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This Brilliant Little Gadget Could Stop Your Office Job From Killing You
Years of working at a sedentary office job with long hours and stressful deadlines can take a pretty significant toll on your body.Sitting for more than eight hours per day, for example, can put you at...
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21 Books That Every Entrepreneur Should Read
You are what you read, and if your goal is to build a massively successful company where you call the shots, you might want to start with the following books.We asked wildly successful entrepreneurs...
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After Selling A Company To Yahoo For Millions, Michael Katz Is Building A...
Michael Katz is the CEO of mParticle, which helps app developers make use of analytics and data. It's backed by some impressive and varied investors — Google Ventures and Nas, the rapper.Before...
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Upfront Ventures Raises Massive New $280 Million Fund
Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures has announced the closing of a new $280 million fund, Upfront V. It’s the largest early-stage fund raised in Los Angeles since the year 2000.The new fund will focus...
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Peter Thiel's Fund Eyes A Major Investment In A $425 Million Marijuana...
Earlier this year, Peter Thiel caused a stir when he accused Twitter's management of being high on pot. He later backed away from his comments, saying, "You could smoke a lot of pot and still have a...
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The Best Startup Offices We Saw This Year
Perks like free food and unlimited soda are great, but nothing compares to working in a great office. We toured tons of startup offices this year from New York to San Francisco to Seattle. Here are the...
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Airbnb Has Built The Most Luxurious Call Center You've Ever Seen
Airbnb is opening its first standalone call center in Portland, Oregon. But it’s a far cry from the grid of cubicles you’d expect.Rather than windowless work stations where employees read off...
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163 Ways To Win At Life In Your 20s, According To A 30-Year-Old Who Sold A...
John Brennan just turned 30. During his 20s, he founded and sold a startup, BuzzTable, to Sysco Foods for an undisclosed sum, likely a few million dollars.As Brennan described it to Business Insider in...
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A Notorious Burglar Who Targeted Silicon Valley Startups Has Been Found Using...
A notorious burglar who targets Silicon Valley startups has been found — using Tinder.The cofounders of a startup called BuildZoom created a Tinder profile for the female intruder after recording...
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Hampton Creek Raises $90 Million To Take On Asia And Destroy Big Mayo
Hampton Creek, a startup that wants to make eggs obsolete, has raised $90 million in Series C funding.This comes only a few months after its last raise, which was a $23 million Series B funding....
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A Bunch Of Venture Capitalists Dance Around To Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'...
First Round Capital is the undisputed king of holiday videos.The seed-stage venture firm’s videos have become an annual tradition. Past years have included portfolio companies dancing in unicorn heads,...
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1-Year-Old Startup Bustle Hits 20 Million Uniques And Raises $15.5 Million:...
Bryan Goldberg and Kate Ward's one-year-old publication for women, Bustle, now has 20 million monthly readers and it just raised a $15.5 million round of financing led by General Catalyst...
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These Are The 14 Startups You Should Watch In 2015
There were a bunch of hot new startups that launched this year. But what's going to be huge next year?We're identified 14 startups we think are going to make it big in 2015. Some are trying to...
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Investors Are 'Fighting Like Drunken Sailors' Over Hot Startups And Letting...
Venture Capitalists used to invest in startups so founders could build businesses. And if those businesses became successful, then the founders would make fortunes.In frothy times, however, that order...
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Inside The Cooking-Inspired Offices Of Kitchensurfing, A Startup That...
Kitchensurfing, a startup that helps people bring professional chefs to their dinner parties, has moved into bright new offices in New York City.The office is beautiful, with lots of reclaimed wood and...
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If The US Doesn't Fix This Problem Right Now, 'It Could Be Seriously F---ed,'...
Y Combinator co-founder and Dropbox investor Paul Graham estimates that 95% of the world's top engineers live outside the United States.But immigration laws are strict, even for brilliant engineers who...
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London Startups Raised Twice As Much Money In 2014 As They Did In 2013
London startups are raising significantly more venture capital, with a new study claiming that money raised in 2014 is double the figure from 2013. The Financial Times reports that London startups...
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Instacart, A Startup That Does Your Grocery Shopping For You, Is Now Worth $2...
Instacart, a startup that provides groceries with same-day delivery for a slightly higher price per food item, has raised $220 million at a ~$2 billion valuation, Re/code's Jason Del Rey...
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Why An Ex-Microsoft Exec Chose Google Apps Over Microsoft's Office 365 For...
Last month, Rahul Sood, the guy that launched Microsoft's investment arm Microsoft Ventures, left the company to launch a new stealth gaming startup called Unikrn.He had been at Microsoft since 2011...
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Here Are The Tech Founders Named By The Queen In Her New Year's Honours List
The Queen's New Year's Honours List was released last night, which recognises over 1,000 people who have performed extraordinary service in 2014. Among the actors like John Hurt and James Corden, there...
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