Most coverage of Ross Perot’s death this week focused, understandably, on his presidential runs in 1992 and 1996. But he also was one of the tech industry’s most successful serial entrepreneurs:
Read MoreAfter just over two years on the market, workplace chat app Microsoft Teams says it has surpassed main competitor Slack in regular usage.
Read MoreIn September of 2017, Chamath Palihapitiya, the early Facebook executive who left the company to found venture firm Social Capital, founded Social Capital Hedosophia as a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
Read MoreSuperhuman, an invitation-only email service that costs $30 a month and promises “the fastest email experience ever made,” raised a $33 million investment round, led by Andreessen Horowitz last week at a whopping $260 million valuation.
Read MoreThis week a major fire engulfed two Jim Beam bourbon barrel warehouses on McCracken Pike in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Read MoreAnheuser-Busch InBev disclosed this week that it will seek to raise upwards of $9.8 billion in a Hong Kong IPO of its Asia-Pacific business.
Read MoreAfter The Economist released a study that postulated if the state of California were an independent country, it would have the fifth largest economy in the world, GZeroMedia made the same comparison for all 50 states.
Read MoreTypically if you’re growing at a rapid pace, you’re investing heavily in sales and marketing. If you’re growing slowly, you should hope you’re running a profitable operation. In SaaS, the “Rule of 40” is an excellent way to measure your value and attractiveness to investors.
Read MorePlant-based proteins are all the rage these days with the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meats snagging headlines
Read MoreLess than a decade after Amazon broke into the logistics industry, it has become its own biggest shipper.
Read MoreTomasz Tunguz, the metric-mad-scientist of the venture world, recently released his template for key metrics in a SaaS business.
Read MoreU.S. consumers spend nearly $10 billion on spray cleaners each year, but report close to zero brand identification or preference.
Read MoreShopify is hands-down the biggest sleeping giant in tech, and this week they made some big waves.
Read MoreSlack, the quirky workplace chat app, had a smooth opening day on the market yesterday for its direct listing. This was especially newsworthy for two reasons:
Read MoreFacebook has secured the backing of over a dozen companies for its upcoming Libra cryptocurrency set to be announced next week, The Wall Street Journal reports. These companies include major financial organizations like Visa and Mastercard, and internet darlings like PayPal, Uber, Stripe, and Booking.com. Each will invest around $10 million to fund development of the currency, and will become part of the Libra Association, an independent consortium that will govern the digital coin independently of Facebook.
Read MoreGain a new respect for UI designers in a single picture.
Read MoreChewy, which was bought by retailer PetSmart in 2017 for nearly $3.4 billion in 2017, priced its initial public offering Thursday at $22 a share.
Read MoreIt used to be that ERP systems ruled the data landscape in the business world. But as SaaS tools that specialize in key functions of a business improve, businesses of all sizes are adopting an increasingly higher number of productivity tools.
Read MoreIndependent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals last week to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm's share structure.
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