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VC ‘mega-rounds’ are creating more unicorns, but they face a long path to profits
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As funding increases, so do valuations. Just 80 startups were valued at $1B in 2015, but last year that number more than
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Why is this happening? Basically, VCs raised the bar for funding. Just a few years ago, a $10m funding round was big. Today, big venture funds like SoftBank’s Vision Fund won’t even invest less than $100m.
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Since companies need funding to stay competitive, they are pressured to take large funding rounds and constantly expand. Often, this pushes companies into debt as they pursue growth at any cost.
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BREAKING: Bootstrapped MVMT sells for $100m
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After all that talk of mega-funding, a palate cleanser — 5-year-old millennial watch startup,
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MVMT, just sold to Movado Group
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for $100m without raising a cent of VC cash.
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The 40-person team, led by co-founders Jake Kassan (27) and Kramer LaPlante (26), stands to walk with the purchase price,
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plus
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A startup called ROOM fights open-office layouts with new portable office spaces
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AKA, the antithesis of what open-office layouts were designed for.
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Now,
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Techcrunch
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ROOM
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has joined the anti-open-office movement by building “rooms” -- prefabricated, and “easy” to assemble -- right over the top of your open-office concept.
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Let the revolution begin
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Today, close to 70% of all US offices are “open concept” -- meaning no cubicles, no partitions, and no private officex for people to get some dang peace and quiet.
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That’s where ROOM’s room comes in. The ROOM One is a $3.5k soundproof booth, scientifically constructed with power outlets and ventilation, so none of those heated sales calls fog up the glass.
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And they aren’t the only ones joining the fight: In January, Wall Box
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their fish-bowl product of the same concept, as well as companies like TalkBox and Zenbooth (all reportedly
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And people are buying...
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It’s easy to look at these privacy chambers and giggle, but the concept could actually save businesses a ton of money on lost productivity, and be flexible enough for fast-growing companies.
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Now, it looks as if companies are finally listening to the more than
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60%
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of open-office employees who are tired of the chaos. Since launching less than a year ago, ROOM has already locked in close to 200 clients, including Salesforce, Nike, NASA, and JP Morgan, and a $10m revenue run rate.
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Saint Louis University puts an Echo in every dorm room
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“Mom, can my friend Alexa come home with me over break?”
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With more than 13k students enrolled in the private Catholic university, the initiative is reportedly “unprecedented” in size, and came together over the course of 3 months last spring term.
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The university’s IT department has developed an SLU-specific Alexa skill to answer more than 100 common student questions about sports, concerts, speakers on campus, student events, organizations,
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probably
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dominate the education space
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, accounting for
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Twitch takes aim at YouTube by offering celebrity creators millions
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millions to lure celebrity streamers away from the ’Tube.
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Twitch has ambitious plans to scale its advertising business by broadening its streaming audience beyond gamers and offering content creators multiple ways to monetize.
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Going beyond gamers
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Amazon acquired Twitch back in 2014 when it was almost exclusively a platform for gamers. But, recognizing the advertising limitations of the gaming demographic, Amazon launched Twitch Creative a year later to broaden its streaming horizons.
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Then, to attract new viewers with popular celebrities, Twitch began a campaign to
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celebrities, offering minimum guarantees of “a few million dollars a year in revenue” to personalities from Will Smith to Christine, a 32-year-old amateur baker who now hosts
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An upstream battle
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As of June, Twitch had just 11m viewers across all of its channels compared to YouTube’s 139m, but that hasn’t stopped Twitch’s CEO from setting a goal of $1B in ad sales.
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In addition to offering generous sums of money upfront to lure creators, Twitch
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a partner program that lets creators share in ad revenue and offers up to 5% referral commission for anything sold from the stream.
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Meanwhile, as YouTube invests money in new music services and studio-produced TV, many amateur creators are feeling squeezed out of the ’Tube -- making Twitch’s commissions look even better.
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CRAWL:
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Through digital dungeons with your dudes (& dudettes), $14.99
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Made by Australian indie-game producer Powerhoof, Crawl combines a retro 16-bit aesthetic with totally original gameplay. Play as a hero killing monsters or the ghosts summoning them. Either way, consider your weekend booked.
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A LOOTIN’ TOOTIN’ GOOD TIME →
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SIP:
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On some tangy turmeric lemon creme from Rebbl, $3.99
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Coconut milk, ginger, lemon, and turmeric: consider this the 4-ingredient liquid kick-me-up your flavor buds have been asking for. Oh, and it’s super healthy, so there’s that too.
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REBBL FOR THE HELL OF IT →
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THROW:
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Some disco shade at your next bike night, $12.99
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Nothing says you showed up to the monthly bike night looking to party like a disco light from Brightz. The Cruzin bike headlight projects some seriously trippy designs on the pavement for all to enjoy -- just keep your eyes on the road.
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AN EVERY NIGHT FEVER →
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SEE:
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Heat rise with your own eyes, $199.99
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