{"id":5481,"date":"2017-04-03T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:32:31","slug":"the-week-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=5481","title":{"rendered":"The Week (April 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By any measure, Uber has been having a terrible year. Some have posited it could threaten the tech bubble. \u201cUber is by far the most valuable of the 187 \u2018unicorn\u2019 startups valued at $1 billion or more, despite losing at least $1.2 billion in the first half of 2016.\u201d But Uber is unlikely to spark a chain reaction. \u201cThe tech industry&#8217;s funding sources are more diversified than they were in the original dot-com bubble, and the definition of what makes a \u2018technology company\u2019 is also much broader. Odds are, investors will see Uber&#8217;s flaws as an isolated case of bad corporate governance, not evidence that they shouldn&#8217;t be investing in startups.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By any measure, Uber has been having a terrible year. Some have posited it could threaten the tech bubble. \u201cUber is by far the most valuable of the 187 \u2018unicorn\u2019 startups valued at $1 billion or more, despite losing at least $1.2 billion in the first half of 2016.\u201d But Uber is unlikely to spark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6714,508,542,4991,407,5274,6715,6716,6713,6712,3742,5261],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-chain-reaction","tag-corporate-governance","tag-diversified","tag-dot-com-bubble","tag-funding","tag-investor","tag-isolated-case","tag-startups","tag-tech-bubble","tag-terrible","tag-uber","tag-unicorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5482,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}