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How A Box Of Cereal And Acting Like A Cockroach Helped Airbnb Become A...
When Airbnb's founders were just getting started, they had no way to fund their short-term apartment rental business. They maxed out a binder full of credit cards and racked up tens of thousands of...
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The Startups Everyone Is Talking About At The World's Craziest Technology...
South by Southwest is an annual technology, film, and music conference in Austin, Texas. It's in full swing right now; tens of thousands of investors, entrepreneurs, writers, and early adopters have...
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Investors Have Poured $7.5 Million Into Lyft, A Startup That Gives Thousands...
At an annual tech conference in Austin, Texas that attracts over 40,000 early adopters, startups are desperate to make their mark.South by Southwest is the place where companies like Twitter,...
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Mike McGlade is experiencing his first South by Southwest, an annual technology, film and music conference in Austin, Texas that attracts more than 120,000 people during one week in March.Unlike a lot...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Quit Facebook: Severe Withdrawal Followed By A More Amazing...
On January 1, Mike McGlade made a tough decision.He quit Facebook.What started as an experiment has turned into a better way of life for the startup CRO. McGlade says he experienced "withdrawal" during...
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Silicon Valley Poverty Is Getting Much Worse Amidst Insane New Tech Wealth Boom
Silicon Valley has more jobs than it did at the height of the dot-com boom.But despite its seemingly healthy economy, poverty is on the rise, Martha Mendoza of The Associated Press reports.The number...
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Startup CEO: It's Time For Me To Admit That My Startup Is A Zombie
No entrepreneur ever wants to admit failure.But there is a worse fate: running a startup that's become a zombie.Referly cofounder and CEO Danielle Morrillwrites on her blog that she decided to change...
View ArticleHow Grindr Is Changing the Way We Connect
It is easy to write off Grindr — a location-based dating application for gay men — as a hookup application because, well, that is what it is.But the company, which is approaching its fourth...
View ArticleHow To Hire More Women Like Me At Your Startup
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PowerPoint Alternative Prezi Is Growing By 1 Million Users A Month—And Making...
Prezi is quickly becoming the de facto alternative to a boring PowerPoint presentation.In the past 10 months, the company has doubled its user base, from 10 million to 20 million users, gaining 1...
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This Is How It Feels When Your Startup Fails
It's relatively common for startups fail. In fact, three out of every four venture-backed startups fail, according to a recent report by The National Venture Capital Association.But that reality...
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This Little Device Will Radically Reinvent Your Driving Experience (AAPL)
Automatic is the latest startup to garner loads of attention. CNBC's Jon Fortt even tweeted that it's the "biggest idea [he's] seen since the iPhone."Here's what the company's all about.For $69.95, you...
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How This Guy Turned His Shoe Obsession Into A Prime Acquisition Target
A little over a decade ago, Sole Collector founder and General Manager Steve Mullholand tapped into the sneakerhead culture.And boy, was it a smart move. That's because Complex Media, a network of...
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The 25 Most Creative People In Tech
By its very nature, the tech industry is full of creative people working on amazing new things.Even so there are some people that stand out above and beyond.These are the people who change the game....
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The 11 Coolest Startup T-Shirts From The Ultimate Startup Conference, SXSW
Startups are known for their T-shirts.Which ones rocked the best designs at the ultimate startup conference, South by Southwest?We collected our favorites from all over Austin. GroupMe takes the...
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89-Year-Old Woman Raises Thousands On Kickstarter For A Line Of 'Happy'...
Pearl Malkin just proved it's never too late to start a business.The 89-year-old woman has raised $3,606 from 154 backers to fund a new line of walking canes on Kickstarter.Her project, Happy Canes,...
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Former Goldman Sachs Guys Raise $600,000 For Social Rewards Startup, Jamplify
Andy Pickens and Moses Soyoola were coworkers at Goldman Sachs, but they wanted to start their own business.The pair left finance to launch Jamplify last July, a service that creates social campaigns...
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SXSW Remains The Best Gathering Of Creative Smart Entrepreneurs There Is
When I made plans to attend my first SXSW conference, friends told me it wasn’t for technology people anymore. “SXSW is only for marketing and PR now,” they said. Is this true? I needed to find out for...
View ArticleStartup Cash Crunch: $14 Million Later, Ask-A-Question Site Formspring Is...
Formspring, a once-buzzy site that counted more than 28 million users for its ask-me-a-question service, was the Snapchat of its day—an Internet service popular with teens and misunderstood by adults,...
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Now, You Can Predict The Future Just Like Nate Silver
The world is constantly reporting on itself, whether it's through SEC filings, blog posts, or Twitter. Nate Silver already has a grasp on this by using big data, but what about everyone else?That's why...
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