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Peter Thiel Is Giving These 20 Teenagers $100,000 To Drop Out Of School And...
Peter Thiel, famous for being Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO at PayPal, is giving 20 teenagers $100,000 to drop out of college. Here's the catch: They have to start a...
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The Most Important Early-Stage Investor Of The Last 10 Years Just Made A Huge...
Union Square Ventures principal Fred Wilson just led his first startup deal in nearly two years.Wilson led a $5 million round in Coinbase, a startup for buying, selling, and accepting Bitcoins.Bitcoins...
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FRED WILSON: Here's Why I'm Investing In Bitcoin
Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson announced this morning that he's investing in Coinbase, a startup that makes transactions through the web with Bitcoin possible.This is big news for a number of...
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The 19 Coolest Small Businesses In New Orleans
New Orleans is a hugely popular tourist destination for its food, music, history and Mardi Gras.The city's economy took a big hit after Hurricane Katrina devastated the cityscape in 2005. But since...
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Reid Hoffman: Founding A Startup Is Like 'Throwing Yourself Off A Cliff' (LNKD)
To hear successful entrepreneurs talk about it, founding a startup sounds like something no sane person should try.LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says that starting a company is like "throwing...
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How Three Brothers Launched A Delivery Business Caffeinating New York's Tech...
Joyride, one of New York's most promising startups, is quickly gaining popularity.The company delivers high-end coffee from roasters like Stumptown, Intelligentsia and Blue Bottle to well-known clients...
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16 Startups Just Won Spots In One Of The Summer's Most Competitive...
DreamIt Ventures, a multi-city startup accelerator program like TechStars and Y Combinator, has selected 16 startups for its summer session in New York.The three-month program gives each startup a...
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Kim Kardashian's Once Successful Startup Is Struggling For Survival
Fashionista and reality TV star Kim Kardashian made her first foray into business with the launch of ShoeDazzle back in 2009. But in 2012, the startup nearly imploded when co-founder Brian Lee left his...
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Female Founder Launches 'Fit Or Not,' A Hot-Or-Not For Women's Chests
According to Israeli venture capitalist and startup founder Orit Hashay, 80% of women wear bras that don't fit.To help them, she launched Brayola, a shopping discovery platform that recommends new bras...
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13 Slides That Landed Two Founders $500,000 In 3 Months
Leonhard Widrich and Joel Gascoigne were classmates at England's University of Warwick. The pair founded a startup together called Buffer, that helps you share Tweets, Facebook posts and LinkedIn...
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This Is What It's Like Working At Waze, The Startup Facebook Is About To Buy...
Editor's note: Last year, Business Insider partner EpicLaunch toured the offices of hot Israeli startup Waze. Today, according to several reports, Waze is about to be acquired by Facebook for a price...
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My parents are finally able to talk fondly of the first phone call I made home during freshman orientation in college. Three days into my time at Duke, I didn’t call to talk about my new classes or...
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Lot18 Continues To Crumble, Lays Off 11 More People
Lot18, a wine e-commerce site that once dominated the New York startup scene, is undergoing more layoffs.This morning, eleven people were let go, dwindling the staff down to 36. Last year, Lot18 had...
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AT LAST: A Secure, Key-Free Way To Unlock Your Front Door Has Been Invented
One object startups have tried and failed to kill is the good old-fashioned key.We shove them onto tiny metal rings and bury them deep in pockets and purses. They're impossible to find when we need...
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How To Get Your CEO Fired (According To Accidental Advice From Top VC Fred...
If your CEO loses the faith of the team, it's time for him or her to go. That's one thing a board cannot tolerate, Union Square Ventures VC Fred Wilsonwrites on his personal blog, A VC.It's also the...
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Airware, A Startup That's Helping Bring Drones To The Masses, Just Raised...
Drones are spreading beyond military warfare and becoming the hot new thing in startups. One proponent of them Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of Wired. He founded DIY Drones where a community...
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Dr. Dre And Jimmy Iovine Give USC $70 Million To Find The Next Startup...
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are two of LA's biggest movie and business stars. They've turned artists like Lady Gaga and 50 Cent into celebrities and made clunky headphones popular by starting a business,...
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Dots, The Most Basic App You Could Imagine, Has Been Played 100 Million Times...
A simple yet beautifully designed mobile game is making the rounds, and it has already turned 2 million users into dot-connecting addicts.Dots is an iOS game that launched in the App Store on May 1. It...
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You Can Get A Computer Science Degree From A Top School For $7,000
The Georgia Institute of Technology will soon offer an online, three-year masters degree in computer science for less than $7,000.That's about one-sixth of the cost of its traditional program, but...
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10 Tech Terms Even Non-Geeks Should Know
Working in the tech industry means you're going to hear a lot of industry-specific jargon. Even if you're not an engineer, it's worth knowing the terms they use everyday so you can at least interact...
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