December 7, 2015
Mainframe Combines The Best Of Slack And Email
History has shown that you can’t topple email. The legacy technology invented in the early days of the net is too entrenched to be abandoned. But newer startups…
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December 7, 2015
Lystable Helps Companies Manage Their Freelancers, Vendors And More
“Supplier management” might not sound like the most exciting problem for a startup to solve, but Lystable might actually be doing something crucial for its customers. As businesses…
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Software Eats Software Development As Andreessen Invests $10M In App Outsourcer Gigster
Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app. No coding. No hiring. No wrangling freelancers. Just a fundamental shift in how software gets built. That’s…
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SMSNav.me Sends You Local Directions Without A Data Connection
James Hitchcock and Moti Ferentz, along with the rest of their team, were visiting London for the TechCrunch Disrupt London hackathon, but they didn’t quite have access to the…
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Jompeame Wants To Reduce Poverty In South America Through Crowdfunding
Jompeame (Jumpstartme in Spanish) is a new crowdfunding site aimed at helping the impoverished in Latin America. “Our mission initially is to change the lives of at least…
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The STEM Skills Gap Is Only As Real As The Purple Unicorn
TEKsystems recently put out a report showing that approximately 80 percent of all IT professionals believe that a skills gap exists in tech industries today. Backed by claims…
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The New American Dream: My Life As A Minority Startup Owner
My life can be split into two halves, each fulfilling an American dream. The first half I spent on the American dream that was engrained from birth —…
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A New Service Called CoinCube Can Help Manage Your BTC
In the future, all currencies will be crypto. And you’ll need someone to manage all that crypto cash. That’s what CoinCube is trying to do: a way to…
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TalentSky Is Building A Professional Network With A Focus On Verified Skills
Rick Devine has spent more than a decade as an executive recruiter, and even introduced Steve Jobs to his eventual successor Tim Cook back in 1998. Now he’s…
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Ellen DeGeneres Invests And Launches Dance Off In Music Contest App Chosen
Having all your content on TV is a bit like having all your money in oil: it’s still popular, but the next thing is coming and you better…
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