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| Oct 7, 2025 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 433: DuckDuckGo Wants You To Have More Control Over AI | We’ve written a lot about how AI can empower users when employed the right way, but how this is difficult when a few giant tech firms control the technology. One company that is trying to move in a different direction is DuckDuckGo with its... |
| Jul 15, 2015 | When Is The Right Time To Raise Funds For Your Startup? | [su_dropcap style="flat" size="5"]T[/su_dropcap]The most common question in the startup community is ‘where do I get money to start?’ and in so many ways this is a wrong question to ask. The startup community that we hav... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | How 4 strangers met at a local event and launched a startup 6 months later | Last fall, 75 people attended the PSLU Bootcamp to learn how to build a successful startup. Out of the 14 teams that were formed through the program, Staffluent is the first to incorporate as a company and build a working product.
Staffluen... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman drove for uberX this weekend [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Amid all the back and forth between ridesharing serving uberX and the Philadelphia Parking Authority this weekend, here’s the real gem: First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman taking people around town as an uberX driver. (F... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | With Apple’s blessing, a private search option arrives in Safari | DuckDuckGo reader comments 55 with 45 posters participating
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| Feb 27, 2014 | 6 Things You Should Know About 'Anti-Google' Search Engine DuckDuckGo | February 27, 2014 5 min read
You’ve probably never heard of DuckDuckGo. And, no, it’s not a game kids play. We’d say it’s just a small alternative search engine with a silly name, but it’s more than that. Once you know what it is, you might... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Defend net neutrality so DuckDuckGo can challenge Google: reddit founder Alexis Ohanian | How does the cofounder of one of the Internet’s most open platforms stand on net neutrality? Yeah, sure, he’s in favor, but the news is how Ohanian used a suburban Philadelphia company as his example of net neutrality’s importance.
“I do th... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | The startup curve South Africa: wiggles of realism | It is sometimes too easy to dish out titbits of startup advice from a venture capital ivory tower without going through the practical realities of executing a business plan, but pattern recognition could close some expectation gaps.
As Pau... |
| Jul 9, 2013 | The startup curve South Africa: wiggles of realism | It is sometimes too easy to dish out titbits of startup advice from a venture capital ivory tower without going through the practical realities of executing a business plan, but pattern recognition could close some expectation gaps.
As Paul... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | SnipSnap, Cloudmine raise rounds // Philly’s “Most Innovative Entrepreneurs” [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
If you want to get funded, apply to pitch at the upcoming Open Angel Forum by April 14. The event, organized by DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg and local angel investor Antonio Tedesco, will be on May 8 at First Round ... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Mentor Chats with Mike Krupit: 3 things you’ll learn at inaugural April 2 event | Put simply, mentors are important.
Gabriel Weinberg recently said that his biggest regret as a first-time founder was not finding a mentor. The DuckDuckGo founder has also said that he’s met many up-and-coming entrepreneurs who don’t have g... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Gabriel Weinberg: ‘Go talk to founders who failed at what you’re doing’ | DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg.
If you’re running a startup, familiarize yourself with the space, including its failures, said DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg in a recent blog post.
The best way to map your space is to go talk to t... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | San Antonio’s CallGrader In DreamIt Ventures Philadelphia | |
| Sep 27, 2012 | Open Office Hours: meet the Philly startup scene and hold your own office hours | Always wanted to hang out with a certain Philly entrepreneur but didn’t really know how to swing it? Check out the new Philly startups group on Open Office Hours, a site that uses informal meetings to help people meet each other.
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| Sep 19, 2012 | Khushboo Shah of latest DreamIt class called ‘Female Founder to Watch’ [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | Perceptual Networks raises $1M from PayPal, Youtube, Reddit cofounders | Launched by the cofounder of one of the web’s most famously bootstrapped viral hits, Perceptual Networks has lifted the veil somewhat on its model with the announcement this morning of a more than $1 million seed investment round from 20 mo... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Open Angel Forum IV: apply now to pitch your startup to a room of local angel investors | Open Angel Forum is back for its fourth run in Philly.
Organized by angel investors Gabriel Weinberg of search engine DuckDuckGo and Antonio Tedesco, Open Angel Forum allows startups to pitch in front of a room full of angel investors and d... |
| Sep 11, 2012 | DreamIt Ventures announces 14 startups in its Philly Fall 2012 class | DreamIt Ventures managing partner Kerry Rupp speaks at the kickoff event Friday at Quorum at the University City Science Center.
DreamIt Ventures, the nationally-acclaimed local accelerator that has expanded to New York, Israel and most rec... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | I am now focusing my angel investments on Philadelphia startups: DuckDuckGo founder Gabe Weinberg | DuckDuckGo founder Gabe Weinberg looks back on his three years as an angel investor and details how his investment strategy has changed since he started investing, in a recent post on his popular personal blog.
One main change, he says, is ... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Interview with DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg | Many have tried to challenge Google's dominance of the search market over the past few years, from small startups to big-name players with deep pockets. But perhaps with the exception of Microsoft, which has poured billions into its search ... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Interview with DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg | Many have tried to challenge Google’s dominance of the search market over the past few years, from small startups to big-name players with deep pockets. But perhaps with the exception of Microsoft, which has poured billions into its search ... |
| Jul 30, 2012 | Hey Google! I Don’t Care About Hangouts, I Just Want To Read My Email | Marissa Mayer, please build us all a better Gmail over at Yahoo. Gmail is a disaster. That’s right, I said it. There’s an undercurrent of frustration surrounding Google’s webmail service, which is still growing like crazy (likely due to And... |
| Jun 15, 2012 | CityControllers releases WatchDog App for Android, claims National Award of Excellence [LINKS] | Controller iPhone app wins prize [Daily News] From a press release announcing the release of the app for Android: “The National Association of Government Communicators recently honored the Controller’s Office with an Award of Excellence for... |
| May 25, 2012 | Is DuckDuckGo Gaining Ground on Google? | In recent years, the search industry has not changed a lot in terms of large players. Google has maintained the leader position with its ownership of nearly 70 percent of search market share. The #2 and #3 spots have changed slightly after ... |
| May 17, 2012 | Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users | reader comments 78 with 56 posters participating
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| May 4, 2012 | Feature Friday: DuckDuckHack | One of my favorite features of the DuckDuckGo search engine (a USV portfolio company) is the instant answer. The instant answer is the box at the top that gives you what you were looking for. For Fred Wilson, it looks like this:
So Gabe, th... |
| May 4, 2012 | Josh Kopelman is country’s sixth most valued tech investor [LINKS] | Philadelphia Venture Capitalists Kopelman and Oliva Make Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors [citybizlist] “Two Philadelphia based venture capitalists were named to Forbes Midas List of Tech Investors, which aims to single out the top 1... |
| May 1, 2012 | DuckDuckHack Encourages The Creation Of Instant Answers | DuckDuckGo has always been, to me at least, one of the unsung heroes of the open source movement. While Google is lapping up all the search traffic with Bing and Yahoo! desperately trying to keep up, DuckDuckGo is just cruising along being ... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Mobile Monday opens registration for Demo Night during Philly Tech Week [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Mayor Nutter considers tax breaks for venture firms [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Tech firms in Philly growing fast, former Philly startup Sqoot in hot water over sexist remarks on hackathon flyer [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Open Angel Forum III is open for business [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Oct 25, 2011 | Weinberg on DuckDuckGo funding: “traction trumps everything” [VC Roundup] | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Oct 19, 2011 | Is it a bubble, boom, bust or bedlam? [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | 3.5 years in, Valley Forge search engine DuckDuckGo raises funding | According to a post on Union Square Ventures’ blog, Gabe Weinberg’s two-man Valley Forge-based search firm DuckDuckGo has received an as yet undisclosed sum in a Series A round led by the 67th ward firm. From the post:
I remember clearly wh... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | DuckDuckGo Raises First Funding | DuckDuckGo, a Valley Forge, Pennsylvania-based alternative search engine company, has raised its first round of funding.
The investment was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Scott Banister, Jim Young, Jeff Miller, Joshua... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Union Square invests in search engine Duck Duck Go | Alternative search engine Duck Duck Go closed its first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures, the company’s founder Gabriel Weinberg announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Duck Duck Go, which has a tiny pe... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Union Square invests in search engine Duck Duck Go | 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!
Alternative search engine Duck Duck Go closed its... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Union Square Ventures, Others Invest In Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo | In a blog post, Union Square Ventures‘ Brad Burnham just announced that the firm has invested in DuckDuckGo, a startup building a nifty search engine with less clutter and more privacy.
Scott Banister, Jim Young, Jeff Miller, Joshua Schacht... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Duck Duck Go | When I first got into the venture capital business in the early 90s, it seemed to me that half of the deals I brought to the partnership were dismissed with the line “sure it’s cool but what the heck do they do if Microsoft decides to enter... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Boston’s OpenView Partners really likes Philadelphia | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Top 10 best Philadelphia entrepreneurship blogs | Entrepreneurs of today have the distinct advantage of sharing online widely their experiences and thoughts on building businesses.
In Philadelphia, that’s certainly the case, so we at Technically Philly got to wondering just what entreprene... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Startup Roundup: Will NuPathe be the next big thing in biotech? | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Aug 18, 2011 | Changing The Default Search Engine In Chrome | Yesterday I read a great post by Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, on how he got DuckDuckGo into Time's top websites of 2011. I just loved the way he talked about what he did and shared the strategy with everyone else. So I decid... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | DuckDuckGo named to TIME’s 50 best websites of 2011 | Thanks to an agressive privacy policy and a simple homepage, TIME is digging Gabe Weinberg’s DuckDuckGo search engine as the anti-Google. From TIME:
It doesn’t involve e-mail, maps, real-time results or social networking. It’s just a simple... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Open Angel Philadelphia II opens for applications | Open Angel Philadelphia, the free-to-pitch angel investment event is back for the second time.
Headed by DuckDuckGo founder Gabe Weinberg and Antonio Tedesco, Open Angel Forums are nationwide pitch events created in response to pay-to-pitch... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Startup Roundup: Philadelphia Media Network, Knight, BFTP, DreamIT with more details on media incubator | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | ‘Flash mob’ firsthand perspective, Philly repped at last space shuttle launch and more: Links | Domelight lives in spirit on Twitter [Daily News] — The People Paper notes @Domelights
Philadelphia Resident One of 150 Selected to Attend NASA Tweetup for Last Space Shuttle Launch [Geekadelphia] As we’ve told you, today starts the big day... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Should we all move to Silicon Valley? | I keep thinking about this exit interview that Brian Sierakowski did with Paul Capestany, who is leaving Baltimore to move to San Francisco (joining the likes of other smart former Baltimore/Maryland transplants Patti Chan, Clarence Wooten,... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Startup Roundup: DuckDuckGo partners with Wolfram|Alpha, Google buys Duck.com | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Startup Roundup: Nutter visits Entrepreneur Expo | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Open Angel Forum presenter Contently aims to clean up Google | There’s a good chance you’ve noticed the recent decline in the quality of Google’s search results.
While the search giant says it considers dozens of factors in its search rankings, most believe that the culprit is “content farms” like Dema... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Open Angel Forum demos six companies | Welcome to the VC Roundup, where we’ll parse through venture capital news related to Philadelphia-based private equity firms and the companies they fund. Subscribe to the roundup as an email newsletter. If you have any VC-related news to pa... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Duck Duck Go doubles traffic and helps the open source community | Since launching in 2009, Valley Forge search engine Duck Duck Go is gaining more traction in two areas chased by Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
Traffic and charity.
According to internal statistics, the site’s queries have more than doub... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Open Angel Forum applications are due today | Spend a few months paying attention to politics in Philadelphia, and you’ll likely hear the term “pay to play.” Turns out, the same can be true for local venture capital.
Created by Mahalo and Weblogs Inc. co-founder Jason Calicanis, the Op... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | Startup Roundup: TicketLeap takes a plunge | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | Guest Post: The importance of traction | This is a guest post by Alan Gleeson is the General Manager of Palo Alto Software, Ltd, creators of Business Plan Pro. He holds an MBA from Oxford University and an MSc from University College, Cork, Ireland.
While the phrase ‘traction’ has... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | The Importance of Trust and Mentorship for Startups | Part of me feels compelled to invoke the folktale of the frog and the scorpion. You know the story: The scorpion seeks a ride across the river, and the frog refuses, fearing the scorpion’s poisonous sting. The scorpion pleads, “You can trus... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Angel Boot Camp, Project 11, and Hacker Angels Meet at a Startup Called Locately | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Normally, we wouldn’t get too excited about a $300,000 tech startup financing in Boston. We might write a brief, or save it for a deal roundup. But today’s news that Locately,... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Traction for Your Startup: How to Get It & How Much is Enough | You could have the greatest idea for a startup in the world. You could even have the best team working together to build a great product. That’s all fine and dandy, but for first-time entrepreneurs, if you don’t have traction, you’re not go... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | New App DuckDuckGo Hopes to Take Away the Pain of Mobile Search | DuckDuckGo, a search engine unique for its libertarian privacy policy and dedicated pursuit of the “zero-click result,” has announced its new iPhone app is out of beta.
“Zero-click” refers to information that pops up at the top of the resul... |
| Jul 23, 2010 | Links: Penn professors using robotics to fight Alzheimer’s, PHILO launches and More | DEFINITE READS
The New York Times reports that two University of Pennsylvania professors are challenging Alzheimer’s disease with a new drug-discovery program and a $1.5 million robot.
Inc. magazine lists Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ism... |
| Jul 7, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Monetate real-time marketing platform helps power ModCloth | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Startup Roundup: HootSuite and Skullcandy pick Philly partners | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Learning about Term Sheets | Even if you plan to bootstrap your company, you should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. That’s what DuckDuckGo founder and Hacker Angel Gabriel Weinberg argues in a blog post today that gives some clear and detailed instr... |
| Jun 22, 2010 | Delicious Founder, AOL Exec Launch Hacker Angels | The Hacker Angels announced their formation last week, nabbing what is arguably the best name for an angel investor group. The group was formed by Going Inc. founder and current AOL executive Roy Rodenstein, Delicious founder Joshua Schacht... |
| Jun 5, 2010 | Gmail Performance Issues | I've been suffering from Gmail performance issues for the past several weeks. I click on a mail message and I get the "loading" message for ten, twenty, or thirty seconds. When I hit send and archive, it can take thirty seconds or... |
| May 26, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Judge backs anonymous flamers in USA Technologies case | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| May 19, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Comcast applies for patent to halt ad fast-forwarding, Duck Duck Go to accept sponsorship | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Links: Jeff Deeney on flash mobs, Arlen wants stricter privacy laws and more | As we tweeted, Phawker contributor Jeff Deeney gives flash mobs his social-worker -experience treatment.
The Inquirer reports that Sen. Arlen Specter is calling for stronger privacy laws after a Senate subcommittee hearing on technology and... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | Google ultra high speed fiber application closes today, attention picks up | Nearly one month after the announcement came at Ignite Philly, widespread attention for the City of Philadelphia applying to partner with Google on its proposed ultra-high speed internet experiment has finally come.
The deadline for applica... |
| Mar 24, 2010 | If Cuil Was Cool, Cuiler Is Cooler, And Cuilest Is The Coolest | Remember Cuil? It was that stealth search engine that launched with a massive amount of buzz because a few former Googlers were behind it. Then it got even more press when it fell flat. Well, it’s still around. But you never hear about it a... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Startup Roundup: WantsThis launches, Laan Labs is better than our Abe Lincoln app joke | Introducing Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup. Here, we’ll parse out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve... |
| Feb 19, 2010 | Links: MC Hammer at Wharton, chatting Jimmy Wales and More | DEFINITE READS
Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports that that city will put a bid in for Google’s announced ultra-fast Internet product.
Keystone Edge has a Q&A with University of the Arts professor and tech-art entrepreneur Slavko Milekic... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | Links: Skip tax breaks for high-tech companies, Princeton laser research and More | DEFINITE READS
The AP reports on a study that suggests Pennsylvania should skip tax breaks for high-tech companies.
The Silicon Alley Insider has an essay on the Boston tech startup scene.
After the jump, the region’s 30-year-old computer s... |
| Dec 25, 2009 | Links: Startup tips from Duck Duck Go, Jay-Z and More | On his personal blog, Duck Duck Go founder Gabe Weinberg continues his Traction video series with Surf Canyon CEO Mark Cramer.MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME
Tech Crunch reports on the high capital outputs from Russian investment firm Digital Sky ... |
