The number of early-stage VC rounds worldwide dropped from about 13.3K in 2014 to about 5.9K this year, with mobile app and SaaS startups hit hardest
Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private “unicorns” valued at $1 billion-plus … Tweets: @adamnash , @trengriffin , @gsands , @lutherlowe , @rrh...
Kickstarter passes $2B in pledges: games have taken $412.4M, the most money of any category, followed by tech with $360M and design with $351.6M
ON OCTOBER 11, THE KICKSTARTER COMMUNITY … Mariella Moon / Engadget : Kickstarter's 9.5 million users have pledged over $2 billion Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Kickstarter has garnered over $2 b...
Most of today's high-growth companies with negative gross margins will ultimately fail, unable to establish a monopoly amid similarly well-funded competition
Negative Gross Margins — There's been a lot of talk coming out of silicon valley lately about fast growing companies … Tweets: @jyarow , @howardlindzon and @mdudas Tweets: Jay Yarow / @jyarow : Fred...