In a world where sunshine in the news is in something of short supply, the good folks at Thrive Market can add good news for those in need of some to report to the list of things they deliver. You can’t eat it, but after...
In an interesting and certainly watchable turn of events, Lyft has hired investment bank Qatalyst Partners, according to reports that surface in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (June 27). “People familiar with the matter” told WSJ that Qatalyst chairman Frank Quattrone has been part of an...
Circle — a popular social payments app — has just picked up $60 million in new funding that will allow it to make some big steps in China with the creation of a new, Beijing-based company: Circle China. The big-ticket round saw participation from a...
With the big announcement last week that Microsoft has snapped up LinkedIn, perhaps it was only a matter of time before the takeover talk started up in earnest about Twitter. As social media services go, Twitter is the paradigmatic case that perfectly demonstrates the rule...
The Kellogg Company — yes, the cereal and food giant — is in the midst of launching a corporate venture business, which will focus on food and related technology firms for investment purposes. To be known as Eighteen94 Capital — the year the founding Kellogg brothers...
Making it easy for the as-yet-uninitiated investor to jump into the market — or perhaps, more accurately, wade in slowly — has been a focus of a variety of FinTech innovators over the last several years. Most of those startups have focused on the novice...
ShipBob, a Chicago-based startup that offers the equivalent of Amazon Prime’s shipping service, has raised $4 million in Series A funding to help small businesses ship faster. The startup’s business model provides an end-to-end shipping platform that covers running inventory, picking up products from warehouses,...
Still a dearth of tech IPOs this year, making our unicorns skittish about public debuts. Plus, a new U.S. unicorn entrant makes a bow. And a few layoffs to boot.
The recent “Chewbacca Mask” viral escapade demonstrated one solid truth: The finest minds of Madison Avenue – Don Draper himself (were he real) – could not come up with any advertisement for a product better than a truly delighted and satisfied customer. Seeing that...
