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Here's A Brilliant Quote About How Success Is Totally Doable — But Very Hard...
The truth is: Startups are hard but doable.But really, don't discount the "hard" part.Paul Graham, an influential investor who runs a startup school in Silicon Valley, gave Inc magazine a quote on this...
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The Story Of How A Facebook Millionaire Got Hired At 11PM One Strange Night...
Bearded, friendly foodie Ezra "Fuzz" Callahan joined Facebook in 2004, right when the company was starting. He stayed for 6 years. During that time Facebook grew to become a copmany worth many billions...
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This Ad Exec Wants To Turn Detroit Into The Next Digital Hotspot
Ad agency Lowe Campbell Ewald wants to make Detroit — yes, that Detroit— the latest hub for young professionals in the creative and digital technology fields.But could a city that declared bankruptcy...
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Two Uber Drivers Are Suing The Company, Claiming They're Not Getting The Tips...
Two San Francisco Uber drivers have opened a national lawsuit against the popular cab service, as reported by GigaOm, claiming that Uber pockets half of the 20% gratuity that is included for the driver...
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The One Job Skill You Can't Teach Is Passion
I just had a really frustrating meeting with a friend that just moved to the Bay Area. He had the ever-so common request of wanting help finding a great job, working with awesome people in disruptive...
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This Home Cleaning Startup Saved Me Hundreds Of Dollars
Moving can be quite an arduous process.A couple of days before my move-out date last Saturday, I received a couple of startling text messages from my then-roommate.Some of those messages seemed to to...
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Lots Of People In The World Of Billion Dollar Startups Are Passing Around...
There are a gajillion tech companies trying to become "the operating system for local businesses."Three big ones off the top of my head: Square, Groupon, and Yelp.But what do the local business owners...
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Quirky, An Invention Startup That's Raised $91 Million, Lays Off Its CRO And...
Quirky, Ben Kaufman's New York-based invention startup, has laid off a few members of its sales team, including its CRO, and postponed pre-planned time off for all employees in October.Quirky takes...
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On-Demand Taxi Service Uber Is Offering Free Rides To Undercut One Of Its...
"Road rage" takes on a whole new meaning as two car-sharing services are battling to make a name for themselves in new cities. Lyft, the ride-sharing service that markets itself as "your friend with a...
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This Startup Promo Video Shows A Man Confessing To Killing Someone
The video opens with a blurred-out face and an eerily distorted voiceover: "I killed a man."Matthew Cordle, 22, goes on to describes the events of June 22 this year. After an evening of heavy drinking...
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Oren Etzioni Could Be The Most Successful Entrepreneur You've Never Heard Of
Decide.com announced on Friday that it was being acqu-hired by eBay and would shutter its service at the end of the month.The entire team of 26 people will now go work for eBay.Decide.com predicts the...
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The 20 Hottest Startup Hubs In America
Silicon Valley is the most famous place for startups to thrive, but it's far from the only one. A recent report from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation took a look at what areas of the United States...
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After Raising $1.8 Million, Y Combinator Startup Tutorspree Shuts Down
The hardest decision a founder can make is knowing when to throw in the towel. Tutorspree, a company that was founded in 2011 and raised $1.8 million, just did that. Tutorspree was a platform that...
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Snapchat: 'We Have Not Received Any Formal Acquisition Offers'
Snapchat has never received a formal acquisition offer, its CEO Evan Spiegel told TechCrunch yesterday.Snapchat is a popular app that lets users send disappearing photo messages. There are 350 million...
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Few People Have Seen Tech Banker Terence Kawaja's Comedy Video Series
We love Terence Kawaja's LUMAscapes, the crazy-complicated diagrams of the tech and media worlds. For many people, they're the starting point if you want to make sense of adtech.And Kawaja's record as...
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There's Never Been A Better Time To Start A Company
Enough with the excuses. Either start your company or don’t, but at least don’t lie to yourself.YC applications for the Winter 2014 are now open. The deadline is Oct. 21st. Get going.There has never...
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Two Tech VCs Have Big Plans To Fix Our Broken Health Care System
Two of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capitalists are madly investing in tech startups that could soon make health care better and more affordable.Health care is the "most screwed up" industry in the...
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I Just Incubated A Company — It's The Most Interesting Thing I Do As A...
Incubating a company is one of the most interesting things that I do as a venture capitalist. It’s not only a lot of fun, it also puts me in the entrepreneur’s shoes which gives me perspective on how...
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You are the helm of your business. When you're not making big decisions, you're managing employees, projecting revenues, and planning expansion. We're looking to find out what keeps you up at night....
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11 Knockoff Startups We Like Better Than The Originals
When it comes to startup success, it's not always about being original.In many cases, success is about finding a niche and working to do the very best job possible within that space.Back in June,...
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