CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Buffet’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns nearly 10% stakes in juggernaut companies like Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. It’s returned an average compounded gain of more than 20% per year — significantly better than the 9.7% Don’t ignore the value of intangible assets. Ignore short-term movements in stock prices.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

In addition to two great days of demos I’m looking forward to days 3 and 4 of conference content and a panel session I’m hosting on Friday. I’ve participated in every US event except one as well as Finovate Europe last year. There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

When Solyndra folded, it was not just one of the biggest solar company failures of all time — it was one of the biggest VC-backed failures of all time. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. The company expanded too aggressively in its early years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Upside Down looked sort of like the real world, but much spookier and a lot scarier. The Fed reported that in 2017 about half of all people with bank accounts used their bank’s mobile app to conduct transactions. Today, four years after Marcus left PayPal to ignite the Messenger platform, Messenger has roughly 1.3

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17). 2017 First Update (2/10/17). We analyzed 100+ startup failure post-mortems and identified the top 20 reasons startups fail. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). Read on for post-mortems on 10 of the latest startups to bite the dust.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Delivery Hero beat out competitor FoodPanda and bought out the company from startup incubator Rocket Internet, which saw a nearly 3x return on its investment when Delivery Hero went public earlier this year. Facebook’s $22B acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014 was (and still is) the largest private acquisition of a VC-backed company ever.

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