Tag: Finance
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What’s scarier than a clown? A pre-revenue startup with a $5 billion valuation. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! That was autonomous trucking startup Embark Trucks, which now faces liquidation. From Crunchbase News: Autonomous trucking startup Embark Trucks capped off one of the faster riches-to-rags stories of the SPAC era, announcing that…
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For decades, if you wanted to build a startup, you had to be in Silicon Valley. But today, the best place might just be Tennessee. Or Omaha. Or Little Rock. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! In today’s market, building away from the coasts offers some huge advantages: 1) Lower…
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What does everyone get wrong about angel investing? What’s the future of Twitter? I dug into that and more recently at Starta VC! Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! A bunch of smart young interns at Starta peppered me with questions for an hour. Their knowledge and depth of thinking…
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Sounds crazy, right? But doubling our population is the goal of one of the hottest new startups, Figure. The catch: half will be robots. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Figure emerged from stealth yesterday, unveiling a humanoid robot. It plans to build one for every person on earth, doubling…
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In 2023, startups are hitting the wall. Many are down to their last few dollars. But how about a loan? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Going into debt is a mistake I am seeing more and more founders make. Debt comes in a variety of forms. Founders use bank…
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Goldman Sachs is under multiple federal investigations of its consumer business. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Reserve are probing areas from credit cards to bank accounts. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a new report in the trade journal PYMNTS: …in its annual report — filed Friday (Feb.…
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When a startup is struggling, what’s the duty of investors? This question is front and center as Sequoia has walked away from controversial startup Citizen, cutting it off from funding and resigning from the board. From a report out this weekend in the Financial Times: Sequoia Capital has resigned from…
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No US venture firm is bigger in China than Sequoia Capital. But as tensions rise, even Sequoia is pulling back. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a report out this morning in The Wall Street Journal: Sequoia Capital has started screening some investments its China arm is considering in…
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Bao Fan did everything right. Despite being one of China’s top tech investors, Bao kept a low profile and hewed to the Communist Party line. Then, he disappeared. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From an article out this morning in The New York Times: …on Valentine’s Day last week,…
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A surprise rally this year has hit short sellers hard. Losses total nearly $17 billion already in 2023: From a report out this morning in Bloomberg: Ten of the most-shorted stocks this year delivered almost $17 billion in combined mark-to-market losses for bears through Thursday, according to data-analytics firm S3…
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Tremendous 