Tl;dr: A direct to consumer landscape overview and an excel you can download. Dollar Shave Club. We all saw the video. In 4 years this direct to consumer company got $240m in revenue (2016) and flipped to Unilever for $1bn. Seriously, joining the 3 comma club with razor blades? Yup. They aren’t the only company killing it though, in the fuddy duddy …
99 problems and the CEO is one. Springowl hunts for Marissa’s head at Yahoo!
Eric Jackson, a fund manager at SpringOwl just launched a major attack on Marissa Mayer as Yahoo CEO. The heat is really on now and Yahoo? is edging into play. After making the lives of all his staff miserable in the composition of a deck, similar in size to War and Peace, he sent a 99-page presentation to Yahoo’s board outlining his case …
Startup trends for death and stats on survival rates
TL:DR: An analysis of startup trends and how startups survive over time CBInsights have an interesting post on startup survival, in which they report on their analysis of startups that entered the deadpool between 2010 and 2013 to see what they could uncover about startup survival and mortality. It’s important to note though that this is reported dead. There are a lot of …