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The Best of January
Our top 5 most viewed research briefs and blog posts of the month.
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A16Z invested in competitors. And now has picked its horse. Within eCommerce, secondhand clothing marketplaces have cropped up and become popular with VCs. And based on recent App Store ranking data, Poshmark has remained ahead of the pack. A16Z has backed both Threadflip and Twice but looks to have placed its bets on Twice which is quickly rising up the ranking. See the full mobile app data analysis.
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CB Insider Posts
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Breaking down Marissa Meyer's acqui-hire streak. Yahoo has acquired or acqui-hired 37 startups in Meyer's tenure. More than 50% raised fewer than $5M and did not get past the Series A stage. Khosla Ventures and a # of VCs have seen several soft landings courtesy of Yahoo. See the full research brief for Yahoo M&A trends by stage, financing history and venture capital firm.
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CB Insights data in WSJ. In 2013, more venture-backed healthcare companies went public than tech companies. But while there were fewer VC-backed tech IPOs in 2013, the median value of those offerings was more than double that of the healthcare initial public offerings. See the full article in CIO Journal and the top 10 largest VC-backed exits of 2013 here.
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500 Startups on top. 2013 was another banner year for seed VC financing and saw a record number of VC firms investing at the seed-stage. Forbes took a look at our list of most active seed VCs, breaking down the top 10 by location and select investments from last year. See the Forbes post.
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7 things to read this week
A selection of 7 articles that the CB Insights team found entertaining, engaging or thought-provoking.
Are Super Bowl ads incredibly cheap or a waste of money? - The Atlantic dives into why it could be both.
Jeopardy champ uses Game Theory - The game theory methods that Arthur Chu has used to line up a string of Jeopardy wins.
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username - A scary look into how some Paypal and GoDaddy maneuvering resulted in a blackmail exchange for a Twitter username.
Korean dating site as diplomacy - How Korean dating agencies are pairing South Korean men with North Korean women.
The diligent path to success - Lessons on success and deliberate practice from Mozart, Kobe Bryant and Picasso.
We are giving ourselves cancer - Thought-provoking NYT op-ed on the relationship between CT scans and the development of cancer.
The first loser - Kelton Lynn who now works at Twitter talks about what it was like to play for Jim Harbaugh while he was at Stanford.
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Our Last Two Newsletters
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