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| Aug 14, 2020 | Former Grab exec raises $2m from Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, others for fintech startup | Premium
Singapore-based fintech platform Spenmo has raised $2 million in seed funding from Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, Iterative Capital and angel investors from XA Network, formerly known as Xoogler Angels.
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John Donovan, the CEO of AT&T Communications, is stepping down after two years in the position. Donovan oversaw... |
| Jan 7, 2018 | Exec raises more than $140K for Moore accuser whose house burned down | A Silicon Valley executive helped raise over $140,000 for a Roy Moore accuser whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson attack.
Katie Jacobs Stanton set up the GoFundMe on Friday for Tina Johnson, after hearing that her Gadsden, Alabama... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | YC-Backed Zen99 Makes Life Easier For Freelancers With Finance And Insurance Tools | Freelancers and contractors are a rapidly growing part of the workforce. Without benefits, however, many struggle with issues like figuring out how much of their earnings to withhold for taxes and finding insurance providers.
A new startup ... |
| Jun 12, 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... |
| Jan 18, 2014 | Handybook Acquires Exec | Handybook acquired Exec, an on-demand home improvement and cleaning brand.
The purchase of Exec will allow Handybook to expand the on-demand home improvement and cleaning brand, whose services are already available in 13 markets. The acquis... |
| Jan 15, 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... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Battle of the brooms: Handybook acquires Exec in all-stock deal | There are a slew of companies fighting for the privilege of cleaning your house.
Handybook has acquired Exec in an all-stock transaction that was allegedly the culmination of a “competitive bidding process” between multiple companies. The d... |
| Jan 15, 2014 | Battle of the brooms: Handybook acquires Exec in all-stock deal | 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!
There are a slew of companies fighting for the pr... |
| Dec 22, 2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor marketplaces on the planet, announced a merger this week. The two have been competing in the freelance space for over a decade and decided to leverage their respective resources to “create f... |
| Dec 22, 2013 | How Elance’s merger with oDesk will impact the freelance space | 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!
Elance and oDesk, the two largest freelance labor... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | Exec Drops Prices For Its Home Cleaning Service By 25 Percent | Exec says that it’s dropping prices for its home cleaning service in all nine markets by 25 percent.
Founder and CEO Justin Kan told me that customers will still get a fixed quote for the entire cleaning, but the change effectively lowers E... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | R.I.P. Lazy Times: Exec Shuts Down Errand Service But Keeps Cleaning | You’re going to have to do that chore yourself, because the venture capitalist won’t pay for it anymore. Exec couldn’t find a way to scale its “Errands” on-demand personal assistant service beyond San Francisco, so it’s emailed customers sa... |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Looking To Beef Up Margins, Exec Hikes Hourly Rate For Errands From $25 To $30 And Triples Its Surcharge | Exec, the San Francisco startup that lets you easily hire people online by the hour to run your errands and do your cleaning, will be increasing the flat rate for its flagship errand-running service Exec Errands by 20 percent and more than ... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | Stripe (YC S09) lets marketplaces send payouts | You can now use Stripe to programmatically send bank transfers to anyone with a US bank account. This makes it easier to build businesses like Lyft or Exec that involve sending many payments to others. You can use the API to transfer money ... |
| May 4, 2013 | How to do anything | 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!
Many people, when faced with doing something new ... |
| Mar 28, 2013 | Fancy Hands Now Has An iPhone App, So You Can Book A Personal Assistant Anytime | Sometimes the smallest, most mundane tasks are the things you really dread — and put off for weeks. Like booking an oil change for your car, or finding a nice play for an anniversary date and buying tickets, or finding a good dentist in a n... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | Exec’s Expands its On-Demand Cleaning Service | Exec is an errand running and cleaning service with on-demand, high-quality personal assistants for individuals and companies. Exec started last year in San Francisco; this week Exec announced plans to expand to New York City, Boston, Chica... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Exec launches cleaning service in 4 new markets around the U.S. | This morning, cleaning-and-errands service Exec is spreading its message of free time and idle hands to four new cities: Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
The company just started busting out of its Bay Area home last month w... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | Exec Expands Its House-Cleaning Service To New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago And Boston | Starting a service that lets people request real-life humans to do tasks for them or clean up their apartment is no small feat. Exec’s founder and CEO, Justin Kan, set out to build a service that would not only create jobs for people who mi... |
| Mar 2, 2013 | If you set good defaults, you (& your users) will build good habits | Setting up good default behavior is very important. In fact, most people never change the default settings for the things they use.
For software designers, this means investing time thinking about what you want to happen if nothing changes.... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | YC-Backed Virool Raises $6.62 Million “Seed” Round To Help Make Videos Go Viral | Series A crunch? Who cares with seed rounds like this? Today, Y Combinator-backed Virool, a self-service social video advertising platform, is announcing its monster “seed” round of $6.62 million. And Virool even got to pick from their choi... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Justin.tv founder brings new house cleaning service Exec to his hometown of Seattle | Justin Kan, the guy who helped make live streaming on the Web a real-world phenomenon has a new gig. But this one isn’t quite as sexy as broadcasting one’s life.
It is, however, a bit more practical: Helping home owners find house cleaners.... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Exec Launches A Cleaning-Only App, Expands to Seattle As Housework Makes Up 50% Of Sales | Exec — the Y Combinator-backed app that does your errands on-demand — just launched a cleaning-only app. It’s a decision that makes sense as housework has ended up being about 50 percent of the startup’s overall gross sales.
Cleaning has a ... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Errand App Exec Gets A Web Redesign, Goes Beyond Bay Area With New San Diego Cleaning Service | Exec, the startup led by Justin.tv’s Justin Kan that lets you hire people for errands and cleaning, is getting a new look today. It’s also expanding beyond the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time by offering its cleaning service in Sa... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Exec gets a brand-new design & a brand-new city launch | Today, Exec is busting out all over — all over the Internet with its pretty new web interface, and all over San Diego with its first non-San Francisco Bay Area expansion.
The redesign will emphasize Exec’s two main areas of focus: cleaning ... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | Snapchat Wins “Fastest Rising Startup” At The 2012 Crunchies | Mobile photo messaging app Snapchat just won “Fastest Rising Startup” at this year’s edition of the Crunchies. If startups are really all about growth, then our voters couldn’t have picked a better winner than Snapchat, which didn’t just gr... |
| Jan 31, 2013 | The World’s Most Depressing Tech Infographic Says You’re Dead In 9 Years | Thanks Exec, for reminding us that we spend most of our days in a hamster wheel. The point of its new infographic was to show that life is too short to waste time doing errands, so you should hire an Exec on-demand assistant to do them for ... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | 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!
American companies are obsessed with hiring Harva... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Ivy Leaguers: Your credentials are worthless here | American companies are obsessed with hiring Harvard grads and Wharton MBAs. This is true of the tech industry, even extending into startups, driving entry-level top school CS bachelor’s degree grad salaries into the six figures in the Bay A... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Happiness Is This Gif Of Paul Graham “Making It Rain” | Here is a delightful gif of Y Combinator’s Paul Graham throwing what looks like $50 up in the air, “making it rain” as the kids would say.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, or Lil Wayne, here is Urban Dictionary’s definition of the... |
| Dec 6, 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... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Exec Updates Its iPhone App For Ordering On-Demand Assistants, Adding Receipts, Multiple Jobs, New Sounds And Animations | Justin Kan’s startup Exec has been busy over the last few months, adding a new housecleaning service to its on-demand task management service. It’s also been busy adding features to its mobile app. The latest version of the app, being relea... |
| Nov 5, 2012 | Want To Pitch A VC While He Cleans Your House? Exec And Shervin Pishevar Thought So | [Disclosure: Exec’s Justin Kan sent me some credits to try out its new cleaning service, which I needed due to my injured ankle. I have paid for all previous Exec services. My review, which is below and not the focus of the piece, will reit... |
| Oct 30, 2012 | Underwear On Your Floor? YC’s Exec Has A House Cleaning Service For That | Here’s to iteration. When Justin Kan first launched Exec, a service for getting errands done on demand, I was one of the first beta testers. We had a housecleaning and it took, well, six hours. Even though the Exec that came over had a fant... |
| Sep 26, 2012 | Errand Outsourcing Startup Exec Tests Out A Faster, More Expensive Cleaning Service | Exec, a startup that allows you to instantly hire local workers to perform basic jobs, is testing out a new version of its cleaning service. In the future, cleaning with Exec should be a higher quality, faster experience, and it will come w... |
| Sep 23, 2012 | Iterations: Recruiting The New Labor Force | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR at Javelin Venture Partners. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Most Apple fans become slightly uncomfortable at the sight of Apple’s latest television commercials featuring celebrities talking aiml... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Task Management Startup Exec Now Lets Users Give Back By Donating Someone Else’s Time To Charity | Task management startup Exec launched with a pretty simple premise — let users rent someone else’s spare time for a small fee of $25 an hour. That has enabled San Francisco-based users to outsource any number of tasks through its easy-to-us... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Too Busy (or Lazy) To Volunteer? Exec Lets You Pay Someone to Volunteer for You | (Photo: Exec)
Sometimes when we pass a homeless person on the way into our multi-million dollar luxury Chelsea apartment, or our driver takes us through the island slums to get to our private beach on St. John’s, we suspect that we should p... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | TaskRabbit Gets $13M From Founders Fund And Others To “Revolutionize The World’s Labor Force” | Labor-marketplace TaskRabbit is today announcing a $13 million C-round of funding, led by Founders Fund. The C-round will bring the collaborative consumption startup’s total funding to $38 million.
As part of the round, Founders Fund partne... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | TaskRabbit Launches On-Demand Courier Service ‘Deliver Now’ In San Francisco | San Francisco is a relatively tiny place — famously just 49 square miles — but now its residents will have the whole city at their fingertips even more so than ever.
TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource errands and ... |
| May 31, 2012 | Exec (YC W12) raises $3.3M round led by Sam Altman | Sam Altman, who was CEO of Loopt, which was recently acquired by Green Dot, led the round. “He’s been doing bigger investments lately,” Kan said.
Other investors include Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, Parse co-founder Tikhon Bernstam,... |
| May 25, 2012 | Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M | Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, according to an SEC filing. The company’s co-founder Justin Kan, who is also behind Justin.tv, Twitch.tv and SocialCam, says he’s not ready to disclo... |
| Apr 18, 2012 | Microsoft PM “Resigns” Via Video, Joins Justin Kan’s New Startup Exec | Exec, the new TaskRabbit competitor from Justin.tv’s co-founder, Justin Kan, has just hired a new designer it seems. Or so she sings. In a video posted to YouTube by one Karen X. Cheng, she sings and strums – rather nicely, in fact – to the... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | The Hunt For An ‘Instagram For Video’ Is On, And Socialcam Wants The Crown | By all accounts, Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day held last month for its Winter 2012 class was a biggie. With 66 companies presenting their apps, it was pretty impossible to name a startup that was the clear star of the group. But judging fr... |
| Apr 9, 2012 | The Rat Race | Editor’s note: Justin Kan is the founder of Exec, the fastest way to get your jobs or errands done in real-time. He previously co-founded Justin.tv / TwitchTV, which recently spun off Socialcam. You can follow him on Twitter @justinkan and ... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Want To Rent A Founder? Justin Kan’s Exec Is Making That Happen (For Charity) | Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of Justin.tv, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact around video. Last year, he and team spun-off Twitch.tv, a gaming-focused versi... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | At Y Combinator’s Biggest Demo Day Yet, Mobile Is Taking Over | There are plenty of observations to be made about Y Combinator’s Demo Day. It’s the biggest ever, with 66 companies in this Winter class. It’s more diverse than past years, with many companies being led by women and people of color. And the... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | 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!
Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking pla... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | YC Demo Day Session 5: Hackpad, FamilyLeaf, Ark, Chute, Minefold, Exec, 99dresses, Matterport | After a marathon day of really solid startup pitches, it’s officially a wrap for Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 demo day held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. We’ve been here since the beginning, with coverage of all the ... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day | 65 startups showed off today at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, and we covered all 39 that were ready for the public. After talking to VCs and tech moguls, the TechCrunch teamed huddled up and picked these 10 companies as the best. They’re disrupt... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Y Combinator shows off 39 companies at Demo Day | Y Combinator’s semi-annual Demo Day is taking place today, and 66 companies are pitching their products at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Twenty seven of the presenting companies are still in stealth mode.
Twice a... |
| Mar 26, 2012 | Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies And Startups Today | You’re paying your developer $150,000 a year plus change. Why let them get distracted by dry cleaning or grocery shopping?
While the very biggest companies like Google and Facebook have figured out that they need to import barbers, car wash... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | Cash in on mobile, the third-wave of e-commerce | Eighteen months ago, I bet my career on mobile. The result was the HotelTonight app, which provides discounted, last-minute hotel bookings. HotelTonight is representative of a broader trend: the third-wave of electronic commerce.
The first ... |
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Eighteen months ago, I bet my career on mobile. The result was the HotelTonight app, which provides discounted, last-minute hotel booki... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Get anything done for $25/hour flat in San Francisco with Justin Kan's Exec (YC W12) | Exec is the latest project of Justin Kan, YC alum from Kiko and the eponymous Justin.tv. It’s a simple task service that lets you get anything done quickly and with zero guesswork. Get groceries, get your house cleaned or even web research ... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Justin.tv’s Namesake Founder Takes On Task Services With Exec | Justin.tv has already gone in two directions. The main one is Twitch.tv, a video game-focused version of the original video streaming site, that by all accounts has booming traffic and revenue. The other one is SocialCam, a mobile video app... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Get things done — by someone else — with Exec | Justin.tv founder Justin Kan is moving onto his next project: Exec, a web and iPhone app that will let you throw up your hands and delegate your first-world problems to someone else, such as a starving artist who’s grateful for the work.
Th... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Get anything done for $25/hour flat in San Francisco with Justin Kan’s Exec (YC W12) | Exec is the latest project of Justin Kan, YC alum from Kiko and the eponymous Justin.tv. It’s a simple task service that lets you get anything done quickly and with zero guesswork. Get groceries, get your house cleaned or even web research ... |
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