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3 pillars of the most successful tech products
Why do some companies scale to millions of users while others wallow in obscurity? What explains the runaway success of a company like Facebook while a startup like Viddy, a mobile app for video, attracted millions of users and millions of dollars in financing, only to lose both? When it comes to startup success, there’s never a magic bullet. Read More
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Notion raises $9.5M for a smarter email app, now live on mobile and soon, Alexa
A startup aiming to offer a better email experience by prioritizing the messages that are most important to you, Notion, is today publicly launching its service, which is available as a mobile app for iPhone and Android, and soon, a voice-activated skill for Alexa. The company is also today announcing $9.5 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Drive Capital and Accel, and… Read More
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HigherMe raises $1.5M to help businesses hire hourly workers
Hiring startup HigherMe is announcing that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding. It’s also brought on some big names as customers, including Dunkin Donuts, Panera Bread — and most recently, fast food chain White Castle. Co-founder and CEO Rob Hunter (a past owner of multiple Marble Slab Creamery locations) has said that when employers hire hourly workers, location,… Read More
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Tinder Boost, letting you pay to skip the line, goes live worldwide
Tinder Boost, the feature that lets users pay to have their profile shown first in the feed, has gone live worldwide as of today. The company started testing the feature in late September in Australia, and has finally decided to let it loose across Tinder’s global community. Tinder Boost lets users pay to have their profile bumped to the front of the feed for 30 minutes. While Tinder… Read More
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Social media display company Tagboard acquires Capture
Tagboard announced today that it has acquired Capture, another startup in the social media and user-generated-content business. Tagboard helps marketers find and create displays for social media conversation around a brand or topic. (When I covered the company a couple of years ago, I described it as a “cross-platform hashtag aggregator,” which is both accurate and… Read More
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Joy raises $2.5M for its interactive photo frame
Joy, hardware startup and resident positive emotion, today announced the launch of its first product, the Joy Album — an interactive photo frame designed from the ground up. Joy has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from investors including Obvious Ventures, The Chernin Group, BoxGroup, and Maywic Select Investments. At first glance, the tablet-like device seems to have a lot… Read More
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Ibanfirst grabs $11 million to expand beyond foreign exchange services
French startup Ibanfirst is launching its full-fledged banking service for companies. The startup was previously known as FX4BIZ, a sort of TransferWise for business transactions. The company just raised $11 million (€10 million) from Xavier Niel and others. Ibanfirst plans to go much further than being a foreign exchange service. The initial idea behind Ibanfirst is quite simple. Many… Read More
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Zenefits opens up to third-party developers and launches a suite of new HR tools
David Sacks has a big job ahead of him. Formerly the CEO of Yammer, which sold to Microsoft for $1 billion, he’s doing it this time around as the head of Zenefits, trying to right the ship of a company that has halved its valuation and fired its founder for violating insurance regulations. Today he is rolling out Zenefits’ second incarnation, and in Sacks’ new future,… Read More
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Autodesk’s Amar Hanspal talks about the future of manufacturing
Imagine a world where manufacturing is no longer geographically mandated, when you can print custom parts in minutes, and anyone can build anything. That’s the world Amar Hanspal, Autodesk’s SVP or Product, wants to live in. I talked to Hanspal while he was at a future of manufacturing conference and we talked about all of the pitfalls of future manufacturing, the improvements… Read More
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CoreOS brings Redspread into its fold to improve its Tectonic container management service
CoreOS today announced that it has hired the founders of Redspread, a Y Combinator-incubated company that helps enterprises deploy their software on Kubernetes container clusters, and that Redspread’s open source tools are now part of the CoreOS family.
In its announcement today, CoreOS simply said that Redspread is “joining” CoreOS. Even after repeated prodding, the… Read More
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