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| 31.01.2025 | The Unspoken Truths of Startup Failures — 10 Cautionary Tales That Will Make You Rethink What Success Truly Means Behind every failed startup lies a story of overlooked pitfalls, unforeseen challenges... | The startup world is often painted as a land of endless possibilities, where big dreams meet big checks. Entrepreneurs and investors alike revel in stories of unicorn valuations and rapid success. But there's a side to startups that's less ... |
| 28.10.2015 | Homejoy comes clean on why it failed – or perhaps not | When on-demand cleaning startup Homejoy shutdown, legal problems related to its classification of its cleaners as contractors, were put forward as main explanation.
In a post announcing the Homejoy’s closure co-founder Adora Cheung wrote th... |
| 14.09.2015 | 81 Sites To Find Side Gigs To Earn More Money Now | Who doesn't need more money? If you're not up for forex trading, selling an organ on the black market or dabbling in illicit activity, income on the side is easier to find than ever before, thanks to the burgeoning freelance economy and the... |
| 28.08.2015 | Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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| 17.07.2015 | Homejoy, on-demand home cleaning startup, shuts down in face of lawsuits | Homejoy reader comments 89 with 61 posters participating
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Homejoy, an app-based home cleaning service startup that relies entirely on contract labor, suddenly announced it w... |
| 17.07.2015 | These 12 startups died in Q2. Here’s why and how | 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!
We learned today that cleaning services startup H... |
| 17.07.2015 | Homejoy Will Shut Down Operations This Month | The San Francisco, CA-based on-demand home cleaning services company, Homejoy, will be shutting down operations at the end of July. The announcement was made on Homejoy's own blog last night by Homejoy cofounder Adora Cheung, who confirmed ... |
| 17.07.2015 | These 12 startups died in Q2. Here’s why and how | We learned today that cleaning services startup Homejoy will be shutting down at the end of July. The company was facing funding challenges, and was plagued by four lawsuits over whether Homejoy workers should be classified as contractors o... |
| 17.07.2015 | Homejoy Is Shutting Down At The End Of The Month | On-demand house cleaning service Homejoy is shutting down, after talks of an acquisition by its biggest competitor and a failure to raise enough money to keep things moving.
Confirmation of the shutdown comes on Homejoy’s own blog, where co... |
| 23.06.2015 | Instacart contractors turned part-time employees still won’t get health care | Instacart reader comments 64 with 33 posters participating, including story author
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Further ReadingUber drivers are employees, California Labor Commission ruling suggestsIns... |
| 22.05.2015 | Germany’s Helpling abandoned talks to acquire Homejoy after examining its books | Berlin-based home-cleaning service Helpling pursued serious discussions to acquire its troubled U.S.-based rival Homejoy, but decided last month not to pursue an acquisition after getting a close look at the company’s financials, according ... |
| 22.05.2015 | Germany’s Helpling abandoned talks to acquire Homejoy after examining its books | 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!
Berlin-based home-cleaning service Helpling pursu... |
| 20.05.2015 | Handy In Talks To Acquire Homejoy As Home Service Startups Consolidate | As more startups rush into the business of providing on-demand services for our every consumer need, we’re also seeing an inevitable move to some consolidation. In the latest development, Handy — the on-demand cleaning, plumbing and other h... |
| 15.05.2015 | Aliada, A Housekeeping Service With A Social Justice Slant, Raises $800,000 | Aliada, a housekeeping booking service based in Mexico City, is offering a new, socially responsible model for one of the most maligned segments of the on-demand economy.
The company’s vision has managed to attract attention from some of Me... |
| 08.04.2015 | Sydney startup Whizz brings sparkle to the home cleaning industry | The number of on-demand services available in Australia is steadily increasing and the latest startup to launch in this area is Whizz.
Founded by former SkyFii director Mark Bernberg, Julian Tobias and Adam Abrams, Whizz allows users to boo... |
| 26.03.2015 | Startup workers sue to be recognized as employees, not mere contractors | Adora and Aaron Cheung (sister and brother) founded Homejoy in July 2012.
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| 10.02.2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
| 08.02.2015 | Will There Really Be An Uber For Everything? | Brian Ascher Contributor
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| 17.01.2015 | How The Sharing Economy Will Impact Marketing | Anji Ismail Contributor
Editor’s note: Anji Ismail is the CEO and co-founder of DOZ, a curated marketplace that connects brands with the digital marketing experts around the globe.
It’s hard to find a space that the sharing economy hasn’t t... |
| 31.12.2014 | Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014 | David Hirsch Contributor
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| 15.12.2014 | Following Canada, Homejoy Also “Pauses” Operations In France | Homejoy, the U.S. domestic cleaning startup that’s backed by the likes of Google Ventures to the tune of $38 million, is putting another of its international operations on hold. Following news earlier today that its Canada-based business is... |
| 14.12.2014 | Homejoy Says It Will “Pause” Operations In Canada | Home cleaning startup Homejoy plans to halt operations in Canada within a couple of weeks, though the company says this is only temporary.
We were recently tipped off about the move, and a spokesperson confirmed it, saying that Homejoy will... |
| 02.12.2014 | How I Would Run An African Technology Incubator | Introduction
There has been an uptake of tech incubators/accelerators in the African techosystem™. While I applaud the great work that has been done so far, I am yet to see an incubator on this continent run the way I’d love to do it. Rathe... |
| 02.12.2014 | Rocket Internet’s on-demand home cleaning service Helpling raises $17M to continue expanding | 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!
Rocket Internet’s latest clone: An on-demand home... |
| 02.12.2014 | Rocket Internet’s marketplace for on-demand cleaning, Helpling, raises $17 million | I’ve barely published my interview with cleaner marketplace Hassle.com CEO Alex Depledge, and out comes Rocket Internet-backed Homejoy clone Helpling with a news announcement.
The Berlin-based venture, which like the two aforementioned comp... |
| 30.10.2014 | Homejoy Officially Moves Beyond Cleaning With Launch Of Handyman Services In The Bay Area | In its first big move beyond home cleaning, Homejoy is adding carpet cleaning and general handyman services to its offerings in the Bay Area.
Co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung (pictured above with her brother and co-founder Aaron) has been hi... |
| 21.10.2014 | The Ultimate Vision For Homejoy Is Not Just Cleaning, According To CEO Adora Cheung | On-demand home services company Homejoy has been providing cleaning services over the last few years, but it’s hoping to expand into several other verticals. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe, co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung said the compa... |
| 10.10.2014 | Homejoy’s Adora Cheung Will Discuss Home Cleaning And Global Growth At Disrupt Europe | Adora Cheung, co-founder and CEO of home-cleaning startup Homejoy, will be joining us onstage at Disrupt Europe.
The company makes it easy to schedule home cleanings online and at a relatively affordable price. In the two years since I firs... |
| 09.09.2014 | Alfred Club, Because Automatic Is Better Than On-Demand | It’s no surprise that the on-demand space will continue to grow, but that doesn’t mean that on-demand services are saving us entirely from the stresses of tedious chores. That’s where Alfred Club comes in.
Alfred, which launched today at Di... |
| 04.09.2014 | Cleaning Startup Homejoy Launches Its First iPhone App | Two years after Homejoy first launched its home cleaning service, the startup is releasing an iPhone app — its first native experience for smartphones.
It seems a little crazy for a current-day, consumer-facing startup to wait that long to ... |
| 14.08.2014 | YC-Backed ShipBob Helps Small Business Owners Avoid Post Office Purgatory | Unless you are a philatelist or have a strong tolerance for boredom, standing in post office lines is a pain. This is especially true if you have to do it over and over and over again for your job. ShipBob, a startup backed by Y Combinator,... |
| 09.08.2014 | LawnStarter Launches in Austin to Simplify Lawn Care for Consumers | |
| 25.07.2014 | Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services | When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan to move beyond just offering cleaning services to its customers. It’s starting to make good on that plan, with the launch of a beta test for ... |
| 24.07.2014 | Lawn Love Wants To Bring The Whole “Software Eating The World” Thing To Your Own Backyard | Lawncare and landscaping are areas that have remained largely un-“disrupted” in the whole software eating the world trend that’s been going on in recent years. If you’re in one of the 80 percent of American households that have a lawn, chan... |
| 24.07.2014 | Lawn Love (YC S14) Wants To Bring The Whole “Software Eating The World” Thing To Your Own Backyard | Lawncare and landscaping are areas that have remained largely un-”disrupted” in the whole software eating the world trend that’s been going on in recent years. If you’re in one of the 80 percent of American households that have a lawn, chan... |
| 21.07.2014 | Airbnb Drops Homejoy From Cleaning Trial, Handybook Remains On In Three Test Markets | Earlier this year, Airbnb began testing a cleaning service for hosts that would be offered at a slight discount to traditional maid services they’d book themselves. The idea was to improve the quality of the guest experience while offering ... |
| 10.07.2014 | TaskRabbit Debuts Revamped Platform, Launches New Website And Mobile Apps | Last month, errands marketplace TaskRabbit announced plans to shake up its business model, shifting away from the auction- and negotiation-based platform that it founded five years ago to a more tailored matchmaking marketplace that pairs t... |
| 20.06.2014 | Last day to apply to Startup School Europe | Today is the last day to apply for Startup School Europe, which will be hosted in London on July 26.
Apply here.
Speakers include:
Paul Buchheit
Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of Gmail
Adora Cheung
Founder, Homejoy
... |
| 12.06.2014 | TaskRabbit CEO: Better Job Market Hasn’t Dampened Appeal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Leah Busque founded TaskRabbit in Boston back in 2008 (under the name RunMyErrand), the terms “sharing economy” and “collaborative consumption” weren’t part of the tech l... |
| 05.06.2014 | Startup School Europe Speakers | The deadline to apply for Startup School Europe is coming up on June 20. Apply here.
Speakers include:
Paul Buchheit
Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of Gmail
Adora Cheung
Founder, Homejoy
Patrick Collison
Founder,... |
| 22.05.2014 | Home Cleaning Startup Homejoy Acquires, Shuts Down Competitor Get Maid | Homejoy just announced its first acquisition — New York-based “Uber for maids” startup Get Maid.
Both Get Maid and Homejoy announced their cleaning services towards the end of 2012. They have a slightly different emphasis — Get Maid is more... |
| 05.05.2014 | Homejoy (YC S10) and Instacart (YC S12) pair up to refresh your home | Homejoy and Instacart have teamed up to bring someone the ultimate home refresh. One winner will get a free cleaning from Homejoy, and a fully re-stocked fridge from Instacart.
Learn more on the Homejoy blog or enter here. |
| 10.04.2014 | Homejoy (YC S10) brings its cleaning service to London, priced at £13 per hour | Homejoy, the service for booking a domestic cleaner in a click of a button, has launched in London today.
First available in the US and Canada and fresh off the back of a $38 million round of funding back in December, Homejoy’s platform is... |
| 09.04.2014 | Homejoy Comes To Clean Up The UK, Its First Market Outside North America, For £13/Hour | Fresh off the back of a $38 million funding round, Homejoy is taking its disruptive cleaning service to new shores. Today the company is officially launching in the UK, its first market outside of North America, with its cleaning services c... |
| 25.03.2014 | The 5 coolest startup jobs of the week (3/25/2014) | So you want to join a startup? You’re ready for the crazy perks, long hours, and nagging fear that the company may buckle at any moment?
With tech jobs plentiful right now, it’s not easy to discern between the good, bad, ugly, and severely ... |
| 25.03.2014 | Y Combinator Winter 2014, Batch 1: Meet CareMessage, Boostable, BatteryOS, And More | Today’s the big day!
Y Combinator is kicking off its 19th (!!!!) demo day today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and the TechCrunch crew is on the ground to let you know which hot new startups investors will be clamoring ove... |
| 25.03.2014 | The 5 coolest startup jobs of the week (3/25/2014) | 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!
So you want to join a startup? You’re ready for t... |
| 04.03.2014 | How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber And Airbnb Build Trust To Achieve Liquidity | Anand Iyer Contributor
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| 23.02.2014 | Cleaning Startup Homejoy Opens An Office In New York City | Homejoy offers its home cleaning services in more than 30 North American markets, but it managed to expand without opening any offices outside of its San Francisco headquarters — until January, when it opened an office in New York City’s fi... |
| 25.01.2014 | Meet 6 Entrepreneurs Who Use Tech To Change The World | This latest wave of funding for Internet startups has resulted in a slew of applications that seem to benefit the one percent: Limos via smartphone! On-demand wash-and-fold laundry! Cheeseburgers and shakes to your desk! Snail mail opened a... |
| 15.01.2014 | Handybook Hoovers Up Exec For “Under $10M” To Sweep The Home Services Market | Justin Kan launched Exec in early 2012 as an on-demand errand service for businesses, but over time, morphed into a cleaning service to focus on its most popular offering. Unable to scale “Errands” and struggling to find its legs, the start... |
| 07.01.2014 | 5 marketplace companies to watch in 2014 | Internet marketplace companies have been around since the mid-90s. eBay, Amazon and other marketplace companies enable buyers of products to connect with sellers of goods at a massive scale. In recent years, thanks to technological advancem... |
| 31.12.2013 | 10 Startups That Changed The Narrative In 2013 | ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Real companies making real products that real people, you know, spend real money on. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hotte... |
| 06.12.2013 | Following Vancouver Expansion, San Francisco’s Homejoy Raises $38 Million | San Francisco-based home cleaning network Homejoy expanded to Vancouver a few months ago, its second Canadian city among a North American network that now stands at 31 markets.
Evidently the American startup isn’t slowing down as yesterday ... |
| 06.12.2013 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/6/13 | EducationSuperHighway, Glassdoor, Sketchfab, Hoxton Ventures, DreamHost, Shareable Ink
Seed stage
MOVE Guides, which provides a software-as-a-service platform to help employees relocate, raised $1.8 million in seed funding from Notion Capit... |
| 05.12.2013 | Homejoy (YC S10) Raises $38M for House Cleaning On Demand | Homejoy Inc. raised $38 million in new venture funding to sell professional home-cleaning services for $20 per hour online and via mobile app.
The San Francisco startup will offer other home-related services, from plumbers to babysitters, ... |
| 05.12.2013 | Homejoy sweeps up millions of dollars to liberate you from the burden of brooms | 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!
Homejoy says it is on a mission to free you from ... |
| 05.12.2013 | Homejoy sweeps up millions of dollars to liberate you from the burden of brooms | Homejoy says it is on a mission to free you from housework.
The tech-savvy home-cleaning service has raised $38 million.
“Homejoy is on a social mission to make homes happier everywhere,” cofounder and CEO Adora Cheung told VentureBeat. “We... |
| 05.12.2013 | HomeJoy Raises $38M in Series B Funding | According to the blog of the company, HomeJoy, a San Francisco, CA-based online platform for home services, raised $38m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from Google Ventures, Max Levchin, First ... |
| 05.12.2013 | Homejoy Raises $38M As It Looks To Expand Beyond Home Cleaning | Homejoy, a startup that makes it easy and relatively affordable ($20 an hour) to sign up for a home cleaning, is announcing that it has raised $38 million in new funding.
The money was actually raised across two rounds — a Series A led by G... |
| 27.11.2013 | YC startup Homejoy establishes charitable foundation to help veterans | 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!
Homejoy is bringing the “lean startup” approach t... |
| 19.08.2013 | Anthony Ha at Techcrunch gets the tour of Homejoy (YC S10): Launched in 26 cities in 6 months | Anthony Ha at Techcrunch writes:
If I were ranking startups based on how much I value their services, Homejoy would place pretty darn near the top — every month or so, one of their cleaners comes by my apartment and in two or three hours i... |
| 18.08.2013 | Behind The Scenes At Homejoy, A Cleaning Startup That Says It’s Really A Tech Company | If I were ranking startups based on how much I value their services, Homejoy would place pretty darn near the top — every month or so, one of their cleaners comes by my apartment and in two or three hours it becomes more sparkly than I’ve e... |
| 07.08.2013 | Growing 35% Monthly, Instacart Introduces “Express,” Its Amazon Prime Equivalent For Grocery Delivery | Today Instacart, a popular Bay Area grocery delivery service, released its “Express” service option to the general public. Express, which is akin to Amazon’s Prime, charges a flat yearly fee of $99, which gives customers free deliveries wit... |
| 10.07.2013 | HomeJoy Expands to Austin and San Antonio | The economy must be approving because now it seems like everyone is flush with cash to outsource all the annoying tasks of life like cleaning.
And HomeJoy, a Y-Combinator tech cleaning startup from San Francisco, just launched its services ... |
| 03.07.2013 | Curalate to relocate to Center City // First Round Capital launches First Round Review [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
First Round Capital launched the First Round Review, or what the venture capital firm hopes will be “the Harvard Business Review for startups.” Subscribe here.
First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund announced another inv... |
| 19.06.2013 | Homejoy (YC S10) launches home cleaning as a perk for your employees | As startups compete for the best talent,Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home.
Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall,... |
| 18.06.2013 | Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To Clean Their Employees’ Homes | As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employees an additional perk — a clean home.
Home cleanings may not be a standard perk yet, but they’re not an entirely new idea, either. Last fall,... |
| 07.06.2013 | Homejoy cleaning services launches in Baltimore | San Francisco-based cleaning service Homejoy launches in Baltimore today.
Try it here.
A Y Combinator grad, the startup, which allows users to book a house cleaning at $20 per hour through its website, recently changed its name from Pathjoy... |
| 07.06.2013 | Homejoy cleaning services launches in Baltimore | San Francisco-based cleaning service Homejoy launches in Baltimore today.
Try it here.
A Y Combinator grad, the startup, which allows users to book a house cleaning at $20 per hour through its website, recently changed its name from Pathjoy... |
| 25.05.2013 | When a toilet brush becomes a Homejoy (YC S10) CEO Adora Cheung's secret ROI weapon | In the Upstart Business Journal, Homejoy CEO Adora Cheung writes:
The company I founded with my brother is a new take on one of the oldest businesses around—home cleaning. What distinguishes our business, Homejoy, from others is a simple p... |
| 25.05.2013 | When a toilet brush becomes a Homejoy (YC S10) CEO Adora Cheung’s secret ROI weapon | In the Upstart Business Journal, Homejoy CEO Adora Cheung writes:
The company I founded with my brother is a new take on one of the oldest businesses around—home cleaning. What distinguishes our business, Homejoy, from others is a simple p... |
| 08.05.2013 | Homejoy: cleaning service launches in Philadelphia | Homejoy, a San Francisco-based cleaning service, launched in Philadelphia today.
Try it here.
Backed by First Round Capital, Homejoy allows users to book a house cleaning online for $20/hour. It’s in 13 cities around the country and will ha... |
| 06.03.2013 | Pathjoy (YC S10) raises $1.7M from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Resolute.VC, Max Levchin, PB, others | Pathjoy, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. It’s taking on a new name that sounds like a better fit for its mission — ... |
| 05.03.2013 | Homejoy Raises $1.7M in Seed Funding |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding.
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| 05.03.2013 | Home Cleaning Service Pathjoy Becomes Homejoy, Raises $1.7M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others | Pathjoy, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that makes it easy and affordable to have your home cleaned, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding. It’s taking on a new name that sounds like a better fit for its mission — ... |
| 06.12.2012 | Uber For Maids: GetMaid Launches Its On-Demand, Premium Maid Service In New York | Like Airbnb, Uber has spawned a subset of startups that are looking to capitalize on the success of its premium, mobile, on-demand model and bring a little innovation to their chosen offline industries. Exec, Cherry, YourMechanic and Postma... |
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Сегодня Google объявил о запуске нового венчурного фонда объемом $100 млн. Об этом в официальном блоге компании сообщил управляющий партнер Google Ventures... |
