What’s better: growing quickly or making lots of money? The answer, in startup terms, is both. But because there is a natural tension between growth (which usually comes with incremental […]
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Back to news homeVenture capital will soon be brimming with ghosts
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. […]
Twitter just keeps getting more expensive
That Elon Musk closed his buy of Twitter this week has been wall-to-wall news. With the former executive team out, jokes in and Musk now in control of the social service, […]
Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. […]
Maybe we didn’t deserve any IPOs this year
From one perspective, DoorDash is a bargain today. The same goes for Coinbase, UiPath, AppLovin, Oscar Health, Bumble, and Qualtrics. Indeed, if you pick nearly any 2021 technology IPO and […]
Zombie startups
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. People leave jobs for all kinds of […]
Green shoots appear in crypto land as winter reigns
Now comfortably into Q4 2022, TechCrunch is busy looking at a mountain of data from the third quarter, hoping to solidify our understanding of where the market for startup deal-making […]
Toil and trouble and … startup acquisitions!
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I think it took maybe three days […]
How expensive is Elon’s Twitter buy?
News that well-known technology denizen Elon Musk intends to move forward with his proposed and accepted bid to purchase social media company Twitter was surprise news this week; Musk had fought […]
Welcome to spooky season in startups
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. A multibillion dollar acquisition, IPO projections and some […]