“Microschools, also known as pandemic pods due to their rise in popularity as a result of COVID-19, are small groups of families or friends, usually no more than 10, who meet in person to be taught daily by a single […]
“Oatly doesn’t think like the rest. They’ve been around for 20 years as a Swedish company fighting for attention. Last week, the oat milk company raised $200mm at a $2bn valuation. This is a lesson on creativity and how @oatly […]
The WSJ highlights a few examples of alleged impropriety where Amazon’s Alexa Fund made early stage investments and Amazon later launched competing products. While it’s popular to be critical of Amazon these days, these examples don’t quite paint the “bad […]
An essay from Sam Altman: “The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.” | learn more
“The grocery delivery startup added 300,000 workers in eight weeks, but Covid-19 is still overtaking it in more ways than one.” | learn more
I love this concept, and the name too. “It’s called DeltaV — an engineering term for a change in velocity — and the idea is to formulate startup ideas, get them up and running, then when they’re at the Series […]
In 2018, Steve Blank asked if the lean startup was dead. It was a commentary on Jeff Katzenberg’s media startup raising almost $2B before launch. Well, fast forward to today, and that startup has a name (Quibi) and a teaser […]
A sober warning for startup employees and investors. “How Eero went from a promising start-up to a company facing mass attrition and debt, and what it says about the hardware market today.” | learn more
AngelList analyzed seven years of deals to test assumptions about the nature of venture capital returns. One finding: “At the seed stage, investors would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal.” | learn more
This is only the second Chicago tech company to go public since GrubHub 5 years ago. I love seeing this news! Also, it’s nice that this filing seems to be free of drama and shenanigans (unlike some other recent IPO […]