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Teens are going crazy for YouNow, a livestreaming app with 100 million...
Every Tuesday, Vanessa and Veronica Merrell spend an hour livestreaming themselves singing covers of their favorite songs or playing charades. But the 18-year-old sisters aren't doing this on Periscope...
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Warby Parker just raised $100 million at a $1.2 billion valuation
Warby Parker has raised $100 million to help it expand its brick-and-mortar outlets, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.This follows previous reports last month that the eyewear company was...
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Why Salesforce getting bought could hurt startups
Rumors swirled yesterday that Salesforce, the $40B SaaS behemoth, had been approached by an acquirer. Dan Primack speculated this morning that Oracle and Microsoft are the likely candidates. If...
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This new startup wants to make you the laziest person ever and have someone...
Dufl, a startup that launched Thursday, aims to eliminate the pain of packing by removing the traveler from the equation almost entirely.Here's how it works:Download the Dufl app and sign up. After you...
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Spotify reportedly just raised $350 million
Spotify has raised $350 million, sources tell CNBC. Goldman Sachs participated in the new funding.Previously, Spotify has raised $537.8 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Fidelity...
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Meet the man responsible for Google's billion-dollar acquisitions
Over the years, Google has acquired more than 180 different companies. On its top ten acquisitions alone, it has spent more than $24.5 billion dollars. That's a lot of money, but Google has learned how...
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Fred Wilson: Here's why companies like Airbnb should share their data with...
Legendary venture capitalists Ron Conway and Fred Wilson kicked off TechCrunch Disrupt NY on Monday morning.In a talk moderated by TechCrunch's Kim-Mai Cutler, the two venture capitalists talked about...
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Google, VMware, and Red Hat just joined together to kneecap red-hot startup...
It's so predictable, you can set your watch by it. First, a company releases a product so popular that it changes the industry (like the iPhone). Then, there's a backlash, which results in a competing...
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Google executive: Here's when I realized Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was good...
Bill Maris, a managing partner and the president of Google's investment fund Google Ventures, has backed a number of companies, ranging from science and oncology startups like Flatiron Health to more...
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Andreessen Horowitz VC Chris Dixon: In the next few years, we'll see 10...
Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, is optimistic about New York's tech scene.Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Tuesday, Dixon predicted that 10 Silicon Alley companies will be...
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Soon, a 1-person startup will be worth $1 billion
@balajis@ndintenfass I am ready for the zero employee $1B startup — Roy Bahat (@roybahat) September 14, 2014Maybe I was a bit overzealous, suggesting a company could reach $1B in value without any...
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One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form...
Stripe's fourth employee, CTO Greg Brockman, announced today that he will be leaving the payments processor Friday.Stripe is one of San Francisco's hottest startups, with a valuation of $3.5 billion as...
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ClassPass, a startup that gym rats and investors love, is now a $400 million...
ClassPass is a monthly membership program that lets users pay a flat fee to take fitness classes at different gyms and studios. It's wildly popular in cities across the country, including New York...
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Valuation as a scorecard
When you set out to build a great company, it’s hard to know how you are doing along the way. There does come a time when you know you’ve done it. Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Salesforce, Tesla,...
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Robinhood, an app backed by Snoop Dogg and Marc Andreessen that lets you buy...
Inspired by the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement, Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt founded a no-fee trading app called Robinhood. They wanted to "democratize access to the financial markets."Robinhood...
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Former Michael's exec raises $3.6 million to create a mega online arts and...
After selling his digital scrapbooking company ScrapHD to Michael's in 2010, Ross Petersen moved from his hometown of Chicago to Dallas to work for the huge arts and crafts company.But two years into...
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Highly selective dating app The League launches in New York, and only 2,500...
The League, a dating app that launched in San Francisco in January, is now available in New York City — but not everyone can download and use it.Founded by Stanford graduate Amanda Bradford, The League...
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How to join The League, a Tinder for elites, and who you'll find on it
The League— a selective dating app for elite, successful individuals — launched in San Francisco earlier this year, and it just launched in New York City.Stanford graduate Amanda Bradford founded The...
View ArticleWhy the recent failure of Secret wasn't the founders' fault
First, I tweeted some wrong numbers and it got Grubered. I’d edit them, but can’t. Thanks, Twitter.Now that that’s out of the way, some quick thoughts…1) The Secret founders built an amazing app. They...
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A startup CEO shares important lessons learned from shutting down his company
The vision for Wattage was a future where anyone could manipulate matter.Where we needn’t settle for the generic, mass-produced things that currently line store shelves. A future where we can easily...
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