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| Nov 22, 2018 | Ask Kim: Seasonal hiring to hit a record high | Q: What does the market for seasonal jobs look like this year? What types of companies are hiring, and when is the best time to apply?
A: The outlook is strong, with companies so far announcing plans to hire more than 704,000 seasonal worke... |
| Sep 28, 2017 | Used goods marketplace LetGo quietly raised $100M more at a $1B+ valuation | LetGo, a startup that has built a marketplace for people to buy and sell used goods, is one of the fastest growing apps in the U.S. at the moment according to comScore, with some 75 million downloads, “tens of millions” of active users, and... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | Pallets allow crafters to get creative while recycling | COUNTRY LIVING VIA AP
A headboard was made from wooden pallets. “I’ve seen people do some amazing things reclaiming the wood
” said Jami Supsic
Here’s a little secret about building furniture out of pallets, those simple wooden structures u... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Zumur nabs $700K to become ‘the Kayak of product comparison engines’ | Startup Zumur has its positioning metaphor down.
It wants to be “the Kayak of product comparison search engines,” CEO and founder Abhishek Tiwari told VentureBeat. The company is announcing today that it has raised the first half of what it... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Zumur nabs $700K to become ‘the Kayak of product comparison engines’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup Zumur has its positioning metaphor down.
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| Sep 25, 2013 | Hyperlocal Power: Urban Compass Raises $20M At A $150M Valuation; Adds Advance Publications And Marc Benioff As Investors | Urban Compass, the young New York startup that emerged from stealth mode in May with a home rentals platform and accompanying hyperlocal social network, has closed a Series A round of funding totalling $20 million. The new investment values... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | Silicon Valley law firm exchanges legal services for equity | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Entrepreneurs, would you give up a small slice of... |
| Nov 21, 2012 | Silicon Valley law firm exchanges legal services for equity | Entrepreneurs, would you give up a small slice of your startup in exchange for legal counsel?
Bay Area law firm Britton, Silberman & Cervantez, LLP has launched a technology accelerator for startups known as “Equity LLP.” By offering st... |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Hey Kid, Here's How To Get A Job | Apprentice Electrician (Photo credit: Chris Hunkeler) |
| Aug 1, 2012 | 3AL: at the intersection of social networking and eCommerce | Among a slew of innocuous, copycat startups, 3AL, the Nigerian social networking and eCommerce amalgamate, is taking a road decidedly less traveled.
You can think of 3AL as Facebook for businesses or Etsy — if it went beyond arts and crafts... |
| Aug 1, 2012 | 3AL: at the intersection of social networking and eCommerce | Among a slew of innocuous, copycat startups, 3AL, the Nigerian social networking and eCommerce amalgamate, is taking a road decidedly less traveled.
You can think of 3AL as Facebook for businesses or Etsy — if it went beyond arts and craft... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Exclusive: Amazon.com buys TeachStreet | TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell traveled from coast-to-coast over the past 12 months entertaining offers for his Seattle-based startup. But, at the end of the day, he found the best fit right in his own backyard.
Amazon.com has acquired ... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | SOPA-PIPA Protests Blossom Across the Country | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s not just Wikipedia that’s throwing its weight today behind the movement to stop the controversial anti-piracy bills moving through the U.S. Congress.
While the English ve... |
| May 1, 2011 | The P2P Evolution | Editor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
Many years ago, after graduating college, ... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Moroccan Atheist Blogger Receives Death Threats: This Week in Online Tyranny | Kacem El Ghazzali threatened with murder. Kacem El Ghazzali, a Moroccan blogger and atheist, has received death threats on his Facebook page. One threatened to slaughter him like a sheep. Another spoke of a nearby town.
“We shall meet at El... |
| Sep 11, 2010 | Don’t Waste Money on a New Computer for College | Heading off to college? Here’s my suggestion: buy a used laptop from Craigslist and install Ubuntu onto it. Seriously. You don’t need a new computer for college. If you’re pursuing a liberal arts degree, you really don’t need a brand new co... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | "Good On Video" Is The New "Good On Paper" With YC-Funded Hirehive And YCommonApp | “Good on paper” just became “good on video” with the latest double launch from the Y Combinator crew. With Hirehive, founders Dave Albert and Nick Bergson-Shilcock are attempting to replace at least some part of the unwieldy hiring process ... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Yolink’s Next Step Search Pulls Info from Behind Links and Inside Docs | You’ve been there before: you’re searching on Craigslist for a used, two door Volkswagon Rabbit or a three bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, and each time you click, you wonder what the website could be thinking. You find yourself wishi... |
| Jun 15, 2010 | Report: Online Ad Revenue Will Soon Surpass Print | We are all aware of the floundering print industry that has seen a steady decline in revenues over the last several years. Newspapers that once thrived on the cash-cows that were classifieds and print advertising have had their lunch eaten ... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | iStopOver using social media to turn spare room into spare cash | Article content
Hoping to turn that spare room into spare cash during the 2010 Olympics?
iStopOver launched today catering to the ‘hometel’ market, a market fueled by cash-strapped homeowners and by travelers who are forsaking hotels for lo... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | Two New Visual Tools To Make Craigslist Even Better | We’ve come across two new services that help make perusing Craigslist even easier by focusing on the images that are included with many listings. Craigslist notes which listings have images attached to them, but you must click through to th... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M | According to co-founder Fabrice Grinda, “OLX is probably the largest classified site no one has ever heard of.” And now it’s also the most funded classified site no one has ever heard of, having secured an additional $13.5M in Series B fund... |
| Jan 23, 2008 | EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago | EveryBlock launches today as a geographically-filtered news and data aggregation service for San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago. The site attempts to answer one deceptively simple question: “What’s happening in my neighborhood?” For ... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | Find a Garage Sale on ZipGarage | ZipGarage is a new site for garage sale enthusiasts to list and scout out local garage sales (or rummage sales, or yard sales, or whatever your preferred nomenclature) in the United States. The site is absolutely dead simple and completely ... |
| Jul 5, 2007 | Roundup: Virtual sex bed suit, Geni, Gay.com, Netvibes, Helio and more | Here’s the latest (ahem) action:
Second Life avatar sues another avatar, over virtual sex bed — We should have predicted this. Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Second Life resident V... |
| May 4, 2007 | Valley in merger fever: Google looks at SimplyHired? | Over coffee today, Silicon Valley lawyer Warren Lazarow was telling VentureBeat that merger and acquisition activity is “out of control….there’s more action right now than during the boom.”
A few minutes later, Lazarow, a leading lawyer at ... |
| Apr 26, 2007 | Vflyer offers mobile classifieds | Vflyer, the San Francisco-based classifieds company, today adds a new mobile service to distribute and manage classified ads on mobile devices.
It looks particularly useful for real estate agents, who are always on the go. The offering give... |
| Mar 20, 2007 | Oodle, giving you classifieds — with a touch of help | updated
Oodle, the San Mateo, Calif. online classifieds company has oodles of competition, but venture capitalists have invested $11 million more to help it stand out.
On its face, Oodle is not that different from Craigslist, and other clas... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site | Edgeio, a Menlo Park start-up trying to redefine the way people list classifieds, has raised $5 million in a first round of venture capital, and may raise more. Here is the release.
The round was led by Intel Capital and included an investm... |
| Apr 10, 2006 | How Do I Get A Job With A Startup? | A reader sent me an email several weeks ago with this question:
I have always wanted to work for a small start up that was growing form 8 to 20 people, but I never know where to find them. Everyone hears about the big companies and I can se... |
| Sep 6, 2005 | Katrina and Recovery 2.0 | Updated
At first, we were at a loss of what to say about how technology can help in post-Katrina relief efforts. The immediate problems seemed to stem from lack of organization and decision-making, not technical solutions to saving people.
... |
| Oct 26, 2004 | DirecTV’s HD DVR: TiVo for HDTV | Hello my name is Jim, and I am a TiVoholic.
It’s true, and I’m probably one of the originals. My love affair with TiVo started back when it debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2000. Back then I was hosting Fresh Gear on TechTV, and ... |