Prepping for Exit - a Founder’s Perspective on M&A - Issue #25

A comprehensive study into how startups will work in the future, in the wake of the global COVID-9 pandemic, has been launched by UK non-profit Founders Forum. The initiative comes in the wake of a number of organizations announcing extended offices closures and ‘Work From Home’ policies. The group hopes the COVID-19 Workplace Survey will […]

WFH Won’t Work. Silicon Valley Can Re-Make the American Workplace. By opening up micro offices, we can make the USA more culturally integrated and bridge the tech divide. The Silicon Valley technology community has a chance to re-make the American workplace by bringing high-quality, high-tech jobs to the places that have historically lacked them, tap and develop new talent pools for skilled labor, and unite the country’s difference in ideals.

A record U.S. savings rate and a hopeful jobs report signals increasing demand–but supply chain issues mean some companies will miss out.

The law firm Fenwick & West has published some new data to highlight how COVID-19 has affected the world of venture capital in Silicon Valley. The biggest surprise? It’s how little impact the global pandemic seems to have had on dealmaking this spring. Consider first that valuations in April were actually higher than in March, […]

In this brief, we compare the financial crisis induced by the Covid-19 outbreak to the 2008 financial crisis in terms of impact on startup funding and deals.

A stock market surging despite a nation in turmoil joins investor reckonings with race, a furor at Facebook and more in our recap of the week