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With Topick, Join Communities Around Your Favorite Topics
Meet Topick, a newly launched startup that wants to create a sort of social network for your favorite topics. After selecting your interests, Topick offers an unfiltered feed of people sharing the same passions as you. It’s a small Facebook, but without all the mainstream news and noise from your friends. Read More
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Wiivv Raises $3 Milllion To Bring 3D-Printed IInsoles To The Maasses
As we approach the inevitable melding of man and machine, we’re going to need a lot more consonants and vowels. That’s why Wiivv is on the case. Wiivv, a company so disruptive that you can’t type its name without autocorrect kicking in, makes 3D printed insoles using scans made in your home and they’ve raised $3 million in seed to make your feet feel better. Shamir… Read More
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EatStreet, An Online Food Ordering Platform For Smaller Cities And College Towns, Picks Up $15M
While Amazon expands Prime Now restaurant ordering and delivery to more places, a startup has picked up funding to go head to head with it and the many others in the crowded food-on-demand category. EatStreet, a platform for restaurants mainly located in smaller cities to take orders online or by mobile, has picked up $15 million in a Series C investment. The investment was co-led by… Read More
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23-Year-Old’s Design Collaboration Tool Figma Launches With $14M To Fight Adobe
“Which version of this design are we on? Did you make the suggested edits? Why is it taking so long to export?” Today, interface design collaboration tool Figma arrives to eliminate these questions with its browser-based alternative to Adobe’s desktop software. Figma constantly saves projects in the cloud with version control so teammates can always review, go back and modify,… Read More
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Find Which Uber Is Yours With Its New Colored-Coded SPOT Lights
Outside big events like concerts, tons of Ubers can be waiting, making it tough for passengers to figure out which car is theirs. That’s why last week I suggested Uber create a feature that would give passengers and drivers a visual signal they could use to find each other. Well, today Uber launched that. It’s called SPOT and involves drivers installing a colored LED light on… Read More
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Advice For Higher-Yielding Agriculture Startups
With interest and investment in food and agriculture startups reaching record levels, new entrepreneurs are entering this important sector, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives on how best to feed the world. While numerous opportunities exist to make a difference in this space, I’ve noticed some common pitfalls for new entrants. Read More
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Tagged / if(we) Founder Greg Tseng Tags Out After 11 Years As CEO
Greg Tseng is stepping down from the CEO role of if(we) after 11 years running its dating social network Tagged and game studio hi5. He’ll remain a board member. When asked why the change was happening, Tseng tells me “I initiated it and it’s happening the way I want.” The company’s new CEO will be its Chief Operating Officer Dash Gopinath, who was formerly… Read More
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Dave Chappelle Has Phone-Free Zone For His Shows Through Partnership With Tech Startup
Comedian Dave Chappelle seems to be fed up with people recording his shows and sharing his material on the Internet. Chappelle recently tapped tech startup Yondr, which makes cell phone cases that prevent people from using their phones, to help ensure audience members are more engaged during his performance at Thalia Hall in Chicago.
For Chappelle’s 13 sold-out shows at Thalia Hall… Read More
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Culinary Events Biz Dinner Lab Buys Competitor Dishcrawl, Will Launch “Bar Crawls For Restaurants”
Dinner Lab, a supper club and culinary events business that has expanded to 75,000 members across 31 states over the past three years, is today putting its recent infusion of new capital to use: the company is acquiring a competitor known as Dishcrawl, which had been operating a similar service, but one that was more like a “bar crawl for restaurants,” rather than longer,… Read More
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Dick Costolo Joins The Patreon Board
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has joined the Patreon Board of Directors, a move that aims to bring operational skills to the funding site. Patreon allows creators – podcasters, artists, gamers, etc. – to get paid for what they create. It currently hosts 17,000 projects.
“Dick is a master operator and tells it like it is. He’s already had an immeasurable impact on… Read More
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