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This Startup Is Going To Change The Way You Plan Events With Your Friends...
You've just decided to rent out party boat for your 25th birthday party. Now comes the hard part: finding enough cash to cover at least part of the cost. That's where Crowdtilt, a small-scale...
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Silicon Valley's Favorite Hacker Hangouts Are At Risk Of Being Shut Down
The very first "office space" where Pinterest was born is now at risk of being shut down. Hacker Dojo, one of Silicon Valley's most prized collaborative workspaces, is in the process of raising money...
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Check Out Branch, An Exclusive Message Board For Smarter Online Discussions
We're not quite sure what to make of Branch, a new discussion board backed by some of the biggest names of Silicon Valley. Is it supposed to be like Twitter, but without the 140-character limit? Is it...
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Suddenly, Startups Have Gotten Very Boring
In the wake of the Facebook IPO, something funny has happened to the world of startups. Suddenly, startups feel very boring. VCs and entrepreneurs say they feel it too. "I do feel a bit like that,...
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! Here's the news: Facebook has made a long-overdue update to its iPad and iPhone apps. It ditched HTML5 and the apps now run twice as fast as before. Facebook is also eyeing its weak...
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The Most Exciting Startup Of 2013 Will Never Be
Yesterday we wrote that startups have become very boring, particularly in the consumer space. There are a number of reasons why we feel that way. For starters, we just came out of a very exciting time...
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5 Tech CEOs Who Have Lost A Fortune In The Past Year
You know what’s cooler than a million dollars? A billion dollars… said these five tech CEOs right before they no longer had a billion dollars. Launching a hot internet startup, taking it public and...
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This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations
Why has the billion dollar valuation become trivialized in startup investing? What started Facebook down a path where it would it reach a $150 billion valuation on secondary markets before going...
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The Only 10 Slides You'll Ever Need To Pitch Investors
As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on...
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$750 Million Enterprise Startup GitHub Has Wild Offices Full Of Bikes, Booze,...
Social-coding startup GitHub's San Francisco headquarters looks less like an office and more like your favorite hangout bar. That may be because the company got its start at Zeke's, a San Francisco...
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What It Feels Like To Be Absolutely Loaded By Age 25
Everyone dreams of retiring by age 25. But what does it feel like to make more money in your mid-20s than most people make in a lifetime? Someone recently asked this question on Quora. An early...
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7 Clever Ways New Startups Can Cut Back On Operating Costs
You don't win in business by wasting money. Even the most successful entrepreneurs pinched pennies in the early days—and many still do. Here, several multimillionaires share their best cost-cutting...
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A VC Who's Been An Investor For 11 Years Says Startup Pitches Have Never Been...
Bryce Roberts, the cofounder of O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, says startup pitches have never been worse than they are right now. "In all of my 11 years as a VC, I'd argue we're at the low watermark...
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Meet Light Table: A Startup That Will Literally Change The Way App...
Light Table, a new startup that came out of a crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign, is an application that can already shorten the process of developing an app by more than 20 percent. But that's just...
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North Bridge VC: Other VCs Are Suddenly Throwing Millions At My Enterprise...
Startups working in "very un-hot" areas have become super sexy targets for VC funding, North Bridge partner Jamie Goldstein told Business Insider. VCs are "calling my companies and asking, 'What can...
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ONE YEAR LATER: After A Tweak, Twitch.tv Is Now One Of Silicon Valley's...
Just a little more than a year ago, Justin.tv co-founders Emmett Shear and Justin Kan were kicking around an idea: building a website specifically around streaming video game matches. Fast forward one...
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Even Though The Hype Has Died Down, Pinterest's Traffic Is Still Exploding
When startups receive press, it's usually evident in their traffic numbers. There's a spike, and then a sharp drop off after. In some cases, startups are only hype and no substance. When the press is...
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15 Of The Sharpest Up-And-Coming CEOs In Silicon Valley
We just spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, asking around to find out who the top new CEOs are in technology. What follows is a round of the executives of the companies that people are most excited...
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INSTANT MBA: It Takes A Certain Kind Of Employee To Handle The Ever-Changing...
Today's advice comes from our interview with Gene Wade, founder and CEO of UniversityNow: "It takes a certain kind of person to be able to handle pushing for something one day, and pushing against it...
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