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Kleiner Perkins looks to raise $1.3B across two funds

One of the strangest things about this economic downturn is how it has only affected one side of the equation. Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 5/21/16

AT&T acquired Quickplay, a cloud-based platform providing managed services for the distribution of multi-screen video to IP-connected devices, from private equity investment firm Madison Dearborn Read More

How does UrbanSitter make money?

Updated with more information about UrbanSitter's Online Payment Fee The sharing economy can be difficult to classify, but generally it seems Read More

A third of Americans have never heard of Uber

Over $9 billion in venture capital. A $62.5 billion valuation—the highest in the world for a private company. Nearly 7,000 Read More

Most Americans have accessed the sharing economy

Here in San Francisco, we have a somewhat skewed sense of things. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if you said you Read More

Tom Griffiths: the future of FanDuel is more social

At Vator Splash Spring last week, Paul Martino, Partner at Bullpen Capital, and Tom Griffiths, CPO and Co-founder of FanDuel, talked about a Read More

Twitter to shareholders: let Dorsey give shares to employees

As Twitter has been struggling to keep its user numbers up, as well as its stock price, one of its Read More

Oculus answers Sen. Franken’s questions about privacy

In April, Senator Al Franken from Minnesota sent to a letter to Brendan Iribe, co-founder and CEO of Oculus, asking him to clarify Read More

Tom Hutton joins Board of Directors at Slice Labs

The insurtech startup Slice Labs has brought Tom Hutton onto the Board of Directors. Tom Hutton, Managing Partner of XL Read More

Andy Dunn: Venture capital isn’t always a good thing

It was a question that almost seemed to be rhetorical.“Do you think funding is a good thing or a bad Read More

Uber testing self-driving cars on Pittsburgh streets

Mark another step forward in the inevitable march toward self-driving cars.Uber today announced that it is deploying self-driving cars on Read More

Half the most valued EdTech startups raised money this year

One thing that I hear investors say a lot is that, even when the market is down, the best companies Read More

Nirav Tolia talks monetization, Nextdoor’s value proposition

We've been doing a series for the last few years called What's Your Business Model, where we take companies and Read More

Mark Zuckerberg met with conservatives: here’s how it went

Last week a firestorm broke out when Facebook was accused by a former contractor of routinely preventing stories from conservative Read More

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