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Real Estate CEO: Silicon Valley Is "Defying All the Laws of Physics"
What's an investment bubble without a housing bubble to go along with it? Glenn Kelman of realtor service Redfin.com says houses are selling within hours, "everyone has money," and the market is...
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It Would Be Great if Millionaires Would Not Lecture Us on 'Living With Less'
There is something about achieving great financial success that seduces people into believing that they are life coaches. This problem seems particularly endemic to the tech millionaire set. You are...
View ArticleApple Just Made 46 Billion Bucks, But It's Probably Not Enough
The second quarter earnings numbers from everyone's favorite gadget company are out, and like every other time, it made an ungodly amount of money: $43.6 billion in revenues and net profits of $9.5...
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NYC Affirms Uber's Right to Chauffeur Smartphone Owners
On demand car service Uber is handy in a pinch (or a lightning storm), but it's pissed off traditional cab drivers. Many are afraid they'll be driven out of a job—or "disrupted," in Valley-speak—but...
View ArticleIf you're going to join the bloated ranks of Dave McClure's VC firm, 500...
If you're going to join the bloated ranks of Dave McClure's VC firm, 500 Startups, there's something they want you to know: your startup totally might end up broke and fucked.
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Is Tumblr Finally Hiring an Adult?
The good news for David Karp is that he created one of the most popular things to ever sit on the internet. The bad news is that Tumblr's investors say the company is worth $800 million, and Karp says...
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Rich Person Zach Braff Wants the Internet to Pay for His Next Movie
Haute panhandling hub Kickstarter has maybe found a nadir: Zach Braff, certifiable Guy With Lots of Money, is asking for handouts to finance a sorta-sequel to Garden State. Brother, can you spare $2...
View ArticlePandoDaily urges you not to "give up on PCs yet," based on a PC-selling...
PandoDaily urges you not to "give up on PCs yet," based on a PC-selling startup that's backed by a guy who also backs PandoDaily.
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Pete Cashmore Makes More Money Than a Vampire
Twenty-seven-year-old Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore came in at no. 10 in The Times of London's list of the 30 richest Brits under 30, beating out Robert Pattinson, Adele, Keira Knightley, and roughly...
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3D Tchotchke Startup Gets $30 Million
It's possible that in the near future, we'll print out new organs, phones, and hot dogs, with 3D printers in our own homes. But for now, the super-trendy cottage industry is confined to silly...
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PandoDaily Will Fess Up to Conflicts of Interest if You Point Them Out
Bad news for people who like bad news-gathering: it looks like startup mouthpiece PandoDaily will actually cop to its deeply conflicted editorial coverage. But only if you rub it in their noses first....
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Crashing Through Manhattan In The Fake Google Driverless Car
Google's driverless car is still in the early stages of development, but the unit spotted tooling around Manhattan this month was in rough shape even for a beta test. One particularly noticeable bug...
View ArticleAmazon's Fake Silicon Valley TV Is More Annoying than Bravo's Real One
We had really high hopes for Bravo's Silicon Valley reality show—vivid dreams of coders and VCs going topless in hot tubs, turning over tables, and getting arrested on airplanes. Instead, it was just...
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Zynga Hemorrhaging Users Like a Shotgun Wound
Earnings numbers are in for Facebook playground Zynga, and holy cow, they're profitable even post-IPO disaster. But under the surface, they're dying. Quickly. People are fleeing FarmVille by the...
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Twitter Co-Founder: Vine Pretty Much Ruined Art
Just like we'd have trouble going back to silent films and burning the dead to stay warm during winter, Dashing Microblogger King Jack Dorsey can't deal the primitive ways anymore: Vine is so good, he...
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"The Uber of Private Jets" Is a Real Thing
In case you were having too much trouble sweeping the diamonds from the crevices in your landline phone dial to book that next private jet, here's an app. BlackJet—a way of "instantly booking private...
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Zynga's $200 Million Christ Figure Is Missing
More bad news for everyone's least favorite social gaming company: the FarmVille empire's former prince is AWOL, right on the heels of his hyped new release. NY Mag's Kevin Roose tells a troubling...
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Punky Brewster Raised $2.5 Million for Her Product-Less Startup
When you're trying to raise millions for a startup without an app or even details besides a plan to sell "affordable physical products" (imagine all the whiteboarding it took to come up with that...
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Instagram Millionaire Snags a Victoria's Secret Girlfriend
Joshua Kushner was born into wealth, mild manners, a good last name, good genetics, and then went on to make a handful of ace investments. Now, his streak continues: the boy wonder VC is dating...
View ArticleTime Inc's Top 10 Startups to Watch (Before They Die)
Time just dropped a list of ten hot New York companies. They're burning up, so check 'em out before they get so hot they go out of business because they're not so good. "The temperature of NYC’s...
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