17 Startup Darlings That Dropped Off The Map This Year
Building a successful startup is hard. It’s why, on average, nine out of 10 seed-stage startups fail. Here are some of the previously hot startups that fell off the map this year.AereoAereo was built...
View ArticleResearchers 'Averaged' The Faces Of 400 CEOs — Here's The Prototypical...
Startups are thought to be young, fun, and sexy compared to the rest of the business world, helmed by hip executives with faces fit to grace the cover of a magazine. So what would happen if you...
View ArticleThis Apple Alum Wants To Make Sharing A Lifetime's Worth Of Photos Dead Simple
Tim Bucher — a serial entrepreneur who has also worked directly with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell — thinks we need a better way to manage and share our massive, unruly collections of...
View ArticleIn London You Can Now Rent 'Well-Connected Partygoers' To Get You Into The...
A new startup that connects would-be clubbers with nightlife aficionados is launching in London on Thursday, Dec. 18. The platform, called Zoola Fix, allows users to book "savvy and well-connected...
View ArticleIn London You Can Now Rent 'Well-Connected Partygoers' To Get You Into The...
A new startup that connects would-be clubbers with nightlife aficionados is launching in London on Thursday, Dec. 18. The platform, called Zoola Fix, allows users to book "savvy and well-connected...
View ArticleThis Is The Definitive Definition Of A Startup
What is a startup?The dictionary defines it as "the action or process of setting something in motion."Okay. That's not very clear.So is Uber, which has a $40 billion valuation but is only five years...
View ArticleAfter Trying $2 Billion Grocery Startup Instacart, I'd Rather Just Go To The...
Earlier this week, Re/code reported that Instacart, a startup that delivers groceries on demand, had raised $220 million at a nearly $2 billion valuation. Instacart hires shoppers to buy groceries at...
View ArticleHow Cold Emails Led This 29-Year-Old To Get Funded By Mark Cuban And Google
When Ilya Semin, the 29-year-old CEO of Datanyze, wanted to first test his product in 2012, he turned to one of the oldest marketing tactics: cold emailing.He found the email addresses of a few dozen...
View ArticleThese Big Startup Names Are Poised To Go Public This Year
The year 2014 was the biggest yet for initial public offerings since 2000. And expectations are that the pace for these exits will continue well into 2015.As the latest economic report shows, we're...
View Article2015 Will Be The Year Of The Tiny Tech Acquisition
2014 has marked one of the most active years in tech M&A history, largely caused by the strong public markets and cash-rich tech majors. The only more active year was during the tech boom of 2000....
View ArticleAll These Hacker Side Projects Earn Their Creators $1,000+ Per Month With...
The Internet is awash with get-rich-quick schemes, which promise vast returns with almost no effort. Most are bogus, but some really do pan out, according to a thread on discussion board Hacker...
View ArticleHow A Food Photographer Used Her Instagram Skills To Help Launch A Startup
When Ryan Waliany and his wife Serena Wu were working on the launch of their new recipe app, Kitchenbowl, they knew taking a visual approach would be the key to their success. Kitchenbowl, which allows...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Use Instacart, The Grocery-Delivery Startup That Just...
Instacart, a startup that delivers groceries on demand, has raised $220 million at a nearly $2 billion valuation in a Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins. Instacart hires shoppers to buy groceries at...
View ArticleWe Visited Groove, A Club For Uber And Lyft Drivers
On Monday I took an Uber to a club for Uber drivers.Groove, which runs a clubhouse aimed at every kind of on-demand driver, is in San Francisco's SoMa StreetFood Park.Groove is a tenant of the food...
View ArticleThis Company's System Would Allow Police Departments To Track And Monitor...
A California-based company is looking to provide police departments with the ability to know when and where an officer fires a shot or even unholsters a firearm the moment it happens.Yardarm...
View ArticleI Tried The App That Will Send Somebody To Do Your Laundry For You
Laundry is a time-consuming chore I'd rather not think about.That's why I was eager to try out Washio, an 0n-demand laundry startup with door-to-door service. I tried something like Washio in college....
View ArticleThis Startup Just Raised Over $65 Million To Make Your Next Home Improvement...
Porch, a Seattle-based home improvement startup, just raised more than $65 million to get your next home improvement project finished as painlessly as possible.Founded in 2012, Porch has raised $100...
View Article11 Startups That Will Let You Enjoy A Life Of Leisure
On-demand startups have allowed us to become incredibly lazy.These days, there's no reason to leave your house unless you really want to.We've compiled a master list of on-demand services that will...
View ArticleDojo, The App London's Young Bankers Use To Find The Coolest Venues, Just...
If you haven't heard of Dojo, you need to get out more. The app will help you do so: Plug in your needs and it finds exclusive, new, and underground leisure spots in London that attract young crowds....
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