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Blackstone and Prologis turned warehouses from safe and boring investments into white-hot assets. Now they're battling to see who can own more.
Since the Great Recession, warehouses have become one of the hottest real-estate sectors. Two major…
Alex Nicoll,Danielle Walker,D…
2 mins read
Blue Apron CEO: We're making money and won't die out like Webvan
The comparisons to Webvan are overblown because the failed Webvan, which was best known for its gro…
Biz Carson
3 mins read
Meet the founder of the Failure Museum, an exclusive collection of swag from companies that went bust
When he's not busy making startup deals, Norwest partner Sean Jacobsohn collects items for his grow…
Madeline Renbarger
1 min read
Lyft is wildly unprofitable and lost $911 million last year - here's how other unprofitable companies fared after they went public
The 2018 IPO market was extremely receptive to money-losing firms. According to data from Universit…
Arjun Reddy
6 mins read
The dot-com bubble burst 20 years ago this month - here's what tech experts say were the biggest lessons as coronavirus triggers another tech crash
Bajarin of Creative Strategies Inc said: "The good news is that it (the dot-com crash) separated th…
Benjamin Pimentel
1 min read
The rise of Bob Swan, who went from leading a notorious dot-com bust to becoming the new CEO of Intel
Swan is a familiar face for Intel shareholders and employees: He had been serving as CFO since 2016…
Nick Bastone
2 mins read
Just because a startup has lots of customers and revenue doesn't make it a good business
WebVan was a grocery delivery company during the dot-com boom. It spent heavily building its infras…
Matt Rosoff
3 mins read
The chief strategist at a $1.2 trillion investing titan explains why pain for Uber, Peloton, and WeWork is good news for the stock market - and helping fend off another tech bubble
"Many of these companies, I would argue, are fundamentally better than the offerings we saw in the …
Marley Jay
3 mins read
Cannabis edibles brand 1906 raised $18 million in funding amid an industry downturn. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck that made it happen.
"We've seen - literally in the last week or two - hundreds of layoffs in the industry, where compan…
Jeremy Berke
1 min read
Instacart is raising $400 million to deliver your groceries to your door
Instacart is often mocked and compared to Webvan, a famous dot-com bust that also promised grocery …
Biz Carson
2 mins read
Intel CEO resigns after investigation finds he had past relationship with employee
Intel expects to deliver a record second quarter, with revenues of approximately $16.9 billion and …
Kif Leswing
1 min read
Amazon has a huge opportunity in grocery delivery
Online grocery delivery has been a tough business to crack - the list of failures, starting with We…
Matt Rosoff
3 mins read
Investing in Uber? Here's why one tech banker says not to hold your breath for big returns
"We took Amazon public in 1997 when I was with Deutsche Bank. It was losing a handful of millions o…
Becky Peterson
4 mins read
Google's name game gets the Trump treatment
Or maybe we won't care. The need to stop the spread of coronavirus has a lot of people rethinking p…
Alexei Oreskovic
1 min read
The Founder Of A Dot-Com Disaster Is Giving His Old Grocery Delivery Idea Another Shot
Not only is Borders boldly going where he has gone before, but he's entering a space that is much m…
Jillian D'Onfro
6 mins read
Why Mark Cuban is dead wrong
The democratization of cash, which is essentially what crowdfunding and angel investing really are,…
Amish Shah, Contributor
2 mins read
The online grocery business faces a unique challenge
And, in the cities where BMO surveyed in late 2014, that had changed little: 4% of consumers in Los…
Jonathan Marino
8 mins read
8 of the biggest stock market crashes in history - and how they changed our financial lives
Here's the scoop on eight of the most notable stock market crashes in recent financial history: the…
Rebecca Reisner
2 mins read
One of the most legendary venture capitalists in the world doesn't think we're in a bubble
In one pitch meeting where a portfolio company sought a billion-dollar growth round, Andreessen rai…
Maya Kosoff
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'IT'S THE SAME S---': Legendary VC Bill Gurley names a bunch of startups that are doomed
It's like the old adage, [when you're] handing out dollars for 85 cents, you can go [infinitely]. S…