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Meet The Women Who Make Internet Startups As Cool Offline As They Are Online
We've all had it happen: You meet someone, ask her what she does, and she tells you her job title. And all you can think is "OK, but—I still have no idea what you do." In the digital age and the...
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The Biggest Thing To Happen To WiFi Has Just About Arrived
Wireless networks will soon get a big boost in speed. A new standard supporting the 60 GHz band is coming next year and it will allow wireless networks to be much faster than those that run on today's...
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The Startup That Turned Walgreens Into A Cloud Company Just Landed $20 Million
Hot startup Apigee landed another $20 million round of funding. That brings its total to $72 million since it launched in 2004. The reason it's on everyone's radar isn't the cash that CEO Chet Kapoor...
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Meet Big Switch, The Next Billion-Dollar Network Startup
Nicira isn't the only startup with tech that's going to disrupt corporate networks. Big Switch Networks is another. With yesterday's news that VMware was spending $1.26 billion to acquire Nicira, we...
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Airbnb Acquires A Fellow Y Combinator Startup, DailyBooth
Airbnb has acqui-hired DailyBooth, TechCrunch reports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DailyBooth helps users tell the story of their lives through pictures. The DailyBooth team is led by CEO...
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Alfresco CEO: 'There's A Moral Obligation To Question Some Of These Things...
The software industry's newfound love for the "freemium" model is a really bad idea, a prominent figure in the business just told us. John Powell runs Alfresco, a successful maker of...
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You Can Hire Someone To Do Charity Work For You Through This Startup
Ever wanted to volunteer for a charity, but never had enough time? Now you can hire someone to do charity work for you with Exec, a Y Combinator backed startup. Exec is a startup that lets you hire...
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Silicon Valley's Newest Star, Meteor, Just Raised $11.2 Million To Completely...
Building a startup is hard. But there's a new trend in startups coming out that make it much easier to make an application. The latest example is Y Combinator graduate Meteor — which just raised $11.2...
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This New Panoramic Camera App Is Picking Up Steam In Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley can never have too many photo-sharing apps. Now one of the latest trending apps is Dermandar's DMD Panorama, a photo-sharing application that rapidly takes panoramic shots of your...
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The Next 25 Big Enterprise Startups
If there's one crowd of people who know about hot startups, it's the venture capitalists who fund them. So we took an informal survey of a handful of top enterprise VCs to find out which startups they...
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Y Combinator Startups Have Raised More Than $1 Billion Combined
Y Combinator has been helping startups accelerate and get funded for the past seven years. 380 startups have gone through the program, excluding the most recent class. Paul Graham says those 380...
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Ex-Googlers Relaunch Their Startup Stamped And Get Ryan Seacrest, Justin...
Last Spring, Robby Stein and Bart Stein (not related) left their jobs at Google to start a company, Stamped. Stamped received funding from Google Ventures and others to become a mobile app that would...
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Introducing Stamped 2.0, The Wishlist App That Hollywood Celebs Are Obsessed...
Earlier today we introduced you to Stamped, a refreshed app that aims to change the way you keep track of your favorite things. The new version works similarly to Twitter, and is an awesome place to...
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This Enterprise Startup Is Now Worth More Than $1 Billion
Box, an enterprise cloud storage provider, is raising another financing round after already raising $162 million that would value it at a whopping $1.2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. That...
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You Can Use This Startup To Build A Copy Of Billion-Dollar App Instagram In A...
Remember Instagram? It's a photo-sharing application that sold to Facebook for $1 billion after rocketing to tens of millions of users in the span of a few months. As simple as it sounds, it can be...
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This Guy Turned Down A $500 Million Offer For His Startup And Is Thrilled...
Imagine being 33 years old, looking a half a billion dollars in the face, and saying "no." That's exactly what Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith did last spring. After about a decade of hard work, the cloud...
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Yes, Someone Actually Funded A Sex-Toy Subscription Startup
For people who want to avoid the embarrassment of strolling down the aisles of their local sex store, Boink Box will deliver a box of sex toys to their house every month. The model is called...
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What Life Is Really Like For A Mother Of Three Running A Hot Startup
A lot of us dream having Sharmila Mulligan's career. She's been involved in multiple startups with big payouts and is now CEO and co-founder of ClearStory Data, a buzzy early-stage startup in Palo...
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Sequoia Capital Leads $34.5 Million Round In Bit9 To Fight Cyber Attacks
Bit9, a business that provides software and services to fight cyber attacks, just secured $34.5 million dollars in Series D funding led by Sequoia Capital. "This latest round of funding is the largest...
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Cvent CEO: From A 33-Year-Old Living With His Parents To A Multimillionaire
Cvent CEO and founder Reggie Aggarwal's history is one of sheer grit and determination. Just like his company. Founded in 1999, Cvent is now a booming company with 1,000 employees and 10,000 clients...
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