Published Articles (2018)

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2018

December

2018-12-30: Two dystopias for the holidays: We & The Handmaid’s Tale (Homepage)
2018-12-21: Layer1 wants to thrive in the age of the crypto crash (TechCrunch)
2018-12-21: Writing Review for Week of Dec 17, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-12-21: SoftBank’s triple, Pinterest is going public and the market meltdown (TechCrunch)
2018-12-21: The GPS wars have begun (TechCrunch)
2018-12-19: With today’s IPO sinking, a year of highs and lows for SoftBank (TechCrunch)
2018-12-14: Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen (TechCrunch)
2018-12-14: Nvidia’s limited China connections (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-14: Writing Review for Weeks of Dec 3 & 10, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-12-13: On stock prices and Nvidia (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-12: After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-11: Huawei, Google, and the tiring politics of tech (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-08: The nation-state of the internet (TechCrunch)
2018-12-06: The trust dilemma of continuous background checks (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-05: Foxconn or Foxgone? Tariffs, Wisconsin, and iPhone fires (TechCrunch)
2018-12-04: Why Oath keeps Tumblring (Extra Crunch)
2018-12-03: Investors still don’t understand the fundamentals of US/China relations (Extra Crunch)

November

2018-11-25: Writing Review for Weeks of Nov 12 & 19, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-11-16: Uber’s financials, Qualtric’s $8B exit and what’s going on at WeWork (TechCrunch)
2018-11-14: Amazon did exactly what it should have with its HQ2 process (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-13: Open sourcing analysis, plus US, China and HQ2 (TechCrunch)
2018-11-12: Okay, one final Form D note (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-10: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 29 & Nov 5, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-11-09: SoftBank’s debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge money (TechCrunch)
2018-11-09: Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-08: Japan is cracking down on SoftBank’s revenue (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-07: The disappearing Form D (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-06: SoftBank’s debt obsession (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-05: Technology and tyranny, lying to ourselves, and Spotify’s $1b repurchase (Extra Crunch)
2018-11-04: Why we lie to ourselves every day (TechCrunch)
2018-11-02: Fortnight’s funding royale, China struggles, and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion (TechCrunch)

October

2018-10-28: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 15 & 22, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-10-26: Market turmoil, billion-dollar funds and the Qualtrics IPO (TechCrunch)
2018-10-25: One-year-old Ribbon raises $225m to remove the biggest stress of home buying (TechCrunch)
2018-10-20: In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy (TechCrunch)
2018-10-19: Twilio shops, Uber and Lyft IPO scuttlebutt, and Instacart raises $600M (TechCrunch)
2018-10-15: MIT announces new college of computing with $1 billion commitment (TechCrunch)
2018-10-13: Writing Review for Weeks of Oct 1 & 8, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-10-12: Blood capital, WeWork whisperings, and gobs of cash for smiles and vegetables (TechCrunch)
2018-10-05: Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors and VC hiring trends (TechCrunch)
2018-10-03: Upwork pops more than 50 percent in Nasdaq debut (TechCrunch)
2018-10-02: NYC wants to build a cyber army (TechCrunch)

September

2018-09-30: Writing Review for Week of Sept 24, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-28: Chaos engineering service Gremlin raises $18m, launches new resiliency tools (TechCrunch)
2018-09-28: SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL’s next step (TechCrunch)
2018-09-25: The death of once high-flying VC funds (TechCrunch)
2018-09-24: China splits the internet while the U.S. dithers (TechCrunch)
2018-09-22: Writing Review for Week of Sept 17, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-18: Answering its critics, Google loosens reins on AMP project (TechCrunch)
2018-09-18: 12 years in, Techstars doubles down on corporate relationships (TechCrunch)
2018-09-17: Trump expands tariffs on China by another $200 billion, threatens more (TechCrunch)
2018-09-16: In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies (TechCrunch)
2018-09-14: Writing Review for Week of Sept 10, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-14: Crypto’s second bubble, Juul has 60 days and three Chinese IPOs (TechCrunch)
2018-09-13: The second blockchain bubble is now complete - what’s next? (TechCrunch)
2018-09-12: Spearhead is transforming founders into angel investors (TechCrunch)
2018-09-11: Writing Review for Weeks of Aug 1-Sept 9, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-09-10: Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns (TechCrunch)
2018-09-10: Apple’s 5G iPhone conundrum (TechCrunch)
2018-09-07: Trump wants to just tariff the hell out of China (TechCrunch)
2018-09-07: Equity podcast live from Disrupt SF: Peak Valley Edition (TechCrunch)
2018-09-06: Benchmark and Tiger double down on going public (TechCrunch)
2018-09-03: Fall 2018 tech IPOs face myriad of headwinds (TechCrunch)
2018-09-02: For Labor Day, work harder (TechCrunch)

August

2018-08-22: Lolli launches to give you free Bitcoin while you shop (TechCrunch)
2018-08-15: Fighting food waste, Full Harvest raises $8.5m to bring excess produce to commercial buyers (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: Writing Review for Week of July 30, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-08-04: Washington hit China hard on tech influence this week (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: India may become next restricted market for U.S. cloud providers (TechCrunch)
2018-08-04: Virus shuts down factories of major iPhone component manufacturer TSMC (TechCrunch)
2018-08-02: Campuswire launches to redesign classroom communications (TechCrunch)

July

2018-07-29: Writing Review for Week of July 23, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-24: Unlock wants to rebuild your feed through a decentralized paywall (TechCrunch)
2018-07-24: Alphabet earnings and the jaws of antitrust (TechCrunch)
2018-07-23: The death and life of the tech press (TechCrunch)
2018-07-20: Oscar and Lemonade founders will join us at Disrupt SF to strategize about the future of insurance innovation (TechCrunch)
2018-07-20: Writing Review for Weeks of July 9th & July 16th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-19: Even raises $40m to transform the working class to the savings class (TechCrunch)
2018-07-18: Brat raises $30 million to reboot scripted television for the Gen Z crowd (TechCrunch)
2018-07-09: Writing Review for Week of July 2nd, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-07-06: Fireside Chat with Joe Lubin (ConsenSys) (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: Parity’s Jutta Steiner says the future of blockchain is many chains working together (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: In Conversation with Hope Liu (Eximchain), Gil Perez (SAP) and Gert Sylvest (Tradeshift) (TechCrunch)
2018-07-06: China VC has overtaken Silicon Valley, but do aggregate numbers tell the whole story? (TechCrunch)

June

2018-06-29: Writing Review for Week of June 25th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-28: JASK nets $25m from Kleiner to build out autonomous security operations (TechCrunch)
2018-06-28: Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at (TechCrunch)
2018-06-24: Writing Review for Week of June 18th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-23: How backups, backups, backups protect Verizon’s NYC cellular infrastructure (TechCrunch)
2018-06-23: In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfare (TechCrunch)
2018-06-23: Open source sustainability (TechCrunch)
2018-06-21: Disrupting the paycheck, Gusto’s Flexible Pay allows employees to pick when they get paid (TechCrunch)
2018-06-21: CivTech Scotland wants to procure what no one knows exists (TechCrunch)
2018-06-19: Patriot Boot Camp wants to turn soldiers into entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)
2018-06-19: Using tech and $100m, Dr Consulta transforms healthcare for the poorest (TechCrunch)
2018-06-18: Writing Review for Week of June 11th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-14: NXP-Qualcomm $44b deal to clear China as Trump authorizes $50b tariffs (TechCrunch)
2018-06-14: ZTE has few cards left to play to avoid “death penalty” (TechCrunch)
2018-06-14: 3,000 journalists covering Kim-Trump this week is WTF is wrong with media (TechCrunch)
2018-06-12: Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: Automated dev platform CircleCI expands to Japan, first office outside U.S. (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: With strategic investment, Insilico Medicine is using deep learning to defeat aging (TechCrunch)
2018-06-11: Writing Review for Week of June 4th, 2018 (Homepage)
2018-06-07: With index changes, American are sending billions to China (whether they know it or not) (TechCrunch)
2018-06-07: ZTE fined $1 billion (TechCrunch)
2018-06-07: M17 delays IPO debut after pricing this morning on NYSE (TechCrunch)
2018-06-05: Xiaomi CDRs, SoftBank’s successors, and China’s Samsung investigation (TechCrunch)

May

2018-05-30: Coord will get you there one way or another with its new APIs (TechCrunch)
2018-05-29: U.S. announces timeline for new 25% tariff on Chinese tech products (TechCrunch)
2018-05-29: GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google (TechCrunch)
2018-05-24: The national security implications of Chinese venture capitalists are overblown (TechCrunch)
2018-05-13: Subscriptions for the 1% (TechCrunch)
2018-05-09: MoviePass parent’s free fall continues with another 46% drop (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: MoviePass parent closes down 31% as company warns of looming cash crunch (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: A Google I/O conversation (TechCrunch)
2018-05-08: White House will host tech industry for AI summit on Thursday (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: Backstage Capital launches $36m fund to boost black female founders (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: With MIT launched, Learning Machine raises seed to replace paper with blockchain credentials (TechCrunch)
2018-05-07: China closing in on massive new chip fund in bid to dominate Intel, Qualcomm, and other US chip companies (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Enterprise wasn’t ready for blockchain, so Manifold brought its ledger to consumers instead (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Technical ignorance is not leadership (TechCrunch)
2018-05-06: Subscription hell (TechCrunch)
2018-05-01: Eliot Peper’s Bandwidth is a riveting novel exploring the dark side of feeds and geopolitics (TechCrunch)

April

2018-04-28: Solving the affordability crisis one Chattanooga at a time (TechCrunch)
2018-04-28: Emissary wants to make sales networking obsolete (TechCrunch)
2018-04-28: From dorm room to Starbucks, Rip Van Wafels is bringing Euro-inspired snack to the masses (TechCrunch)
2018-04-26: The 5G wireless revolution will come, if your city council doesn’t block it first (TechCrunch)
2018-04-24: Catalyst brothers find capital success with $2.4m from True (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure (TechCrunch)
2018-04-21: Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations (TechCrunch)
2018-04-16: As Chinese censorship intensifies, gays are back while teenage mothers and tattoos are out (TechCrunch)
2018-04-14: Austin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless services (TechCrunch)
2018-04-11: Element wants to give identity to the whole world, raising $12m series A (TechCrunch)
2018-04-10: In an ecosystem rife with age discrimination, new research shows the average successful founder is in their 40s (TechCrunch)
2018-04-09: Congress should demand Zuckerberg move to “one share, one vote” (TechCrunch)
2018-04-09: Department of Energy hosts competition to train cyber defense warriors (TechCrunch)
2018-04-07: Can SaaS principles transform political campaigns as we know them? (TechCrunch)
2018-04-07: RSS is undead (TechCrunch)
2018-04-06: Venture Capital Disrupted (Princeton 2018 Spring Lecture) (Homepage)
2018-04-05: Should AI researchers kill people? Sadly, they may not have a choice (TechCrunch)
2018-04-04: Some data science on the newly-released Trump and China tariffs lists (TechCrunch)
2018-04-03: South Korean capital Seoul mulls “S-Coin” cryptocurrency and blockchain-based government (TechCrunch)
2018-04-03: Trump should invest in Amazon, not destroy it (TechCrunch)
2018-04-02: WTF are CDRs? (other than a potential trillion dollar market) (TechCrunch)
2018-04-02: Markets drop sharply as China implements new tariffs against U.S. (TechCrunch)

March

2018-03-29: Wild Type raises $3.5m to reinvent meat for the 21st century (TechCrunch)
2018-03-28: Princeton study shows that very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest (TechCrunch)
2018-03-26: China offers to buy more U.S. semiconductors as it mulls stabbing Qualcomm in the back (TechCrunch)
2018-03-24: JASK and the future of autonomous cybersecurity (TechCrunch)
2018-03-22: Trump announces $60 billion tariff on Chinese high-tech and other goods (TechCrunch)
2018-03-21: The nuanced challenges of antitrust and AT&T-Time Warner (TechCrunch)
2018-03-21: Peer-reviewed study shows Cardiogram and Apple Watch can accurately determine atrial fibrillation (TechCrunch)
2018-03-19: Secret microLED labs, Apple R&D, and the future of product margins (TechCrunch)
2018-03-19: Tech industry comes out swinging against potential Trump tariffs (TechCrunch)
2018-03-17: Qualcomm’s war may be over, but the casualties are just starting to be calculated (TechCrunch)
2018-03-16: Small businesses love free stuff, so Gusto is giving them free HR Basics (TechCrunch)
2018-03-15: Washington starting to wake up to threats of AI with new task force (TechCrunch)
2018-03-13: Trump readying “all of the above” fusillade on Chinese tech (TechCrunch)
2018-03-12: Trump administration’s block in Qualcomm vs. Broadcom merger should shake tech to its core (TechCrunch)
2018-03-11: VCs have discovered the Midwest (TechCrunch)
2018-03-11: We need to improve the accuracy of AI accuracy discussions (TechCrunch)
2018-03-10: The incredible multi-dimensional chess of Qualcomm vs. Broadcom (TechCrunch)
2018-03-05: Shortly, even the CEO will be outsourced to an online labor marketplace (TechCrunch)
2018-03-05: Taking on the Big 4 accounting giants, Paro receives $5m for its labor marketplace for financial professionals (TechCrunch)
2018-03-04: WTF is CFIUS? (TechCrunch)
2018-03-03: No one wants to build a “feel good” internet (TechCrunch)

February

2018-02-26: ZenBusiness raises $4.5m to help launch one million small businesses by 2023 (TechCrunch)
2018-02-24: Programming as craft (TechCrunch)
2018-02-24: Liquid democracy uses blockchain to fix politics, and now you can vote for it (TechCrunch)
2018-02-22: Teampay raises $4m so you don’t have to steal your CEO’s credit card anymore (TechCrunch)
2018-02-21: Blockchain is entering the valley of despair phase, and that’s a mistake (TechCrunch)
2018-02-19: Algorithmic zoning could be the answer to cheaper housing and more equitable cities (TechCrunch)
2018-02-17: Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments (TechCrunch)
2018-02-17: Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels (TechCrunch)
2018-02-15: Uncommon.co launches and raises $18m to bring objectivity and efficiency to hiring (TechCrunch)
2018-02-13: Traction Tech Council launches to help IT execs spend money on the right startups (TechCrunch)
2018-02-10: HR has lost the trust of employees. Here is who has it now (TechCrunch)
2018-02-08: The real consequences of fake porn and news (TechCrunch)
2018-02-07: Brainjunk and the killing of the internet mind (TechCrunch)
2018-02-06: Scaling a bootstrapped business is next frontier of entrepreneurship for Evan Frank (TechCrunch)
2018-02-04: Hate your boss? B12 is designing work without (human) managers (TechCrunch)
2018-02-04: The rise of chaos engineering (TechCrunch)

January

2018-01-30: NEA leads $21m round for Drop, a rewards app for millennials (TechCrunch)
2018-01-28: The legacy of Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, who passed today at 91 (TechCrunch)
2018-01-27: Scout networks are latest VC salvo in war for founders (TechCrunch)
2018-01-27: Move slow and break nothing (TechCrunch)
2018-01-22: Ex-Uber Maps exec Brian McClendon running for office (TechCrunch)
2018-01-21: Startups, high-speed rail and California’s infrastructure future (TechCrunch)
2018-01-20: The Chinese think Palo Alto is dumpy (TechCrunch)
2018-01-20: Mike Moritz and the declining America worker (TechCrunch)
2018-01-19: Yes, cities should indeed fight for tech jobs (TechCrunch)
2018-01-16: DefinedCrowd’s next-gen platform solves the AI data acquisition problem (TechCrunch)
2018-01-15: One year old Pony.ai raises $112 million Series A to build autonomous car future (TechCrunch)
2018-01-13: Why is health care so damn expensive? (TechCrunch)
2018-01-09: How much do we really know? (Homepage)
2018-01-09: Developer Social Network StackShare Raises $5.2 million from e.Ventures (TechCrunch)
2018-01-08: It’s a walrus! No, it’s a giraffe! No, it’s Micgoat, a new app to debate controversial issues (TechCrunch)
2018-01-06: RIP IPO (1602-2018) (TechCrunch)
2018-01-04: Can municipal broadband save the open internet? (TechCrunch)