For startups — whose attention is often intensely focused on innovation and fundraising — overlooking fundamental employment law responsibilities can become a costly oversight. In this guest column, Ling Kong and Lara Shortz of Michelman & Robinson...
Layoffs
At least 95,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2024, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the cuts are continuing...
The 2023 downturn led to VC frustration, misalignment and career soul-searching. For some, it was a breaking point. For others, a wake-up call...
Between large-scale industry layoffs and a growing pool of applicants for positions that are available, jobseekers find themselves in an increasingly...
Big raises slowed for the second week in a row. Only a handful of rounds hit nine digits this week, although a large half-billion-dollar round led...
Mobile gaming company Scopely announced it will acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic’s games business in a deal valued at $3.5 billion.
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Fractional working, a model in which expert advisers in finance, marketing, product and other verticals leverage their expertise in part-time...
Overall, gaming-related startup funding has been falling each year since the 2021 peak, and its not alone. Most consumer-facing sectors, including e...
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Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline? And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions...
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Over the years, startup investors have poured billions of dollars into DNA testing companies. To date, the results have delivered both huge successes...
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