Tag: Finance
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Angel investors are flocking to Direct to Consumer (DTC) brands, even as venture firms have pulled back. From a report out this morning in Business Insider: A growing class of angel investors is now swooping in to write the early checks fledgling DTC-brand founders need to bring their products to market. While…
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He’s baaaack! Adam Neumann, the controversial WeWork founder, has a new startup called Flow. This time, Neumann plans to transform the home rather than the workplace. Details are scant, but Flow appears to be a sort of WeWork for apartments. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Today, venture firm Andreessen…
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The SEC is investigating Melvin Capital Management for securities fraud. From a report that broke last night in The Wall Street Journal: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! If Plotkin and other top Melvin executives lied to investors in a fundraising presentation, they committed a very serious crime: securities fraud.…
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It may be tough times in startupland, but one area is bucking the trend: seed stage. Median pre-money valuations are up 33% year over year, according to a report released yesterday by Pitchbook: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Seed is my playground. And seed investors are wise to continue…
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Over $500 billion in venture capital is sitting on the sidelines, according to a report that broke this morning in The Wall Street Journal: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Across the market, fewer deals are getting done. Deals were down 24% in the second quarter, per Pitchbook. That likely…
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I had wandered into a foreign land. The people spoke a strange tongue…CAC, LTV, SMB. How could I join their tribe and learn their ways? I consulted the oracle: Google. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The world of startups has a language all its own. When I started angel…
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A major state-backed investment fund in China is in shambles as several top executives have been arrested. From the MIT Technology Review: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! China’s chipmaking industry descended into chaos last week, with at least four top executives associated with a state-owned semiconductor fund arrested on…
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Note: This is not financial advice. Hedge fund colossus Tiger Global Management is fighting for its life. Its public stock funds have lost between 50 and 64% this year, vaporizing billions. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a report that broke last night in the Financial Times: Chase Coleman’s…
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Trading in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. just gets stranger and stranger. A new report from the SEC shows fails to deliver dropped to 205,675 shares in the first half of July, the latest reporting period. This is down from a high of nearly 9.7 million just two weeks…
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Exciting news out this week as legendary venture firm Sequoia Capital comes to NYC. Its new offices near Union Square are the firm’s first American branch outside the Bay Area. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From The Information: Sequoia Capital, the Menlo Park, Calif.–based venture capital firm known for…
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Tremendous 