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They built and designed some of Apple's hottest devices, and now these two...
Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri founded Humane, a hardware and software startup currently operating in stealth, after running parts of Apple's hardware business.On Thursday, Humane announced...
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Silicon Valley's most famous startup training program just scrapped its...
Y Combinator announced Tuesday that it was doing away with pitch presentations from its largest cohort to date as fears about coronavirus continue to hobble young startups.The accelerator also moved...
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Silicon Valley's startups are facing the biggest crisis in a generation....
We asked venture capitalists to share one piece of advice for startups to help them weather the coronavirus and its effects on the health of their business.Tech investors from Greycroft, Menlo...
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WINNING Y COMBINATOR: Read the successful applications that hot startups used...
Y Combinator is an incredibly selective startup accelerator — and applications for the summer 2020 batch are due on March 16 by 8 p.m. PDT.An impressive application can help you win a spot.Business...
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The CEO of DoorDash says the company is stockpiling hand sanitizer and gloves...
Even as the coronavirus pandemic disrupts industries and markets, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu says he's not thinking about how the epidemic is affecting his own company's business.Instead, he told Business...
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The CEO of an $800 million startup reveals how a leadership strategy from the...
eToro is a stock-trading startup with more than 12 million customers and 12 global offices.CEO and cofounder Yoni Assia uses the Adizes style of management to manage the company's 850 worldwide staff...
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The coronavirus crisis has exposed a crucial weakness in Airbnb's business...
Airbnb was long thought to be the standout among Silicon Valley's giant startups, thanks largely to its "asset-light" business model that helped it post regular profits.But the coronavirus pandemic...
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This Y Combinator-backed startup wants to break your Facebook addiction and...
Motion is part of Y Combinator's latest batch of startups and offers a tool to monitor online behavior and time spent on websites.The Chrome extension provides daily reports, and will automatically...
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CULTIVATED: Cuts at MedMen, the race to enter Canada's edible market, and more
Welcome to Cultivated, our weekly newsletter where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boom. Sign up here to get it...
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5 reasons to start a company in a recession, according to Paul Graham, who...
In a 2008 essay, Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator, made the argument for starting a company in a bad economy.He believes that the state of the economy is inconsequential compared to the...
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Top VC firm Kleiner Perkins says it signed the first term sheet of the 'work...
On Thursday, Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid tweeted that the Silicon Valley firm had just landed a Series A funding deal, its first completely with an entirely remote team.According to principal...
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Surveillance balloons that can see a phone in your hand will soon fly loops...
World View Enterprises is a startup based in Tucson, Arizona, that launches surveillance balloon-craft into the stratosphere.The company says its Stratollites, as the technology is called, can take...
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Green Bits, a cannabis startup backed by Tiger Global, quietly terminated...
The cannabis-tech startup Green Bits laid off about 40 employees on March 9.A company spokesperson confirmed the cuts to Business Insider.Green Bits is the latest in a long line of cannabis companies...
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These numbers show how Airbnb's business could take a devastating double hit...
Airbnb is able to offer travelers accommodations worldwide without any of the costs of a hotel chain because it relies on third-party property managers to offer rooms and other places to stay.It makes...
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A global recession is looking inevitable. Here are 10 practical tips from...
Europe's venture capitalists expect a recession as the coronavirus outbreak heralds a slowdown in economic activity.We asked venture capitalists to share one piece of advice for startups to help them...
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Coronavirus forces tech investors and startups to ditch the all-important...
European tech investors and startups have been forced to change their working strategies in response to the coronavirus pandemic.It's led to hiring freezes, pitching being done via video conference...
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Silicon Valley's decade: From Facebook's promise of social networking to the...
Hello again, and welcome to this week's edition of Trending, the newsletter where we highlight BI Prime's biggest tech stories. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast bureau chief and...
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Tech investors to pitch for $350 million rescue fund from UK government as...
The UK's tech investors are worried that a coronavirus-induced recession could kill off many of the UK's early-stage startups.A group of investors is working up a pitch for up to £300 million in UK...
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Silicon Valley healthcare startup Carbon Health is offering coronavirus...
A Silicon Valley startup is offering testing for the coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19.Carbon Health is offering on-site testing at its nine Bay Area clinics, though it advises patients to first...
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Alcohol delivery and CBD-infused beverage startups are flourishing during...
So-called "vice" startups, such as those that specialize in alcohol or CBD, are seeing record sales and booming demand during the widespread work-from-home directives and social distancing measures to...
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