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Niall Is Making Luxury Watches In Kansas City
When you think of Kansas City a few things come to mind: barbecue, blues, and Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, the first Frenchman to settle the area and his excellent treatise “Exact Description of Louisiana, of Its Harbors, Lands and Rivers, and Names of the Indian Tribes That Occupy It, and the Commerce and Advantages to Be Derived Therefrom for the Establishment of a… Read More
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An Interview With Max Gurvits, Boy VC
Max Gurvits is an investor. Based in Bulgaria, the peripatetic VC is almost everywhere, showing up at events around the world and scouting out some amazing ideas. I talked to him about how he became a VC at a comparatively young age and what it takes to make it in investing for our back to school series. Read More
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YC’s BillForward Wants To Change The Way You’re Charged For Subscriptions
Amazon Prime, Netflix, utilities, the New York Times, HBO Go, the gym…
When you stop and think about all the subscriptions you have, the list probably is a bit longer than you thought.
But even as more subscription services become available, from ride shares to make up kits, it seems companies still offer customers limited subscription options due to constraints with their billing systems. Read More
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Snapchat Steps On Twitter’s Toes, Lets You Follow Remote Events Live
Snapchat has just updated its app with a brand new Live section that will incorporate Our Story into everyone’s feed, regardless of location. Our Story is a Snapchat product that lets users contribute snaps to a single Story (or, thread of snaps) from a single event. The product first launched back at Electronic Daisy Carnival, and then went on to Rio, Outside Lands, and Lollapalooza.… Read More
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Tripcast Is A Beautiful Travel Journal For Your Smartphone
A new mobile application called Tripcast, built by the team that created photo-sharing app Cluster, allows travelers to privately share their photos with their friends back home. The app lets you create a travel journal of sorts, by not only collecting the photos and sharing them, but also plotting them on map, and inviting fellow travelers to build albums with you. This is not the first time… Read More
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Singld Out, A DNA-Based Dating Service, Can Match You With Dates Who Will Smell Sexy
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of services out there to help you find someone you might like to have sex with. But there are very few that are run solely by two female founders, and even fewer that use “biological compatibility” as a criteria for matching two users. Meet Singld Out, a platform built for busy folks who are looking to love and need more than just a photo to… Read More
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CalPal Adds Messaging To Your Calendar To Simplify Making Plans With Friends
Making plans with friends can be like herding cats. Finding out who’s available when and trying to get everyone to agree on a place to meet at a certain time is one of the most problematic issues facing this current generation. Unfortunately, most of today’s messaging and calendaring options are insufficiently prepared to deal with this problem. But CalPal is. Read More
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Contact Center Has Changed The Way I Use My iPhone
Contact Center acts like speed dial built for the way we communicate with others on smartphones today. You’re given a set of customizable tiles that can be edited to show common functions, like calling, texting, or sending GIFs, or to show your favorite contacts. Ticket Search Engine SeatGeek Raises $35M Round From Accel And Some Big-Name Athletes
SeatGeek, a company that bills itself as “the web’s largest ticket search engine”, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The round brought was led by Accel Capital, with Accel’s John Locke (whose previous investments include eBay-acquired payments company Braintree and Angry Birds-maker Rovio) joining the board of directors. Accel is a big… Read More
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Messaging App Tango Expands Its Channels Program With BuzzFeed And Other New Publishers
Mobile messaging company Tango is announcing some new additions to its Channels program for publishers and brands, including BuzzFeed and Vimeo.
As I wrote when the program launched in June, Tango’s Channels represent something similar to Facebook Pages — it gives consumers a way to subscribe to receive updates from publishers and other brands in the service. It’s not an… Read More
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