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Two Harvard students were sick of their dirty apartments, so they built a...
Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck met at Harvard Business School, fresh out of stints in the finance world."I was working really long hours and coming back to an apartment that was a total mess," Sapone...
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Art schools have minted more mega-unicorn startups than MIT
Last weekend a new class of Stanford graduates received their diplomas, and it’s a safe bet that some who just earned undergraduate degrees will soon be at the helm of startups with “unicorn”...
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Germany's most popular paid app is a secure messenger loved by millions — now...
Threema, a secure messaging service that has grown to become one of the most popular apps in Germany, is officially launching in the US.Created in 2012, Threema prides itself on its end-to-end...
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This startup just raised the biggest Series A round in UK fintech so far
Chinese technology company Beijing Kunlun just invested £22 million ($34.2 million) in peer-to-peer mortgage lender LendInvest in the biggest Series A round so far in British fintech. LendInvest's...
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Here's why the term 'unicorn' is ripping the soul out of entrepreneurship
Great entrepreneurs do not try to create unicorns. They try to solve a nagging problem or turn an industry upside down to improve it.When we overuse a special object we admire, it becomes trite. Worse,...
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The French company that makes £1,390 high-end speakers just raised $20...
Devialet, the high-end audio hardware company from France, has raised $20 million (£12.6 million) in new funding and will use the money to bring its fancy spherical speakers to the US, Forbes...
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13 of the weirdest interview questions you'll hear in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is no stranger to weird behavior.So it comes as no surprise that the home of numerous tech giants would produce some of the strangest interview questions out there.To find these odd...
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Cleaners say WeWork threatened to fire them for unionizing
Cleaners working at WeWork's New York locations say the co-working space startup threatened to fire them if they unionized, BuzzFeed reports.A branch of the Service Employees International Union,...
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13 interesting startups founded by ex-Amazon employees (AMZN)
The e-commerce powerhouse Amazon has spawned a wide range of startups, with its former employees working on everything from cute robots to recruiting software. If you want proof that Amazon recruits...
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This startup is getting frat guys across America to wear short shorts — and...
Men's short-shorts may seem like an unlikely product for an ecommerce startup.But for Chubbies cofounders Kyle Hency, Rainer Castillo, Preston Rutherford, and Tom Montgomery, it was the most natural...
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The 9 worst things about working at a startup no one tells you before you join
Working at a startup and taking it to the next level can be a rewarding job.With some luck, you might even be able to build the next Facebook or Google.But startups are hard — and it could be a brutal...
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There is no bubble because 'it's different this time'
Benedict Evans, the respected tech analyst at the big Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, just published a fascinating dissection of the current state of tech investing which...
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This tech CEO doesn't just want to interview you — he also wants to meet your...
In the typical interview process, you have an initial meeting. You may have a second meeting, and maybe a third. You talk the decision over with your family, but those conversations happen behind...
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Google hired this 'brilliant' kid at 18 — now his startup serves more than...
Not a lot of people get to work at Google, much less before entering college.But for Larry Gadea, founder of visitor-registration software Envoy, a job at Google just kind of came naturally right after...
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CrossCut Ventures raises $75 million for its third fund
CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based, early-stage venture capital firm, has closed its $75 million third fund.Now, CrossCut Ventures is one of the largest seed-stage funds in Los Angeles, a city...
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In this frantic tech climate, you should do less
We are experiencing a frenetic time. I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm...
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It's basically impossible to stain this white button-down shirt
Staining a new shirt the first time you wear it can ruin your whole day. One startup, Dropel Fabrics, wants to eliminate that feeling forever. Using nanotechnology, the company has created a completely...
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A startup that delivers fluffy mattresses in boxes the size of golf bags just...
Buying a new mattress is often an expensive, annoying experience.Casper, a New York-based mattress startup, wants to make buying a new bed as easy as possible.Instead of strapping a new, pricey...
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Palantir is reportedly raising $500 million at a $20 billion valuation,...
Palantir is raising $500 million at a valuation of $20 billion, according to a report by Buzzfeed on Tuesday.The new funding would make the secretive data analytics company the third highest-valued...
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The 11 hottest startups in Italy
Italy isn't traditionally thought of as part of Europe's tech cluster, but it has a growing collection of startups creating products and services that are used around the world.Here's a list of some of...
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