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An Interview With Shaquille O’Neal: Businessman, Investor And Video Game Star
Shaquille O’Neal — former champion NBA center and businessman — was on a plane one day when someone was playing a slots game next to him. He liked the game so much he downloaded it, played it for four hours on a flight, and now has games made by them where he’s the star. Read More
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Bumble Dating App Tops 1 Million Unique Conversations
Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees, announced that its female users have started more than one million conversations on the platform. Bumble is a dating app that prescribes to the Sadie Hawkins style of dating. Men and women swipe left or right on each other, just like on Tinder, but once a match is established, only females can initiate conversations. This takes the… Read More
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Gin Lane Creative Studio Opens Joint Venture Arm
You might not have heard of Gin Lane, but chances are you’ve come into contact with their work. The design and development studio helps some of the biggest consumer brands in the world build products, and today Gin Lane is taking more of a stake in those products. The company announced that it will open up a joint venture segment in its own shop, taking as much as 20 to 50 percent of… Read More
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Oculus Shows Flagship Games Like Space Shooter EVE Valkyrie, Will Invest $10M Into Indie Titles
Oculus today announced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To make sure you’ll have something to play with it, Oculus worked with EVE Online developer CCP Games to make EVE Valkyrie, a spaceship shooter, Gunfire Games to make atmospheric RPG Chronos, and Insomniac Games to make snow world exploration title Edge Of Nowhere. Oculus says it’s working with a wide… Read More
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8tracks Closes $2.5 Million Debt Line, Signs More Direct Licensing Deals With Music Labels
Music streaming service 8tracks has been profitable since 2012, but wants to move faster. For its new round of funding, the company chose to secure a $2.5 million debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. As a reminder, 8tracks is a library of modern mixtapes, as anyone can create and listen to user-generated playlists based on genres and moods. The company recently moved into direct… Read More
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HomeSuite Raises $2.3M To Provide Corporate Housing A Quarter At A Time
HomeSuite CEO David Adams wants to give people forced to move an easy way to stay somewhere nice for the duration of their visit or acclimation to a new city. His startup focuses on finding furnished and corporate housing for users, who typically sign up for leases of four to five months. Read More
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Vettery Raises $1.7M And Officially Launches Its Job Marketplace
As companies vie for top-tier talent, New York City startup Vettery is offering an alternative to the traditional recruiting process. Although Vettery is officially launching its marketplace today, a beta version has already been up and running for a couple of months, and the company has already worked with companies that are well-known in the local scene, including Jet, Casper, Etsy, Blue… Read More
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Startups Are Hard In 100 Different Ways
The most important part of your startup is your brain. If your brain is not okay, then you are not okay and your startup will also not be okay. As a founder, your brain’s most common state will be stressed out. Anxiety, worry, and sleeplessness are expected. This is because you are trying to do something big with limited resources and time. Read More
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Menlo Ventures Brings On Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy, who left his role as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year, is joining Menlo Ventures as a managing director. Murphy will be focusing on enterprise infrastructure and mobile first apps that apply to either consumer or the enterprise. In terms of the “mobile first apps” part, he pointed to applications like Slack and DocuSign as… Read More
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Personali, A Service That Works To Optimize Discounts Online, Raises $12M
Personali, an online service that retailers can use to adjust prices and discounts in real time, said it has raised $12 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Retailers can integrate Personali code into their online commerce presence. When a customer visits a page, the retailer will check with the rules that Personali has created for a specific product, which is based on things… Read More
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