SeatGeek didn’t become one of the biggest names in ticketing by following the playbook. It started as a simple ticket search engine on the TechCrunch 50...
A startup hitting unicorn status used to be a sign of its legitimacy as an actual business. But with $1.7B raised for Travis Kalanick’s nascent Atoms,...
Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup just raised $1.7B with Uber, and Andreessen Horowitz among its big investors. Equity digs into whether all this excitement is actually about...
Building a great product is one thing. Getting a company like Nvidia to put its name behind it is something else entirely. In this episode of...
Building an AI startup is one thing. Raising one of the largest seed rounds of the year before launching a product is something else entirely. In...
Down rounds carry a stigma, but they’re not always the end of a startup’s story. Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures shares an example of a company...
Raising your first round has always been hard — but in today’s market, the rules are changing fast. In this episode of Build Mode, our host...
Nobody has to care: that’s the biggest challenge facing many startups. Not every startup that struggles for funding is a bad business. Sometimes the metrics are...
This week on Build Mode, we’re diving back into the archives for a special best-of episode all about startup mistakes, hard-earned lessons, and the decisions founders...
What does the SpaceX IPO mean for the startup ecosystem? Is the AI funding frenzy justified, or is it groupthink at scale? At this StrictlyVC event...