Is Uber Bleeding To Death?

Is Uber Bleeding To Death?

Uber has had its share of success as a company. It changed the ridesharing economy, amassed billions of dollars in fundraising and outpaced every company on the unicorn list to become the highest valued startup in history–even surpassing centuries old...
Twilio’s Strong Performance is Good News for the Tech Industry

Twilio’s Strong Performance is Good News for the Tech Industry

By April of this year, only one tech company had gone public. That honor went to Dell’s SecureWorks software, which was introduced to the markets and fizzled rather quickly in an embarrassing but all too common order of events. Tech companies of late have opted to go...
Why Venture Capital for Tech Startups is Making a Comeback

Why Venture Capital for Tech Startups is Making a Comeback

16 years after the dot-com boom, it appeared that the ever expanding world of technology had lost its luster. Promising unicorns began to die more quickly than new ones gained ground, and the overall interest in the largest singular market became rather bleak in terms...
Growth or Profit: What’s Most Important To Investors

Growth or Profit: What’s Most Important To Investors

No one goes into business without looking to be profitable; great ideas could be just that without the additional efforts to establish and run an enterprise of some sort. Yet, once the decision has been made to set up shop, and money and time have both been spent to...
Public vs. Private Market Valuations

Public vs. Private Market Valuations

When talking about market valuations, there is a major difference in the approach that a VC firm will take when evaluating public and private companies. It is largely due to the major differences in available information between the two companies. Trevir Nath of...
The Bootcamp Designed to Help Startups Fundraise

The Bootcamp Designed to Help Startups Fundraise

Fundraising for a startup is probably one of the most stressful tasks for a young CEO. Correctly pitching a business model to encourage investment can determine the future of the startup’s ultimate fate. Without proper financing, a startup simply cannot succeed....
Major Car Companies are Looking to Invest in Ride-Sharing

Major Car Companies are Looking to Invest in Ride-Sharing

Major automakers are teaming up with some of the world’s most important ride-sharing services, signaling possible upcoming changes to the way such apps are used. The Wall Street Journal reports that Volkswagen has invested $300 million in car-hailing startup Gett. The...
An Introduction to Venture Capital

An Introduction to Venture Capital

When many people hear the term, “Venture Capital”, they have no idea what it means. The term can be confusing. The everyday employee has no reason to interact with a VC and quite frankly, it is the financial jargon can be intimidating to even the seasoned financial...
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