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| May 24, 2016 | 42: The answer to life, the universe and education | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Feb 13, 2015 | The Mill Starts a New Accelerator in Downtown Vegas | If you live in Downtown Las Vegas, or if you’re affiliated with the tech ecosystem there, then you’ve most likely heard of The Mill. In 2014 The Mill was just a program operating out of the coworking space Work in Progress.
Very green ideas... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | France hopes to reboot its tech reputation with big startup blitz at CES 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When it comes to France and technology, most of the headlines seen around the world involve the country’s fights with Google, Uber, or ... |
| Jan 5, 2015 | France hopes to reboot its tech reputation with big startup blitz at CES 2015 | When it comes to France and technology, most of the headlines seen around the world involve the country’s fights with Google, Uber, or other U.S. tech titans.
The result is an impression that the French hate tech and fear the future. But th... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | What Wilmington should learn from Buffalo: Jordy Levy | The second day of this month’s Tech2Gether conference in Wilmington was keynoted by a “passionate Buffalonian.”
Yep, Jordy Levy a venture capitalist from Buffalo, N.Y., told a crowd of Delawareans that Buffalo and Wilmington may have much m... |
| Oct 13, 2014 | UNLV Awarded the Use of Intel’s World-Class Supercomputer Cherry Creek | Collaboration is one of the foundational precepts of any successful entrepreneurial venture. We’ve seen it in action dozens of times, and we even see initiatives like The Downtown Project cleave to it as part of a personal philosophy, drivi... |
| Oct 6, 2014 | Tony Hsieh: I’m Not Leaving the Downtown Project | Disclaimer: Tech Cocktail is funded by the Downtown Project
Kicking off the afternoon sessions on day one of this year's Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference was the Downtown Project‘s Tony Hsieh. The theme of his talk was not one we... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | Tony Hsieh Steps Down From Vegas Downtown Project | Tony Hsieh, the CEO and founder of Zappos has stepped down from his leadership role at the Las Vegas Downtown Project, according to Re/code. Hsieh created the massive $350 million project to revitalize several city acres east of Las Vegas B... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Kyle Kesterson relocating to Vegas after raising $350K for Freak’n Genius from Tony Hsieh’s VC fund | Kyle Kesterson.
Freak’n Genius is moving south.
The Seattle animation startup is re-locating to Las Vegas after receiving $350,000 in funding from the VegasTechFund, a seed stage investment group that includes partners like Zappos.com CEO T... |
| Jul 10, 2014 | Matt Haggman: Miami is the Perfect City for Entrepreneurs | Miami has everything a city needs to foster entrepreneurship.
Matt Haggman believes that this is true. The Knight Foundation project manager, sat down with Tech Cocktail's co-founder and author of Startup Mixology Frank Gruber to talk ... |
| Mar 16, 2014 | Revitalizing Urban Cores | We’ve all seen the movie. A bustling inner city experiences the flight of people and businesses to the outer edges or suburban locations and then falls on hard times. The city becomes a suburban story and lacks the creative core that attrac... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | Startup Genome Highlights: Las Vegas, NV, USA | This week in the “Startup Genome Highlights" video series is Adam Kramer (@vegaskramer) who tells us about Las Vegas, NV, USA
In the video, Adam mentions:
Downtown Podcast
Startup Weekend
VegasTech
Tech Week
TechCocktail
The Downtown P... |
| Sep 3, 2013 | Burning Man Founder Is Cool With Capitalism, And Silicon Valley Billionaires | “We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s multi-million-dollar balance sheet and its buddy-buddy relationship with Silicon Valley... |
| Aug 10, 2013 | The Future Of Work: Amazon vs. Zappos | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Jun 26, 2013 | Why investors & tech startups are flocking to downtown Las Vegas | This is the third part in our series on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project.
Silicon Valley is facing heat from cities like New York, Seattle, and Denver. Indeed, it’s no longer the only hub sparking innovation.
Las Vegas is one of the... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | How Vegas entrepreneurs are disrupting education and health care | This is part 2 of a weeklong series on Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project.
Entrepreneurs tackling education and health are increasingly proposing that we throw out the current system rather than merely reform it.
But few have been bol... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | Tony Hsieh’s $350M plan to make Vegas an ‘entrepreneur’s Disneyland’ | This is the first part in a week-long series on the Las Vegas Downtown Project, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s ambitious $350 million plan to reinvent a city.
The gathering, at a glorified construction zone, felt like a TED conference in the deser... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | 20 Damn Good Reasons to Attend Tech Cocktail Celebrate: #19 – Visit Downtown Las Vegas | This post is part of an ongoing series, Tech Cocktail's “20 Damn Good Reasons to Attend Tech Cocktail Celebrate”, our national startup competition on October 23 – 25, held in Downtown Las Vegas. Check back each Tuesday as we feature a ... |
| May 16, 2013 | Tech Cocktail Raises $2.5M in Funding | Las Vegas-based media company Tech Cocktail raised $2.5m in funding.
Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project (Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.com) provided the funds.
The company intends to use the funds to add new people in sales/business development, ed... |
| May 15, 2013 | Tech Cocktail Receives $2.5M Investment from Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project | Today, we’re excited to announce that Tech Cocktail has taken a $2.5M investment from Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project (Hsieh is also the CEO of Zappos.com). Over the next year, Tech Cocktail will focus on deepening the coverage, exposure, and... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide | Both Sides of the Table
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A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.
But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.
Complimen... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide | Both Sides of the Table
A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.
But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.
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Jody had ... |
| Apr 2, 2013 | Downtown Project Buys 100 Teslas To Launch Project 100, A Car-Sharing Service In Las Vegas | Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project just announced a new venture called Project 100, a complete transportation system for Las Vegas. For a monthly subscription fee, users will be able to borrow a car, get a driver thanks to an app or t... |
| Mar 28, 2013 | A Look At The ‘Downtown Project’ That Wants To Bring A Tech Renaissance To Old Las Vegas [TCTV] | You’ve probably heard something about the Downtown Project, the $350 million initiative spearheaded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh that’s aiming to bring a renaissance of sorts to Downtown Las Vegas, the old city center several miles away from th... |
| Feb 10, 2013 | A Walk Through Downtown Las Vegas, Where A New Generation Of Startups Is Taking Root [TCTV] | TechCrunch TV recently made the trek to Las Vegas, where we had the chance to check out the burgeoning startup community that’s taking shape there thanks in large part to a $350 million initiative called the “Downtown Project.”
When many pe... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | TC Cribs: Inside Romotive, The Las Vegas Startup Where A New Generation Of Robots Is Being Born | It’s time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you behind the gates of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see the factory floors where your tastiest app and gadget sausage is made.
It’s great to go... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Jody Sherman, Ecomom Founder And Longtime Web Entrepreneur, Has Died | Jody Sherman, a longtime web entrepreneur most recently known as the co-founder and CEO of healthy kids products site Ecomom, has passed away. He was 47.
Details on the cause of death have not been confirmed. The news was relayed earlier to... |
| Oct 16, 2012 | Romotive unveils new $150 smartphone-controlled robot, lands $5M from Sequoia, others | Romotive today is unveiling its next-generation smartphone-controlled robot, a $150 device that the company says is faster and “more sleekly designed” than earlier versions. It’s also announcing $5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, C... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | The new Romo: stronger, faster, smarter personal robot (and cuter, too) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Romo 1 earned Kickstarter pledges of $114,796. But the newest Romo is just getting started.
Romotive, the “smartphone robot company” th... |
| Sep 27, 2012 | Tony Hsieh’s Theory of Serendipity | This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s overview of the Downtown Project, a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups.
We’re at the monthly Downtown Pr... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | A Map of the Downtown Project in Las Vegas | This post is part of Tech Cocktail’s overview of the Downtown Project, a $350 million fund that aims to revitalize downtown Las Vegas by funding new buildings, education, small businesses, and tech startups.
A few miles northeast of the Str... |
| Sep 4, 2012 | Zappos’ Tony Hsieh Bets on Both Schools and Jobs to Jumpstart Vegas | Downtown Las Vegas is not on most tourists’ radar. Most attention is lavished on the Strip, that long-time glimmering outpost of vice, decadence and easy riches, swathed in that suggestive slogan, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... |
| Jun 3, 2012 | Downtown Project’s Vegas Tech Fund Has Unveiled First Five Companies | While still in it's infancy, the Downtown Project, an effort lead by Tony Hsieh to revitalize the old downtown Las Vegas, is underway and starting to fund startups. I last spoke with Tony about the Downtown Project while in Austin, Tex... |
| May 8, 2012 | Paul Carr’s NSFWCorp Web Publication Launches To Much Fanfare | Former TC’er Paul Carr’s latest venture, called NSFWCorp, has launched into private beta. It’s a weekly news magazine dubbed as the “the Economist as written by ‘The Daily Show’” and will be available for $26 a year or “two bucks a month.” ... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Digital Desert Hub – Can The Downtown Project Create Silicon Strip In Vegas? | While thousands of people swarmed all over CES, I went off-beat and headed north to downtown Las Vegas. This is the old part of the city where once gamblers at slot machines listened to Sinatra wafting through the Casino doors rather than B... |
| Jan 10, 2012 | Digital Desert Hub – Can The Downtown Project Create Silicon Strip In Vegas? | While thousands of people swarmed all over CES, I went off-beat and headed north to downtown Las Vegas. This is the old part of the city where once gamblers at slot machines listened to Sinatra wafting through the Casino doors rather than B... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Michael Arrington, Tony Hsieh bankroll ex-TechCrunch writer Paul Carr’s stealth startup | Paul Carr
TechCrunch writer Paul Carr resigned in a blaze of glory a week ago, writing a blistering blog post about the activities of the tech blog’s parent company, AOL.
But the writer has landed on his feet with a new stealth startup that... |
| День с инвестором: Владислав Солодкий, Life.SREDA | FinTech-фонд «Лайф.СРЕДА» создан полтора года назад, а 2 месяца назад совершил первый экзит — американский мобильный банк Simple.com был продан испанской финансовой группе BBVA.
Как проходит день инвестора, о привычке рано вставать, любви к... |
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