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| Feb 24, 2016 | VegasTechFund is now VTF Capital, looks beyond Sin City for commerce startups | One of Las Vegas’ most well-known venture capital firms is undergoing a bit of transformation. The VegasTechFund has rebranded itself to highlight its changing focus. Now calling itself VTF Capital, it’s setting out to make investments thro... |
| Mar 7, 2014 | Google Ventures Boots ‘Bustle’ | Bustle, the unfortunately named and ill-marketed woman’s publication launched by Bleacher Report founder Bryan Goldberg in August, has lost at least one prominent investor. Google Ventures has pulled its initial investment of $100K out of t... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | PandoDaily Lands $1.2M in Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, PandoDaily has raised $1.2M Series A funding from a group of Tennessee investors.
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| Nov 28, 2013 | SnapCard Lets You Pay in Bitcoin at eBay and Amazon | Online startup snapCard wants to make it easier to use bitcoins online by skipping merchant integration altogether.
SnapCard users can purchase items from major retailers, even if their e-commerce platform doesn't accept bitcoin. Users can ... |
| Nov 27, 2013 | Assembling a dev team in the age of mobile | This post is part of a new series called “The Future of Modern Software” and is brought to you by New Relic. Read the series here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity.
At this point, it’s old news — we’... |
| Nov 26, 2013 | NSFWCORP Acquired by PandoDaily in the VegasTechFund’s First Acquisition | Yesterday, Paul Carr’s NSFWCORP announced its acquisition by PandoDaily, in the first exit for a VegasTechFund portfolio company.
NSFWCORP had been publicly struggling with financial issues, as it raced to raise $50,000 to stay alive in lat... |
| Nov 25, 2013 | PandoDaily Acquires Paul Carr’s NSFW Corp | Tech news site PandoDaily is acquiring NSFW Corporation, the humor- and politics-focused publication founded by former TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr (pictured), according to a story in the Guardian.
The NSFW Corp team will reportedly form ... |
| Nov 23, 2013 | Poolsidepreneur Wants Founders To Ditch Their Stuffy Offices And Pay To Work Poolside Instead | Poolsidepreneur There's a new "luxury" work space that wants entrepreneurs to get out of their homes and offices and code in enviable locations instead.
Poolsidepreneurs was founded in Los Angeles. For $99 per month, you can work ... |
| Nov 23, 2013 | Poolsidepreneur Wants Founders To Ditch Their Stuffy Offices And Pay To Work Poolside Instead | Poolsidepreneur There's a new "luxury" work space that wants entrepreneurs to get out of their homes and offices and code in enviable locations instead.
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| Nov 21, 2013 | With Tinder 3.0, Tinder Enters The Friend Zone | Tinder, an app that allows you to swipe right on profile images in order to meet potential friends or dating prospects, has just launched its 3.0 version on Android and iOS. For those of you who want even more in common with the random peop... |
| Nov 8, 2013 | One Connected Home Hub To Rule Them All | This is a post in the ReadWriteHome series, which explores the implications of living in connected homes.
If home is where the heart is, then a connected home is where the hub is. The hub, in this case, being the centralized control system ... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Cease and desist? The fate of ridesharing in Baltimore city | On Oct. 18, one day after ridesharing service Lyft launched in Baltimore city with a public party at the Museum of Industry, attorney Todd Chason sent a letter to the executive secretary of the Maryland Public Service Commission on behalf o... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | DailyDirt: Parenting With Technology | Recently, the LA school district has had some problems with its adoption of iPads into its classrooms. Kids will be kids, and some of them figured out how to use their school-issued iPads for unsanctioned activities like watching movies, pl... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Troy Carter Loses His Claim To Fame, Reportedly Splits From Lady Gaga While Raising A $75 Million Startup Fund | Flickr/TechCrunch Disrupt
Troy Carter
Troy Carter is best known as Lady Gaga's manager, but he's also an investor in startups like Uber and Dropbox.
Now, he's lost his greatest claim to fame. He and Lady Gaga have split over "creative ... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Troy Carter Loses His Claim To Fame, Reportedly Splits From Lady Gaga While Raising A $75 Million Startup Fund | Flickr/TechCrunch Disrupt
Troy Carter
Troy Carter is best known as Lady Gaga's manager, but he's also an investor in startups like Uber and Dropbox.
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Now, he's lost his greatest claim to fame. He and Lady Gaga have split over &... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Lady Gaga Splits From Manager And Rising Tech Investor Troy Carter | Troy Carter has been making a name for himself in tech thanks to investments in Uber, Spotify, and Dropbox, but his biggest tie to the music industry has just been severed. Lady Gaga has split from Carter, who has managed her since 2007, ac... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Viddy Rebrands As Supernova, Launches New Slo-Mo Video And Anonymous Group Messaging Apps | It’s been a tough year for Viddy. After seeing huge growth on the back of Facebook Open Graph, it raised a ton of money at a huge valuation — only to reverse course over the following months when the social traffic it was receiving started ... |
| Oct 28, 2013 | Why opening up about failure makes you a more ‘authentic’ entrepreneur | 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!
Robert Siegel (@robsiegel) is a General Partner a... |
| Oct 26, 2013 | 24 pages of Mavericks review: Ars readers react | The surf at Mavericks.
kristiewells reader comments 38 with 27 posters participating
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| Oct 24, 2013 | Threadmason makes a better fitting t-shirt [Crowdfunding] | By making it all the way to the bottom of the Threadmason Kickstarter, we learned about “vanity sizing.” Vanity sizing is a system where, for example, jeans that are actually 33″ are marked 32.”
Threadmason is an effort to bring a new appro... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | ZenPayroll (YC W12) opens up its platform, promises efficiency through removing back office data silos | Modern software is all about interoperability and eliminating data silos, according to ZenPayroll founder Joshua Reeves. Today the founder and his company are putting their money where their mouth is, launching a payroll API that could allo... |
| Oct 22, 2013 | Can You Click Your Way To Happiness? New Self-Help Service For The Stressed & Sad, Happify, Makes Big Claims | A new website catering to the stressed out, emotionally unfulfilled, and generally down called Happify is launching publicly today backed by $3.8 million in seed funding. Its goal? To bring the latest scientific advancements in positive psy... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | BART strike: Suck it up, San Francisco | It’s a sad fact of life in Silicon Valley that the people who work the hardest are paid the least — and, for the most part, are completely invisible.
Invisible, that is, until they go on strike and somehow inconvenience the lords of the eco... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | With Buyback, 16-Year-Old Startup WhitePages Is Doing Something Very Rare With $80 Million | YouTube
WhitePages CEO Alex Algard
Most times, when a venture-backed startup grows up, it provides a profit to its financial backers by selling to a larger company or going public.
Either that or it doesn't grow up at all. It goes bust, and... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | With Buyback, 16-Year-Old Startup WhitePages Is Doing Something Very Rare With $80 Million | YouTube
WhitePages CEO Alex Algard
Most times, when a venture-backed startup grows up, it provides a profit to its financial backers by selling to a larger company or going public.
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Either that or it doesn't grow up at all. It ... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | BART strike: Suck it up, San Francisco | 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!
It’s a sad fact of life in Silicon Valley that th... |
| Oct 19, 2013 | Twitter Exec Makes Really Inopportune BART Strike Joke | The thing about race, class, religion and gender is that, for the most part, they are out of people’s control.
This all-encompassing feeling of lack of control is why, when chronically underpaid service professionals like teachers or transp... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | 5 reasons why Rocket Internet graduates become good entrepreneurs | We’ve seen our share of ex-Rocket Internet employees rocking the startup scene regions such as in Asia lately. They helped build companies like Zalora, Lazada, FoodPanda, and OfficeFab from the ground up. But they parted ways and went on to... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | Ping, Now Called Hop, Launches An App That Makes Email Feel More Like Real-Time Mobile Messaging | Ping, a mobile messaging app that turns emails into real-time conversations, is relaunching today under the new name of “hop.” (It seems that PING Golf may not have cared for the original name too much). But the name isn’t the only thing ge... |
| Oct 17, 2013 | 5 reasons why Rocket Internet graduates become good entrepreneurs | We’ve seen our share of ex-Rocket Internet employees rocking the startup scene regions such as in Asia lately. They helped build companies like Zalora, Lazada, FoodPanda, and OfficeFab from the ground up. But they parted ways and went on to... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Why Pulling Music From Spotify Only Holds Back The Artist Doing The Pulling | David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads, has pulled “as much of his catalogue” as he can from Spotify. Why? Because it’s the thing to do these days. Abused math and sins of omission have led to headlines declaring Spotify to be... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Need a textbook in a hurry? Startup will send it by drone | reader comments 59 with 47 posters participating
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A textbook-rental startup in Australia has found a new way to shave costs from its business model: delivery by drone. Zooka... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | ElectNext pivots: politics startup launches sponsored comments on Philly.com | ElectNext wasn’t making money.
Last spring, the startup launched “political baseball cards,” information cards about politicians that publishers could embed on their sites to provide context to an article. Publishers liked the content, foun... |
| Oct 14, 2013 | Accounting software provider Xero raises $150M | The money will be used to grow the U.S. business, where Xero has recently seen tremendous growth
Cloud-based accounting software provider Xero has raised $150 million (NZ$180 million) in a new funding round, it was announced on Sunday.
The ... |
| Oct 9, 2013 | GroupMe Co-Founder Steve Martocci Just Snagged $2.75 Million For His New Music Startup, Splice | Dan Frommer, Business Insider
Steve Martocci
When messaging app GroupMe sold to Skype for $85 million in 2011, a lot of people assumed that it wouldn't be its co-founder Steve Martocci's last startup.
It wasn't.
Martocci is working on a mus... |
| Oct 9, 2013 | GroupMe Co-Founder Steve Martocci Just Snagged $2.75 Million For His New Music Startup, Splice | Dan Frommer, Business Insider
Steve Martocci
When messaging app GroupMe sold to Skype for $85 million in 2011, a lot of people assumed that it wouldn't be its co-founder Steve Martocci's last startup.
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It wasn't.
Martocci is wo... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | Может быть, социальные сети уже погубили Веб? | Anonymous 8 октября 2013, 09:00 Может быть, социальные сети уже погубили Веб?
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| Oct 5, 2013 | Meet The New Serfs, Same As The Old Serfs | 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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| Oct 4, 2013 | Rumor Roundup: Founders Forum Parties in DUMBO and Some Reporters Get Awards for Their Vine Skills | Brent Hoberman, Founders Forum. (Photo: Caleb Bryant Miller)
Steppin’ out Wednesday, New York got its newest incubator/hangout hub when Mayor Bloomberg (joined by Questlove) opened the Made in NY Media Center in Dumbo. It was promptly chris... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | AccelerateBaltimore grad Allovue to join NYC-based edtech incubator | Edtech advocate and entrepreneur Jess Gartner is heading to New York City. But she says we won’t lose the new entrepreneur.
Allovue LLC, the edtech startup she founded that participated in the 2013 cohort of AccelerateBaltimore, has been ac... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | When good ideas don’t have to be huge [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting funded?
A pre-launch, seemingly stealth-mode Dumbo startup called Priceless Inc., which has an impressive founding trio, raised a $500,000 round, as we reported this morning.
This Life, Inc., the Dumbo parent company that owns... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Startup Teams Can Now Travel For Free Thanks To Knok | We wrote about Knok’s home sharing platform just before the summer and now to get you jiving ready for fall, Knok is taking things to a new level by offering a one-year free membership to startup teams around the globe (for teams of up to 2... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Bustle: Bryan Goldberg’s women’s site aims to earn $100M in ads in 2019 | Media entrepreneur Bryan Goldberg envisions his new site Bustle to be the regular stop for the 50 to 100 million twenty-something women in the English speaking world. That’s gotten him lots of push back.
Indeed, it’s a grand plan, which is ... |
| Sep 17, 2013 | XO Group Acquires “Ambience Search Engine” Hoppit | Hoppit, a search engine that lets you find restaurants based on their atmosphere, today announced that it has been acquired by the “lifestage media” company XO Group (formerly known as “The Knot”). Hoppit will join XO Group’s lineup of wedd... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | Narratively and New Inquiry highlighted as journalism with revenue | It’s a golden age for journalism, with the low cost of production and dissemination, but the revenue models haven’t caught up as quickly, as Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget tells PandoDaily.
The coverage goes on to describe two Brooklyn ... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | US Gov't Funded Julian Assange's Crypto Research… Then Pulled The Plug | PandoDaily has a fascinating story from Peiter Zatko who had known Julian Assange way back in the day, and last ran into him at Chaos Congress in 2009 (Wikileaks was going strong at this point, but it was well before the release of the “Col... |
| Sep 14, 2013 | Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media | Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goa... |
| Sep 11, 2013 | Betamore Academy: tech courses to turn new programmers into startup founders | Federal Hill-based incubator and coworking space Betamore will soon embark on its biggest project to date outside of its own opening last December: Betamore Academy.
Ten-week-long courses in four topics, such as mobile development and front... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Tidepool Optimizes Your Workday For Cognitive Highs And Lows | Everyone has cognitive highs and lows. Some of us are night owls, while others are early birds. Tidepool is a mobile app that learns when you’re at your cognitive peak and makes recommendations for how to structure your daily workflow.
“For... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Kids need to produce, not just consume technology: Mario Armstrong | Four tech reporters writing for national print publications or appearing on national television and radio programs live in the Baltimore area.
Pinch yourself. Still here?
On Wednesday, Technical.ly Baltimore gathered together television and... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Be Great Fest: Meet the startups disrupting Los Angeles | This sponsored post is produced by Be Great Partners.
The Los Angeles startup revolution begins in less than a month at Be Great Fest 2013. On Sept. 17, tech incubator Be Great Partners hosts L.A.’s most disruptive entrepreneurs, top invest... |
| Sep 8, 2013 | After Raising $1.8 Million, Y Combinator Startup Tutorspree Shuts Down | Daniel Goodman / Business Insider
Aaron Harris, co-founder of TutorSpree The hardest decision a founder can make is knowing when to throw in the towel. Tutorspree, a company that was founded in 2011 and raised $1.8 million, just did that.
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| Sep 8, 2013 | After Raising $1.8 Million, Y Combinator Startup Tutorspree Shuts Down | Daniel Goodman / Business Insider
Aaron Harris, co-founder of TutorSpree
The hardest decision a founder can make is knowing when to throw in the towel. Tutorspree, a company that was founded in 2011 and raised $1.8 million, just did that.
T... |
| Sep 8, 2013 | After Raising $1.8 Million, Y Combinator Startup Tutorspree Shuts Down | Daniel Goodman / Business Insider
Aaron Harris, co-founder of TutorSpree The hardest decision a founder can make is knowing when to throw in the towel. Tutorspree, a company that was founded in 2011 and raised $1.8 million, just did that.
A... |
| Sep 8, 2013 | The Scale, Competitiveness, And Industrial Strategies In Mobile Computing | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
I will admit upfront – I am finding it hard to keep up with all the major mo... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | On-Demand Taxi Service Uber Is Offering Free Rides To Undercut One Of Its Biggest Competitors | An Uber car. "Road rage" takes on a whole new meaning as two car-sharing services are battling to make a name for themselves in new cities.
Lyft, the ride-sharing service that markets itself as "your friend with a car", ... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | VC, Startup Survey Addresses Whether Patent Assertions Help Or Hurt, And What To Do If You Get Hit | Contributor Contributor
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| Sep 6, 2013 | On-Demand Taxi Service Uber Is Offering Free Rides To Undercut One Of Its Biggest Competitors | An Uber car. "Road rage" takes on a whole new meaning as two car-sharing services are battling to make a name for themselves in new cities.
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Lyft, the ride-sharing service that markets itself as "your friend with... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | Mile High Roundup: Techstars Grads Stay Busy, Rally Reports Results | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Welcome to the Mile High Roundup, a look at some of the interesting things that have happened over the past two weeks in the tech scene in Boulder, Denver, and around Colorado... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | The Crowdfunded Board Game That Proves American Parents Don’t Want to Raise a Bunch of Baristas | If you listen to the gnashing of teeth, as everything becomes computerized and roboticized, the only jobs available in the future are going to be writing code for those computers, or making lattes for people who do. So it’s understandable t... |
| Aug 29, 2013 | The Current YouTube Economy Is In Peril | When you ask the average net citizen what they think will happen to YouTube in the next couple of years, the response is optimistic. And why wouldn’t it be?
At face value, the YouTube ecosphere—with its growing sectors of talent managers, b... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Urbita, The Pinterest For Cities, Blows Past 10M Unique Visitors In August With Mobile Site Launch | FounderFuel Fall 2012 cohort grad Urbita, a startup based in LA and Buenos Aires, has managed to quietly amass a huge consumer following, having topped 8 million monthly unique visitors in July, and then managing a 25 percent increase over ... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | How Will Spark Spend Its New Two Million Dollars? Three Ways | If you could tack a ringtone onto inbound email, Jason Njoku’s would be ringing off the hook. Announcing that you’ve got a couple million dollars to spread will do that. Now that Spark is flush with new capital, to the tune of $2 million, h... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | JustFab acquires ShoeDazzle for super shoe juggernaut | ShoeDazzle managed to pull itself out of a tailspin, but hasn't been able to do much else
A major player in the L.A. Shoe Wars has defected today. After months of rumors that the company was floundering and looking for a buyer, ShoeDazzle h... |
| Aug 21, 2013 | One Size Fits All? JustFab Merges With ShoeDazzle In Fashion Commerce Consolidation Play | Some consolidation in the world of fashion commerce: JustFab and ShoeDazzle, two sites from Southern California that both sell shoes, accessories and apparel, have just announced a merger, which they say will create the world’s biggest fash... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | Booting Up: Feds Seized $2.9M from Mt. Gox’s Dwolla Account | F*ck a bugatti. (Photo: Round Rock Offices)
When the Department of Homeland Security seized the funds from Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox’s Dwolla account, we were unsure just how much was taken; now, according to court documents, that number tot... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Could This Man Be The Paul Graham Of Nigerian Tech? | There’s been no better time to be on the SPARK-side. Jason Njoku just raised $2million more for the three-month old Betaworks-modeled incubator, on top of the initial $1 million they launched with in May. And what better way to announce tha... |
| Aug 17, 2013 | ICYMI: Jason Just Raised Another $2 Million For SPARK’s Angel Investment Vehicle | There’s been no better time to be on the SPARK-side. Between unnamed funding sources around the world, Jason Njoku just raised $2million more for the three-month old Betaworks-modeled incubator, on top of the initial $1 million they launche... |
| Aug 16, 2013 | Three Things I Wish Our Technology Ecosystem Had | I was going to name this post THE three pillars of a technology ecosystem. Hence, the post’s not apt illustration. But then I realised that I don’t know enough to postulate what three pillars they are. Or if there are in fact three. Turns o... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | After Enraging Media Pundits, Founder Defends His $6.5 Million Women's Site And Says How He 'Plans To Make A Fortune' | Bustle
Bustle is Bryan Goldberg's new venture. He formerly co-founded Bleacher Report, which was acquired by Turner Media for more than $200 million.
Yesterday, Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg announced his new venture, Bustle, al... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Some People Are Pretty Skeptical About Bryan Goldberg's New Feminist Publication | BI Earlier today, BleacherReport co-founder Bryan Goldberg raised $6.5 million to launch a new site geared toward women called Bustle.
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Goldberg wrote a post announcing the new round on tech publication PandoDaily. But based on... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Some People Are Pretty Skeptical About Bryan Goldberg's New Feminist Publication | BI Earlier today, BleacherReport co-founder Bryan Goldberg raised $6.5 million to launch a new site geared toward women called Bustle.
Goldberg wrote a post announcing the new round on tech publication PandoDaily. But based on the looks of ... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | After Enraging Media Pundits, Founder Defends His $6.5 Million Women's Site And Says How He 'Plans To Make A Fortune' | Bustle
Bustle is Bryan Goldberg's new venture. He formerly co-founded Bleacher Report, which was acquired by Turner Media for more than $200 million.
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Yesterday, Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg announced his new ventu... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | Convercent just moved into one of the coolest new startup offices in Denver | Denver might not get the attention San Francisco and New York get when it comes to startups, but it has one of the fastest emerging communities in the U.S. And like some of the biggest startup hubs, Denver’s startups are investing in some k... |
| Aug 10, 2013 | The Future Of Work: Amazon vs. Zappos | 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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| Aug 7, 2013 | Ben Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.9M in 10 companies [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Clutch, the mobile shopping app based in Ambler, Pa., raised $5.3 million in Series B funding led by Safeguard Scientifics with participation from Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners. It also acquired two companies t... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | 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!
Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Focus is key: 6 cloud startups kicking ass by going narrow | Venture capitalists are betting on cloud startups with a specific focus: health care, financial services, real estate, and other industries.
This more specialized, “vertical” industry approach is a stark contrast to the more horizontal appr... |
| Aug 2, 2013 | Social Media Aggregator RebelMouse Raises $10.25M | RebelMouse, the startup that allows users to combine updates from across social networks into what it calls a “social front page,” is announcing that it has raised $10.25 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by Oak Investment Part... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Bolt Unveils 7 Hardware Startups at Its Boston Accelerator | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Suddenly, the business world is clamoring for hardware startups.
Venture capitalists—last seen stumbling over each other to bankroll high-margin software companies—are publicl... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | This Technology Can Tell Whether People Really Mean What They Say | What we say and what we feel don't always match up.
But what if there was a way to tell what someone was feeling regardless of what they were saying? And what if this technology could be incorporated into technical applications like Siri?
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| Jul 29, 2013 | This Technology Can Tell Whether People Really Mean What They Say | What we say and what we feel don't always match up.
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But what if there was a way to tell what someone was feeling regardless of what they were saying? And what if this technology could be incorporated into technical application... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | The Top 3 Reasons Startups Fail, According To A Man Startups Hire To Save Them | sandi_sandra via statigr.am Steve Hogan has a special job in Silicon Valley. His firm, Tech-Rx, is hired to save startups that are circling the drain.
PandoDaily's Erin Griffith interviewed Hogan and asked him for the most common reasons st... |
| Jul 24, 2013 | The Top 3 Reasons Startups Fail, According To A Man Startups Hire To Save Them | sandi_sandra via statigr.am Steve Hogan has a special job in Silicon Valley. His firm, Tech-Rx, is hired to save startups that are circling the drain.
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PandoDaily's Erin Griffith interviewed Hogan and asked him for the most com... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Are conferences a waste of time? | This sponsored post is produced by Andrew D’Souza, COO of Top Hat.
About this time last year I was asked to participate in a pre-conference pitch event in San Francisco produced by the folks behind the GROW conference. It was being judged b... |
| Jul 19, 2013 | Citizen-Developers, not comp sci majors, are the future of programming [Links] | Why Citizen Developers Are The Future of Programming [ReadWrite]: “The sort of creativity and problem solving that allows star programmers to succeed isn’t exactly encouraged in the artificial and conforming environment of a college classro... |
| Jul 17, 2013 | Solve Media raises $6m // SnipSnap hits 1m users [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Solve Media raised $6 million in a round led by NAV with participation from First Round Capital, among other investors, AllThingsD reported. The online advertising startup with a Center City office recently launched mo... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Elon Musk Will Reveal His High-Speed Hyperloop Transport Design By August 12 | Startup renaissance man Elon Musk has spent the past year or so not-so-subtly dropping hints about yet another ambitious transport project of his, and it seems he’s getting ready to describe it in more detail. Amid plenty of speculation, Mu... |
| Jul 15, 2013 | Kabam shareholders raise $38.5M in secondary offering at $700 million valuation | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In a secondary offering that raised $38.5 million for shareholders, Kabam has established that it has a valuation of $700 million, the ... |
| Jul 13, 2013 | Venture51 Raises $25M VC Fund | Scottsdale, AZ-based venture capital firm Venture51 is raising a $25m fund.
According to a filing with the S.E.C., the name of the vehicle is Venture51 Capital Partners II, L.P.
Led by founding and managing partners, Ryan Swagar and Brandon... |
| Jul 11, 2013 | Nokia And Path Partner To Bring The Private Social Network To Windows Phone | Path is preparing to cross to the Windows Phone mobile platform — one of the more ‘private’ mobile OSes currently in play, with its marginal market share compared to the dominant duo of Android and iOS. Which sounds like a perfect fit for a... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Rental Car Startup Silvercar Raises $5M As It Looks At New Markets | Silvercar, a startup looking to improve the rental car experience at airports, has raised $5 million in new funding.
The news was revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A Silvercar spokesperson declined to identif... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | BeachMint Founder, President, And Investor Rebuke Report About The Startup’s Implosion | This morning, PandoDaily reported that Los Angeles-based eCommerce startup, BeachMint, had finally tanked after a long, “slow unraveling.” The problem, however, is that this doesn’t exactly mesh with reality.
The reporter, Michael Carney, s... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | Consolidation Heats Up In Subscription Economy, As Quarterly Buys Celeb-Endorsed Rival 12Society | Today, TechCrunch has learned that Quarterly.co, a subscription giftbox service that features monthly instalments curated by respected entrepreneurs, designers and organizations is buying 12Society, a rival startup with a similar, celebrity... |
| Jul 3, 2013 | Beachmint founders say they're not getting the boot | Calm down, Beachmint isn't fire and ashes
Updated to include official statement from Beachmint.
Is Beachmint going up in flames like the hills of Los Angeles during fire season? Not yet. So put your happy Schadenfreude dancing shoes away fo... |
| Jun 29, 2013 | SeedInvest Closes $1M in Funding | SeedInvest, a New York City-based equity-based crowdfunding platform, closed $1m in funding.
The round was led by the Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network with participation from other individual investors.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| Jun 27, 2013 | Uber Still Fighting Two Federal Lawsuits in Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Car-booking startup Uber has claimed one victory in court, recently defeating Boston-area officials who were seeking to slow the company’s expansion. But the well-financed sta... |
| Jun 27, 2013 | Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism | Editor’s note: Sean Parker is the executive general partner at Founders Fund. Previously he was co-founder of Napster, as well as the founding president of Facebook. He currently serves as a director of Spotify. Follow him on Twitter @spark... |
