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Selfie App Frontback To Shut Down On August 15th After Two Years
It was a simple premise during the height of the selfie hype: take a photo of yourself as well as what’s in front of you. It was called a “frontback.” We launched Frontback two years ago, it’s been the highlight of our lives! Sadly, we’re winding down on August 15th http://t.co/7Vb7IZuoyo — F. della Faille (@fredd) July 23, 2015 Now it’s called… Read More
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Expensify Announces New Travel Integrations With Uber, Priceline, NexTravel And More
Expensify is taking another step toward making expense reports easier by announcing integrations with a bunch of travel-related services.
So instead of forwarding travel receipts to receipts@expensify.com, users can just make their bookings in the partner service of their choice, and the information will automatically be sent to Expensify for reporting. Read More
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Dear Unicorn, Exit Please
In the last couple of years, it’s become the conventional wisdom that the hottest, fastest-growing tech companies benefit from steering clear of public market investors as long as possible.
The trend toward staying private is a pretty lousy development for employees looking to move on with their lives, though. They have to exercise their options within 90 days of leaving or else lose them. Read More
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Troy Carter’s Atom Factory Launches An LA-Based Accelerator For Entertainment Startups
Troy Carter, talent manager to the stars (and successful VC), has announced that his company is launching SMASHD LABS, a new startup accelerator.
The program will be based out of Atom Factory’s L.A. office, and invest $50,000 in five to seven startups in exchange for a 3 percent stake in the companies. Read More
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Instagram Marketing Startup Popular Pays Raises $2M
Popular Pays, a Y Combinator-backed startup connecting Instagram users with marketers, has raised $2 million in funding. Under the Popular Pays model, businesses describe the kind of campaign they’re looking to create, then Instagrammers can apply and list how much money they’d want to participate. The marketer chooses the users they want to work with, those users start posting… Read More
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Zenefits Grabs Twitter’s Rita Garg To Run Business Development
Zenefits, the $4.5 billion human resources software startup, said today it hired Twitter’s (now former) director of global business development Rita Garg. It’s another executive departure for Twitter, with head of communications Gabriel Stricker and former CEO Dick Costolo recently stepping back. Twitter is not unfamiliar with executive shuffles, with the top of the company… Read More
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Slack Integrates With Google Calendar To Add Events To Channels
Slack, the popular office communication tool, will now integrate with Google Calendar, letting events automatically post reminders inside slack channels.
After linking a Google account to Slack, you can choose any calendar and instruct it to post to certain Slack channels. For example, you could have events from your company’s development deadline calendar post reminders to the #dev… Read More
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The Next Industrial Revolution Should Happen In America
The ‘Industrial Internet’ is poised to overhaul the way companies manufacture goods, in turn changing our everyday interactions with products. Imagine yourself five years from now, sitting around a picnic table with a group of friends. One of them just landed a coveted manufacturing gig right after getting her master’s degree, and is now pulling in $200,000 a year. Another… Read More
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Victorious Says Its Video Apps Have Gotten 200M Views
Victorious, a startup building mobile apps where YouTube stars can interact with their “superfans,” says the strategy seems to be paying off.
Specifically, since the first apps launched in April, they’ve seen a total of 250 million views and 300 million engagements, with fans creating 1 million pieces of user-generated content. Read More
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It’s Your Fault Email Is Broken
As an email startup CEO, I hear it every week. “I hate email. Email sucks. Why can’t anyone fix it? And why would you want to spend your life working on something everyone hates?” Email is an obvious target for blame, since we collectively send 183 billion of them every single day. But blaming email is like shooting the messenger (or shooting the envelope, rather). Read More
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