Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction
Navin Chaddha Contributor Share on Twitter Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield, an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. More...
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Steve Blank Contributor Share on Twitter Steve Blank is a founding faculty at the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, an adjunct professor at Stanford and a...
View ArticleRobinhood to lay off 9% of full-time employees
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced Tuesday that it was laying off 9% of its full-time employees. Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Robinhood had 3,400 employees, and though that did not specify...
View ArticleAmazon stock plunges to two-year low following first-quarter loss
Amazon stock plunged to a two-year low as shares slid as much as 12% on Friday morning after the company reported its first-quarter results yesterday. The company reported a loss of $3.84 billion, or...
View ArticleRobinhood to let users lend out their shares in its attempt to diversify revenue
Trading platform Robinhood is launching a feature that will allow its users to lend out their stocks in hopes of earning passive, recurring income from borrowers, the company announced today. Robinhood...
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The stock-market impact of Apple’s WWDC keynote
Each and every time Apple collects the technology press for an event, TechCrunch takes the time to track the impact of the company’s announcements on the value of its equity. The result is usually...
View ArticleDeal terms look different in a downturn. Here’s what to watch out for
The last decade has been pretty friendly to startup founders at the deal table. Term sheets got shorter and deals became less structured. Capital was abundant, the exit window wide open and the outlook...
View ArticleLate-stage tech companies must do right by their employees: Reassess your...
Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor Share on Twitter Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi, an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor Inside Secfi’s...
View ArticleRobinhood almost imploded during the GameStop meme stock chaos
The House Committee on Financial Services released a report late last week offering a harrowing glimpse inside Robinhood during the frenzy around Gamestop stock early last year. The stock trading and...
View Article4 negotiation points startup founders must focus on in a down market
John Weaver Contributor Share on Twitter John Weaver is CEO of 22 Ventures, an angel firm that offers founders connections, entrepreneurial experience and a genuine concern for their well-being. For...
View ArticleLondon fails to retain Atlassian as it heads stateside in search of a...
Despite multiple overtures by the British government to woo tech companies and keep the largest ones from defecting to the U.S., the latest example of the failure of this policy comes with the news...
View ArticleHere’s how to protect your equity if you get laid off
Adam Keesling Contributor Share on Twitter Adam Keesling works for Compound, a company that specializes in helping tech founders and employees manage their financial lives, starting with their...
View ArticleSnap stock is getting obliterated
Investors in social media company Snap are reeling this afternoon as the stock has endured a bit of a meltdown following its release of Q2 earnings yesterday. The stock price is down nearly 40% for the...
View ArticleWhat does the SEC’s warning shot at crypto mean?
Yesterday was a big day for the crypto industry. A former Coinbase product manager was arrested alongside his brother and a friend, and charged with running a cryptocurrency insider trading scheme by...
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How investors can still get strong returns from late-stage tech startups
Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor Share on Twitter Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi, an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor Late-stage tech...
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Ghanaian fintech SecondSTAX allows investors to access capital markets...
African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. For instance, a South African investor who wants to...
View ArticleHere’s why ServiceNow’s stock soared in a week of dismal tech earnings reports
If you’re a regular reader of this publication, chances are you know that it hasn’t been a great year for many tech company stocks — one in which giants like Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet have been mauled...
View ArticlePotential ‘meme stock’ Reddit will let Redditors sell shares immediately
Reddit’s IPO should be interesting to watch — and not just because the business remains unprofitable, but also because of how the company has chosen to bring in its community of active users and...
View ArticleTipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got...
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View ArticleDeepSeek triggered a wild, baseless rally for some Chinese stocks
Hype around DeepSeek sent the stock price of several Chinese companies soaring, but proof of their ties to DeepSeek is non-existent.
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