Billionaire investor Peter Thiel may have been trying to drum up more support for Republican candidate Donald Trump this morning at the National Press Club in Washington. But a 15-minute long speech he delivered sounded more like a plea to Americans to understand what’s so wrong with this country,...
Showing posts with label Connie Loizos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connie Loizos. Show all posts
Monday, 31 October 2016
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Wish is raising again, and giving late-stage investors protection
Wish, a San Francisco-based e-commerce mobile app that’s taken off in the U.S. and Europe by selling watches, clothing and other items extremely cheaply, is raising a new round of funding, a new filing shows. (The research company CB Insights spied the filing first.) Neither the size of the...
Friday, 28 October 2016
Accel cofounder Jim Swartz: It hasn’t burst, but it’s a bubble all right
Earlier this week, the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, a “hub for entrepreneurship” in the center of Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus, was officially launched in an event attended by upwards of 600 students, alums, and professors. They’ll have even more to celebrate when construction...
Thursday, 27 October 2016
A founder seizes on anti-Trump sentiment to market women-friendly workflow software
Earlier this year, Kristen Koh Goldstein merged two of her companies, three-year-old Scalus and six-year-old BackOps into a new company called HireAthena, a back-office-as a service startup that also sells fully automated workflow software. From the start, the company has aggressively marketed...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Lending Club zooms into car refinancings in turnaround effort
Many Americans learned through Lending Club that they can refinance their credit card debt online; now, the lending marketplace Lending Club is hoping they’ll discover that it’s possible to refinance their credit card debt online, too. Though automotive lending is a massive...
Eero looks to help employee whose 10-year-old son was burned by peers
Eero, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based maker of a smart wireless routing system, is asking employees to help one of their colleagues after his special-needs son was burned in a fire set by some of his same-age peers. According to a report in Fox News, the 10-year-old was placed in an induced...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016
IPO Pro Lise Buyer on what you need to IPO in the next six months
Last week, I sat down with IPO pro Lise Buyer to talk about the Bay Area ecosystem for a Sirius XM radio show that’s broadcast from Wharton’s San Francisco campus. Buyer was the host and I was the guest, but because the IPO market is top of mind for so many in the startup industry right now, I...