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One of Facebook's first 10 employees initially rejected the job offer, which...

Kevin Colleran was one of Facebook's first 10 employees. But when Sean Parker offered him the job as Facebook's first ad salesman in 2004, Colleran turned him down.Colleran graduated from Babson...

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Secretive bitcoin startup 21 finally unveils its plans to mine bitcoin using...

The super-secretive bitcoin startup 21 finally has a product plan to announce, and it may change your phone forever.21 announced today that it is working on an embeddable chip for your phone or other...

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This £50 million plan to build an office right on top of Old Street...

A local councillor has said a multi-million-pound plan to build a giant office in the centre of London's Old Street roundabout never got off the ground because it was impossible from an engineering...

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These are the 13 hottest startups that have launched so far this year

So far, 2015 has been a great year for consumer tech. So we decided to take a look at the best startups that have launched so far this year.To determine the best startups, we took into account factors...

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Some gym owners have grown wary of $400 million startup ClassPass: 'It’s the...

ClassPass is one of the hottest startups in the world right now. The New York company is less than two years old and it's worth about $400 million, according to CEO Payal Kadakia. ClassPass sells a...

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People in pink blazers and blue jackets were begging to park my car for me today

Today, I drove into downtown San Francisco for a work event and took advantage of the on-demand valet service offered there.All of a sudden, I felt like I was in the middle of a war — to park my...

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When this startup found itself with $10 in the bank, it tricked its...

Caviar CEO Jason Wang can laugh about having $10 in the bank now, but during his food delivery startup's bootstrapping days, it was a day-to-day call whether the company he co-founded was going to make...

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It looks like Stripe is raising a really big funding round

Stripe is is rumoured to be in talks to raise a new funding round that could see the payments firm reach a valuation of $5 billion (£3.2 billion). There is no single consensus on how much Stripe is...

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Here's the next key challenge for Stripe, the hot payment startup whose...

Payments company Stripe is Silicon Valley's latest startup success story: The company is in discussions to raise a new round of venture funding that would value it at $5 billion, according to a Re/code...

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What Google looks for in entrepreneurs when it's thinking about acquiring a...

Time Magazine recently wrote that Google has "perfected" the Silicon Valley acquisition, in part because it has become so good at retaining talent.Time found that two-thirds of the 221 startup founders...

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Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley, just raised $23 million for...

Brit Media, best known for its lifestyle site Brit + Co., has raised $23 million, according to a form filed Thursday with the SEC. A spokesperson for founder and CEO Brit Morin confirmed the round with...

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The 17 hottest tech startups in Germany

Germany's thriving startup scene is one of the most unique in Europe.The capital Berlin is home to a mixture of hackers, privacy experts, scientists, and video companies that are making waves in the...

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McDonald's should do whatever it takes to acquire this New York City-based...

I'm a 33-year old who has been an investor in McDonald’s for more than 20 years.A few years after I bought McDonald's stock, the company became a major investor in a little-known Colorado burrito chain...

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How a 17-year-old high school dropout got two Silicon Valley bigshots to...

Jason Marmon just turned 18 a few days ago. That's a real milestone in anyone's life. But his 17th year was so spectacular, it's going to be hard to beat.When he was 17, he dropped out of high-school...

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The 17 hottest tech startups in Germany

Germany's thriving startup scene is one of the most unique in Europe.The capital Berlin is home to a mixture of hackers, privacy experts, scientists, and video companies that are making waves in the...

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These dot-com startups look just like some of today's hottest tech companies...

The tech bubble of the late '90s produced a number of flash-in-the-pan internet companies that raised millions — often in public offerings — only to flame out a year or two later.There are surprising...

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The reason Disney CEO Bob Iger loves working with startups

The Walt Disney Company is all about the future. Back in 1937, Disney released the first-ever animated feature film: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. In 1995, Disney-Pixar released Toy Story, the...

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Oculus acquired a UK startup to help it transform physical spaces into...

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has acquired a company that scans real-world environments and turns them into interactive virtual reality spaces, The Verge reports.Surreal Vision is a UK...

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A controversial new startup promises to literally take the trash out for you

Hate taking the garbage to the curb? Apparently, and assuming this isn't some kind of joke, there's an app for that. TrashDay, a service that says it's launching soon in San Francisco, promsises to...

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Check out all these Silicon Valley startups obsessed with replacing their moms

Original article here. Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: We did the math: Is Uber really cheaper than a taxi?

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