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China: Uber but for countries
A unicorn is a legendary mystical animal with a single spiralling horn that is both highly sought after and impossible to find. In techland, however, it represents the hunt for something even more...
View ArticleOf pampered Indian unicorns
Is this unique? We rather doubt it. From JP Morgan on India’s private sector start-up darlings and their publicly listed, markedly less-loved, counterparts (emphasis, theirs, ours and yours if you ask...
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On the profitability of SPECTRE Capital LLP
And why Spectre should consider diversifying their James Bond idiosyncratic risk. You know Spectre. It’s the fictional global criminal syndicate and terrorist organization featured in the James Bond...
View ArticleAlphachat: The power of talk and mythical startup valuations
Sherry Turkle wants you to put down your phone and talk to someone The MIT professor and clinical psychologist stops by to discuss her new book, Reclaiming Conversation: the Power of Talk in a Digital...
View ArticleOn the historic art of price gouging
The app economy has a habit of rebranding extremely old businesses practices in terms which make them seem new, innovative and exciting when really they’re not. One such business practice is the...
View ArticleScaling, and why unicorns can’t survive without it
Mike Hearn, a key developer in the bitcoin eco-circus, quit bitcoin on Thursday. He did so with much fanfare. As is the norm these days, he shared his reasoning, angst and rage in a Medium blog post,...
View ArticleQuoth the Zoman: Revenue
The co-founding Zoman* — Deepinder Goyal, that is — took time for a chat with us last week about the change going on in India’s start-up world, a change that has involved hyperbole by many and an...
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On unicorn imperialism
It may have been a slip of the keyboard, but Marc Andreessen’s pro-colonialism Tweet on Wednesday (later retracted) arguably told us more about the mindset of Silicon Valley insiders than anything ever...
View ArticleThe ‘minimum viable product’ infection
Unless you work in the tech sector or the VC funding world, chances are you won’t have heard of the “minimum viable product” approach. But trust us, investors, you really need to know about this if...
View ArticleIs the online takeaway business eating itself?
Fresh stress at India’s star unicorn, Zomato on Wednesday, as year-end figures from one of its key investors showed losses at the “online restaurant discovery” business growing at an eye-watering pace....
View ArticleElizabeth Holmes: still absolutely, resolutely in denial…
First the quote from the Theramos founder herself.... We accept full responsibility for the issues at our laboratory in Newark, California, and have already worked to undertake comprehensive remedial...
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Ve Interactive, the unicorn that hates venture capital
Have you ever got bored shopping online, tried to close the window and basically been told by the computer that you can’t leave? Well, apparently that bit where your computer tells you to keep...
View ArticleVe Interactive: Part Two
Technology startups aren’t known for their humility, but British unicorn Ve Interactive seems to have particularly ambitious forecasting. In January 2015, the company confidently predicted close to a...
View ArticleFarewell, WB21, we hardly knew ya
Singapore’s fintech firm WB21 Pte. has decided to move its European head office from London to Berlin, one of the first startups to quit the UK in favor of the German capital after Britain’s vote to...
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Is Ve Interactive really a unicorn?
In 2013, YuMe floated at $9. It’s now worth less than half that. Marin Software. Same year. Floated at $14, today it trades at $2.35. Tremor Video. 2013 again. Sold at ten bucks a share. Worth just...
View ArticlePearls of wisdom from the boss of tech unicorn Ve Interactive
The secret to building a multi-billion pound tech business, courtesy of Ve Interactive boss David Brown. Continue reading: Pearls of wisdom from the boss of tech unicorn Ve Interactive
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