GOLDMAN SACHS COO: There's a 'massive difference' between this tech bubble...
The chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, one of the leading advisers to technology companies, has said the tech scene is "bubble-ish."Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn fell short of describing the...
View ArticleWhy top investor Bill Gurley hates 'fundraising parties'
"I hate fundraising parties," famed investor Bill Gurley said on stage at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit, during a discussion about whether or not we're in a tech bubble. "Fundraising parties"...
View ArticleWarning sign: Tech companies of all sizes and ages are starting to have layoffs
What do Twitter, Microsoft, and Snapchat all have in common?They have all had layoffs in recent months.The reasons for the layoffs are as varied as the companies' products, but the job cuts provide an...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen: 'We're in a long-term tech bust,' not a bubble
In Silicon Valley, you can't escape bubble talk.On one side of the ring, Benchmark investor Bill Gurley, who was an investor during the dot-com bubble, has been sounding the alarm that companies are...
View ArticleThis is the 'bubble' that people in the tech industry should fear: Leader of...
Sam Altman, leader of startup school and venture-capital fund Y-Combinator, doesn't think we are in a tech bubble.He believes we are in a "tech bust," where technology companies are undervalued. He...
View ArticleSquare IPO is a warning to tech 'unicorns'
San Francisco (AFP) - Mobile payments startup Square said Friday it will raise up to $403 million (£267 million) in its stock offering — but it may be valued less on Wall Street than by private...
View ArticleOne of Europe's top venture capitalists says: 'Maybe that was the top'
Jan Hammer, a partner at Europe's biggest venture capital fund Index Ventures, says we may have just passed the peak for tech valuations, which have been spiralling ever higher this year.Rocketing...
View ArticleUBS: The 'value gap' hasn't been this high since the 2000 tech bubble
UBS thinks we've reached peak "havoc" in European stock markets.Its analysts have made the call to buy stocks that investors have been overly pessimistic about.In a European Equity Strategy note sent...
View Article'The Great Reset': Venture capitalists and startups have shifted from greed...
If the terrible headlines and stock prices are to be read like tea leaves, then the tech industry is about to face a major reality check. Investors have already labeled this period "The Great Reset."...
View ArticleUBS: The stock market is signalling a crash could be around the corner
UBS thinks we've reached peak "havoc" in European stock markets.Its analysts have made the call to buy stocks that investors have been overly pessimistic about.In a European Equity Strategy note sent...
View ArticleWe might be repeating the mistakes of the 1999 bubble and crash
The stock market may be in danger of repeating some very bad history.The current market environment is looking a whole lot like the 1998-1999 stock market bubble, and the crash of 2000 may not be far...
View ArticleThe steroid era of startups is over — here's what 8 top VCs think will happen...
The game has changed.In April, venture capitalist Bill Gurley wrote an essay crystallizing what many VCs had been talking about for months.Essentially, too many companies have taken too much money at...
View ArticleWhy this startup bubble won't pop like the last
When many people hear that the tech bubble is going to burst, they harken back to 2000 or 2008 when the floor fell out of the tech industry."Other than the fact that they are cycles of eight, the three...
View ArticleTech layoffs have doubled in the Bay Area, but the real number could be much...
Tech layoffs have doubled in the Bay Area last year, according to a new report from the San Jose Mercury News.And those are just the ones that can be counted.By analyzing WARN Act filings, the...
View ArticleThese billion-dollar startups didn't exist 5 years ago
It doesn't take a lifetime to build a super-valuable company. As this list shows, it's possible to go from zero to $16 billion in valuation in under five years.Business Insider analyzed Pitchbook data...
View ArticleIf a startup shuts down overnight, it means the founder was 'selfish'
Startups shouldn't implode overnight, but it happens. And when it does, they leave an ugly debris field of hurt feelings, broken promises, and people waking up with no financial security...
View Article5 reasons why this is starting to look a lot like 2000
At this year’s Strategic Investment Conference, my good friend Mark Yusko poured cold water on whatever bullishly warm feelings the most optimistic folks may have clung to.You might think someone who...
View ArticleSan Francisco might start taxing tech companies to help its homeless problem
San Francisco city officials have found a possible solution to the city's homelessness problems: taxing tech companies.The proposal, which was introduced by three city legislators last week, would...
View ArticleSan Francisco housing prices are now above previous bubble levels
Housing prices in the San Francisco Bay Area are so insane, we have tech workers living in vehicles in company parking lots, people building "pods" in living rooms so they can live there with some...
View ArticleIn defense of bubbles
There is nothing the tech media and the broader press likes to ask me about more than bubbles.“Is Snapchat a bubble?”“Is Uber a bubble?”“Is Facebook a bubble?”“Is seed investing a bubble?”“Is growth...
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