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| Dec 19, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/19/14 | Serviz, SurveyMonkey, Clever, Quikkly, First Opinion, Boxbee, Geenio, Adyen, Redfin, Mixpanel, Dots
Seed stage
Quikkly, which creates personalized action tags, received $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Initial Capital, along wit... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Everest, The Peter Thiel-Backed App For Achieving Your Dreams, Shuts Down | Everest, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile startup that launched an app last year to help you “achieve your dreams,” is shutting down. The company had raised $2.2 million over three rounds, according to data from CrunchBase, but failed to attract... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App Lift Adds Personal Coaching, Raises $1.1M More | Lift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your progress while supported by a social community who... |
| Nov 27, 2014 | 6 apps to help you fight off the holiday weight gain | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The holidays and their endless stream of delicious and utterly unhealthy food are upon us.
While you’ll likely end up stuffing your fac... |
| Jan 4, 2014 | GeekWire Radio: The data science behind that amazing U.S. dialect quiz | Scott Golder in the KIRO Radio studios. (Erynn Rose Photo)
Have you taken the U.S. dialect quiz, the one published by the New York Times a couple weeks ago? It was the buzz of many holiday gatherings, impressing people with its ability to p... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | The Anti-Resolution: How I Stay On The Ball With Fitness All Year Long | ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.
You’re probably going to flunk out on your New Year’s resolutions.
So why make them?
Instead, do what I did along the way to losing 83 poun... |
| 2014 | Lift kicks off 'Quantified Diet Project' to answer eternal question of how to lose weight | Humans have unlocked answers to some of the universe’s deepest questions, and yet we still don’t know what it takes to lose 15 pounds.
Lift is setting out to liberate the secrets of weight loss from their murky morass of mystery, competing ... |
| 2014 | Lift kicks off 'Quantified Diet Project' to answer eternal question of how to lose weight | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Humans have unlocked answers to some of the universe’s deepest questions, and yet we still don’t know what it takes to lose 15 pounds.
... |
| Dec 27, 2013 | Can Gamification Help You with Your New Year’s Resolution? | Editor’s Note: This article is a revised version of an article that appears in a 2013 issue of The Social Media Monthly. If you like it, you might want to download The Social Media Monthly iPad app or iPhone app and subscribe, or order a pr... |
| Oct 13, 2013 | The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor – as a disclaimer for this post, he is an advisor to one of the companies mentioned here, Refresh. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him ... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | How To Find Motivation In The Machinery | ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.
Over the years, as I’ve written about my fitness efforts and how I weave technology into my regimen of exercise and nutrition, there’s one ... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | 11 Top Self-Improvement Apps | “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself,” said Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist and philosopher.
Tolstoy may have exaggerated a little, but we understand his point: change starts from within. “Be the c... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | The Quantified Soul: A Guide to the Best Habit and Mood Tracking Apps | Self-knowledge through numbers – the idea that self-quantification tools can help us understand more about ourselves, ultimately leading us to improve our daily functioning and quality of life. This concept of the “quantified self” was made... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Quantify This! An Editor Works Out His Body Issues | This is the first post in ReadWriteBody, an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self.
I’m on a treadmill and I can’t seem to get off of it.
That’s a metaphor, actually. I am, as it happens, on a litera... |
| Jun 22, 2013 | Q&A: Lift CEO on using technology to build good habits | Tony Stubblebine
Tony Stubblebine is in the business of helping old dogs teach themselves new tricks.
He’s the co-founder of Lift, which makes an app that tries to help people achieve their goals by building better habits. The way it works ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Obvious-Incubated Lift Brings Its Smart Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App To The Browser And Mobile Web | Back in August, Lift launched the first rendition of its snappy-looking iPhone app that aims to help people build healthy habits and achieve their goals. Initially incubated and seed funded by Obvious Corp., the hybrid accelerator and seed ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Lift broadens access to goal-tracking app to make you a better version of you | 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 all know the importance of eating well, exerci... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Lift broadens access to goal-tracking app to make you a better version of you | We all know the importance of eating well, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep, but good habits can be hard to maintain.
Today buzzed-about startup Lift opened up its platform to all web and mobile users, making it easier for any... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? | AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players ... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Everest, An Epic App For Achieving Your Dreams | What if there were an app that could make you healthier, smarter and happier? That could turn your dreams into reality by breaking them into manageable steps and reminding you to take them? Everest wants to be that app. Backed by visionary ... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| Nov 28, 2012 | Lift Closes $2.5M Series A Funding | Lift, a San Francisco, CA-based startup that is developing a personal motivational mobile app, has closed a $2.5m Series A funding.
The round was led by Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital), who joined the company’s board, with participation from SV... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Obvious-Incubated Lift Lands $2.5M From Spark Capital, SV Angel To Help You Build Good Habits | After nearly a year in development, Lift launched its first mobile product in August behind an ambitious goal: Boost human potential by helping people achieve their goals. It almost sounds New Age-y, but co-founders Tony Stubblebine and Jon... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Funding Daily: Every Tuesday is Giving Tuesday | 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!
In the wake of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and th... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Lift fattens up with funding to help you keep your New Year’s resolutions | 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!
Lift, the startup that aims to simplify self-impr... |
| Oct 21, 2012 | Iterations: The Harsh Realities Of iOS App Distribution | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been an official contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
In this post, I’m going to try illuminate a tactical problem m... |
| Oct 6, 2012 | SuperBetter Shifts Focus To Strengthening Players’ Mental Health | San Francisco-based startup SuperBetter Labs is shifting the focus of its namesake social game to focus on strengthening mental resiliency, a decision that coincides with the release of its iPhone app and launch of clinical trials.
Rose Bro... |
| Sep 10, 2012 | Earn a chance to win $1M just for getting in shape: That’s the promise of KardioFit | I never thought playing the lottery would help improve one’s physical fitness. But that’s the idea behind KardioFit, a Bellevue startup that’s announcing $500,000 in financing today from angels including former SurveyMonkey CEO Ryan Finley ... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | Lift launches habit-tracking app for iPhone to simplify self-improvement | 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!
Sometimes it’s the simplest of services that make... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | Startup of the Week: Chase your dreams with Epiclist | 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!
Freshly launched, Epiclist is like a Facebook for... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | Lift Brings A Simple Habit-Tracking And Self-Improvement Experience To Your iPhone | Though our ideal self-images tend to project what we wish we were (in mine I look like David Beckham, talk like John Cleese), the reality is often at least slightly more painful. As a result, many of us are on a mission to pursue our better... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Lift’s method for unlocking human potential is so simple, it’s obvious | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What’s the key to unlocking human potential? Tony Stubblebine, a first-hand witness to the coming-of-age moments of some of today’s mos... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Meet Cody: Could this virtual coach actually pump you up more than Hans and Franz? | Would you take fitness advice from Cody?
Would you take your fitness advice from a robotic looking character named Cody? Some former Microsoft geeks hope so.
That’s the name of the virtual personal coach that’s designed to get folks off the... |
| Jun 19, 2012 | Lift, the stealthy startup backed by Twitter founders, prepares for August launch | 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!
Stealthy San Francisco-based startup Lift has tod... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Plancast Founder Mark Hendrickson Joins Obvious-Incubated Lift As Head Of Product | Last June, Biz Stone and Evan Williams teamed up with long-time collaborator (and early Twitter employee) Jason Goldman to dust off and re-start The Obvious Corporation — the very idea incubator that produced the micro-blogging service we k... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Lift-off: Obvious funds its first startup | @biz, @ev and @goldman fund an app for unlocking human potential through positive reinforcement
The Obvious Corporation, something of an idea incubator created by big Twitter names Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jason Goldman, announced this ... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter | The recently-departed co-founders of Twitter – Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman – now working together again under the old Obvious Corporation name, announced their latest product today, a stealth alpha app called Lift. It’s describ... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Twitter founders announce their new venture, Lift | 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!
Lift is the latest app to earn the interest of Tw... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Twitter Founders Put Their Weight Behind A New Startup: Lift | Twitter co-founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently shifted their focus away from the micro-sharing service provider to reboot Obvious, the company that originally incubated Twitter.
Yesterday, Stone ... |