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What an odd quarter.

Heading into 2018, I wouldn鈥檛 have bet you that bitcoin would fall off a cliff or that the public markets would set new highs鈥攐nly to hit turbulence right as the year’s first three-month period comes to a close. Or that Dropbox’s IPO would best expectations. Or that Spotify’s direct listing would be a real thing. Or that Telegram would raise over $1 billion in an ICO.

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But that鈥檚 why I don鈥檛 run a hedge fund. Anyway, in honor of the wild and slightly weird quarter, we鈥檙e taking a look back at our most popular stuff from a pretty packed quarter. It was also a key quarter for 小蓝视频色情网页版 News itself, which turned one a few weeks ago.

So, in honor of the now-fading quarter, and with a salute to the impending quarterly report cycle, here are the top 10 articles we shipped in the last 90 days or so. (As a programming note, we excluded anything from December that went bonkers鈥攍ooking at you, crypto predictions鈥攁fter the new year kicked off.)

10.听Why Does Wag Need $300M From SoftBank To Walk Dogs?

Wag, a popular dog-walking startup, raised $300 million from SoftBank this quarter. It was a check size so large that it ground our internal thinking to halt. What the hell was going on? Well, we decided to try and figure out just that. And, as it turned out, a bunch of you came along for the ride.

9.听Here鈥檚 Who Made Money On Ring鈥檚 $1B+ Purchase

Amazon鈥檚 mega-purchase of Ring for over $1 billion made a huge splash in the first quarter for two reasons. First, the connected-home company had raised over $200 million in its life, making it a hefty bite. Second, the awful聽television show Shark Tank had passed on the company.

8.听Ripple Tests New Heights As Doubters Circle

Here鈥檚 one case when the doubters were right: the hype was ephemeral and the paper losses titanic. Yes, Ripple鈥檚 XRP token was worth somewhere between $142 billion and $380 billion at the time we wrote the piece. But after shooting to $3.50 per token in early 2018, you can now pick up an XRP for under $0.60. The whole thing is now worth under $23 billion.

7.听A Peek Inside Alphabet鈥檚 Investing Universe

This is our first (but not last) Jason special in our top 10. This time, Jason took a crack at Alphabet鈥檚 efforts to fund the next itself. As it turns out, Google鈥檚 synthetic parent company is an active investor through a number of outlets, and it also likes to buy its own deals. Call it an expensive option play.

6.听In Running Like A Startup, Nonprofits Find Success

Our brilliant Mary Ann Azevedo took on non-profit companies for us in February, digging into Y Combinator-backed non-profit startups. We wanted to know how that worked and what the firms got out of the experience. (Note: we tend to cover a lot of non-profiting companies that operate on a for-profit basis, but those don鈥檛 fit here. Second note: the preceding note was a joke.)

5.听Rising Legality Aside, The Budding Cannabis Industry Isn鈥檛 Drawing As Much VC Interest As You鈥檇 Expect

Savannah took on cannabis for us. The data is stark: before 2014, cannabis companies raised essentially nothing from VCs. Since then, it鈥檚 been a few hundred million a year, give or take. Not, if we may say, much to smoke home about.

4.听YC Alumni Go Big: The 15 Most Valuable Y Combinator-Backed Startups

Back on the Y Combinator beat, which startups from the incubator investing group have managed to generate the highest valuations? We did the legwork and kicked out this piece. It鈥檚 a fun reminder that you, the reader, are poor.

3.听Understanding Why Uber Loses Money

Something that surprises folks is that Uber loses money. How, some people ask, can it lose money if it doesn鈥檛 drive the cars and takes a hefty cut of the revenue? Well, it鈥檚 not that hard to understand with some numbers. Therefore, we did a short post detailing where all that revenue goes.

2.听Q4 2017 Global Report: VC Sets Annual Records On Back Of Strong Late-Stage Results

To be frank, our quarterly report stuff usually isn鈥檛 the most popular material that we publish. However, this time around, it did well as a group. Perhaps because we wrote about the full year as well as the quarter? Regardless, Jason鈥檚 mega-entry on the Q4’17 global venture market did super well and we鈥檙e stoked about that fact.

1.听Where Did Venture Capitalists Go To College?

That this is the most popular piece we wrote this quarter is notable. Why it was so popular I suspect is some combination of envy, FOMO, and pride. Everyone wants to see where their school stacks up, and, of course, where schools that they don鈥檛 like land. Humans: we鈥檙e petty little buggers!

Right outside of our list top ten list was great stuff like on odd startup names, and Holdens’ piece digging into the Chinese VC market. so that you don鈥檛 miss what鈥檚 coming next!