August 31, 2015
Eatsa, A Futuristic Restaurant Where Robot Cubbies Serve Quinoa
Eatsa has no lines because it has no cashiers. You order on an iPad, your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box, and you pull out…
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August 31, 2015
The Best Times To Get A Grip On Your Startup’s IP
What’s a tech startup’s most valuable asset? It’s not the seed money. It’s not the workspace. And it’s definitely not the espresso machine or Ping Pong table. The…
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Wiselike, The Q&A Platform For Professionals, Picks Up $1.25M In Seed Funding
There is no shortage of Q&A platforms on the web. But today, a new startup with fresh funding is looking to repurpose the Q&A format into something more…
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With Recently, Receive A Monthly Printed Magazine With Your Camera Roll
Many, many startups let you send postcards and print photo albums from your phone, but this startup is different. Recently is a subscription service to receive a monthly…
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Cheap Airfare Finder Hopper Hits Android, Now Books Tickets With Just A Few Taps
Hopper, a travel application launched earlier this year with the goal of helping you pay less for airfare by telling you the best time to buy tickets, is…
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AOL Acquires Photo And Messaging Startup Kanvas Labs
AOL is announcing another acquisition — Kanvas Labs, maker of mobile social apps. An AOL spokesperson told me that the company will continue to offer the existing Kanvas Labs products.…
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Giffiti Jazzes Up Photos With GIFs
In the ever-escalating social media arms race, GIFs are the best way to get attention. Static photos are so 2013. But a new app called Giffiti (like graffiti with…
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Your First 10 Customers Can Make Or Break You
Early in a startup’s life, the main focus is building the right product for the right market. For most B2B startups, this is the period when you start…
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Getting Banned From The App Store Was The Best Thing That Happened To Us
“Brace yourself, Marco…we’ve just been removed from the App Store.” With those words, I visualized everything we’d slaved over for months crumple itself into a ball of trash…
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Our Lingering Questions For Hampton Creek
Josh Tetrick, the charismatic founder of Hampton Creek, a food startup in Silicon Valley, bills it as one that uses science and technology to change the way the…
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