Analysis

Startups aren’t (just) a young person’s game

There’s a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley: Startups are only founded by a bunch of 20-year-olds who recently dropped out of college.

Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven by the tech’s promise

Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven both by hype and the tech's promise to bolster productivity — and revenues.

Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly

As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially harmful effects. In particular, text-generating AI has gotten a lot

Is the RPA market in trouble?

Automation Anywhere, one of the largest RPA vendors, raised debt instead of equity. Is that cause for alarm in the market?

Looking at 320 pitch decks, here’s what science tells us works best

Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under three minutes to convince them to take a meeting with you. In fact, for decks tha

Recurring revenue growth is the key to overcoming economic headwinds

Capchase concluded that "best-in-class" SaaS startups are still growing and that unit economics are reliable predictors of future success.

Getting to the bottom of UiPath’s plunging valuation

Just over a year ago, UiPath was among the most favored startups in the world. Last February the company raised a massive $750 million round at a staggering $35 billion valuation. The robotic process

Startup founders must overcome information overload

One of a founder's biggest early challenges is figuring out how to sift through all the advice they receive.

Extension rounds help some startups play offense during COVID-19

The venture capital world is constantly changing, and its evolution can sometimes flip pieces of conventional wisdom on their heads. For example, a recent flurry of extension rounds from Silicon Valle

Gartner: 2020 device shipments to grow 0.9% to 2.16B thanks to 5G, before 2 further years of decline

The analysts at Gartner have published their annual global device forecast, and while 2020 looks like it may be partly sunny, get ready for more showers and poor weather ahead. The analysts predict t

Gartner: 301M Smartphones Sold In Q3 As Xiaomi Muscles Into The Top 5 At Samsung’s Expense

Smartphones now account for 66% of all mobile phones worldwide and are on track to see 2014 sales of 1.2 billion units in 2014. But while Android appears to have “won” the so-called platf

Gartner: Device Shipments Break 2.4B Units In 2014, Tablets To Overtake PC Sales In 2015

The gradual decline of the PC industry, spurred on by the rapid rise of mobile computing, continues apace. Today the analysts at Gartner have published their latest forecasts for global PC, tablet, &

LeanData Raises $5.1M In Series A From Shasta Ventures To Help Customers Make Sense Of Salesforce Data

Marketeers are often struggling to sift through available customer databases and identify customer leads that can be converted into revenue opportunities. While large enterprises treat this as a big d

Nielsen: Internet Display Advertising Grew 32% In 2013, But It’s Still Only 4.5% Of Spend Vs. TV At 57.6%

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nielsen.com">Nielsen</a> put out its latest figures on the state of the advertising market this morning, and Internet advertising continues to be the fastest-growin

Gartner: 2.5B PCs, Tablets And Mobiles Will Be Shipped In 2014, 1.1B Of Them On Android

As the worlds of communication and technology increasingly become mobile-first, the traditional desktop PC continues to go the way of the dodo bird. The analysts at Gartner are today <a target="_blank

Gartner: 456M Phones Sold In Q3, 55% Of Them Smartphones; Android At 82% Share, Samsung A Flat Leader

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/androids-us-market-share-declined-by-5-in-q2-approaching-a-peak-strategy-analytics/">Last year</a>, Strategy Analytics made the prediction that we may have a

Akamai: Half Of All Internet Connections Now At 4Mbps+, Safari Remains Most Used Mobile Browser

The ITU has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/itu-6-8b-mobile-subs-by-end-of-2013-nearly-as-many-people-as-there-are-on-earth-2-7b-on-any-kind-of-internet/">recently published</a> figures not

Despite Google’s Gains, iPhone Still Edges Out Android Devices In App And Overall Smartphone Usage, Says Forrester

Android has decisively overtaken iOS as the world's most popular smartphone platform, both in terms of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/apple-smartphone-share-falls-to-14/">existing devices

Forrester: $2.1 Trillion Will Go Into IT Spend In 2013; Apps And The U.S. Lead The Charge

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.forrester.com">Forrester Research</a> has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion

Device Shipments Up 6% To 2.4B In 2013, Driven By Android Smartphones, Tablets Amid More PC Decline

Gartner today has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2525515">released</a> its latest figures charting its overall predictions for how IT devices -- from PCs to mobile handset
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