Building a Series A SaaS valuation estimator (2017 edition)

Alex Rosen Contributor Alex Rosen is managing director at Ridge Ventures. More posts by this contributor: I have financed nearly 50 early-stage companies and the question of proper valuation comes up in every financing. There is the obvious tension: Generally speaking, the existing shareholders would […]

Gadget Lab Podcast: It’s Possible Amazon Now Makes Too Many Echo Speakers

Amazon announced a raft of new hardware devices this week, from new Echo speakers and fun arcade buttons that plug into them, to a dangling-dongle version of the Fire TV. The one unifying thread all these devices have? Alexa. As Amazon’s voice assistant proliferates into […]

Facebook reportedly tests facial recognition to recover your account

NEW! Facebook working on a facial recognition feature to help secure your account h/t Devesh Logendran pic.twitter.com/demol4dKj1 — Matt Navarra ⭐️ (@MattNavarra) September 29, 2017 According to TechCrunch, the feature is only being tested to let users back into accounts they’ve been locked out of. […]