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Fab Discounted Itself To Get A $600 Million Valuation In The Wake Of The...
In July, Fab, the online high-design goods store, raised a $116 million Series C round at a $600 million valuation.Like its shoppers, its investors got a really good deal: Fab had initially planned to...
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After A Rough Year, Startup Entrepreneur Decides To Spend 5 Days In Total...
Being an entrepreneur is no easy task. After having a rough year, entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan needed some time to process what happened and find a way to come to peace with it. "The most important...
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David Cohen Clears Up The Future Of TechStars: 1,100 Applicants And A...
In just a few years, TechStars has become one of the world's leading startup accelerator programs.But as it heads into its fourth cycle in New York City, there are a lot of questions that need to be...
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Top Valley VC: Here's How Companies Blow It When Hiring Engineers
There's a war for engineering talent in the tech industry. And yet, companies trying to hire top engineering talent continuously shoot themselves in the foot when recuriting.Mike Abbott, the brilliant...
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Radical Transparency Makes Employees Happier, More Productive And Loyal
At small businesses and startups, there can be a clear division between what the founder knows and what his employees do, even if they spend all day working in close quarters. Often, there's not a...
View Article'Prototyping' Different Jobs Is The Best Way To Find The Career You Want
If you’re stuck in a job you hate, you’re (unfortunately) not alone. In fact, an astonishing more than 80% of Americans are dissatisfied with their jobs.I, too, was unhappy in the corporate job I took...
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How US Immigration Policy Is Holding Back The Tech Sector
For all of the lip service that gets paid to promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology, the government can be surprisingly slow to take steps that could help the companies and people that...
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New Coupon Startup 'Honey' Has Had 9 Successful Investor Meetings In A Row
A coupon company for the web is not a new idea. But Ryan Hudson, who has spent over a decade building companies, has found a way to wow investors.In 2005, Hudson was featured in Businessweek's "Top...
View ArticleThey're Happily Married. They Created The Smash-Hit Game "Temple Run." How...
“It’s very polarizing when we say that we’re married and work together,” says Keith Shepherd of his partnership with his wife Natalia Luckyanova. The couple founded Imangi Studios, a mobile gaming...
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High School Dropout Now Worth $200 Million Tells Kids Not To Drop Out
Tumblr founder David Karp dropped out of traditional high school after his freshman year and was home-schooled for three years. Now, he's worth more than $200 million. But in an interview with Forbes'...
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8 Enterprise Startups Creating A Brand-New, $4 Billion Market (CSCO, VMW)
A new enterprise technology called software-defined networking is still in its infancy. But it's already created some billion-dollar success stories, capturing the imagination of Silicon Valley's...
View ArticleThe 10 Things Entrepreneurs Waste The Most Time On
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, then you only need to do one thing: Invent, develop, and market a product or service that customers really need or want. There are, however, a few...
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This Woman Went From Child Soldier To Tech CEO
Ping Fu hasn't had the most traditional path to entrepreneurialism.When Fu was only eight years old, Mao Zedong's Red Guards took her from her home, forcing her to be a child soldier.Fu had to work in...
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There's A 'Sphere Of Weirdness' Hidden Deep Within Google
Google's Niantic Labs—one of the many ways CEO Larry Page is trying to get employees to break out and try bold, risky experiments—has been a bit of a mystery until very recently. So what is it,...
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This Startup Forbids Meetings On Wednesdays
Task management startup Asana has a pretty strict "No Meeting Wednesday" policy.That's because it wants to give its employees ample time to work on projects without any disruptions.Asana co-founder...
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Silicon Valley Is In Love With Hardware Startups
Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class is putting their money on hardware startups. They recently voted on which of their peers were most likely to succeed, and the top two were both hardware companies, YC...
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After 10 Months, A Boatload Of Press, And A CEO's Departure, Apparel Startup...
When Quincy launched last spring, it held a splashy Cupcakes and Champagne party at the Tribeca Grand Hotel with Uber car service home for members of the press.It was founded by two 20-something...
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12 Startups That Are Solving The Little Problems That Drive Us Crazy
There are a lot of little problems in life.You lose your car keys. You're craving peanut butter but can't reach the last glob. You have one more slot on your power strip, but your cord is too clunky to...
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Startups, Don't Build An Empire Overnight And Do What FreshDirect Did
The other day I received a direct mail piece from FreshDirect, the online delivery service based out of New York.What struck me is that the service has been around for years in NYC, and it is now...
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Suddenly, A Startup That Makes Thermostats Is Worth $800 Million
In late 2011, a company called Nest Labs launched a product the tech world couldn't stop talking about. But the product isn't something that normally gets people excited.Nest is perfecting the...
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