IT総合 Investors cheer as Coinbase beats Q1 expectations
Today after the bell, Coinbase reported its Q1 2023 financial results, handily beating expectations. In the first three ...
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IT総合 IT総合 As generative AI finds its footing in enterprise products, how will companies charge for its use?
Enterprise software companies aren’t wasting any time integrating generative AI into their products. Despite the relativ...
IT総合 Down rounds are prevailing as power shifts to VCs again
It appears things are not going well for startups these days.
Down rounds, or a funding round in which a startup raises ...
IT総合 The ice-breaking IPO we’ve waited for might not come from the US after all
British semiconductor giant ARM is heading back to the public markets after more than five years of private life. Even b...
IT総合 Hey look, OpenAI is even richer now
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 Shares of First Republic are off 40% on reports that the government may step in
Shares of First Republic Bank plunged by nearly 50% Friday, ratcheting pressure on the troubled bank and adding to its m...
IT総合 What is this, revenue growth for ants?
It’s earnings season, that time of the quarter when we get to judge how well public tech firms are fulfilling all ...
IT総合 It’s beyond time we started worrying about unicorn exits
For a single year, it appeared that the venture gambit was going to work out: hundreds of startups hoped to be worth bil...
IT総合 Announcing the Builders Stage agenda at Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt, our yearly flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21 — and you can bet Tec...
IT総合 First Republic’s results are proof that the SVB meltdown was brutal for smaller banks
Shares of First Republic Bank are off 29% in early-morning trading as investors digest its first-quarter earnings result...
IT総合 Unpacking the Twitter blues
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 Early Stage 2023: IRL is B-A-C-K
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Who captures the most value after the SaaS-acre? Enterprises or startups?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 Amid the AI hype, don’t forget about no-code
No-code startup Softr, which allows its customers to build apps from their existing data, announced Tuesday that it has ...
IT総合 As the SEC charges Bittrex, there’s little evidence that it’s relaxing its regulatory posture
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it’s charging Bittrex, a crypto exchange, “for ...
IT総合 Late-stage startups are getting the hang of spending less
Back when Silicon Valley Bank was still pitching a package of financial moves to its customers, it noted in a presentati...
IT総合 What’s an Angry Bird worth?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 So you want to craft a killer pitch deck
Hey, friend!
So, you want to craft a great pitch deck. You want to come up with something authentic, but also informed b...
IT総合 Tech investors’ obsession over profit is already waning
When it became clear that the public market had forever descended from the peaks of 2021, venture investors decided to b...
IT総合 Computer or casino?
It’s been more than a decade since I first starting covering Bitcoin, and I feel like I’ve seen the ups and ...
IT総合 Turns out most unicorns today are more myth than reality
The pace at which new billion-dollar startups are minted is in freefall.
Given what we’ve seen recently concerning...
IT総合 Have startup valuations fallen enough to feel sane again?
Welcome to the new week.
While recording Equity this morning, I noted with surprise an interesting bit of data that got ...
IT総合 The Petty Shall Inherit The Pennies
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance be...
IT総合 3 takeaways from Substack’s newly released financial results
I got excited — very excited — when I found out that Substack’s equity crowdfunding effort would result in it rele...
IT総合 The first group of upcoming potential unicorn IPOs is shaping up well
Sure, it’s demo day week over at Y Combinator, but that doesn’t mean we have to only discuss the smallest an...
IT総合 Without the Stripe and OpenAI deals, global VC results would have been even worse in Q1 2023
Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter, we have poor news for founders: the glob...
IT総合 How hard was it to raise venture capital in Q1?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 What’s a fair price premium for startup shares?
What is a fair price premium for a quickly growing startup? The answer is constantly changing, but recent history teache...
IT総合 Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon
Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for your...
IT総合 Venture interest in Chinese companies remains muted after slow 2022
Welcome to the second quarter, friends. It’s time to take stock of just what went down in the first three months o...