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by asanwal 11y ago
There are currently 144 unicorns valued at $525 billion https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
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by asanwal 11y ago
CB Insights | New York, NY | Full-time We're hiring for just over 50 positions now in engineering (full-stack & machine learning), sales, research, and marketing. All open positions listed here - https://boards.greenhous
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by asanwal 11y ago
I wasn't around for all of the last 300 years of US history as you were it seems, but I suspect the current aversion to doing work and things that seem hard would make many prior generations of Americans cry or potentially laugh at us.
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by asanwal 11y ago
CPS = child protective services? If yes, why? Pushing your kids to achieve and holding them to high expectations is a good thing. It's not child abuse assuming that's what you meant by CPS. If some kids can't hang, that'
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We built a real SaaS company and you won't believe what happened next(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 11y ago
We maintain a real-time list of unicorns and regularly have companies reach out requesting to be added. They're interested enough that they provide paperwork to prove the valuation when we are unable to independently verify. https:&#x
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by asanwal 11y ago
I appreciate this sentiment but if companies want to be regarded as unicorns when things are going well, it seems fair to give them a cute'sy but ridiculous name, unicorpse, when they're on their way down. Many startups actively s
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by asanwal 11y ago
Thanks. It's mostly for fun but given the # of responses we've received, it'll be interesting to see if the wisdom of crowds holds.
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Unicorn bracketology – which startup unicorn is the most undervalued?(cbinsights.com)
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CrunchBase Is Spinning Out(techcrunch.com)
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Amazon as an antidote to life inside the high technology bubble(linkedin.com)
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The most popular domains for startups besides .com(cbinsights.com)
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The CEO of Quirky steps down in the wake of lay-offs and funding struggles(businessinsider.com)
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by asanwal 11y ago
New York, NY CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com) Full-time We're revenue-funded (bootstrapped) and aiming to double our headcount in the next 6 months (to 75). - Full-stack devs - Testing - Industry analysts - Sales & customer success
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Why that crazy-high $24B Airbnb valuation might be fair(cbinsights.com)
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Fin tech startups targeting the millennials(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 11y ago
This is a great post by Sarah. Lyft needs to raise a lot of money as this market is still in land grab mode and Icahn and other Wall Street billionaires are one way to get there. The other fact to consider is that Lyft doesn't have ma
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Will my stock options make me rich?(cbinsights.com)
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Seinfeld vs. Newman aka Andreessen Horowitz vs. Benchmark(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 11y ago
The inevitable bubble chatter will pick up steam again. There are many reasons to believe we're in a bubble and in our view, stronger reasons to believe we're not. Here are several in support of a bubble. 1. There were 9x as man
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by asanwal 11y ago
Yes - the rush of private equity, hedge fund, mutual fund and sovereign wealth fund money has been massive. These unusual suspects have quickly become almost 1/3 of the investment $ into private fast-growth companies. The full 121 page
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Bubbles, unicorns and our crazy private markets [pdf](cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Exactly. There is not a biz (even a "lifestyle one"). Small highly fragmented market with high churn and low price is not a good recipe to build a business. Plus, Fred is grossly underestimating the effort required. Just tracking
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by asanwal 12y ago
CB Insights - New York www.cbinsights.com/jobs Many positions including: - Tech industry analyst - Full stack dev - QA We're bootstrapped, growing to 50 people this year and working on some hard problems. Beating up on industry di
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The FinTech Startups Unbundling Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Supporters of the startup visa should emphasize how it will attract expats instead of immigrants. Amirite?
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by asanwal 12y ago
Twitter just bought Periscope which is a Meerkat competitor for just under $100 million. Meerkat was being talked about as this year's breakout SxSW startup so choking off access right before shows Twitter isn't messing around.
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Unbundling FedEx: The Startups Disrupting FedEx, UPS and the Logistics Industry(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
It's an interesting question Pete. Not sure a brand premium makes the valuation multiples 25x vs 10x, but it might result in some of the divergence between the two. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Note: CEO of CB Insight
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by asanwal 12y ago
The analysis is based on this compilation of 101 startup failure post-mortems https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/

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