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How To Be A Brilliant Hands-Off Manager
Once your start-up begins to run like a fully-formed company, you have entered a different world. Instead of a fledgling company founder struggling to get investments, you have become CEO of a brand....
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This Startup Is Proof That You Need More Than A Great Idea To Win In Silicon...
A common notion in Silicon Valley is that great products win.But in actuality, that idea is quite lofty. Photo storage startup Everpix is the perfect case in point. Everpix, a San Francisco-based...
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This Woman's Husband Just Quit His Job And She Is As Thrilled As She Is...
For a young man, Matt Van Horn has had a long career in startups. He worked at Digg, back during its first iterations. Then he helped create ride-sharing startup Zimride, which is now called Lyft. For...
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All Job Hunters Need To Read About The Extreme Lengths This Guy Went Through...
So you're graduating from a top business school and you think you're hot stuff, eh?So did David Rogier.But he kept striking out with the companies he wanted to work for.Finally, his advisor told him:...
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Not Enough Teens Were Using Its Product, So This Company Started Displaying Ads
Slader is the Wikipedia of homework.Students stumped by a math or science question in their textbooks can consult the Slader site or app to not only get answers to problems, but help on how to actually...
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SmartThings, The Company That Wants To Connect Everything In Your Home To The...
SmartThings, a company that makes a platform manufacturers can build into to make "smart" every day objects like Internet-connected light bulbs, door locks, and alarm systems, announced today it has...
View ArticleThis Startup Built One Credit Card That Can Store All Your Other Cards That...
Today's buzzy startup? Coin, a company that makes a "smart" credit card that can store all your other credit cards.For $100 you get a Coin card, which you can load up with all your other debit and...
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Industry People Are Whispering That Kevin Systrom Blew It Selling Instagram...
In spring 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a long weekend with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. After three days of talks, the pair agreed that Facebook would buy Instagram for ~$1 billion. In an...
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Presentation Maker Prezi Added New Features To Lure Business Users Away From...
Prezi, the San Francisco startup that let's you create visually compelling presentations, now has over 30 million users, and it just added several new features to make it more appealing to...
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A Site That Sells Children's Clothing Is Going Public Today At A $2.6 Billion...
Zulily, a flash sales site for children's clothing and accessories, is going public today at $2.6 billion valuation.As Fortune's Dan Primack points out, the tech press has largely ignored Zulily's big...
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These 10 British Tech Startups Are Growing At A Rapid Pace
British technology firms continue to grow at a rapid pace despite the uncertain economic environment, pushing into areas from television and media to payment processing and internet dating.Now...
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The 17 Hottest Enterprise Mobile Startups Right Now
The tablet and smartphone have invaded the workplace and are changing everything about the way we work.Office-bound employees are now free to roam and work on their personal devices. Road warriors and...
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The NFL And MLB Threaten A Move To Cable Thanks To Video Streaming Startup Aereo
The NFL and MLB are threatening to move over to cable if fledgling Internet TV startup Aereo continues its expansion.According to Variety, both leagues filed a joint suit over the weekend urging the...
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Here's What It's Like To Work At A Failed Startup
As we previously reported, photo sharing site Everpix was forced to close its doors this month, for lack of money, even though business was going well. We just talked to one of its first employees,...
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A Startup In Los Angeles Wants Founders To Ditch Their Stuffy Offices And Pay...
There's a new "luxury" work space that wants entrepreneurs to get out of their homes and offices and code in enviable locations instead.Poolsidepreneurs was founded in Los Angeles. For $99 per month,...
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Why Box's CEO Turned Down A ~ $550 Million Offer That Would Have Made Him...
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Dropbox competitor, Box. Box is raising a new round of financing that will value the company at $2 billion. But a few years ago, Levie had the opportunity to...
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Why LeBron James's Personal DJ Uses Vowch, A Hot New Social Recommendation App
Vowch, the social discovery app co-founded by 90s rapper Jesse Itzler, seems to be becoming a staple on the phones of arguably some of the coolest people in the U.S.Its all-star list of users include...
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Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them
On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched. Now it has 50 million monthly unique readers.Almost all of its readers come from Facebook. The headlines, which Upworthy's editors toil...
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There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow
How do you build a really big company?"All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people,"says Sam Altman, who founded and sold Loopt, a...
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Job Site Glassdoor Raises Another $50 Million And Plans To Hire Like Crazy
Glassdoor, the job-hunting site where employees share inside skinny about their companies, raised a big $50 million round. That brings its total funding to $93 million.The company will use the money to...
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