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The good, better and best of cloud and SaaS growth
Your startup must be this ‘good’ to ride Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. The crew at Bessemer released their new, yearly cloud report this week. It’s a useful lens into how…
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Extra Crunch Live: Join Mark Cuban for a Q&A on April 30 at 11am ET/8am PT
Billionaire. Entrepreneur. Investor. Shark. Mark Cuban is one of tech’s best-known entrepreneurs, so we are amped to have him join us for an upcoming Extra Crunch Live, our virtual speaker series that connects the brightest minds in tech directly with our Extra Crunch audience. Starting out as a salesman for…
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The changing face of employment law during a global pandemic
Prompted by Jeff Bezos’s plans to test all Amazon employees for the virus that causes COVID-19, we wondered whether employers can mandate employee testing, regardless of symptoms. The issue pits public safety against personal privacy, but limited testing availability has rendered the question somewhat moot. But as the World Health…
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Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor More posts by this contributor How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference With Alibaba, Pivotal and Lightbend on board, Reactive flexes its ROI muscle in the microservices world For the vast majority of startup founders who were planning their capital raise in…
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Digging into Europe’s Q1 venture results
Q1 was alright. Q2 and Q3 are going to suffer. Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re taking a look at a bit of data on the European venture capital scene…
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6 investment trends that could emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic
Rocio Wu Contributor Rocio Wu is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital who focuses on early-stage investments in software/applied AI, fintech and frontier tech investments. While some U.S. investors might have taken comfort from China’s rebound, we still find ourselves in the early innings of this period of uncertainty. Some…
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