Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up
extraordinary experiences from the world's greatest icons Associated Press : Airbnb offering exotic experiences from a Paris museum to the house in ‘Up’ — some for free Natalie Lun...
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services
I am delighted for you that for the moment Meta has given you the ability to put up to to 5 links in your bios. How long they will allow that will be interesting to see. Maybe it...
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded
Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup founders need to “go big or go home?” Tweets: @micahjay1 , @josephfl...
Analysis of 166 tech IPOs from 2010 to 2019: the 30 most valuable startups raised half as much capital and produced nearly 4X the value as the 30 most funded
Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup founders need to “go big or go home?” Tweets: @micahjay1 , @josephfl...
Seed rounds at $100M post-money valuations, now fairly common, are unlikely to perform well for investors, given dilution and early startups' high failure rate
We have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons:
Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns
Benedict Evans : Tweets: @chanezon , @josephflaherty , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @hkanji , @craigmod , @benedictevans , @helgeklein , and @dwellington Tweets: @chanezon : “t...
Indie.vc, a six-year-old effort by O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures to invest small amounts in bootstrapped businesses, shuts down after results left LPs unimpressed
6 years ago, a mysterious Tumblr site appeared on the internet. Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : The idea was to back the next GitHub, which became profitable early on and didn't ...
Low-code database service Airtable raises $185M Series D at $2.58B post-money valuation and launches Airtable Apps, a JavaScript-based no-code development tool
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B
50 percent of its workforce — and shutting down its consumer division: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jon Evans / @rezendi : This is going to go down as one of the biggest failures ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced experts to reframe the debate about screen time, at least temporarily, as devices become portals to employment and education
Go ahead, look at your phone and tablet. Much of it is necessary. Even the frivolous stuff. — We're on Zoom calls six hours per day.
MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times :
MIT researchers say they used AI to discover new potent antibiotics that treat drug-resistant diseases
Machine learning uncovers potent new drug able to kill 35 powerful bacteria — Artificial intelligence has been used to discover new antibiotics effective against untreatable dise...
Source: Fitbit has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners to explore a sale; stock closes up 11.72%
KEY POINTS — Fitbit hires boutique investment firm Qatalyst Partners to explore a sale, according to a person familiar with the matter. — A Fitbit display is seen at a Target st...