Homebrew's Satya Patel and Hunter Walk team up with 8 VCs to launch Screendoor, a $50M fund to back up to 15 underrepresented investors raising their first fund
Homebrew's Satya Patel and Hunter Walk team up with 8 VCs to launch Screendoor, a $50M fund to back up to 15 underrepresented investors raising their first fund
Covering venture capital, software and startups — Would-be venture capitalists looking to raise a fund for the first time often face …
After documenting botnet attack on ProPublica, DFR Lab faced its own attack from bots and impersonators, who use follows, likes, retweets to intimidate users
Twitter bots unleashed in a social media disruption tactic Tweets: Dave Zatz / @davezatz : Twitter should be able to programatically remove or restrict these nuisance accounts... Also still waiting on...
The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses
I have been reading the slow but meaningful fall … Reed Albergotti / The Information : Venture Capitalists, Tech Leaders Back ‘Decency Pledge’ Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Binary Capital reportedly d...
If users prioritize big-data AI services, like those offered by Google, Amazon, Facebook, then Apple will be in a position similar to BlackBerry was in 2007
Before the iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry was the king of smartphones. They seemed unstoppable, because by most accounts … Tweets: @hunterwalk , @bryfitz , @craigmod , @benthompson , @benbajarin , @ericksc...
John Doerr to Step Aside From New Venture Funds at Kleiner Perkins, Become Chair
Friday, April 1 Katie Benner / New York Times : John Doerr to Step Aside and Become Chairman at Kleiner Perkins Alex Konrad / Forbes : VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Is In Transition As Billionaire Leader Jo...
Oculus Has Hired Former Flipboard, Hulu Product Exec Eugene Wei to Run Video
Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company, has hired former Hulu SVP Eugene Wei as its new head of video. Wei was most recently head of product at Flipboard, and also spent seven years at Am...
Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, but MAUs excluding SMS fast followers declined to 305M in Q4 from 307M in Q3
at last Matt McGee / Marketing Land : Twitter's 2016 Roadmap: Live Video Ads, Easier Replies, Expanding Moments & More Marty Swant / Adweek : Twitter's User Growth Stalls for the Second Quarter in a R...
A breakdown of October 2014 fundraising documents from WeWork, which raised $400M in June 2015 at a $10B valuation
and that could be a problem Brendan O'Connor / The Awl : WeParty Like It's 1999 — Last week, members of WeWork … Tweets: Hunter Walk / @hunterwalk : @nitashatiku the @WeWork pitch is fascinating. ...
Stripe announces Relay, a set of tools for retailers to enable instant purchases in third-party apps, with Twitter as a launch partner
Today, mobile e-commerce websites … Wall Street Journal : Stripe Simplifies Mobile Purchases on Twitter Street Fight : Street Fight Daily: Stripe's New Mobile Commerce Tool, Can Google Keep Up With Ch...