By Tom Tunguz

By Tom Dyal

As Super Bowl XLVIII fades into the history books (hopefully never again to be so lop-sided a defeat), another game is quietly gaining steam as the place to be for the…

Chris Moore

Which is more important: The idea for a startup or the qualities of its founder? I am increasingly convinced that the founder is the most important ingredient for success. Of course, the idea is…

By Jamie Davidson

tl;dr the likelihood of a follow on financing peaks at around 9 months.

When I worked at Google and later at Hotel Tonight, data that represented actual user activity (search, click, purchase…

By Tom Tunguz

By Jamie Davidson

tl;dr Raise enough to hit the next milestones to raise the next round plus a healthy buffer.

After starting PrimaTable in 2011, raising a seed round and selling to Hotel Tonight and now…

By Tom Tunguz

By Geoff Yang

All eyes are focused this week on Alibaba. The Chinese-based ecommerce powerhouse will make its debut as the largest technology initial public offering in history. By the time of the closing bell on its first day of trading, Alibaba could…