DAO ether trading platform DOA after cyber-heist

DAO ether trading platform DOA after cyber-heist

This one is a heartbreaker, nobody likes to see malevolent actors succeeding in killing an entire company but that’s what’s happened with the ether crypto-currency trading platform DOA. Thieves have reportedly stolen $50 million in an “ongoing cyber-heist” from the platform, forcing it to shut down.

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Peak Hosting drops basket with big golden egg, files for bankruptcy

Peak Hosting drops basket with big golden egg, files for bankruptcy

Oregon data center Peak Hosting has retreated from a “massive growth trajectory” and has laid off three quarters of its workforce (peaked at 200 f/t employees, now down to 50) and filed for bankruptcy after losing it’s biggest customer: mobile gaming company Machine Zone. The lost client was worth a reported $4 million/month in lost revenues.  

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Dinner Lab files for bankruptcy

Dinner Lab files for bankruptcy

Pop-up dining start-up (I know I’m a square but, wtf is “pop up dining?”) Dinner Lab has burned through $10.2 million and filed for bankruptcy. Along the way they acquired competitor “Dishcrawl”, who I guess goes down with them now. Assets will be liquidated and creditors paid out. Members will probably be stiffed for their membership fees.  

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India: Funding rounds are revenue after all

India: Funding rounds are revenue after all

  The tag line for this site is “True Fact: Funding rounds are not revenue”, except in India, where a new tax code law has deemed that funding rounds that take place “at above fair value” are indeed income. The new rule applies to startups that have undergone a down round. If the preceding round was not from a VC firm registered with the Indian securities regulator (in other words it was from an angel…

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Glassdoor CEO redefines down-round as “modest up round”.

Glassdoor CEO redefines down-round as “modest up round”.

In a $40 million dollar funding round at a lower share price (a.k.a “a down round”) Glassdoor CEO went on record to say “We view this as a slight up round” (I guess you can add diluting shares to inflate market cap to the alchemical bag of tricks in this wonderful New Economy). Still, with shares down 6.3% in this round, they are still clobbering their publicly traded Unicorn peers such as LinkedIn and Yelp….

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