Play buttonMoviePass Now that MoviePass is dead, can we please start funding sensible businesses?TNW - Matthew HughesAs we reported earlier today, MoviePass is shutting down. It leaves behind a few now-useless cards, and several major VC funds out of pocket to the tune of $68.7M. Make no mistake, this was a completely
Money Can you make money selling your data?BBC News - Sam HarrisonCambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie. The firm allegedly used the data of 50 million Facebook users to try to influence the 2016 US election (Credit: Getty Images) At 10p, I’ve maxed out
Marketing 6 Examples of Incredible Content Marketing From Technology Companiescontently.com What exactly is a technology company in 2019? Just as every class offered at a women’s college is partially a gender studies course, every company …
Banking startup N26 raises another $170 million at $3.5 billion valuationTechCrunch - Romain DilletFintech startup N26 is raising $170 million a few months after raising $300 million. While it’s technically structured as a new round, the company considers today’s new funding as an extension of the D
Employment These are the 28 hottest tech startups to work at, according to LinkedInBusiness Insider - Rebecca AydinLinkedIn recently analyzed and rounded up the 50 best US startups to work for in 2019. LinkedIn says it selected the startups based on four factors: employee growth, job seeker interest, member engagement
MoviePass MoviePass Is Shutting Down on September 14VICE - Caroline HaskinsMoviePass, a movie-watching subscription service that allowed customers to see a maximum of one movie per day for a flat fee of $19.95 per month, is shutting down on September 14, according to a news press
Weird All the weird stuff that happens to you after you close your roundTechCrunch - Matt RodakWe just closed our $11 million Series A financing, and within 15 minutes of the news hitting the wire, the weirdness began. It turns out that once you announce to the world that you have money, everyone
Commercial Real Estate 3 Tech CEOs Transforming The Commercial Real Estate IndustryForbes - Robert ReissIt’s no secret that many industries have experienced disruption from technological innovation, from Uber’s effects on the taxi industry to Amazon’s impact on the retail sector. Yet, the commercial real
Startups JobTeaser scores £45M for its graduate recruitment platformTechCrunch - Steve O'HearJobTeaser, the graduate recruitment and career guidance platform, has raised £45 million in new funding to help it expand its careers service to more students across the U.K. and Europe. The investment
Startups 4 Important Things I Wish I'd Known When I Became an EntrepreneurInc Magazine - QuoraWhat are some good advice for young people who are considering entrepreneurship? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better the
Uber Uber Makes Further Cuts to Its Staff as Losses Pile UpBloomberg - Lizette Chapman Uber Technologies Inc. is dismissing 435 employees, the second major staff cut this summer, as the company faces mounting losses and a declining …
Startups Drivetime nabs $11M from Makers Fund, Amazon and Google to build voice-based games for driversTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenFully autonomous cars may (or may not) be just around the corner, but in the meantime, a startup that’s building in-car apps to help human drivers pass the time when behind the wheel has raised a round
Startups SimShine raises $8 million for home security cameras that use edge computingTechCrunch - Catherine ShuSimShine, a computer vision startup based in Shenzhen, has raised $8 million in pre-Series A funding for SimCam, its line of home security cameras that use edge computing to keep data on-device. The funding
Google The great break-up of big tech is finally beginningThe Guardian - Matt StollerLast week, state attorneys general, led by Texas and New York, announced investigations into Google and Facebook for possible antitrust violations. This is a big deal. No society has ever centralized of
Startups Syte snaps up $21.5M for its smartphone-based visual search engine for e-commerceTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenVisual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: if a person don’t know the exact name of what he or she wants, or what they want is not available, it can an
WeWork WeWork Goes From Hot to Not as Dream Value Plunges $45 BillionBloomberg - Giles Turner The pitch was beguiling: WeWork could soon become a $65 billion company. That’s what Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bankers were saying only earlier this …
Startups APIs are the next big SaaS waveTechCrunch - Daniel LevineWhile the software revolution started out slowly, over the past few years it’s exploded and the fastest-growing segment to-date has been the shift towards software as a service or SaaS. SaaS has dramatically
Tech Industry Facebook Is Eyeing Engineers at New York Banks in Hiring SpreeBloomberg - Olivia Carville Watch out Wall Street, Facebook Inc. is coming for your engineers. The Menlo Park, California-based social media giant plans to double its headcount …
Mobile Technology How Uber Went Down in FlamesWIRED - Condé Nast Once upon a time, there was a true unicorn, a startup named Uber. Led by CEO Travis Kalanick, the company broke all the rules of business and truly …
Startups Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companiesTechCrunch - Kate ClarkHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we recorded on location at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise San
Insurance How a stealthy insurance tech startup bootstrapped its way to a $2.35B acquisition in less than 4 yearsgeekwire.com - Monica Nickelsburg It started as conversations between two friends about how to improve the insurance and financial services industries for consumers. That idea turned …
Technology IT budgets 2020: How the money will be spent, and who will spend itZDNet - Charles McLellan IT budgeting is challenging at the best of times, but for 2020 an extra helping of political and economic instability -- possibly even global …
Technology Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.MIT Technology Review - Lauren Smiley “All these microaggressions people talk about?” Tom Kamber says. “Just imagine what it’s like when you’re 75.” People knock you out of the way on the …
Tech Industry The A.I. of the Deal: These Data-Rich Startups Want to Automate SalesFortune - Tiernan Ray Most people know about one of the greatest salespeople of all time, Steve Jobs. When Jobs introduced the first iPhone, in January of 2007, he had to …
Finance Why ‘Zombie’ Companies Are on the Rise—and Could Pose a Threat to the U.S. EconomyFortune - Chris Taylor In the famous teen comedy “Weekend At Bernie’s”, when their boss dies, a couple of staffers deal with his cadaver the only way they know how: Putting …
To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual ResearchersWIRED - Lilly Irani and Rumman Chowdhury The stereotype of the visionary male founder dominates Silicon Valley. The “move fast and break things” culture rewards those who announce promising …
News Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-AgedThe New York Times - Seema JayachandranThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Because of an editing error, a picture caption with an earlier version of this article misstated the age at which Steve Jobs co-founded
Pottery How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startupTechCrunch - Matt Altman & Tyler EllistonEntrepreneurship in consumer packaged goods (CPG) is being democratized. Every step of the value channel has been compressed and made more affordable (and thereby accessible). At VMG Ignite, we have worked
Investing Should you raise equity venture capital or revenue-based investing VC?TechCrunch - David TetenMost founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. But should they? Or should they look to one of the new wave of revenue-based investors? Revenue-based investing (“RBI”) is a
