This isn’t a startup, but it’s certainly innovation. “Japan’s Daikin has kicked off an air conditioning “subscription” service in Africa that let’s users turn on the AC – only on days they need it – through a smartphone app. … […]
The Chinese coffee startup (founded 2017) was a high-flyer until April 2020 when it came out they had fabricated sales figures. I stopped paying attention then, but China really wants a domestic alternative to Starbucks. | learn more
“By all appearances, Great Jones was a startup success story. Launched by the childhood friends Sierra Tishgart and Maddy Moelis in 2018, the direct-to-consumer kitchenware line positioned itself as a hipper, more affordable update to legacy brands such as Le […]
“The market is scorching hot, with startups across all growth stages getting funded faster and at higher valuations.” | learn more
“A startup has three main activities: (1) recruit a team to (2) build a product and (3) sell and service the product. Competition influences each of those functions.” | learn more
“The first thing to confront is that as a CEO you’re the company’s primary salesperson. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development.” | learn more
Pietro Invernizzi: “I thought I’d dig a bit deeper, to come up with a big list of unique companies & ideas for everyone interested in the wider space, adding a couple categories to Merci’s & CB Insight’s maps and adding […]
JB Straubel, the Tesla co-founder and former CTO, is deep in the battery recycling game. Historically recycling compliance for batteries has been low, but that must change as the volume keeps increasing. “Why Amazon and Panasonic are betting on this […]
I’ve been casually following Opendoor since they were just a tiny startup buying and selling houses in Arizona. Now they’re about to go public via a SPAC at a $4.8 billion valuation. Here’s the bull case for “the Amazon of […]
“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 […]