Marketplace Pulse: funding for startups that acquire and grow third-party Amazon sellers drops to $2B+ in 2022 so far, down from $12B+ in 2021
Financial Times : Tweets: @daveleeft Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : Ecommerce downtown has left the Amazon aggregators agitated. Deals have slowed; VC funding almost dried up. FOMO no more. “I would...
Bitcoin fell to under $18K on Saturday, below its $19,511 high during its 2017 bull cycle, as ether dropped below $1K; both are down 70%+ since November 2021
what this means Robert Reich / The Guardian : The Crypto Crash: all Ponzi schemes topple eventually Hudson Lockett / Financial Times : Celsius warns it will ‘take time’ to stabilise as bitcoin hovers ...
Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad
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Most VC-backed startups that went public via a SPAC in 2021 have seen their stock drop; Metromile, View, Owlet, and Clover Health are among the worst performers
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @carnage4life , @bigblackjacobin , and @martinsfp Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : SPACs were clearly bad investments (companies going public but avo...
Analysis: since 2011, 60% of VC funds raised in the US every year have been seed funds; the rate of non-seed funds raised has been stable for the past 15 years
Eric Feng : Tweets: @workmj , @howardlindzon , @shaig , @bznotes , and @cristinagberta Tweets: Michael Jackson / @workmj : “15 years ago, it was about 7 investments made before you got one return. No...