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The 9 things that separate merely successful startups from ones that become...
There are thousands of tech startups, but only a lucky few (or, technically 205) ever become valued as billion-dollar businesses.So what's the difference between a merely successful company and a...
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The head of one of San Francisco's most famous startup farms is no longer...
The founding partner of 500 Startups, Dave McClure, is no longer in charge of the startup incubator's day-to-day operations, after being accused of "inappropriate behavior with women," The New York...
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How an ex-Googler and entrepreneur paid for university by tutoring — then...
LONDON — In 2012, Ismail Jeilani was faced with a choice. The North Londoner had been accepted to King's College London, but university fees had just tripled. He could go — but doing so would mean...
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The founders of Robinhood, a no-fee stock-trading app, were initially...
It's hard getting funding for a startup, but it's even harder when the product doesn't exist yet, still requires regulatory approval, and is being launched during a recession.But after 75 investor...
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How 2 startup founders with no product, no users and no real proof their...
Robinhood is a commission-free stock trading app that was recently valued at $1.3 billion. But when the company was first starting, there was very little proof the founders could pull it off.Vlad...
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A VC firm has raised €400 million to invest in European and US startups...
Venture capital company Partech Ventures has raised a new €400 million (£354 million) fund to invest in US and European startups.The VC firm, which has offices in San Francisco, Paris, and Berlin,...
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A French VC firm with over €1 billion stopped considering a London office...
Partech Ventures, a venture capital company with close to €1 billion (£880 million) at its disposal, decided to shelve its plans for a new London office as a result of Brexit.The transatlantic VC firm,...
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'We are in a precarious situation': The electric-car startup Faraday Future...
Faraday Future is scrapping plans for a 1-million-square-foot assembly plant in Nevada amid a deepening cash crunch, and it is now looking for an existing facility to build its first car, the FF91.A...
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WeWork, the company that simulates startup life, is worth more than Twitter,...
WeWork, a company that rents out shared office spaces, has raised $760 million in a new Series G round of funding, according to Forbes.At a $20 billion valuation, the co-working giant tops the market...
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UK cybersecurity firm Darktrace has raised another $75 million at an $825...
Darktrace, the UK cybersecurity company backed by Autonomy billionaire Mike Lynch, has raised another $75 million (£58 million) to fuel its growth.The tech startup, founded in Cambridge in 2013, has...
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Startups are putting in place new zero-tolerance polices for sexual...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kristina Bergman made an unusual decision when she founded Integris Software in early 2016: she included an anti-sexual harassment clause firmly in her company's voting agreement with...
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London startup Bulb is trying to convince people to dump traditional...
London startup Bulb has a bigger aim than trying to convince people to download an app: It's trying to rethink how energy suppliers work.Bulb is a green energy supplier, with all of its electricity and...
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This former Twitter exec thinks he's found the next Salesforce — and it just...
It's not everyday that Ali Rowghani joins a board of directors.The Y Combinator Partner and former COO of Twitter only sits on three or four boards at a time. Now he's added a startup named Segment to...
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Goldman Sachs is changing its dress code to appeal to engineers used to a...
July 13 (Reuters) - Traditionally buttoned-up Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc has relaxed the dress code for its computer engineers in a bid to attract tech talent with a more casual...
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Juicero, maker of the $400 juicer, just announced a price cut and employee...
Juicero employees found out in a letter on Friday that the company is cutting the price of its cold-press juicing system. Some employees also found out they had been cut, too. In a letter obtained by...
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Another Silicon Valley startup is being accused of ignoring sexual harassment
A former BetterWorks employee is suing the company and its CEO Kris Duggan over allegations of assault, sexual harassment and a hostile work environment.The complaint, first reported by Tech Crunch and...
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The top 17 startups to launch so far in 2017
While much of Silicon Valley has been consumed by the drama at Uber, tech's most valuable startup, a whole new class of companies launched in the first half of 2017 hoping to change the world, become...
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How Box's founders got Mark Cuban to invest in their startup while they were...
Convincing investors to pay attention to a startup is not easy, especially if you're a college student and you're trying to attract high-profile investors like Mark Cuban. For Aaron Levie, now the CEO...
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Hampton Creek's entire board — except the CEO — just quit
Hampton Creek's board of directors made a big, and very unusual, change recently: they all left.All, that is, except for the CEO of the Silicon Valley startup best known for its egg-less mayo and some...
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