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| Jul 22, 2026 | ‘We’re moving quickly’: Startup bags rare disease drug as Thiel-backed CEO eyes $50M fundraise | A U.S.-based rare disease startup with a mission to repurpose proven drugs has licensed a Chinese formulation of a well-known medicine and set its sights on a $50 million fundraise.
Ashlins Pharmaceuticals penned a deal worth up to $31 mill... |
| Jan 7, 2026 | Stord Acquires Shipwire: AI-Powered Logistics Giant Challenges Amazon | Stord acquired AI-powered Shipwire, forming a formidable logistics entity. This strategic move directly challenges Amazon's fulfillment dominance. The merger integrates Stord's extensive network with Shipwire's advanced AI capabilities. It ... |
| Jan 5, 2026 | E-commerce startup Stord buys AI fulfillment platform Shipwire | Stord, an e-commerce startup challenging Amazon, buys Shipwire from CEVA Logistics.
This is the seventh acquisition for the Atlanta-based company founded by former Thiel fellow Sean Henry.
Stord raised $200 million last year at a $1.5 billi... |
| Sep 21, 2025 | 30-year-old billionaire college dropout recommends at least one year in higher education | Several billionaires and successful entrepreneurs never went to college, from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg — and 30-year-old Lucy Guo recently joined their ranks.
The California-based founder became Forbes’ youngest self-made billionaire i... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | 'I'm Frugal': This 30-Year-Old Billionaire Says Life 'Hasn't Really Changed That Much' After Making Billions. Here's Where She Spends Money. The world's youngest female billionaire, Lucy Guo, made her fortune from a startup she co-founded called Scale AI. | Lucy Guo, 30, saw her net worth reach $1.3 billion in April. But the entrepreneur, who is now the world's youngest female billionaire, is committed to finding the best deals — even if she can afford to pay full price.
Guo told CNBC on Wedne... |
| Aug 3, 2025 | Figma CEO’s path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire | With Figma more than tripling in its NYSE debut this week, CEO Dylan Field’s stake in the company is worth about $6.6 billion.
Field dropped out of Brown University and entered the Thiel Fellowship program over a decade ago.
“Dylan is, by f... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | How to Be a Billionaire By 25, According to a College Dropout Turned CEO Worth $1.6 Billion Austin Russell became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2020 at age 25. | Austin Russell is a Stanford University dropout who became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2020 at the age of 25 when his startup Luminar went public. Luminar creates sensing technology to help cars navigate their surroundings... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Investindo no futuro do empreendedorismo: experiências do Thiel Fellowship e Antler | Já ouviu falar sobre o Programa Thiel Fellowship? Peter Thiel, cofundador do PayPal e investidor de renome no Vale do Silício, é o criador deste programa para investir em jovens excepcionais desafiando os paradigmas convencionais da educaçã... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value | The year was 2010, and Michael Gibson found himself on the first day of a research job at a hedge fund run by the controversial billionaire Peter Thiel. Gibson had little experience in finance. His major had been philosophy, and he had near... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Finding The Next Steve Wozniak | The search for talent has become a global phenomenon. As Marc Andreessen noted in a 2014 interview for New York Magazine: “our companies are desperate for talent. Desperate. Our companies are dying for talent. They’re like lying on the beac... |
| May 12, 2023 | Austin Russell became the youngest self-made billionaire in 2021; now he owns Forbes | Austin Russell is on quite a run.
The 28-year-old founder and CEO of Luminar, which develops vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies primarily for self-driving cars, told The Wall Street Journal earlier today that he is buyin... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Entrepreneurship Education Needs To Change. Insights To Fuel Next Generation Entrepreneurs | A group of Gen Z entrepreneurship college students dreaming of their startups.getty |
| Apr 13, 2023 | Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million | Meet Blake Resnick, the 23-year-old college dropout who won a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine and is now worth over $100 million. BRINC
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| Apr 13, 2023 | Meet Blake Resnick, a 23-year-old college dropout who went on to win a Peter Thiel-backed fellowship, supplies drones to Ukraine, and is now worth over $100 million | Blake Resnick, the founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, is now worth $100 million, per Bloomberg.
Resnick founded drone-maker Brinc Drones in 2019 and grew it to a $300 million operation.
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| Mar 18, 2023 | Who is Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder who says he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed? | Peter Thiel is worth about $8 billion, per Bloomberg's Billionaire Index. John Lamparski/Getty Images
Billionaire Peter Thiel said he had $50 million in Silicon Valley Bank when it collapsed.
With a net worth of $8 billion, he's among Silic... |
| Jan 28, 2023 | Many of tech's power-players are alumni of Peter Thiel's controversial fellowship, which pays entrepreneurs to drop out of college. See how they made their millions. | Peter Thiel Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for New York Times
In 2011, Silicon Valley giant Peter Thiel created a fellowship that pays young entrepreneurs to drop out of college.
The program initially faced backlash, but the fellowship now co... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Страдания и успехи Ocean Cleanup, единственного проекта по очистке мировых океанов | Чтобы решить проблему на корню, Ocean Cleanup два года назад начала тестировать проект Interceptor, «Перехватчик». Это машина, которая пытается предотвратить попадание пластиковых отходов в океан через реки (вот статья о ней на Хабре). С по... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | PayPal Mafia Lands Another Hit With Adobe’s $20 Billion Figma Acquisition | |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Thiel Foundation Announces Next Thiel Fellow Class | The Thiel Foundation today named 23 individuals as the next class of Thiel Fellows. The Fellowship program, which launched in 2011, encourages talented young people to pursue big ideas and start companies instead of attending college.
“This... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Страдания и успехи Ocean Cleanup, единственного проекта по очистке мировых океанов | Об этом проекте на Хабре уже три года никто не писал. А тем временем там кипит жизнь. Они успели сильно изменить свои технологии, неделю назад впервые вернулись с «уловом», помогли в тушении пожара на судне, везущем химикаты. И теперь попыт... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Tech Can Still Do More To Support Underrepresented Founders | If we want to really prioritize founder diversity, we need to improve economic opportunity at every ... [+] rung of the ladder, not just the last one. getty |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Frst and Fabric Ventures announce fellowship program for crypto entrepreneurs | VC funds Frst and Fabric Ventures are teaming up to create Le Crypto Fellowship. With this program, the two firms want to find the next 10 crypto entrepreneurs in France. And they think they might foster the most promising crypto startups i... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger | Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017 after operating for years in secrecy, is merging with special purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc., with a post-deal market valuation of $3.... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | University entrepreneurship — without the university | Eric Tarczynski Contributor
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Eric Tarczynski is the Managing Partner at Contrary, a network-driven venture firm backed by founders from Facebook, Tesla, and many others.
Across the country, university campuses are in limbo.
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| May 7, 2020 | This early Facebook investor wants to find smart students a job at the next Facebook | For many college seniors, school is a time for self-exploration, considering options, leisurely contemplating the future.
Yet that’s rarely the case for computer engineering students who either attend the world’s best universities or rise t... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Finding free money for your social impact startup | David Teten Contributor
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| Aug 22, 2019 | This Thiel Fellow thinks he can help scooters, drones and delivery robots charge themselves with sunlight | From the time he was a high school student, Rohit Kalyanpur thought it was peculiar that although it’s possible to create energy from a solar panel, the panels have long been used almost exclusively on rooftops and as part of industrial-sca... |
| Apr 15, 2019 | This 25-Year-Old College Dropout Has SoftBank And Grab Backing His Plan To Dominate Budget Hotels | Ritesh Agarwal (Namas Bhojani for Forbes Asia) |
| Mar 3, 2019 | Первый миллиард Питера Тиля и его главные инвестиции Статьи редакции | Palantir, Facebook, биотехнологии, борьба со старением и другие вложения основателя PayPal.
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| Sep 18, 2018 | Peter Thiel’s argument that Silicon Valley has been ‘brainwashed’ by higher education is tired | Billionaire VC Peter Thiel has largely flown under the radar since raising his hand to support Donald Trump’s presidential bid, then working with Trump’s administration to fill some of its many vacant positions. The association made him dee... |
| Mar 21, 2018 | One of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, too | Last August, we told you about Laura Deming, a New Zealand native who was home schooled before moving halfway around the world as a 12-year-old to work alongside Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics... |
| Oct 12, 2017 | 'South Of Market: The Musical' Serves Up Tech Industry Tropes With A Side Of Self Reflection | SOMA The Musical Anna Gravilov |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Advocates Stress Great Entrepreneurs Still Graduate From College | This is an opinion piece by Oliver B. Libby and George M. Tsiatis, co-founders of the Resolution Project.
It's hard enough to finish a college degree. There's the cost, the time away from home, the hard work. But if you can stay in college,... |
| Oct 19, 2016 | Why do we even care what Peter Thiel thinks about this election? | Peter Thiel is supporting Donald Trump, and it’s time to for Silicon Valley to take sides. Is it for Peter Thiel or against him? Furthermore, should Y Combinator president Sam Altman resign if he can’t bring himself to fire Thiel as a part-... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | MuckRock & Vice Announce Fellowship To Investigate Peter Thiel | So this is interesting. MuckRock, the really useful FOIA platform (that I regularly use for filing FOIA requests), has announced what it’s calling MuckRock’s Thiel Fellowship, in which it’s offering to give free service to between one and t... |
| Sep 15, 2016 | 18 Under 18: Meet the Young Innovators Who Are Changing the World | Noa Mintz started her first business in 2008, running art classes for kids during the summer for a small fee. Two years later, she founded a children’s party planning business. To make sure her staff was following workplace protocol, she wr... |
| Aug 20, 2016 | Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and that’s a problem | 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!
Even though the name “Silicon Valley” represents ... |
| Aug 20, 2016 | Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and that’s a problem | Even though the name “Silicon Valley” represents to the world the epicenter of the technology industry, statistically speaking, most tech businesses are not located in the area. Increasingly, the Valley’s companies are shifting key operatio... |
| Jul 14, 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... |
| Jul 1, 2016 | Georgetown Study Finds College-Educated Workers Have Dominated Recent Economic Recovery | For those without a Thiel Fellowship, it still pays to get a degree.
A new study, "America's Divided Recovery: College Haves and Have-Nots," from the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce has found that, for the first ... |
| Feb 29, 2016 | Why Gen Z Is More Entrepreneurial Than Gen Y | Gen Y or the notorious Millennials used to be called the most entrepreneurial generation ever. Yet, it’s time for them to move on and give room to Gen Z – the estimated 60 millions of the first “digital natives”, who are young, brazen and a... |
| Nov 8, 2015 | Twenty-Year-Old Shahed Khan Has More Connections Than You Do | Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, while many of his peers are either attending college or living with their parents, he’s working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a noted team of investors at NFX Guild, a ... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Why millennial entrepreneurs should scare you | Lately, I’ve started to think more about why young entrepreneurs seem more capable and ubiquitous than ever before. It seems as though all my peers, despite being in their early 20s, are starting companies, raising funds, and hiring their f... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Why millennial entrepreneurs should scare 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!
Lately, I’ve started to think more about why youn... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | Fresco News Aims To Build A Crowdsourced Network For Breaking News | If you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News.
There have been lots of other experiments in crowdsourced journalism, but CEO John Meye... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | This 20-year-old college dropout turned down Apple to launch a startup and is doing really well | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Jun 5, 2015 | Raise a Glass: You Can Be a Thiel Fellow and Legally Drink | Peter Thiel made a big fuss in 2010 about why smart kids ages 20 and under should ditch college and apply for his $100,000 fellowship instead. But that didn’t stop several enterprising (and very young) college graduates from successfully re... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | Mark Cuban’s Tips to Succeed | Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, star of Shark Tank and co-founder of Cyber Dust, recently spoke at the University of Texas at Austin. He gave advice to college students on how to successfully manage their academic lif... |
| Apr 6, 2015 | Thiel Fellow Raises $25M For OYO Rooms, A Network of Branded Budget Hotels in India | In the largest funding round to date for a Thiel Fellow project, Ritesh Agarwal has raised $25 million from Lightspeed, Sequoia and others to build a branded budget hotel network across India.
Called OYO Rooms, the company partners with pro... |
| Mar 23, 2015 | Three Blockchain Startups Selected for Barclays Accelerator | Three startups working on blockchain-related products and services have been selected to join Barclays Accelerator in London this spring.
Enrolled in the 90-day mentorship-driven program, which began today, are bitcoin exchange Safello, bit... |
| Mar 22, 2015 | Meet Boost VC's Youngest-Ever Bitcoin Entrepreneur | Louis Dumont, Bitproof
At 17 years old, Louison Dumont is the youngest-ever entrepreneur to be accepted into Boost VC, the California incubator that has so far nurtured five batches of mostly bitcoin startups, but he’s not short on experien... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | Harvard Dropout's 'Sleep You Spray on Your Skin' Is Crushing It on Indiegogo | For everyone who woke up feeling groggy, wishing sleep came easier last night, keep reading. After giving consumers the jolt they need to start their day, the Harvard dropout behind Sprayable is helping people put a peaceful end to their da... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Bringing Programming Education Online, Thinkful Raises $4.25 Million | Thinkful, the online continuing education services company for programmers and developers, has raised $4.25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expand its portfolio of education offerings.
“We’ve found a away to get a lot of pr... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Peter Thiel: ‘You don’t want to be the Harvard of North Dakota’ [Technical.ly Podcast] | Peter Thiel says what’s really going to define a technology ecosystem for a city is getting to a point where successful startups stick around and plant a flag.
That seems to be happening in Brooklyn.
Makerbot says it’s not going anywhere. E... |
| Nov 5, 2014 | On entrepreneurship: Thiel, Dorsey, Conwell [Technical.ly Podcast] | Most startups fail.
So what can we learn from those who took an idea to launch, beat the odds (or not) and then did it all over again? This month on the Technical.ly Podcast we hear from repeat entrepreneurs. Internet titans, sure; but also... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | Correction: 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship Did Not Up Age Limit To 23, But Maybe It Should | [Correction: Despite sending out emails and updating its site to ask people 23 and under to “apply” for its $100,000 stipend to skip college, the Thiel Fellowship tells us it’s is not accepting anyone older than 20. We reported earlier it w... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Takeaways from this week’s ‘Zero to One’ event with Peter Thiel | Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and first outside investor in Facebook, spoke Monday at the Franklin Institute in Center City. Thiel was there to talk about his new book, Zero to One, but also shared insights on globalization, higher e... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Thiel Fellow Raises $1.5 Million For Social Commerce App Strut | Over the years, a number of startups have tried to redefine the way that users discover and purchase items on their mobile phones. Pretty soon we’ll have another one in Strut, an app that is designed to help users create new outfits that th... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | Meet the Newest Member of Kickstarter's Million-Dollar Club | August 22, 2014 2 min read
If you still have the idea that crowdfunding is reserved territory for artists to raise a few hundred dollars to fund their next project, then you need to think again. On Kickstarter, 80 campaigns have raised more... |
| Jul 24, 2014 | A Device to Help You Sleep Better Raises Almost $500K in Two Days on Kickstarter | July 24, 2014 3 min read
A kid who didn’t go to college wants to change the way we all sleep. And, judging by the explosive success of his Kickstarter campaign, a lot of people want to sleep better.
Former Thiel Fellow James Proud announced... |
| Jul 24, 2014 | Hello, gorgeous! Sleek sleep tracker includes room environment in slumber assessment | Hello isn’t billing Sense as a device that would be used by sleep centers to assess sleeping disorders. But it does offer a useful and economical way for people experiencing problems with sleeping to take a long hard look at contributing fa... |
| Jul 13, 2014 | Silicon Valley’s Dilemma Over Credentials | Silicon Valley has been heavily derided by the media these past few months, on everything from Google executives forcing senior citizens out of their homes and founders accused of sexually harassing women to startups stealing reservations a... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | Is The Thiel Fellowship Program Really Just A Sabbatical From College? | Twenty brilliant minds, all under age 20, just started their venture this summer with the Thiel Fellowship program. All of these bright young things were carefully selected from over 1,000 other hopefuls this year to receive $100k in fundin... |
| Jun 18, 2014 | This 21-Year-Old Dropped Out Of College To Test Our Knowledge Of Rap | Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye: Think you could name their songs in just a few seconds of audio? Twenty-one-year-old Danny Friday knows them by heart. He started coding when he was 12 and became obsessed with rap at the age of 14. He’s now dropped out... |
| Apr 3, 2014 | SoFi Closes On $80 Million To Expand Its Lending Business | Confirming our earlier reporting, the peer-to-peer lender Social Finance said it closed on $80 million in fresh funding, as it looks to expand its lending operations to mortgages and personal loans.
The new round was led by the hedge fund D... |
| Mar 27, 2014 | Finding the Right MOOC Market for College Kids | When MOOCs began to make waves in the educational and popular press, the fact that a single massive course was enrolling 3-5 times the number of students attending Berkeley indicated to some that a long-awaited alternative to an overpriced ... |
| Oct 13, 2013 | Of Course Harvard’s Larry Summers Hates The Thiel Fellowship | Contributor Contributor
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| Oct 10, 2013 | Thiel Fellows Program Is “Most Misdirected Piece Of Philanthropy,” Says Larry Summers | Two years after billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel announced an experiment to pay bright high schoolers to drop out of college for $100,000, the Thiel Fellowship program hasn’t won over education leaders.
“I think the single most misdire... |
| Oct 7, 2013 | Meet Four Teen Hackers (And Another Even Younger One) | Teens have always been stereotyped as massive consumers of technology, but in some cases they’re also the ones advancing it. Young people have long been avid early adopters, and not just of applications like Snapchat and Instagram.
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| Sep 26, 2013 | The 8 Hottest Teenage Startup Founders In The World Right Now | Delian Asparouhov/Twitter One of our favorite things about the startup world is how focused it is on talent and potential.
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| Sep 26, 2013 | Who is right? Winklevosses for, Peter Thiel against bitcoin | It is quite evident that when influential people talk about bitcoin, the masses listen. Strike up a conversation about virtual currencies with an everyday person in your life, and they will recall information received from major news outlet... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | The 8 Hottest Teenage Startup Founders In The World Right Now | Delian Asparouhov/Twitter One of our favorite things about the startup world is how focused it is on talent and potential.
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| Sep 6, 2013 | Spot, a short-term AirBnB for cars, matches drivers with spare spaces for ‘instant’ parking | As is the case in many large cities, trying to find a parking space in San Francisco is an exercise in frustration. But two 19-year-old entrepreneurs want to make that experience as easy as opening an app on your smartphone and pressing a b... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Haptix Is A Gesture-Sensing Laptop Clip That Wants To Be Kinect For Accountants | As BlackBerry will now readily admit, gesture-based touchscreens have taken over from physical keyboards in the mobile space. But there’s still plenty of plastic keys on and around PCs. Not that people aren’t trying to change that. The Leap... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Hadi Partovi's Code.org ramps up with 3.5M students | Code.org merges with Computing in the Core, partners with ACM
Having chronicled the evolution of the Internet for almost two decades, it would be nice to see one of my sons participate in the ongoing innovation that I see every day. Getting... |
| Jun 26, 2013 | 21-Year-Old Thiel Fellow Raises Three-Point-Eight Million Dollars For Figma | Children are our future, and VCs are giving them the cash to make it happen. Dylan Field, one of Peter Thiel’s 20-Under-20 fellows, just raised $3.8 million for his startup Figma according to an SEC filing. Field declined to talk with me ab... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | It's not what you know, but what you can do | To the class of 2013: Understand the job market realities
As the latest crop of college graduates frame their diplomas and prepare to make their mark on the world, the very value of their diploma is being called into question. With student ... |
| May 19, 2013 | ‘World’s Toughest Fixes’ host: Learn a trade | 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!
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| May 9, 2013 | Peter Thiel Is Giving These 20 Teenagers $100,000 To Drop Out Of School And Start A Company | The Thiel Foundation Peter Thiel, famous for being Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO at PayPal, is giving 20 teenagers $100,000 to drop out of college.
Here's the catch: They have to start a company.
During the two... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful’s custom code tutoring may help you land a job | Gone are the days when smart and enterprising young college graduates could head to The Big City and easily find a desirable job.
Thinkful’s education platform provides students and recent graduates with one-on-one training in high-demand, ... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Funding Daily: Alphabet Soup | 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!
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| Feb 26, 2013 | Thinkful’s custom code tutoring may help you land a job | 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!
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| Feb 2, 2013 | Peter Thiel On His ‘Super-Futuristic’ Focus And The Chess Strategy Founders Should Know [TCTV] | Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known among other things for co-founding PayPal and investing very early in Facebook, took home the VC of the Year award at the 6th annual Crunchies this week for his individual investments and his wor... |
| Dec 31, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (Happy New Year!) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Top Education Technology Tools - Q2 2012 | BEST OF S'COOL TOOLS Q2 2012: In ES-Instruct Edition 044, we took a look at the most fascinating s'cool tools featured in the newsletter throughout the first quarter of 2012 -- those tools that had you clicking and sharing away. It's the sa... |
| Nov 23, 2012 | Interact ATX Seeks Bright Young Entrepreneurs For SXSW | Interact ATX wants to attract the best and brightest young startup minds to join them at South by Southwest Interactive next year.
The group, started by Maran Nelson, a senior majoring in psychology and advertising at the University of Texa... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Calling All (Very) Young Entrepreneurs: Applications Open for Peter Thiel’s 2013 ’20 Under 20′ Fellowships | Serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel has opened up applications for his ‘20 Under 20‘ Thiel Fellows for 2013 intake. The program awards 20 budding entrepreneurs $100,000 grants each to work on developing innovative technology idea... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | For young entrepreneurs, the price of a startup could be your mental health | This is a guest post by mental health entrepreneur, Sarah Seegal
While most of her friends were deliberating about their college major, Jessica Mah was leading a company, managing finances, and laying off staff to keep her startup afloat.
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| Sep 19, 2012 | With a veteran startup team, Scopely raises $8.5M for social mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you’re going to start a new game company at this late hour — even a mobile game company — you’d better do it with a veteran team. Th... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | With a veteran startup team, Scopely raises $8.5M for social mobile games | If you’re going to start a new game company at this late hour — even a mobile game company — you’d better do it with a veteran team. That’s the approach that Scopely, which is announcing an $8.5 million seed funding round today, has taken.
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| Aug 6, 2012 | Giveaway: A Few Extra Tickets To An Exclusive Screening Of CNBC’s “20 Under 20″ Documentary Wednesday Night | When we ran this post last week about this exclusive showing of a CNBC documentary about Peter Thiel’s 20 Under 20 fellowship, all of the tickets were scooped up by the end of the day. So CNBC decided to upgrade to a slightly larger theater... |
| Aug 2, 2012 | Giveaway: An Exclusive Screening Of CNBC’s Peter Thiel “20 Under 20” Documentary Next Week | When Peter Thiel identified the next bubble as one in higher education, it ignited a bit of controversy here on TechCrunch.
He told TechCrunch last year, “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may b... |
| Jul 8, 2012 | How Colleges Are Becoming Entrepreneurial | Editor’s note: Dan Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and management consulting firm. He is also the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0 and was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in... |
| Jun 18, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s Highlights from F.ounders NY 2012, the Michael Jordan of Tech Events | Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ at the F.ounders NY 2012
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last c... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Peter Thiel gives new class of students $100K to forgo college | They can’t buy a celebratory bottle of champagne, but they’re hoping to start a new business. Meet the new class of under 20 would-be college kids dropping out of college to work on their entrepreneurial dreams under the watchful eye of inv... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Peter Thiel gives new class of students $100K to forgo college | 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!
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| Apr 25, 2012 | How CoolChip Got $500K from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund: A Salsa Story | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s rare that chips and salsa lead to a startup funding deal. But this isn’t your average startup, and I’m not talking about the usual kind of chips and salsa.
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| Apr 25, 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz makes bold donation to philanthropy | Partners pledge to donate half their lifetime earnings to charity
In an announcement that rings similar to Giving Pledge, organized by Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to encourage the world's richest to give half their fortunes to charity, par... |
| Mar 13, 2012 | StartUp Health welcomes first 10 entrepreneurs to business master class | Basis is developing a heart monitor that is worn like a watch. It measures heart rate as well as activity and temperature. Users can win points and praise for increased activity.
“Somewhere between health care and entertainment lies ideal w... |
