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Back to news homeBetter.com teaches us how not to downsize a company
Over the past four months, digital mortgage lender Better.com has conducted a mass layoff not once, but twice. The company also badly botched a mass layoff not once, but twice. […]
Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas […]
Hear from these amazing investors and founders on TechCrunch Live this April
TechCrunch Live has an exciting slate of episodes scheduled for April. The speakers come from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and locations. Like always, each episode features an entrepreneur presenting […]
TechCrunch+ roundup: YC demo days, pitching warm up drills, Kentucky’s Bitcoin miners
The sidewalks along University Avenue in Palo Alto used to be a great place to do business. For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out […]
5 crypto tax tools that could save your ass on Tax Day
If you’re among the 16% of Americans who transacted with or traded cryptocurrency last year, you’re probably breaking a sweat about the looming deadline to file your taxes (that’d be […]
Token and equity management startup Sprout raises $3M led by Sequoia
As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, attracting individual and institutional investors, digitally-savvy employers realize tokens are an increasingly attractive form of compensation, especially for their millennial staff. But paying employees in digital […]
Robinhood’s stock pops 25% on news of extended trading hours
Robinhood, the popular investing app for consumers, announced on Tuesday it would extend its stock trading hours in the morning and in the evening as it works towards its goal […]
Crypto mining is approaching a key inflection point
Warren Rogers Contributor Warren Rogers is CFO at Blockware Solutions, a former venture capitalist and founder, and a blockchain maximalist. The crypto mining space is approaching a key inflection point. […]
a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’
Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way. When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more […]