Private Equity
Tumblr's longtime creative director quits.Two years after Twitter acquired Tweetdeck, its founder, Ian Dodsworth, is also out the door. And fantastic color footage of NYC in 1939! And so much more!
1 min read · 31 May 2013
Andreessen Horowitz, the Sand Hill Road firm that’s been in hyper drive since its 2009 founding, today announced its eighth general partner: Lars Dalgaard, the founder of SuccessFactors, a Web-based employee management software company that sold for $3.4 billion in late 2011 to SAP of Germany, where Dalgaard remained until last week.
3 min read · 30 May 2013
Behind the "Internet of Everything" is Android, and it's everywhere. Why this is Elon Musk's moment. Wall Street turns to "boot camps" to bring new workers up to speed. And so much more!
1 min read · 30 May 2013
The founder of TheFunded.com and Founder Institute says that corporate giants that can afford to acquire startups should do so to protect the ecosystem that is right now thriving around them.
4 min read · 30 May 2013
The founder of TheFunded.com and Founder Institute says that corporate giants that can afford to acquire startups should do so to protect the ecosystem that is right now thriving around them
4 min read · 30 May 2013
Facebook's acquisition talks with Waze are reportedly over, Tim Cook and the art of saying nothing, and one Yale student to Tom Friedman: Actually, we really are better than other people. And so much more!
1 min read · 29 May 2013
CoTap has raised $5.5 million from Charles River Ventures and Emergence Capital to help make texting as ubiquitous a work tool as email or phone calls.
2 min read · 29 May 2013
U.S. authorities have shut down a digital money system suspected of cyber-criminal links. Lawrence Summers could replace Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman. And is Twitter becoming too dominant when it comes to news distribution? And so much more!
1 min read · 28 May 2013
Cambridge Associates and the NVCA just released fourth quarter numbers from last year. And while they’re still nothing to boast about in conversations with LPs, they're cause for less embarrassment.
2 min read · 28 May 2013
Socialbakers, a four-year-old, Prague-based analytics platform company that helps brands measure and compare the success of their social media campaigns, has hired James Bodha as CFO. Bodha joins Socialbakers from Myriad Group AG, a leading provider of global social messaging services listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
2 min read · 24 May 2013
