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There's a big shift going on in startups, and this company just got caught in...
The walls are closing in on the on-demand economy, and another startup has decided to bow out this week.Zen99, which offered tax help and other services for contractors like Uber drivers, announced...
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These startups are out to replace the Wall Street establishment (gs, jpm)
Some startups are out to find their place on Wall Street alongside the traditional players. And some are out to replace the establishment altogether. Big banks have long depended on antiquated and...
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The startup scene in Israel is going bonkers, and the Chinese are swooping in
This summer, it’s raining unicorns — tech startups valued at more than $1 billion — and as a result the Israeli tech scene is going absolutely crazy.Business Insider just spent a week in Israel meeting...
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Why startups should never let any of their salespeople leave
There’s a common thinking that sales teams should be relatively high churn. That the bottom 15-20% of the sales team almost has to churn each year, because it’s survival of the fittest. Reps have to...
View ArticleWatch 28 startups sing an epic Silicon Valley remake of 'Let It Go'
Why "Let it Go" when you want to let your company grow? After three hours of pitches on Tuesday, the 28 startups from Batch 13 of Silicon Valley accelerator 500 Startups took the stage in a singalong...
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Zirtual employees: Benefits were left unpaid and most of us aren't going back
Zirtual may have been saved by an acquisition, but its 400 or so former employees are still left picking up the pieces.The virtual assistant company dissolved overnight on Monday and fired its entire...
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Hong Kong is turning into a huge market for the sharing economy
Private car-hire app Uber is fighting back against allegations of operating an illegal business in Hong Kong as it struggles to meet rising demand for its services in the city following the arrest of...
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Waze cofounder sold his startup to Google for over $1 billion, but he still...
Uri Levine will flat-out tell you that the co-founders of Waze didn't own much of the company when they sold it to Google for more than $1 billion in 2013.Most of the money went to the investors, he...
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This tiny startup is leading community banks into battle with Wall Street's...
A finance startup co-founded by one of Google's first engineers is helping small community banks and credit unions take on the biggest names on Wall Street. Roostify is a Burlingame, California-based...
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A startup Glambot is generating $1 million by selling used makeup
Buying a pre-owned shirt from a thrift shop or a lamp from an antique store is common. Even fashionable.But used makeup? There's still a huge gross factor, and Karen Horiuchi is making it her mission...
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Google backed the only startup accelerator in the Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip has a single tech startup accelerator.Thanks to a one-time $900,000 (about £576,000) grant from Google, US charity Mercy Corps was able to set up Gaza Sky Geeks in 2011. It started out...
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How one CEO went from a teenage runaway living in an Indian slum to founding...
Ambarish Mitra was living in Munirka, a slum in the southwest corner of Delhi. He had been there for seven months when he spotted an ad in the newspaper for an "e-business" competition — what they were...
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How the makers of Facetune raked in ~ $18 million in 2 years and caught...
Lightricks makes a popular smartphone photo-editing app, Facetune, that's a perpetual member on the App Store's best-selling apps list.And that's no accident. Lightricks was founded in Israel in 2013...
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Here's why this CEO of a San Francisco startup fired everyone, including himself
Sometimes the best way to fix an issue is to start afresh.That’s what the Australian founder and CEO of StartupHouse Elias Bizannes decided when he fired himself and all four full-time employees at the...
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JPMorgan is hiring data scientists to spy on employee email (JPM, gs)
JPMorgan is about to start analyzing employees' communications.The giant bank has recently posted job adverts for data scientists that will "be responsible for the overall development of data models...
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This startup is building a Keurig for fresh herbs
Keurig sparked a revolution when coffee lovers discovered the ease of plopping in a cartridge and getting a cup of joe a few minutes later.A new startup, Click and Grow, now wants to bring the coffee...
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The 'Startup Therapist' will see you now — though it won't be cheap
The first question Jeff Hyman asks his clients is always, “What keeps you up at night?” These clients are startup founders, many of whom feel isolated by their position at the head of a company, and...
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Silicon Valley's top startup factory has a clever way to make sure investors...
In Silicon Valley, a handshake deal can make or break a startup. Things move too fast, so investments and companies can fall apart if the funding doesn't come through.It's especially hard when...
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The 17 best startups to work for in America
Many people crave the energetic environment found in startup culture.But the opportunity to be valued and feel like you are building something from the ground up can be tempered by long work hours and...
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The head of Silicon Valley's most intense startup factory shares how founders...
Sam Altman, the head of Silicon Valley's prestigious Y Combinator startup accelerator program, shared in a blog entry some hard truths about the 75% failure rate of the startups that it mentors:A lot...
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