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This Little $99 Box Just Raised $8.6 Million To Crush The Xbox
OUYA just finished up its Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign, raising about $8.6 million. It's not stopping there — you can still pre-order the console on its website, and the site has already logged...
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Why So Many Startups Are Being Acqui-Hired
One of the most interesting trends in startup land is the rise of the "acqui-hire," which is when a big company buys a smaller company just to get its employees. For instance, Facebook acquired New...
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Why You Have To Meet Shannon Callahan—She Can Make Your Silicon Valley Career
If you work in the tech industry, you ought to know Shannon Callahan. The Andreessen Horowitz partner has the power to change your career—not just once, but repeatedly. And as Business Insider found...
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After Paying With Square, You'll Want To Ditch Your Credit Card Forever
We finally got an opportunity to try out Pay With Square, a new app that lets you pay for things without taking out a credit card. Or your wallet. Or your phone. Or anything. It's a new app from...
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These Ex-Apple Engineers Are Working On A Stealth Startup To Make Content...
Andy Grignon is always looking for the next big thing. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. He was part of the Apple engineering team that worked on the original iPhone. Then, he moved to...
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In A Silicon Valley Startup Deal, The Coffee Shop You Choose Is Crucial
A very successful entrepreneur who sold his company to an Internet giant just dropped a bit of local lore on us over lunch in Palo Alto. The exact location of the coffee shop in Palo Alto you choose...
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How Big Data Startups Could Kill A $30 Billion Industry
When it comes to big data, "size doesn't matter," Ravi Mhatre, managing director of venture firm Lightspeed Venture Partners just told Business Insider. "It's not just big data. It's got to be fast...
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Here's Why You Don't See More Startups From Former Apple Employees (AAPL)
Given all the talented people who work at Apple, we're sometimes surprised that we don't see more companies started by former Apple employees. Sure, there have been some prominent startups from...
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Beautylish Now Has 1 Million Monthly Uniques And It Just Launched An...
Nils Johnson isn't your typical beauty editor. For starters, he's a guy. But he founded Beautylish with two other men. It's a beauty and makeup content site that has raised just over $2 million from...
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A Day In The Life Of Alexia Tsotsis, Startup Scribe Of Silicon Valley
Just a few years ago, Alexia Tsotsis got her dream job — a reporter at TechCrunch, one of the top technology sites in Silicon Valley. Now she's running the show with co-editor Eric Eldon, and they've...
View ArticleHow A Booming Tech Startup Can Avoid Site Outages And Service Disruptions
Plenty of tech startups rely on third-party platforms to get off the ground. But how do you scale up operations once the company is running full force? To get an idea, we spoke with fashion startup...
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Zappos CEO's New Startup Will Give Sports Fans A Taste Of VIP Access At Games
Tony Hsieh is trying to get sports fans out of the stands and into the action. The Zappos founder has joined forces with several other Zappos alumni for a sporty new Las Vegas start-up, Fandeavor. The...
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How This Founder Won 25 Of 27 Startup Competitions She Entered
Candace Klein is an impressive individual. That much was clear when she walked on stage at Business Insider's startup competition in May and took home the $75,000 cash and other prizes. Klein was...
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Actually, 'Soft Landings' And 'Acquihires' Are Different
Most startups don't have wildly successful exits. Lately, SVAngel's David Lee says his firm has spent a good chunk of time helping entrepreneurs with soft landings and acquihires. Yesterday he wrote...
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This Startup Cuts The Time It Takes To Plan A Vacation From 30 Hours To 5...
Vayable, a startup that makes it much easier to organize a vacation experience, is now seeing revenue growth of 30 percent every week. That's 30 percent week-over-week, every week, since May. That's...
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Facebook's Cofounder And First Investor Are Trying To Replicate The Human Brain
Startup Vicarious is trying to build a computer with the human ability to see and perceive. It's a really hard artificial-intelligence problem that once solved, has immense potential to change the...
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Check Out The Awesome Hovercraft This Startup's Engineers Built In A 48-Hour...
Hackathons are a tradition at Silicon Valley startups. Some of the best technology companies in the world—like Facebook, for example—rely on them to surface up the next top projects for the company....
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A Robotics Startup Is Putting An iPad On A Segway-Like Roller And Selling It...
A Y Combinator startup, Double Robotics, wants to take video conferencing to the next level. Instead of calling or Skyping an absent coworker into a meeting, the coworker can follow you around with an...
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Startups, Raising Money By Crowdfunding May Scare Off Other Investors
Entrepreneurs considering raising capital using crowdfunding should be prepared to abide by the Pee Wee Herman rule: if you like it, you might have to marry it. Alarms have already been raised about...
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Here's How Much Startup Founders Are Allowed To Pay Themselves
If you're running a venture-backed startup, don't expect to be able to set a high salary for yourself. One founder who's getting ready to quit his job and raise a $500,000 seed round asked on Quora:...
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