by Adre's IT | 31 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, cold brew, Hardware, Startups, Surface, xbloom
Coffee nerds love the ceremony of making a good cup of coffee, but once you get advanced enough, things get really complex really fast. Making high-end pour-over coffee is a fine dance of grinding, pouring, temperature and patience, and it turns out that a lot of us...
by Adre's IT | 31 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, gig workers, Phillips, robotexts
The lower chamber of the French parliament, the National Assembly, passed a cross-party bill that aims to introduce some new requirements for social media influencers. This is a preliminary vote as the bill will move to the Senate, but there’s a high probably that...
by Adre's IT | 31 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Industry Ventures, m-commerce
A dozen years ago, Groupon shot to fame popularizing the online group buying format, confidently rejecting a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google and instead going public with a $17.8 billion market cap. The company today says it has 14 million active users, but...
by Adre's IT | 31 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Blue Apron, cathay innovation, Cybertruck, jake gibson, New Delhi, real estate agents, Startups
Some of the biggest Indian startups are taking a haircut in their valuations, at least in the eyes of their investors, as some backers adjust their estimates amid the weakening global economy. BlackRock has cut the valuation of Byju’s, which is India’s most...
by Adre's IT | 31 March, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, ChatGPT, Fintech, Startups, substack crowdfunding
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. AI? Crypto? Equity crowdfunding and former startup founders trying to bribe China? We had it all this week, friends, so please...