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| 19.10.2024 | Celebrating Innovation: The Chiratae Ventures Patrick J. McGovern Awards | In the heart of Silicon Valley, where innovation meets ambition, the Chiratae Ventures Patrick J. McGovern Awards recently celebrated three titans of the tech industry. Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe, Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, an... |
| 17.10.2024 | Chiratae Ventures Honors Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, Infosys Founder, Narayana Murthy and Postman CEO and Founder, Abhinav Asthana with the Patrick J. McGovern Awards | MR Rangaswami, Indiaspora, Shantanu Narayen, Adobe, Dr. Srikar Reddy, Indian Consul General, Pat McGovern III, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Sudhir Sethi, Chiratae Ventures
The global VC fund Chiratae Ventures announced today that Ado... |
| 09.10.2024 | Chiratae Ventures Honors Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Infosys Founder Narayana Murthy, and Postman CEO and Founder Abhinav Asthana with the Patrick J. McGovern Awards | SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 9, 2024–
The global VC fund Chiratae Ventures announced today that Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen received the Global Lifetime Achievement Award on September 16, 2024, during an awards dinner in Palo Alto a... |
| 28.06.2024 | SaaS startup Rocketlane raised $24 M from 8VC, Matrix and Nexus | In its Series B funding round, which was co-led by 8VC, Matrix Partners India, and Nexus Venture Partners, SaaS startup Rocketlane has raised $24 million.
In January 2022, Rocketlane secured a $18 million Series A round, and in June 2021, t... |
| 26.06.2024 | Rocketlane Soars to New Heights with $24M Series B Funding Round | Rocketlane, a dynamic B2B SaaS platform, has recently announced a significant milestone in its journey towards innovation and growth. The company has successfully raised $24 million in its Series B funding round, with prominent investors su... |
| 26.06.2024 | Rocketlane Raises $24 Mn in Funding Round Co-Led by 8VC, Nexus Venture | Rocketlane, a SaaS based startup has secured $24 million in its Series B funding round co-led by 8VC, Matrix Partners India and Nexus Venture Partners.
Back in January 2022, Rocketlane raised up $18 million in Series A round while the firm ... |
| 25.06.2024 | SaaS startup Rocketlane raises $24 Mn led by 8VC, Matrix and Nexus | SaaS startup Rocketlane has raised $24 million in its Series B funding round co-led by 8VC, Matrix Partners India and Nexus Venture Partners.
Back in January 2022, Rocketlane scooped up $18 million in Series A round while the firm snagged a... |
| 04.10.2022 | The Startup Battlefield 200: Education, security and space edition | The collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200 presented by Capital Connect by JP Morgan is nothing short of amazing. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final ... |
| 02.05.2022 | What to know about Elon Musk’s $12.5 billion margin loan | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Big deals always pose risk. This one is different.
Elon Musk, who submitted the letter to buy Twi... |
| 01.05.2022 | Pando Raises $6.9M in Funding | Pando, a San Francisco, CA-based career progression platform, raised a total of $6.9m in funding.
The round was led by Craft Ventures with participation from Lerer Hippeau, GFC, Correlation Ventures, and additional strategic investors inclu... |
| 06.12.2021 | BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti is heralded as a digital-culture visionary but faulted for overseeing waves of layoffs | Fifteen years after launching BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti is heralded as a digital-culture visionary.
He's also faulted for overseeing waves of layoffs and some former colleagues doubt his guru status.
BuzzFeed's deal to go public via an SPAC d... |
| 17.02.2021 | Fictiv nabs $35M to build out the ‘AWS of hardware manufacturing’ | Hardware may indeed be hard, but a startup that’s built a platform that might help buck that idea by making hardware a little easier to produce has announced some more funding to continue building out its platform.
Fictiv, which positions i... |
| 14.12.2020 | Retail’s adapt-or-die moment: How low-code apps can speed transformation | Presented by FollowAnalytics
In 2013 billionaire tech entrepreneur and leading Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen predicted a high-drama outcome for retail. As he put it: “Retail guys are going to go out of business, and ecommerce will... |
| 22.08.2020 | This Week in Apps: Apple’s antitrust war, TikTok ban, alt app ecosystems | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $12... |
| 02.04.2020 | Crypto Wants Stronger Public Response to Coronavirus, CoinDesk Survey Shows | In times of crisis, people look to their government – or, at least, they want to.
They may not have actual faith in the state’s capacity against a pandemic. But many of us want to believe there's someone with a higher plan.
Coronavirus is a... |
| 29.03.2020 | Выросла до оценки $1 млрд, потеряла её, но пережила кризис и несколько судов: история The Honest Company Джессики Альбы Статьи редакции... | Став матерью, актриса не нашла безопасных детских товаров и решила запустить их производство. Её стартап продаёт подгузники и косметику по подписке.
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| 12.09.2019 | Fair acquires Canvas from Ford to expand its on-demand vehicle subscription business | Fair, the $1.2 billion startup backed by SoftBank that has built a smartphone-based car leasing platform that lets people takes cars for as little as one month, is making another acquisition in the ongoing consolidation of the short-term ca... |
| 25.08.2019 | Придумать неудачную онлайн-игру и превратить её в популярный корпоративный мессенджер: история Slack и его основателя Статьи редакции... | За пять лет сервису удалось привлечь 10 млн ежедневных пользователей, а инвесторы не обращают внимания на убытки и считают его привлекательным.
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| 05.08.2019 | ‘It’s relatively easy to build a $1 million business’: Why DTC brands expand to services | For Quip, the economics were clear. Enever explained that the overall market for dental products is between $10 billion and $15 billion. Conversely, the dental insurance industry is at about $130 billion.
Other have followed similar paths. ... |
| 05.08.2019 | ‘It’s relatively easy to build a $1 million business’: Why DTC brands expand to services | Help us learn more about you and your job. Take our short audience survey now for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
About seven years ago, industrial designer Simon Enever found himself in a dentist chair. He was getting a routine che... |
| 14.03.2019 | Тест-драйв: GoBe 2 — браслет от российских разработчиков, который умеет автоматически считать калории Статьи редакции... | Впечатления противоречивые: выключается по ночам, натирает кожу, но собирает множество данных о состоянии тела.
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| 13.02.2019 | Во что инвестирует Илон Маск | Наиболее крупные вложения главы Tesla в проекты космической отрасли, энергетики, искусственного интеллекта и не только.
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| 23.01.2019 | Hackers Baselessly Blame Women and ‘SJWs’ for the End of DerbyCon Security Conference | Last week, the popular hacking conference DerbyCon announced that it was shutting down. The next DerbyCon, the organizer said, will be the last.
“Conferences in general have shifted focus to not upsetting individuals and having to police pe... |
| 08.01.2019 | Healbe claims its GoBe 3 wearable can track calories through the skin with up to 89% accuracy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Healbe, the startup behind the ill-fated GoBe, a wearable it said could track calorie intake through the skin alone, has returned to th... |
| 17.09.2018 | Path has bit the dust for good | The social network Path, once a relatively popular alternative to Twitter and Facebook, is gone for good.
Fans of the social network in Indonesia have been circulating a Path shut down message for a few days now, bemoaning the loss — even t... |
| 12.07.2018 | Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing | Pando and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy. (GeekWire Photo/Kaitlyn Wang)
Sarah Lacy, a longtime tech journalist and columnist, knows the things she says can be controversial. Not that it’s stopped her from building two companies, or standin... |
| 12.02.2018 | YapStone is raising $100M to take on PayPal, Stripe in marketplace payments, nabs $71M so far | While a part of the fintech world remains abuzz with crypo-talk, a startup that’s built a business around the more traditional world of payments has raised a significant round of funding as it vies to take on the likes of PayPal, Stripe, Ad... |
| 02.02.2018 | Bustle is raising roughly $30 million to go on a shopping spree | Bustle, the everything blog for millennial women, is hustling to close on around $30 million in new funding as it goes on the prowl for new acquisitions.
It’s a significant cash infusion for a company that has created a mini, millennial-foc... |
| 29.12.2017 | Latin America’s Groupon Mafia | Nathan Lustig Contributor
Nathan Lustig is an entrepreneur and managing partner at Magma Partners, a seed-stage investment fund in Santiago, Chile.
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| 22.11.2017 | Sarah Lacy on Benevolent Sexism and You | Over the past several months we've seen dozens of men in power, across various industries, facing the ramifications of their predatory behavior. The timeliness the new book by Pando founder Sarah Lacy titled, A UTERUS IS A FEATURE, NOT A BU... |
| 18.07.2017 | Niniane Wang: Exposing VC Justin Caldbeck Took ‘100 Hours of Work’ | Last month, Niniane Wang, along with two other women, publicly accused then-Binary Capital partner Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment.
Caldbeck at first tried to dismiss the claims, but criticism only mounted as additional unsavory detail... |
| 10.07.2017 | Medium Is Finding Premium Content in a Random House Partnership | Medium announced an ambitious pivot earlier in the year that left them perusing a premium membership that they needed premium content to back up. Meanwhile, book publishers are seeing their bottom lines shrink — they only increasing sales o... |
| 07.07.2017 | Boston Tech Watch: TechSandBox, BitSight, Upserve, DBmaestro & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here are some of the latest headlines from the Boston-area tech sector:
—TechSandBox, a high-tech startup incubator located about 30 miles west of Boston, announced that it wi... |
| 30.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, June 30 | ET CETERA
New Money: Headspace, a Los Angeles-based maker of a meditation app, has raised $36.7 million in funding from Spectrum Equity. Headspace would not comment on its valuation but said it has increased from the reported $250 million v... |
| 27.06.2017 | The latest in the Binary Capital blowup and what it means for startup investing | Binary Capital, the San Francisco-based early stage fund whose cofounder, Justin Caldbeck, resigned this past Sunday, is shutting down for all practical purposes.
A source tells Bloomberg that the young firm, which had closed its second fun... |
| 26.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, June 26 | DECENCY
IN RECENT DAYS the story of Justin Caldbeck and Binary Capital has rocked the venture capital and startup world. Here’s what happened:
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| 25.06.2017 | VC Justin Caldbeck raised funding in email to accuser ahead of scandal breaking | TechCrunch has reviewed an email allegedly sent by VC Justin Caldbeck, of Binary Capital, to one of the female founders who have accused him of inappropriate behavior — which suggests he tried to use his influence as an investor to encourag... |
| 23.06.2017 | 6 Women Accuse Prominent Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault and Harassment | Justin Caldbeck. Crunchbase
Half a dozen women in the tech industry just came forward to accuse a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist of sexual harassment and assault.
According to a bombshell report from The Information, Justin Cal... |
| 23.06.2017 | For Binary Capital’s investors, a public apology may fall short | In May of last year, speaking on behalf of his firm, venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital tweeted: “Big believers in ‘addition by subtraction’ for company culture. Bad apples impact others, and rest of team will thank you wh... |
| 21.06.2017 | Don’t cry for me, Ubertina | Uber has been in trouble for a while. The company was built on a bro-tastic, anything goes attitude that goes way back to God View and the targeted harassment of journalists. In short, it was built on an original sin that was never washed c... |
| 16.06.2017 | Walmart to buy Bonobos for $310M as it doubles down on fashion | Walmart today doubled down on its efforts to continue building out a online retail fashion business in its bid to outpace Amazon in the wider world of commerce and specifically e-commerce. Today it announced that it would acquire menswear s... |
| 13.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 13 | ET CETERA
Good morning, I will try to abstain from covering every tremor in the Uber saga beyond yesterday’s analysis. (But here’s the latest: Emil Michael is out. He blames Uber’s board. Travis Kalanick, unclear. Sidenote, incredibly, Kala... |
| 11.06.2017 | Uber’s board is discussing a leave of absence for Travis Kalanick; will Garrett Camp replace him? | According to a variety of media reports, Uber’s board is meeting in Los Angeles today in what may be the most critical sit-down in the company’s eight-year history.
The biggest item on the agenda, according to the New York Times, is whether... |
| 01.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 1 | EXITS AND CONFLICTS
NYC Tech: Awhile back I had promised to provide updated deal data comparing exits for startups from NYC, LA and Boston. We can’t compare deal value of M&A exits since so many of the prices are not confirmed. For exam... |
| 30.05.2017 | ‘It Should’ve Been Travis’: Uber Drivers Spread Hate After CEO’s Mom Dies in Boat Crash | Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and his parents. Twiter/@travisk
Over the holiday weekend, the parents of Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick were in a severe boating accident in California’s Pine Flat Lake, where the couple has gone boating for ... |
| 26.04.2017 | Now that he's left VC behind, what will Chris Sacca do next? | He could be an entreprenuer or a TV show host, but one thing he won't do is run for office
Chris Sacca has had a career as a venture capitalist that would make almost anyone jealous. The founder of Lowercase Capital, which he started in 200... |
| 17.04.2017 | Bustle acquires Elite Daily | Elite Daily, the online publisher that (still) describes itself as “The Voice of Generation Y,” has been acquired by Bustle.
The news was first reported by Business Insider.
The Daily Mail previously acquired Elite Daily as a way for the Br... |
| 11.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, April 11 | BIG COMPANY DISEASE
Good morning. Here’s some news:
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Rough math says Bain’s getting a 1.5x return, though that’s not taking into account what Bain spent rolling up two smalle... |
| 16.03.2017 | Permira’s Brian Ruder on private equity’s attraction to tech — and where he’s shopping now | For the last couple of years, private equity firms have been buying up public software companies that had fallen out of favor with investors. In fact, many of the top software deals in the U.S. last year were take-private transactions. Just... |
| 27.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, February 27 | MONEYBALL FOR STARTUPS
Crowdfunding watch: Is it fair to say the realities of equity crowdfunding have not lived up to the category’s promises? Most action in this once-hyped market has been limited to helping same institutional investors a... |
| 24.02.2017 | Uber says it’s ‘absolutely not’ behind a smear campaign against ex-employee Susan Fowler Rigetti | Uber is under attack once again today as the Twittersphere quickly concluded it was behind a smear campaign against a former engineer for the company, Susan Fowler Rigetti, who dropped a scathing blog post earlier this week detailing sexual... |
| 24.02.2017 | Uber female engineers to Travis: ‘there’s a systemic problem with sexism here’ | Following accusations of sexism being ingrained into the culture of ride-hailing company Uber, after a female ex-employ detailed her experience in a blog post earlier this week, CEO Travis Kalanick held a meeting yesterday with a group of 1... |
| 20.02.2017 | Ex-Uber engineer alleges sexual harassment, CEO reacts by promising investigation | Enlarge
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| 19.02.2017 | Former Uber engineer details sexism nightmare, CEO orders investigation | Uber has once again come under fire after a former engineer published a blog post alleging widespread sexism and harrassment during her year at the on-demand ride hailing service. On Saturday, Susan Fowler wrote about her experience having ... |
| 19.02.2017 | Former Uber engineer details sexism nightmare, CEO orders investigation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Uber has once again come under fire after a former engineer published a blog post alleging widespread sexism and harrassment during her... |
| 19.02.2017 | Explosive blog post details ‘abhorrent’ sexism at Uber | In a blog post published Sunday, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Riggetti details her experiences working for the company. Sadly, given she’s a female engineer working at a thrusting, big-name Silicon Valley startup, the experiences are e... |
| 10.02.2017 | Carl Bass on his surprising Autodesk exit — and what’s next | Carl Bass is sitting at his desk at Autodesk today, but he’s no longer CEO of the publicly traded design software company. He stepped down earlier this week in a move that some associated — wrongly, notes Bass — with an interview Bass grant... |
| 27.01.2017 | Silicon Valley’s false feminist idol finally makes a peep | After an era of cowed silence, noted fair-weather feminist and Facebook demigod Sheryl Sandberg finally spoke up!
Sandberg had not objected to the Trump administration — clearly an affront to her values, the values that have sold more than ... |
| 26.01.2017 | Facebook Updates 'Trending' Feature To Fight Fake News, Removes Personalized Topics | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 26 January 2017, 06:01 am
Facebook is making changes to its trending topics algorithm, which stands as another effort to rid its platform of fake news, the bulk of which has issued a caustic and oft-controversial sl... |
| 25.01.2017 | Facebook stops personalizing trending topics to your interests, adds publisher headlines | 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!
Facebook has begun rolling out new updates to its... |
| 09.01.2017 | Could this tool for the dark web fight human trafficking and worse? | In today’s data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyse anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the World Wide Web has loads of information.
At present, the most easily indexed material from the ... |
| 09.01.2017 | Searching Deep and Dark: Building a Google for the Less Visible Parts of the Web | - |
| 06.12.2016 | Unpitch Is Back, Because We Still Need It | In these times of discord in America, most people still seem to agree on one thing: if you want to launch a company, you need to find some money. And the more time you spend around startups, the more it seems everyone also agrees that the k... |
| 22.11.2016 | Gay dating app Hornet raises $8 million, its first institutional funding | Hornet, a dating app that touts itself as “the world’s second largest gay social network,” announced that it has raised $8 million in its first round of institutional financing. The Series A round was led by Shanghai-based VC firm Ventech C... |
| 22.11.2016 | Gay dating app Hornet raises $8 million, its first institutional funding | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Hornet, a dating app that touts itself as “the world’s second largest gay social network,” announced that it has raised $8 million in i... |
| 22.11.2016 | Hornet, a social network for the gay community, raises $8M | Hornet has 15 million total and three million monthly active users
Unlike straight people who are looking for members of the opposite sex who might be friends or dates, gay men often still need help to figure out who in their city, and so m... |
| 12.10.2016 |
Report: NastyGal Facing Cram Down Round, Seeking Buyer
| Los Angeles-based fashion website NastyGal is apparently in the midst of a "cram down" round--a round where the current shareholders in a company essentially reset the equity structure of a company that usually forces non-particip... |
| 06.10.2016 | Создатели российского фитнес-трекера привлекли $6,5 млн в рамках акселератора Starta Capital Статьи редакции | Компания-разработчик российского фитнес-трекера Healbe привлекла $6,5 млн от действующих инвесторов в рамках первого акселератора Starta Accelerator, запущенного российско-американским фондом Starta Capital. Healbe и ещё пять российских про... |
| 04.10.2016 | Pour one out for the BlackBerry | Last week, BlackBerry confirmed it would stop designing and producing its smartphones in-house. Yes, there are lessons we can take from the world of manufacturing and from the world of recognizing your rivals, but everyone interested in mod... |
| 04.10.2016 | Pour one out for the BlackBerry | 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!
Last week, BlackBerry confirmed it would stop des... |
| 18.09.2016 | Bitcoin and the Brave Future of Browsers | Josh Metnick is a veteran entrepreneur and startup investor, most recently serving as VP of Blockchain Strategy for Raise Marketplace Inc and CTO of Wrapports LLC, the parent company of The Chicago Sun-Times.
In this opinion piece, Metnick ... |
| 19.08.2016 | Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles | “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy Michael Sayman.
The answer is Lifestage, a standalone iOS app fo... |
| 19.08.2016 | Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles | “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video?” asks Facebook’s 19-year-old product prodigy Michael Sayman .
The answer is Lifestage, a standalone iOS app ... |
| 15.08.2016 | Mark Cuban is coming to Splash LA, 10/13 - what's in store? | Cuban isn't afraid to speak his mind when it comes to entrepreneurship, venture capital or politics
Editor's Note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mar... |
| 30.07.2016 | How the Indie.vc model is disrupting VC firms | 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!
The way technology companies grow may be broken, ... |
| 30.07.2016 | How the Indie.vc model is disrupting VC firms | The way technology companies grow may be broken, destructive, and wasteful. At least that’s the gospel some renegade venture capitalists at Indie.vc have been spreading. If you’re working in venture capital or tech, you might not have heard... |
| 28.07.2016 | How the media will rise in the face of the digital revolution | Raghav Bahl Contributor
Raghav Bahl is the founder of Quintillion Media and board member at Quintype, a data-driven platform for publishers.
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With one foot in the past and the other in the future, India faces a... |
| 14.07.2016 | What’s Peter Thiel going to say at the Republican National Convention? | Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley’s own wild card, is slated to speak at the Republican National Convention next Thursday, according to the New York Times.
Though Thiel has previously voiced support for the presumptive nominee, his views have his... |
| 26.06.2016 | Tor Project Battled Over Hiring Ex-CIA Agent, Chat Logs Show | The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains the world's most popular anonymity software, is often protective of its public image. In particular, the organization faces regular—and often unsubstantiated—attacks about the motivations of its... |
| 28.05.2016 | Unicorns along the Wasatch: Utah’s flourishing startup and enterprise scene | Ken Davis Contributor
Ken Davis is CEO of TaskEasy.
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A New Class Of Worker Could Fix The On-Demand Economy
Silicon Valley has traditionally been the startup Garden of Eden, but it’s no longer the only game in t... |
| 11.05.2016 | Google Fiber Plans to Take San Francisco by Storm | Google Fiber is finally coming to California, and they’re kicking off their debut in San Francisco. It’s hard to believe that the City by the Bay, a close neighbor to Silicon Valley, doesn’t already have Google’s super-fast Internet service... |
| 29.04.2016 | Handcuffed to Uber | Plenty of people would give everything to be an early employee at seven-year-old Uber. But Uber employees who’ve been with the ride-share company for at least a few years have discovered a considerable downside to their ride with the transp... |
| 11.04.2016 | On-demand laundry and home cleaning startup, Kisafi will launch in Kenya on April 20 | “It is clean.”
Literally. That’s what the word Kisafi means when translated from Swahili, and that’s what Janet Otieno and the rest of her team hope you will say, when they are done doing your laundry and cleaning your home.
“See us as the ... |
| 10.04.2016 | Can Israel build big, sustainable companies? | Zach Abramowitz Contributor
Zach Abramowitz is the co-founder and CEO of ReplyAll.
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Thoughts on building a bootstrapped business
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| 29.03.2016 | Life without filling stations? FueledUp.co will deliver fuel to anyone in Lagos | This is a public service announcement. I repeat, this is a public service announcement. On-demand fever is sweeping across the technology space, and domain experts are falling over themselves to “Uber-ify” their respective industries.
Forge... |
| 11.03.2016 | What Every Entrepreneur Should Learn From the Webvan Failure | The Entrepreneur Insider network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question “H... |
| 05.03.2016 | The Dark Ages of Austin startup capital | Richard Bagdonas Contributor
Richard Bagdonas is an Austin-based entrepreneur. He is currently the chief healthcare architect at MI7.
An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. Th... |
| 18.02.2016 | Zenefits Stumbles Into PayPal’s Old Drama | Eric M. Jackson Contributor
Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder and chief executive of Caplinked and the former head of marketing at PayPal.
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Chris Grey is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Caplinked.
The tec... |
| 16.02.2016 | Uber’s 10 Worst Actions—Threats, Lies, Sexism & Shady Business Deals | An Uber app. (Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
Uber has been in the headlines a lot lately, but it hasn’t been good news. The company has been accused of being sexist, sabotaging the competition, abusing drivers and much, much ... |
| 20.01.2016 | Will it take an acquisition to revive Twitter? | Investors went crazy over rumors of a News Corp bid, but seem unimpressed by Dorsey's efforts
Watching Twitter's stock on Wednesday was like being on a roller coaster.
First, it opened the day at $16.13 a share, its lowest price ever, down ... |
| 13.01.2016 | Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin | Dan Graham Contributor
Dan Graham is co-founder and CEO of BuildASign.com and co-founder of the incubator Owen’s Garage and a civic leader in Austin.
It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city’s job. In a sane world, a public ... |
| 30.12.2015 | The Middleman Strikes Back | Ezra Galston Contributor
Ezra Galston is a venture capitalist with Chicago Ventures.
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The Middleman Strikes Back
One of the great promises of the Internet — a democratic, transparent, ... |
| 28.12.2015 | 5 ways to increase email engagement through mobile behavioral data (webinar) | It’s one of the most effective tools in the marketer’s toolbox, but thousands keep making critical errors and losing out — especially in a mobile-first world. Join our live webinar and learn from proven experts why your email campaigns may ... |
| 14.11.2015 | The Culling Of The Herd | 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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| 04.11.2015 | Copyright As Censorship: Sketchy Food Scanning Company Abuses DMCA To Censor Critical Reporting | Another day, another example of copyright being used to censor. A few weeks ago, we wrote about a sketchy crowdfunded “food scanning device” company called TellSpec, which had ridiculously threatened the online publication Pando Daily with ... |
| 03.11.2015 | Startups: Five things to know before crowdfunding | Nigerian startups don’t crowdfund much. From my experience (and quick sleuthing), only a few Nigerian startups have crowdfunded, and fewer still have been successful. One success story is Kola Tunbosun’s Yorubanames project on Indiegogo.
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| 21.10.2015 | Stupid Legal Threats: Sketchy Crowdfunded Food Scanner Company Threatens To Sue Site That Reported On Phantomware Product | Another day, another ridiculous legal threat. This time it’s from a company called “TellSpec” against the news site Pando Daily. Last year, it appears that Pando had a couple of articles about Tellspec, a crowdfunded food scanning project t... |
| 17.10.2015 | Spotify reacts to Joanna Newsom’s “villainous cabal” criticisms | In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Friday, musician Joanna Newsom had some harsh words for Spotify.
While discussing her new album, the eccentric singer-composer-harpist laid out her complaints with the music streaming service us... |
| 15.10.2015 | Why the AngelList founder turned down $1 billion | When a Chinese venture capital firm offered AngelList founder Naval Ravikant a $US1 billion seed fund he did a very strange thing: he turned them down.
Pando editor Sarah Lacy has the inside story of the deal between CSC Group and AngelList... |
| 07.10.2015 | Now Is The Time To Break Into China | Hans Tung Contributor
Hans Tung is a managing partner at GGV Capital, focusing on early-stage investments in internet and e-commerce ecosystems globally. He has been named to the Forbes Midas list eight times, most recently at #10, and coun... |
