Startups Can Never Take Themselves Out Of Pitch Mode
Peter has been been a part of building companies like Photobucket and was responsible for driving growth to 61M users, leading its $300M acquisition in 2007. Peter then turned his energy in helping...
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Web Developer: It's A Little Insane How Well-Paid And In-Demand I AM
James Somers, a Web developer in his mid-twenties, planned to quit the field and become a freelance writer.He had a sweet first assignment lined-up too. He was going to write a profile about Douglas...
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Namely, A Startup That Helps Companies Keep Track Of Employees In The Cloud,...
Namely, startup that helps organizations manage their data and employees in the cloud, has raised a $3.35 million Series A round of investment.Investors include True Ventures, Lerer Ventures and...
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What To Do When Your Startup Doesn't Fail, But Also Doesn't Succeed
There were so many times our start-up almost failed, we joked it was a cockroach, a life form in its own right that, simply put, would never die.There were times when we barely could pay our Rackspace...
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How To Use Waze, The App Google Just Bought For $1.1 Billion
Today, an app headquartered in Israel called Waze was acquired by Google. The price: $1 billion, plus $100 million in employee retention and incentives.Waze is an interactive navigation app for iOS and...
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TechStars NY's Managing Director Eugene Chung Departs Just 2 Weeks Before...
Eugene Chung, who was hired to replace David Tisch as Managing Director of TechStars New York in January, is no longer with the startup accelerator program.The personnel change comes just two weeks...
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Why You Shouldn't Bash Startups For Raising Millions Of Dollars While Making...
When consumer startups like Foursquare, Snapchat and Instagram raise millions of dollars without generating much (or any) revenue, people tend to flip out."But they don't make money! How will they ever...
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Take A Tour Of The Coolest NYC Office We've Ever Seen
The Fueled Collective is a 18,000 square foot co-working office space in New York City's posh SoHo neighborhood.The Collective was started by Rameet Chawla and Ryan Matzner as a new business to...
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Let's Date Has A New CEO, And He Has A Great Vision For Helping You Find The...
Tinder is one of the latest crazes in the mobile dating space.It's a simple way to let someone know if you think they're hot. If they think you're hot, too, then you can start chatting.Adam Huie, the...
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Meet New York's First Internet Tech Startup Billionaire (SSTK)
New York's Silicon Alley startup scene just got its first billionaire. Shutterstock founder Jonathan Oringer officially became a billionaire today when the company's shares hit a record high this...
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Need Hiring Help? Here's A How-To-Hire Deck From One Of The Valley's Hottest...
Greylock Partners is a pretty impressive venture capital firm. The partners there bet on massively successful tech firms Facebook, LinkedIn, DropBox, and Airbnb back when they were tiny, risky...
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Why It's Better To Sell A Startup For $20 Million Instead Of $200 Million
It sounds impressive when a founder sells a startup for tens of millions of dollars.But it sounds really impressive when a company sells it for hundreds of millions of dollars.As a founder, which...
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This New App Is The Perfect Way To Get Anything You Want Delivered Straight...
This past Sunday I was visiting a friend. She had a bag of popcorn on her kitchen table and I asked her if I could have it. I took the bag of popcorn home, but realized I didn't have a microwave. I had...
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The 12 Most Offensive And Controversial Startups
Need a hookup buddy?There's an app for that.Want to thumb up or down pictures of women's cleavage?There's an app for that too.Yes, people have created every offensive and controversial thing you could...
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Richly-Funded Startup Beachmint Is Not Returning Money To Investors And Its...
UPDATE: We have now spoken with both Beachmint's CEO Diego Berdakin and its board member, NEA Pete Sonsini. Both say the initial PandoDaily report is inaccurate. Specifically, Berdakin and Berman have...
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Tough Times For NEA, A VC Firm That Put Big Money Into 3 Struggling Startups...
Update: Contrary to an initial report in PandoDaily, Beachmint board member and NEA investor Pete Sonsini says Beachmint is not returning any money to investors.If you follow the world of startups, you...
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Beachmint CEO: PandoDaily Is Wrong, I'm Not Fired, And I'm Not Giving Any...
Early this morning, an article was published on PandoDaily: "BeachMint board ousts founders, company returns $20 million to investors."In it, Michael Carney reports that Beachmint, a celebrity endorsed...
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Here's The Startup That's Trying To Be Airbnb For Retail
When start-ups want skin in the bricks-and-mortar market, they turn to Storefront. The San Francisco-based start-up helps small businesses find short-term retail spaces for rent, usually for three to...
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Startup Dollar Shave Club Has Sold 20,000 Butt Wipes
Dollar Shave club, an online subscription service that sends men shaving gear and other toiletries, told AllThingsD this week that it's sold 20,000 of its latest product: One Wipe Charlies. One Wipe...
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A Startup Founded By Some Of Cisco's Most Prestigious Former Engineers Wants...
A group of former Cisco engineers who worked on some of the network giant's most important technology just came out of stealth with a product that could unseat their former employer.The company is...
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