valley may be in way over their heads | More On: silicon valley
FTC accuses Big Tech of using merger 'loopholes' to dodge antitrust scrutiny Netanyahu reportedly offered lucrative Oracle board seat by Larry Ellison Silicon Valley finds remote work is easier to begin than end Eliz... |
| Apr 22, 2016 | The ‘unicorns’ of Silicon Valley may be in way over their heads | More On: silicon valley
Startup Bolt's valuation tanks after founder slams Silicon Valley 'mob bosses' Texas gov cozies up to Big Tech while publicly scorning social media 'Daddy Elon' or 'racist demagogue'?: Elon Musk divides Twitter staff... |
| Apr 21, 2016 | Don't Kick The Can Down The Road | I’ve been using this term a lot lately – “don’t kick the can down the road”. There is always a desire to push the hard decisions out. I find myself urging entrepreneurs and CEOs to make that hard call today and take the poison and move on. ... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | Lyft gets back to Zimride roots with Lyft Carpool | Back in 2007 co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green envisioned a new kind of mass transportation carpooling system connecting riders and drivers across the nation. They called it Zimride.
But it turned out a lot more people wanted to get a... |
| Feb 8, 2016 | Benchmark Adds A Sixth General Partner: Scott Belsky | Early-stage venture firm Benchmark has added a sixth general partner to its roster: 35-year-old Scott Belsky, a former Goldman Sachs associate who went on to cofound the New York company Behance, an online platform for graphic designers, il... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Let’s Face It, 2015 Was A Pretty Lousy Year For Unicorns | It’s been a pretty awful year to be a unicorn in 2015.
Box and Square went public this year at significantly less than their last private valuation, Box at a 30 percent discount and Square at a 40 percent discount.
Meanwhile, Gilt Groupe, a... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | The Magic Numbers For Startup Health | Dinesh Thiru Contributor
Dinesh Thiru is the vice president of marketing of Udemy.
In this new age of so-called tech “unicorns” and their eye-popping valuations, it’s important to remember that not all revenue is created equal. Indeed, rece... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | How to Design a Pitch Deck: Lessons From a Seasoned Founder | Successful startups are known for their disruptive approach, so it’s interesting to see how so many innovative companies are surprisingly conservative (and sometimes sloppy) when it comes to their pitch deck — a curious fact considering the... |
| Aug 26, 2015 | Two Lies And A Truth About “The Bubble” | Maxwell Wessel Contributor
Maxwell Wessel is a VC at Sapphire Ventures.
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Building A Framework For Sustainability
Software For The Full-Stack Era
There has been a lot of discussion about startup valuation over t... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Q&A: Why The Most Famously Libertarian VC Firm Is Diving Deep Into Education And Health | While my curlicued co-worker Josh Constine continues to cover the Meerkats and Free apps of the world, there’s a fascinating counter-trend of serial entrepreneurs, who have been successful in the consumer web, going into extraordinarily dif... |
| May 30, 2015 | A Fundraising Template Every Entrepreneur Can Use | Sunil Rajaraman Contributor
Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder of Scripted.com
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‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: Former Pinterest president, Moment CEO Tim Kendall on smartphone addiction
‘This is Your Lif... |
| May 13, 2015 | IPOs are not liquidity events | The world is abuzz about liquidation preferences right now so it’s really important to understand that IPOs are not liquidity events.
In multiple articles, I’ve seen writers assume that liquidation preferences protect late stage investors ... |
| May 6, 2015 | Are We Already Rebundling Mobile? | Hard to believe that it was only a year ago that the clear trend, led by Facebook’s Messenger App, and Foursquare’s Swarm App, was towards unbundling experiences on mobile and building single purpose, highly focused applications. |
| Apr 15, 2015 | IPO Scorecard: Etsy’s IPO will be a point against bubble proponents | [“IPO Scorecard” is a column born out of widespread concerns that we’re in a tech bubble. It looks at the performance of prior private investments in newly public companies to track how later-stage investments are impacting company valuatio... |
| Mar 29, 2015 | Unpacking Etsy’s S1 | Ezra Galston Contributor
Ezra Galston is a venture capitalist with Chicago Ventures.
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Unboxing Stitch Fix’s S-1
The Middleman Strikes Back
Editor’s note: Ezra Galston is a venture capitalist with Chicago Ventur... |
| Mar 21, 2015 | How to protect yourself as middleman in a marketplace | Internet marketplace businesses (ranging from Craigslist to eBay to Airbnb, among many others) earn fees for connecting buyers and sellers. Most early Internet marketplaces like Craigslist were simple listing services, but more compelling t... |
| Mar 21, 2015 | How to protect yourself as middleman in a marketplace | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Internet marketplace businesses (ranging from Cra... |
| Mar 14, 2015 | What the gig economy can learn from the direct sales industry | Gig worker startups such as Uber, Homejoy, and Instacart have taken the world by storm. But as companies employing this model continue to scale, they are discovering that managing large, independent workforces requires competencies beyond b... |
| Feb 1, 2015 | Jeff Bezos’ brilliant advice for anyone running a business | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you want to build a successful, sustainable bu... |
| Feb 1, 2015 | Jeff Bezos’ brilliant advice for anyone running a business | If you want to build a successful, sustainable business, don’t ask yourself what could change in the next ten years that could affect your company.
Instead, ask yourself what won’t change, and then put all your energy and effort into those ... |
| Jan 25, 2015 | Investors Want Proof You’re High Fantasy | Michael Staton Contributor
Recently, TechCrunch published a post presenting differing investment theories of those in venture capital, unicorns vs. dragons. In the article, an investor legitimately claimed that a unicorn is a good analog fo... |
| Nov 17, 2014 | After Uber, Spotify To Take Car Strategy Up Another Gear With BMW Deal | Update: The BMW deal got confirmed a day later, as we reported. Spotify with integrate with in-car systems for BMW and Mini cars. Original article below.
Today Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek formally confirmed a partners... |
| Nov 2, 2014 | Be Smarter Than That, Uber Users | Uber surprised a 26-year-old Baltimore woman with a spooky Halloween bill that hit $326 on a routine ride, resulting in her inability to pay her rent and general Internet outrage.
Gabrielle Wathen posted to the site GoFund.me, saying that s... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Airbnb and Uber Face Some Harsh Realities | Airbnb and Uber are maturing startups both facing some hard realities as they grow. While they have found a loyal and happy user base, they are facing tough resistance from not just the taxi and hotel industries they are disrupting, but als... |
| Sep 15, 2014 | Venture capitalist Bill Gurley: Tech sector is overheating, and the boom could end | Bill Gurley at the 2013 GeekWire Summit. (Photo by Eugene Hsu)
All good things must come to an end.
And Benchmark’s Bill Gurley — one of the most successful venture capitalists on the planet — thinks the current tech boom is starting to sho... |
| Jul 5, 2014 | The New Fast Food | Matt Mireles Contributor
Editor’s note: Matt Mireles is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. His first company, SpeakerText, was acquired by CloudFactory in 2012 after raising $1.1MM from Google Ventures, Mitch Kapor and others. ... |
| Jun 24, 2014 | Jason Kilar’s New Startup Vessel Comes Out Of Hiding, With Backing By Greylock And Benchmark | Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is finally ready to talk about what he’s been up to over the last year or so. Well, kind of.
Today Kilar, along with ex-Hulu CTO Richard Tom announced that they are working on a startup called Vessel, “whose miss... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | Priceline Buys Israel’s Qlika For $15-20M To Boost Global Expansion With Rocket Science-Powered Ad Tech | Qlika launched out of UpWest’s fourth batch of Israeli-American startups in March to tackle a big problem in online marketing: Localization. In other words, what’s the point of spending millions of dollars on marketing campaigns — across se... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity | Anand Iyer Contributor
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Editor’s note: Anand Iyer is the Head of Product at Threadflip. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Hitpost, acquired by Yahoo, and managed product at IGN ... |
| Oct 28, 2013 | Kids Love Snapchat Because They See Facebook Like Adults See LinkedIn | Kids are in a petri dish, where their every social post can be scrutinized and used against them. That’s why disappearing media startup Snapchat is important, says its investor, Benchmark‘s Bill Gurley. Teens don’t want their daily lives pe... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | Teaming up with THE Football App | Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major dif... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Stitch Fix, The Online Personal Shopping Startup, Sews Up $12 Million Series B Led By Benchmark | San Francisco startup Stitch Fix has closed on $12 million in a new funding round led by Benchmark as it looks to further scale out its tech-powered personal shopping and delivery service for women.
The funding, which is Stitch Fix’s Series... |
| Aug 18, 2013 | Required Reading Regarding Mobile | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
It’s clichéd, overplayed, and the obvious new normal: Mobile is the big, fundamental force driving consumer tech. Yes, we all know that, but ... |
| Jun 23, 2013 | The Series A Crunch Is No Match For Man’s Best Friend | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
With all the barking in startup-land these days, it can be tempting to dismiss certain categories as “another sign of the bubble.” For exampl... |
| May 28, 2013 | Tim Cook says U.S. tax code is 'absolutely crazy' | TERRANEA RESORT, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. — Fresh off his appearance in front of a Senate subcommittee regarding his company’s offshore tax avoidance strategy, Apple chief executive Tim Cook made a pitch for tax reform.
But it’s not just... |
| Mar 16, 2013 | If You Think 10% Is A Good Transaction Fee For Your Marketplace, Then It Will Struggle | Editor’s note: Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace for businesses to create content at scale; Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and 1,000 customers. Follow Sunil on Twitter @subes01.
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| Feb 26, 2013 | Facebook’s amazing disappearing tax trick | A funny thing happened during Facebook’s IPO.
A company that looked like a model corporate citizen, paying high tax rates for its pre-IPO years of 2010 and 2011, suddenly turned into one of those giant corporations that pay no tax at all.
W... |
| Feb 1, 2013 | Why Berlin’s startup scene is growing // Using apps to fight cancer // Under Armour income increases 54% in Q4 [Links] | Why Berlin’s startup scene is growing [San Francisco Chronicle]: “A number of issues prevent entrepreneurs there from really breaking out, from risk-averse investors to a lack of Silicon Valley-trained talent.”
All Revenue is Not Created Eq... |
| Jan 13, 2013 | Iterations: Lessons We Can Draw From Cherry | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Every week, it seems, a new marketplace or services business is born. Some of the hottest companies of 2012 — after photo-sharing apps, of co... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Ubuntu’s Quixotic Mobile War: HTML5 – Not Linux – Is The Key | Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has never been one to think small. Walking down Oxford Street in London a few years back, he told me that one thing his money gives him is the ability to “see into the future a few years,” buying things t... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Apple v. Google will define the fourth wave of online mapping | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With all of the grumbling these days about Apple’... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Apple v. Google will define the fourth wave of online mapping | With all of the grumbling these days about Apple’s new maps in iOS, one would think Apple just made the biggest mistake in its history. Yes, Apple’s maps aren’t as good as Google’s. But Google’s maps weren’t as good as the maps they replace... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula | This is a guest post written by Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park, Calif. He blogs at Above The Crowd. You can follow him on Twitter at @bgurley. |
| May 1, 2012 | Intuit Grabs for Bigger Chunk Of Small-Business SaaS Market With Demandforce Buy | In announcing plans to buy Demandforce, a marketing Software-as-a-Service provider, Intuit is signaling its intention to grab a bigger share of the high-end of the small business market.
With its market-leading Quickbooks product, Intuit is... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Intuit Acquires Marketing SaaS Company Demandforce For $423.5M In Cash | Intuit has just acquired marketing SaaS company Demandforce for $423.5 million in cash.
Demandforce’s SaaS application automates internet marketing and communications, so customers can focus on running their day-to-day operations. The start... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Intuit to buy SMB marketing software player Demandforce for $423.5M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Business-software giant Intuit has agreed to acqu... |
