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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 have found a way to at least move some communication outside of email, such as with team collaboration platforms like Yammer or Slack. Read More
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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 find themselves relying on more freelancers and vendors, Lystable helps them manage those relationships. Read More
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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 why Andreessen Horowitz has led a new $10 million Series A for Gigster just 18 weeks after its launch. The lauded venture firm was impressed with Gigster’s artificial intelligence engine. It converts a… Read More
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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 data they needed in order to find their way around using apps like Google Maps. So, as part of the hackathon, they built SMSNav.me. Users tap a button that sends a text message with their location —… Read More
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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 5 people in this condition every week, in every country we expand to,” said co-founder and CEO Katherine Motyka. The site is currently raising money to launch formally but they’ve already raised $25,000,… Read More
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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 of mass projected growth in the field that the U.S. won’t be able to fill, as well as multiple articles and resources written on how to bridge the gap, it’s hard to argue that it’s not real. Obviously,… Read More
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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 — “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” The second, current half of my life revolves around an American dream that has arisen from our technocratic society — “start your own business.” Every statistic on the… Read More
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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 manage cryptocurrency investments intelligently. Created by Robert Allen, Eric Kittell, Jibben Nee and Giovanni Meacci, the system is still in its relative infancy. They have about a 100 users with $430,000 in assets under management,… Read More
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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 working on a startup called TalentSky, aiming to address some of the big problems he sees in the hiring landscape — specifically, the “skills gap,” where employers can’t find job applicants with the… Read More
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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 diversify. That’s why it’s so smart that talk show host Ellen DeGeneres set up her own Ellen Digital Ventures firm to bring her content and capital to new mediums beyond television.
Today, Ellen Digital Ventures announced that musician… Read More
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