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This area of startup investing has fallen off a cliff
Startup funding has definitely cooled off, but there's a lot of debate about how dire the slowdown is.Some startups with good numbers are still having no problem getting funded, and there's a lot of...
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS: 13 startups explain why they failed
You may not know it from the headlines, but most startups fail.Some go out in dramatic implosions that leave people without jobs overnight. Some just face a slow decline until they stop.The reasons...
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Some Deliveroo drivers are claiming that they're going to be paid less than...
Drivers that deliver food for Deliveroo are concerned that their new contracts will result in them being paid less than £7.20 an hour, which is lower than the minimum wage for people over the age of...
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Go inside the beautiful home of a former Goldman Sachs...
Reham Fagiri knows from experience how annoying it can be to sell your used furniture when you're moving. That's why she, along with co-founder Kalam Dennis, started AptDeco, a New York City-based...
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The 'Uber for private jets' startup backed by an Uber cofounder is shutting down
BlackJet, an on-demand private-jet service that promised to do for air travel what Uber did for cars, is ceasing operations.The writing has been on the wall for BlackJet for a while, despite the...
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This man says a Google mistake completely destroyed his business (GOOG)
What Google gives it can take away. Startup founder Matt Haughey learned the strength of the search engine's power the hard way.He created the community blog MetaFilter in the late 1990s, grew it into...
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Why this startup bubble won't pop like the last
When many people hear that the tech bubble is going to burst, they harken back to 2000 or 2008 when the floor fell out of the tech industry."Other than the fact that they are cycles of eight, the three...
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Dropbox cut a bunch of perks and told employees to save more as Silicon...
When Dropbox employees walked into their new office on Brannan Street last month, they were dazzled by something they hadn’t seen before — a gleaming, 5-foot-tall panda statue made of chrome.The statue...
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15 successful startup founders who can also claim the title of 'Mom'
If you think every startup founder has to be a college dropout like Mark Zuckerberg, you'd be wrong. A new generation of startup entrepreneurs are working hard to solve problems — while working just as...
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Silicon Valley veteran Keith Rabois: The easy money isn't gone, but the price...
Keith Rabois has lived through several boom-bust cycles in Silicon Valley. He began his career as an executive at PayPal, which went public in February 2002 as the dot-com bubble was deflating, and was...
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25 books every entrepreneur should read
You are what you read, and if your goal is to build a massively successful company where you call the shots, you might want to start with the following books.We spoke with wildly successful...
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A hot lingerie startup is drawing more fire for shady billing practices
Lingerie startup Adore Me's subscription model is coming under fire once again.Adore Me was, for a time, a media darling. It was challenging Victoria's Secret's position in the lingerie industry, and...
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There could be problems for a bunch of companies trying to be the 'Uber for gas'
Several startups built around the dream of never having to visit a gas station again have popped up in a handful of cities across the country. After Bloomberg spoke with some of the fire departments in...
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Bonobos just quietly changed one of the biggest things that set it apart
When Bonobos hit the e-commerce scene in 2007, it made quite a splash by doing two things a bit differently: pants and returns.The brand's pants are just as popular as ever. The startup's return...
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A San Francisco startup campus that housed Uber when it had 8 staff is coming...
A San Francisco startup campus that housed companies like Uber and Spotify in their early days is expanding to London.RocketSpace, as the office space provider is known, announced on Tuesday that it...
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We talked to the father-and-son VC team who are launching a new fund to back...
Saul and Robin Klein are a father and son team who have invested in some of Europe's biggest technology startups. Between them they have backed TransferWise, Citymapper, TweetDeck, Graze, Zoopla,...
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What it's like to have Mark Cuban invest in your startup
This post by John Dick, CEO of CivicScience, appeared originally on Quora as an answer to the question "What is it like to have Mark Cuban as an investor in your startup?"Mark got involved in our...
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Shasta Ventures partner on the 'brain damage' that happens when a startup's...
Nihkil Basu Trivedi got his start as an entrepreneur early: in 2009, during his sophomore year at Princeton, he founded a startup called Artsy that helps art collectors find contemporary works. Artsy...
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This startup has built a community of about 50 million monthly users where...
One of the things Michal Borkowski is most proud of is that his startup, Brainly, has created a place on the internet where being smart is cool.Brainly is a bit like Quora for students, a social...
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Billionaire VC Tim Draper wants 9 months and $40,000 to turn you into the...
If you are between 18 and 28, famous billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper has a plan to turn you into the "next Steve Jobs."That's why he launched a school for young, would-be entrepreneurs called...
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