Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook's engineering department
There's work, and then there's the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter. Tweets: @alexrkonrad and @jasonlk Tweets: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : At a...
Source: Meicai, an online marketplace in China for vegetables and more, has raised about $800M, led by Hillhouse Capital and Tiger Global, at a $7B valuation
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg : Tweets: @technology , @tekkamana , @jasonlk , and @luluyilun Tweets: @technology : A Chinese rocket scientist's startup that helps farmers sell vegetables to restaurants...
SEC filing: MoviePass ran out of money and couldn't cover the bills causing service outage on Thursday, had to take out short term $6M+ loan due in early August
& What It Means For Its Future Chris Compendio / destructoid : MoviePass ran out of money last night, causing outage Shawn Knight / TechSpot : MoviePass takes out emergency loan to keep the lights on ...
More VC firms are seeking to raise new funds of $1B+ due to startups staying private longer, SoftBank as possible competition, avoidance of stake dilution, more
and not enough great teams and companies to put these sums of money into. http://www.axios.com/... Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : “Even Sequoia Capital has seen its original Airbnb ownership fall from 2...
Sources: in the US, Apple Music subs are growing ~5% a month, may overtake Spotify this summer, which is growing at ~2% a month; Apple says Music has 36M subs
Apple's U.S. subscriber-account base has been growing about 5% a month, versus No. 1 Spotify's 2% clip Tweets: @mgsiegler and @jasonlk Tweets: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : The power of pre-install show...
Global VC funding in 2017 was highest in a decade at $155B, VC investment in AI doubled to $12B YoY, and VC funding in Asia reached $48B+
KPMG : Tweets: @jasonlk and @jasonlk Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : “Global median deal size rose for every deal stage in 2017” ... but ... “Global first-time VC financing fell for the third st...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @mattrosoff , @timbeejones...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @benedictevans , @benedict...
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jasonlk , @cezary , @shitfund , @chriswitkowsky , @preetatweets , and @ddayen Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : Translation: some of the ultra-smartest late stage in...
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jasonlk , @cezary , @shitfund , @chriswitkowsky , @preetatweets , and @ddayen Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : Translation: some of the ultra-smartest late stage in...