December 30, 2015
Slack’s New TV Commercial Is Adorable And Effective
If you’re in the tech world, then you know exactly what Slack is and does. As you eke outside of our little techosphere, however, you might get some…
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December 30, 2015
Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball
Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma, known best as the startup that offers free, no-strings-attached credit scores, has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired the…
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Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Is Working With Its Users To Design New Products
Massdrop‘s investors have argued that the group commerce site is more a community than a straightforward marketplace. Here’s one way that Massdrop is doing things differently — a…
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Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service
Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But Duplan won’t quit. TechCrunch has…
Read articleDecember 28, 2015
RoboFisher Will Let You Fish In Even The Harshest Of Storms
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s inability to fish in thee! In northern, colder climes, fish, as we all know, tend to…
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Why Groupon Needs To Go Private To Rebuild Its Vision
After seeing big and small competitors collapsing or withdrawing altogether from the race, Groupon still enjoys an undisputed leadership in the deal space. However, with slow growth in…
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The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention
Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day. I find that most startup founders or business owners in…
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Investing In Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting and transformative opportunities of our time. From my vantage point as a venture investor at Playfair Capital, where I focus…
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Alibaba To Invest $1.25B In Restaurant Delivery Service Ele.me, Says Report
Alibaba will reportedly invest $1.25 billion in Ele.me, a food delivery service based in Shanghai, says financial news site Caixin (link via Google Translate). The deal would Alibaba…
Read articleDecember 24, 2015
Bessemer Venture Partners’ Ethan Kurzweil Talks Video In 2016
2015 was a big year for video — especially when it came to user-generated video. Now there are services like Periscope and Meerkat, which are enabling users to…
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