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Is Your Marijuana Growing / Testing / Delivery / Vaporizer Startup Idea Genius Or Half-Baked?
Everyone seems to have a marijuana startup idea. Snoop Dogg even raised a venture fund to invest in them. But would you believe it? Coming up with business plans while you’re high is not a fool-proof way to get rich!
According to two experts, many of the opportunities are so crowded with competitors that you’d first have to invent a time machine and go back three years. Read More
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Swarm 2.3 Feels Like The Old Foursquare, Looks Way Better
Foursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company’s social check-in app, that brings far more of the delightful gamification of the old Foursquare back to the service. But today’s update is just a pre-amble to version 3.0, which will be released in the coming weeks, and will include Mayorships within the entire Swarm community, as well as a leaderboard between friends… Read More
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How Snapchat Made QR Codes Cool Again
QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped on posters and magazine pages, and heralded as an easy way to open URLs or bonus content. Instead they became a frustrating symbol of over-engineering. You often needed a special QR code reader app which might fail to recognize the little robot tattoos on the first try. By the time you found your QR app… Read More
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File-Sharing Service Droplr Is Going Freemium
File-sharing service Droplr is adopting a freemium business model starting tomorrow. Drawbridge Adds Offline Purchases To Its Cross-Device Marketing Data
Drawbridge‘s platform is getting smarter thanks to partnerships with Datalogix and Axciom-owned Liveramp.
The company, backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, already works to identify the multiple devices that are (probably) used by the same person, which in turn can be used to improve ad targeting and attribution. Read More
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IAC-Owned Ask.fm Acquires Recipe Network Foodily
IAC-owned social network Ask.fm has acquired the entire team behind recipe network Foodily, the companies are announcing today, which includes those focused on product, engineering and design. These nine team members will now be tasked with the continued development of Ask.fm’s Q&A platform, while the Foodily website and mobile app will be maintained by a separate division within IAC. Read More
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Hobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text
There are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties and other events, where the invites themselves are sent out via email, social networks, or even by postal mail if you choose. But a new application called Hobnob, launching now, is designed instead to support invite delivery entirely via SMS and MMS. This means recipients will… Read More
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Rocana Lands $15M To Bring Big Data Analysis To IT Ops
Rocana (formerly ScalingData) announced $15 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures with General Catalyst Partners, Toba Capital and Paul Sagan (former chairman at Akamai and current executive in residence at General Catalyst) also contributing. This round brings the total raised to $19.4 million. Rocana aims to simplify and speed up how companies running large data center… Read More
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Warby Parker Now Worth $1.2 Billion, Focusing On Building More Brick-And-Mortar Stores
The e-commerce eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker has raised $100 million to expand physical store locations from 12 to 20 by year’s end and to work on technology that will allow customers to conduct eye exams on their mobile phones.
Global investment management firm T. Rowe Price led the round, along with participation from Wellington Management and from previous investors Tiger Global… Read More
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NeonMob Is A Platform For Creating, Trading, And Collecting Digital Art
Digital art is gaining popularity, with companies like Curioos dedicating entire marketplaces to the medium, but the idea of scarcity when it comes to the Internet is relatively new. NeonMob is looking to change the way we think about that with a platform dedicated to digital art collectibles. The company offers tools to creators so they can build out a collection of art — perhaps… Read More
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