All Of A Sudden, Startup Founders Have Gotten Brutally Honest About Their...
There’s something swirling in the air around startups and founders. It’s refreshing, cold hard, honesty.Maybe it took a Series A crunch or simply more ways for the truth to be unleashed. Perhaps it was...
View ArticleWill Smith Just Invested In Fancy, The Social Commerce Site Apple Wanted To Buy
Fancy, a Pinterest-like site with more of an emphasis on e-commerce, just raised about $27 million, according to an SEC form filed last week.We first saw the news on Bloomberg.The filing did not name...
View ArticleThis Is The Most Untapped Opportunity In The Dating Space
There are a load of startups working in the online and mobile dating space. Think Tinder, OkCupid, Match, eHarmony, Let's Date, Zoosk, and Are You Interested. But the list really does go on. Tinder...
View ArticleFoodspotting's Co-Founder Has A New Fashion Startup
Earlier this year, we found out that Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi was working on new, super stealthy startup. Darabi had already raised $1.35 million from undisclosed investors, according to...
View ArticleThis Startup Lets You 'Date' Prospective New Employers Anonymously For $1000+...
For most of us, a job offer is an all or nothing thing. You do a few interviews and the company either offers you the job or not. You accept it, forsaking all others, or you don't.But a startup called...
View ArticleStartup Human Gravity Wants To Help You Make Sure Your Friends Never Screw...
There's a growing trend in the travel industry of renting a vacation homes with friends and family. But handling payments with large groups can be a huge pain. It's a process that can get awkward and...
View ArticleCoursera, A Startup That Offers Free Courses From Top Universities, Just...
Red-hot online education startup Coursera just closed a $43 million Series B round, following a $22 million Series A round last year.Investors included Learn Capital, GSV Capital, International Finance...
View ArticlePaul Graham Offers Counter-Intuitive Advice To Startups: 'Do Things That...
Paul Graham, co-founder of top startup accelerator program Y Combinator, has some counter-intuitive advice for founders: do things that don't scale.What he goes on to explain makes a lot of sense....
View ArticleHow Brit Morin Responds To People Who Say She Only Gets Millions From...
Brit Morin is the founder of Do-It-Yourself content and commerce site, Brit + Co. She has raised more than $7 million from investors such as Marissa Mayer and Huffington Post investor, Oak Investment...
View Article3 Huge Weaknesses Of Having Your Startup Staffed Entirely By Millennials
Startups are often times filled with driven and enthusiastic 20-somethings. It's common for the median age in a startup to be under 30.But millennials are prone to burnout, and some things might be...
View ArticleTop VC Tells Startups How To Cope When Investors Tell Them They're Worth Much...
It's harder for startups to raise money now than it was two years ago. As a result, startups that are still figuring out their business models are either unable to raise money, or they're forced to...
View Article23 Statistics That Prove Men Dominate The Tech World
The lack of women in technology conversation is nothing new. Over the last few months, the topic has been fueled by events like "Donglegate" and its backlash.It's since become common knowledge that...
View ArticleWhy You're Getting Rejected On Tinder
Tinder is one of the most popular apps in the dating space, even though it doesn't even position itself as a dating startup.It's generated over 75 million matches and at least 50 people have gotten...
View ArticleStartup Wizard Says You Shouldn't Multitask Too Much If You Want Your Company...
Multi-tasking is overrated.In fact, it actually makes us less productive in the office and more prone to making mistakes, according to researchers at Stanford University. Evidence also suggests...
View ArticleChaCha CEO's Wife Is Claiming On Twitter That He's Cheating On Her With An...
This is a story of modern-day love, where the wife of a tech exec outs him on Twitter for supposedly cheating on her. Scott Jones, the founder and CEO of search engine ChaCha, seems to be in the middle...
View ArticleChaCha CEO Denies Cheating On His Wife
Earlier today, we wrote about search engine ChaCha CEO Scott Jones's wife accusing him on Twitter of cheating on her. His wife, Vee, claimed that he has been sleeping with a current ChaCha...
View ArticleWhat Some Of The Biggest Names In Silicon Valley Wish They Had Known At Age 20
"What do you know now that you wish you had known at age 20?"That's the question Benjamin Ling (who you should definitely follow on Twitter), a partner at venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, posed to...
View ArticleApple Buys A Location Startup To Help With Its Troubled Maps App (AAPL)
Apple has acquired a Canadian startup called Locationary to help with its Maps app for iPhones and iPads, AllThingsD has confirmed.Locationary uses data submitted by users to catalog venues like...
View ArticleMore 20-Somethings Are Buying Million-Dollar Homes Than Ever Before, Thanks...
Real estate brokers say millennials are buying homes— and expensive homes — like never before thanks to wealthy parents and the tech boom, Wall Street Journal's Lauren Schuker Blum reports. The younger...
View ArticleThe Most Difficult Hurdle To Overcome In A Startup's First Year May Be...
For the past year, I've come home to the same scene. I walk in the door to a seemingly empty apartment. But I'm not alone. There's an entrepreneur in there, too focused – or frazzled – to notice I've...
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