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Influential Silicon Valley Investor Explains Why He's Investing In Bitcoin...
Bitcoins have become all the rage lately as its value has skyrocketed this year. Bitcoins are a form of decentralized, digital currency. Today, Bitcoin is trading around $118. At its peak, it reached...
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This Guy Is Betting His Career On Creating A Massive Festival For Las Vegas
Rehan Choudhry had a great job managing events for Las Vegas' hottest new hotel, the Cosmopolitan, when he decided to tour Zappos' corporate headquarters in January 2012.It happened to be the same day...
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17 Money-Making Techniques That Startups Can't Afford To Screw Up
Advertising is hardly ever the right answer to building a sustainable, profitable startup.Yet so many do it.Instead, startup founders and CEOs need to focus on what they could charge for that people...
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Here's What It's Like Getting Around In Philly's Free 'Rogue' Car Service
I'm in Philly for the weekend, determined to prove I can have a great time for less than $100. So far, I'm having a blast and I've still got 80 bucks to play around with.One of my biggest concerns in...
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Top Silicon Valley Advisor Explains The Key Rules Behind Every Great Startup...
There's a common misconception floating around Silicon Valley that ideas mean nothing, and execution means everything.But the reality is much less binary and much more nuanced, The Founder Institute...
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Tumblr Is The New York Area's Third Billion-Dollar Startup Exit In The Past...
New York startups are proving that Silicon Valley isn't the only place where monstrous tech companies can be made.In the past twelve months, three tech companies in the New York area have exited for...
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Tumblr Founder David Karp Has Mixed Feelings About Dropping Out Of High...
Tumblr founder David Karp never finished traditional high school.He dropped out after his freshman year, was home-schooled for three years and then eventually got his General Educational Development...
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David Karp Is A Lot Like Steve Jobs
David Karp, 26, just sold his company Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in an all-cash deal.What's the founder really like? According to close friend and Tumblr's first employee, Marco Arment, Karp is a...
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AWESOME PLACES TO WORK: These Startups Have Better Perks Than Free Food Or...
The difference between a job you love and a job you hate is usually one thing: the company's culture.These days, lots of tech startups have adopted cultural perks like free food, pool table/games, and...
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Here Are 2 Questions Startups Must Ask Their Most Engaged Users
Understanding why people are actually using your product is one of the most important metrics for startups to measure."Founders don't spend time identifying what their users are gaining from their...
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15 Startups Leading The Hardware Revolution
New hardware companies are one of the hottest trends in the startup world. Instead of building apps and Web services, companies are building real physical hardware that you can buy and use. A lot of...
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This 6-Person Startup 'Won' SXSW — And It's Nearly Profitable After Just One...
When you think of event planning and ticketing services, companies like Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Ticketfly, and Ticketleap probably come to mind.But event planners often times need more than just...
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What It's Like Using Waze, The Navigation App That's Created A $1 Billion...
Yesterday, rumors re-surfaced that Waze might be acquired for $1 billion.Google and Facebook are both reportedly interested in the social navigation app. Earlier this year, Apple was said to be...
View ArticleOne Statement Tells You Whether A Business Is Truly Groundbreaking
To create something entirely new--something that the world has not seen before--requires contrarian thinking.Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal who's now one of the world's best-known venture capital...
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Google Begged This Woman To Stay, But She Left To Start Her Own Company
Last year, Anastasia Leng decided to leave her secure, cushy job at Google and venture into the land of startups.Leng spent a little over five years at Google, where she worked as a product marketing...
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Why Y Combinator Is The Hottest Startup School In Silicon Valley
Y Combinator is one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in Silicon Valley. It has an acceptance rate similar to that of an Ivy League school, and a track a record for producing...
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A Startup Entrepreneur Wrote A Brutal Open Letter To 'Dumb' VCs
Andy Dunn, founder and CEO at clothing startup Bonobos, recently wrote and posted a pretty harsh letter to "dumb" venture capitalists. Dunn argues that "dumb" VCs are going out of business. He compares...
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DEAR ENTREPRENEURS: Here's How Bad Your Odds Of Success Are
Everyone knows that starting companies — and investing in startups — is a risky way to earn a living.But few people appreciate just how risky it is.Thanks to a recent tweet from Paul Graham, the...
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How One VC Completely Blew A Meeting With A Startup Founder, And How Another...
Cash is king, so venture capitalists often have the upper hand when it comes to meeting with early-stage entrepreneurs.But when startups become big and awesome, the tables turn. Some venture...
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14 Startups That Will Change The Way You Eat
There's a growing number of startups focusing on the food market. That's likely because, as VC Dave McClure says, the market opportunity for food technology is huge.Last year, investors poured in...
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