HotelTonight Is A 1.5-Year-Old Startup That's Raised $36 Million To Bring You...
Sam Shank founded HotelTonight a year and a half ago. Since then he's raised $36 million from investors for his mobile app. Hotel Tonight is available on Android, iPad and iPhone devices. It works...
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Here's What Flickr Investor Esther Dyson Looks For In A Startup
You'd think a startup backer would look for the best money-making schemes. But angel investor Esther Dyson has a different approach: She looks for ideas that are fun, she told Entrepreneur. It's paid...
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How Y Combinator Built A Billion-Dollar Brand For Startups
Seven years ago, Paul Graham and his now-wife Jessica Livingston founded a startup accelerator, Y Combinator. Since then, it has become the most competitive startup program in the world. Its...
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How To Avoid The Most Common Startup Tech Mistakes
For any startup founder, the first few months are an uphill battle. During this time, it's crucial to develop a solid infrastructure that will protect your intellectual property, manage complex data...
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The Startup That's Keeping An Extra Billion Cars From Hitting The Road Just...
Getaround, a car-sharing startup, just announced that it is raising $13.9 million in its first round of funding, which includes the likes of Marissa Mayer, Shervin Pishevar and Eric Schmidt's...
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VOTE NOW: Help Us Choose The World's Best Design School
At a time when four to five billion people will soon connect to the Internet through mobile devices, talented user-interface and product designers have become a critical part of of successful...
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Sorry Consumer Startups, If You Don't Have At Least 10 Million Users You...
The days when a startup could sell investors on a dream and no revenue are coming to a close, says angel investor Chris Dixon.Now, if you're a consumer startup (ad based/no clear business model) and...
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The Most Controversial Entrepreneur In The Valley Is Back With A Clever New...
One of the best things about Silicon Valley is how forgiving it is—you don't just get a second chance here, you get a third and a fourth. Anu Shukla, a serial entrepreneur, is back with a new company,...
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10 Million Users Is Not The New 1 Million Users—If It Were No Startup Would...
Yesterday, one of New York's most active angel investors Chris Dixon wrote: "ten million users is the new one million users." Dixon said there is too much competition in the consumer startup space. So...
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This Ex-Employee Has Some Simple Advice For Getting A Job At Google (GOOG)
If you're trying to get a job as a software engineer, you're more likely to be hired by learning just one programming language and mastering it, according to a former Googler on Quora. That's despite...
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This Brave Soul Moved To Silicon Valley From Atlanta To Kill Pinterest—And...
You can pick up all kinds of things at Costco! We're not sure world-class developers are among them, though. Bobby Johnson, a former engineering director at Facebook, shared a photo he snapped in the...
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How To Completely Erase Yourself From The Internet
Your information is for sale to all kinds of different entities. Thankfully, there's an easy way to remove it from the places where companies harvest it. Safe Shepherd has been helping people protect...
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Meet Yardsale, The Startup That Wants To Give You An Easy Way To Make Money...
In 1999, eBay had one of the most vibrant communities of local sellers, who would often hand-write notes for the items they sold and took special care of each other. Fast forward to 2012, and it's...
View ArticleMost Tech Startups Aren't Really 'Tech' Businesses At All
Most of the potential “technology entrepreneurs” I meet aren’t interested in launching technology companies. "What?" you ask. Let me explain: At its essence, most tech entrepreneurs are focused on...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs With 'Founder's Disease' Will Make Any Investor Run Away
Awhile back, a pair of entrepreneurs—I’ll call them Jen and Jeff—approached me seeking advice on launching their new business. They were looking for help in formulating their go-to-market strategy,...
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Meet Ted Roden, The Unlikely Founder Of Fancy Hands: His Army Of Assistants...
Ted Roden did everything startup founders are told not to do. He didn't have a cofounder and he didn't start a company in his 20's. He started one alone, in his 30's, as a father. When Roden first...
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Realtime Raises $100 Million To Make The Internet More Like Live TV
Imagine never having to hit your browser refresh button again. Imagine that the whole Internet continuously live streams itself, even if you keep a single Web page open for hours -- or if you access a...
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Pinterest Is Open To Everyone Now -- Here's How To Get Started
Pinterest no longer requires an invitation to register an account. It's open to anyone that wants to join. You only need to sign up with a Facebook account, Twitter account, or email address. If...
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These Are The Apps Silicon Valley's Rising Stars Use To Survive
Starting a company used to be incredibly hard — you had to buy up a ton of software licenses and hardware, like SharePoint and Oracle servers, to get anything off the ground. Nowadays, it's still...
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12 Pinterest Users You Should Be Following
Now that Pinterest is in open registration for anyone to join, it's time to start following some interesting pinners. No matter your interests, you'll find someone interesting on the site to follow....
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