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Genius Hub Is Like A Paid Version Of Reddit’s AMA
Reddit’s traffic may be climbing amid its recent controversy and turmoil, but the company’s fate is now more questionable than before. And that means it’s time for competitors to swoop in to take advantage of Reddit’s inability to target those users looking for an alternative experience. Read More
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On-Demand Food Startup Sprig To Start Classifying Its Contractors As Employees
Healthy food delivery startup Sprig just became the latest on-demand startup to decide to classify its workers as employees instead of independent contractors. That means Sprig will soon offer its hundreds of contract workers employment at the company. Femsplain Rolls Out A Community Platform For Feminists
Femsplain bills itself as a “community-driven publisher,” and it’s looking to build that community with a new initiative called Femsplain Beta. The feminist site was launched last year, raised more than $30,000 via Kickstarter (I was a backer) and has already published personal articles from more than 250 female contributors. Those stories cover topics like cancer, kids (or… Read More
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Shotput Wants To Be The AWS For Logistics
“We’re in a unique, extremely unsexy industry,” explained James Steinberg, who founded Shotput with fellow Northeastern University graduate Praful Mathur around 18 months ago. Part of Y Combinator’s summer 2015 class, Shotput provides an end-to-end product delivery and fulfillment suite to customers. Started as a response to the frustration the cofounders experienced… Read More
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Dinner Lab Raises A $7M Series A To Expand Its Social Dining Club
Dinner Lab, a membership-based club that gives you access to private dinner parties in unique locations throughout your city, announced it is has raised a $7 million Series A led by James River Capital. The company also received follow-up funding from all current investors, including Dr. John B. Elstrott, the chairman of the board of Whole Foods. This latest round comes about a year after… Read More
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Clutter On-Demand Storage Service Expands To Bay Area, Raises $1.3 Million
Clutter, the on-demand storage service based out of Los Angeles, has today announced that it has expanded its offering to cover all of the San Francisco Bay Area. The company also announced that it has raised an additional $1.3 million in funding, bringing total funding to $3.3 million. The idea behind Clutter is simple. Through a website, users can put in an order to have anything stored,… Read More
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The DistroKid Music Distribution Service Has Launched An Indie Artist To The Top Of The Charts
Philip Kaplan’s startup, the DistroKid, has had its first major success story. The hip hop group Jack & Jack have hit No. 12 on the Billboard Top 200, a first for an indie group. I asked Kaplan about how to make a band successful in the Internet age and what it means for indie musicians. TechCrunch: So what happened exactly? What does this mean? Kaplan: For the first time in history… Read More
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Snobswap Raises A Million To Bring Brick-And-Mortar Consignment Shops Online
A startup working to bring offline brick-and-mortar consignment shops into the e-commerce age, Snobswap, has raised over a million dollars in seed funding to expand what it describes as its “luxury online mall.” While today, these mom-and-pop shops would have to set up their own online stores using a platform like Shopify, for example, or perhaps market their items via social… Read More
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Pornhub Launches An Unlimited Streaming Service, Pornhub Premium
It’s been generally accepted since the days of the 9600 baud modem that all Internet porn should be free. However, with the rise in high-quality video and new streaming systems, we can change that universal truth to “all bad porn on the Internet is supposed to be free.” The good stuff costs money. Read More
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500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd
500px, the online photo-sharing community that recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application. Beginning with an update on iOS, the company has completely redesigned and rebuilt its app from the ground up, in an effort that’s focused on making its app appeal to a more mainstream consumer base. Read More
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