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If you text this phone number, a guy named Stefan will send you...
Attention shoppers: An app called Stefan is here to send you clothing discounts, but only if you send a text to this phone number: 646-759-0904.Once you send a text, Stefan will let you know when...
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The simple reason one startup farm chose only female founders for its next class
Blackbox, an intensive mentorship program for international startups, is trying something new: It chose only female-led companies for its next 18-startup, Google-sponsored, two-week residential course...
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Swipe-to-buy app Spring raises $25 million to become the first big mobile...
Spring, an eight-month-old shopping app that partners with hundreds of brands, has raised a $25 million Series B round to become the first big mobile shopping mall. It's also launching on Android...
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The highly-selective startup school that's teaching Victoria's Secret model...
The Flatiron School, a New York-based programming school for adults and high schoolers, has raised a $9 million round of funding led by Thrive Capital with participation from CRV and Matrix. The...
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This UK government-funded organisation could have given out 200 visas to tech...
A UK government organisation tasked with helping London tech startups to grow only managed to grant a handful of specialist visas to talented foreign tech workers, Techworld reports.Tech City UK was...
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Oscar, a fast-growing startup that wants to shake up healthcare, just raised...
Oscar, a new health insurance company, has closed a $145 million round of financing.A source close to the company says the new round brings Oscar's valuation to $1.5 billion, making it the latest tech...
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UK taxpayers gave this supermodel £200,000 for her startup — now she's using...
In 2013, former supermodel Lily Cole received £200,000 in funding from taxpayer-funded government grants for her tech startup Impossible, a website where people "share skills, services and resources...
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Just because it's worth $1 billion doesn't mean it's a unicorn, says VC who...
Brad Feld, the founder of both tech incubator Techstars and Boulder-based VC firm Foundry Group, has a message for Silicon Valley.In a tweetstorm Monday, Feld warned that just because a company is...
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What it's like to leave Google for a startup — as told by three people who...
Working at Google may sound like a dream job for most engineers, software developers, designers, and business executives. But the truth is that tons of employees leave the company to pursue their own...
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Shyp, a startup that wants to kill the post office, just raised $50 million
Shipping packages is a huge headache. So in March 2014, Shyp launched to make the process as easy as taking a picture of what you want to mail, pressing a single button to summon a delivery person, and...
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Inside the office of London design company MOO, which prints some of the...
London-based company MOO lets customers design business cards and other products online. MOO might not necessarily sound like a tech company, but it's using the digital space to enhance the business of...
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Every day, 7 million people check out a nostalgia app run by 19 people
If you've spent any time on social media recently, you may have noticed your friends resurfacing old memories, Facebook statuses, and Instagram pictures using an app called Timehop.Timehop works by...
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Shots, a Justin Bieber-backed selfie app, just raised $8.5 million
Shots, a Justin Bieber-endorsed app that lets users share selfies, has raised $8.5 million in funding from WI Harper Group, Launch Fund, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups, and Rodney Jerkins.Bieber led...
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London food delivery startup Deliveroo is expanding to Paris and Berlin
Deliveroo, the London company that lets restaurants start offering takeaway delivery, is expanding its service outside of the UK and into Paris and Berlin.The company gives restaurants a tablet and...
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REPORT: Europe could be about to crack down on internet companies with the...
The EU is considering setting up a new regulator tasked with overseeing internet companies in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reports.Multiple companies are named as potential subjects for...
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The LinkedIn hack that turned a penny into $100,000
Today, Jack Smith may be best known as a former advisor to Shyp, a successful packaging- and mailing-on-demand startup that just raised a sizable $50 million. But back in 2011, he was the cofounder of...
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Startup founders describe how they got through the hardest part
If you want to get a tech company off the ground, there are no hacks, no shortcuts, and no substitutes for hard work and scrappiness.That was the message, time and time again, at today's second annual...
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Inside the office of London design company MOO, which prints some of the...
London-based company MOO lets customers design business cards and other products online. MOO might not necessarily sound like a tech company, but it's using the digital space to enhance the business of...
View ArticleThe 50 coolest people in UK tech
There's a celebrated cluster of technology companies in east London, known as Tech City. It is all centered around the Old Street roundabout, giving name to the government's "Silicon Roundabout"...
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Here's the hard lesson people who raise money for hardware on Kickstarter...
Just because you have a prototype, you don't have a product. Trust Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits, who knows the challenges that it takes to to go from idea to mass market product....
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