When you scoop up some venture capital money, the first thing you should do is rent out a mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Silicon Valley. Don't worry: after you move into Downton Valley, your investor will cheer you on!
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Investor Proud His Startup Is Wasting Money Living in a Mansion
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Google Pays $3.2 Billion In Cash for Thermostat
Google just agreed to pay $3.2 billion in cash to buy Nest Labs, the makers of "unloved but important" home devices like thermostats and smoke alarms, i.e. hardware that could help save and improve lives for a huge demographic of homeowners. How does the saying go: Two Internet of Things is worth one ephemeral in the bush?
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Defamer Secret's Out: Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld Considering Broadway Play | Sploid First Game o
Defamer Secret's Out: Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld Considering Broadway Play | Sploid First Game of Thrones season 4 trailer is out—and it looks awesome | Paleofuture Your Favorite Futurist Is Wrong | Regressing Do Colder NFL Games Have Fewer Penalties? | Truck Yeah! 2015 Ford F-150: This Is It | Kinja Popular Posts
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How did Bloomberg arrive at the block-headed conclusion that New York HATES the sharing economy?
How did Bloomberg arrive at the block-headed conclusion that New York HATES the sharing economy? Maybe because they polled a very skewed sampling of your average citizen: "Ask a bunch of New Yorkers where they spend their money: apartments, cars, vacation lodgings, maybe designer handbags."
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Sheryl Sandberg Revises Lean In for College Grads (Men Too)
After coining the phrase that launched a thousand terrible jokes and inaccurate references, Sheryl Sandberg is hoping to expand her message to the youths of America: in April, she'll release Lean In For Graduates.
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Being New York Tech VC Royalty Is Chill as Hell
You might think investing in 185 different tech companies is a lot of work, but New York magazine just sat down for lunch with two of the highest profile tech investors on the East Coast, and boy do they seem relaxed.
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Uber Cofounder Is Launching On Demand Healthcare for the 1%
Sources tell Valleywag that after housing and transportation, the latest slice of public infrastructure to get the VIP, front-of-the-line treatment is healthcare. We hear Oscar Salazar, an Uber cofounder who helped design and implement the e-hailing prototype, is working on a startup that will offer personalized house calls from doctors. It plans to launch imminently.
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Will This Video Convince You To Work at a Failing Startup?
When Path
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Pay $300, Talk to Guy Who Used to Work at TechCrunch for 45 Minutes
What's the opposite of a lifehack? Paying for whatever this is supposed to be: TechCrunch alumnus Jason Kincaid is going all-out in the pursuit of flackdom, charging rates usually charged by powerful lawyers for less than an hour of his time.
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Truck Yeah!
Truck Yeah! Tesla's VP Laughed At Me When I Asked About Their Pickup Truck | Defamer Deputies Search Justin Bieber's House After Egging, Lil Za Arrested | Paleofuture Fast Food Restaurants Were Supposed To Be Completely Automated by Now | Regressing The Statistical Oddity That Makes Federer's Career Even More Impressive | Kinja Popular Posts
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The First Interview that Calls Rap Genius Out on Their Bullshit
Rap Genius
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Apple and Google Face $9 B. Lawsuit for Conspiring to Suppress Wages
Late yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "paved the way" for a class action lawsuit from tech workers against Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, and Systems Inc. for "conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff." Around 60,000 workers will be allowed to sue as a group and pursue "what the defendants said could exceed $9 billion of damages."
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Jack Dorsey: Cash Register Receipts Are a New "Publishing Medium"
Jack Dorsey
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Marc Andreessen Defends the NSA for Spying
Twitter wasn't always Marc Andreessen's jam. His recent bout of 140 character logorrhea came after a lengthy 983 day silent period. But the venture capitalist is back with a vengeance and recently launched a diatribe dismissing people who question the NSA as naive and possibly illiterate.
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"After the thermostat, we're going to reimagine every unloved product in people's lives."
"After the thermostat, we're going to reimagine every unloved product in people's lives." That's the "key" single line in Nest's pitch deck that got Kleiner Perkins to invest. Four years later, Google acquired the company for $3.2 billion. Keep spinning that carousel, Don Drapers.
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Yahoo Who Made More Than Marissa Mayer Leaves With $20 M. Stock Bonus
Henrique De Castro has been pushed out of Yahoo on a plank lined with RSUs. The chief operating officer, whom insiders described as a "dead man walking," is leaving with a $20 million stock bonus after working at the company for a little more than a year.
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Path Got Hacked and No One Cared
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Snapchat Spam: Sexy Photos Lead to Compromised Branded Short Domains
This guest post originally appeared on Symantec.com. A few weeks after our blog post about porn and secret admirer spam targeting Snapchat users, a new spam campaign using sexually suggestive photos and compromised custom URLs is circulating on the photo messaging app.
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Where you see sick patients, venture capitalists see off-the-charts consumer engagement.
Where you see sick patients, venture capitalists see off-the-charts consumer engagement
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Venmo: Everyone Hates Your Weirdo Subway Ads
Venmo is a little app for your little phone that makes it easy to beam money from your bank account to someone else's. It's very handy! It's also seen terrific success through word of mouth. So why, why oh why, is the company plastering New York with these universally hated ads?
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