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Startup Stud Hates Homeless People, Ugly Girls, and Public Transit
It's not easy to innovate—no one ever said it'd be easy. You've got things like "reality" and "demand" stomping on your dreams for the next delivery laundry app. What makes it even worse is the hellish...
View ArticleThe Patch Massacre Begins Today at AOL
AOL boss Tim Armstrong says on this morning's conference call that 40% of Patch will be laid off today. — Romenesko (@romenesko) August 16, 2013Read more...
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Lean In Says It Will Start Paying Interns
Only days after we discovered Sheryl Sandberg's foundation was looking for uncompensated young workers, the group says it'll start doing the right thing: paid internships are coming.Read more...
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Physically Flawless Google Glass Nerds Hit Vogue
Is this the "big moment" for face computers? Does pairing a $2,300 Gucci turtleneck or $1,200 Balenciaga boots with a $1,500 pair of gadget glasses make them haute? Will you look like a model—or will...
View ArticleOf Course Age Discrimination Is a Problem in Silicon Valley
Youth isn't just respected in tech—it's worshipped above almost any other trait. Be reckless! Make mistakes! Take chances! Watch these clowns juggle! This is probably a lot of fun, unless you're a...
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Silicon Folly: How To Make an "Extreme" Sailboat Race Dull and Deadly
It was going to be the greatest outdoor sports spectacle in history: weird giant sailboats racing against each other in the grand natural amphitheater of the San Francisco Bay all summer long, with...
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Marissa Mayer Acquires Vogue Photo Shoot
If Yahoo's determination to dump money on every faltering startup doesn't somehow save the company, at least CEO Marissa Mayer will have a souvenir from the good times.Read more...
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If Your Startup Isn't Improving the Entire Human Condition, Fuck It
If you're part of the elite Y Combinator startup cabal, you recently received this list—"57 startup lessons"—in your inbox. There are a few bits of decent, generic advice. It's also a tidy explanation...
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Nobody Wants To Eat with Internet Strangers
Over $6 million in venture capital has been handed to Grubwithus, a company that thinks it can make money by arranging meals between strangers. It looks like that bet was probably wrong.Read more...
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How to Log Into Your Friend's OkCupid Account in One Easy Step!
Of all your online profiles and inboxes, the one with the most potential for personal embarrassment has to be OkCupid. According to a report in the Verge, your OkCupid account also happens to be easily...
View ArticleY Combinator Demo Day: Now Featuring Football Hall-of-Famers
Talked to my childhood sports hero @JoeMontana at his first @ycombinator #demoday. Says he likes what he sees. pic.twitter.com/65R6amQCpa — Amir Efrati (@amir) August 20, 2013Read more...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Continues Faux Humanitarian Awakening
After FWD.us, Zuck's next quasi-philanthrophy will be Internet.org, an endeavor to get more poor people on the internet—with the hope, of course, that they'll become Facebook users. The long con.Read...
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Rap Genius: "I'mma rape you in your mouth"
The Yale-educated dude trio that runs Rap Genius, a website dedicated to deciphering hip-hop for white people, gets a lot of mileage out of not being taken seriously. Their group goofiness is...
View ArticleCab Discrimination Remains Undisrupted
@Uber MY CAB DRIVER DROVE BY ME & REFUSED TO PICK ME UP, NOW I'M SUPPOSED TO PAY $10 TO CANCEL?? IS THIS HOW YOU GUYS TREAT PEOPLE IN HARLEM — Le1f ☥ (@LE1FNY) August 21, 2013Read more...
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Tumblr Bug Puts NSFW Peepees and Veevees All Over the Place
Tumblr says it wasn't hacked, but it looked that way to a hell of a lot of its users: for a harrowing fifteen minutes, images of sexual intercourse, Satanism, and other horrors permeated the...
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NYC Programmer Turns Homeless Man into Startup Experiment
To you, the average homeless person might just be a nuisance—an uncomfortable sidewalk encounter. But to the enterprising entrepreneur of today, the homeless are an opportunity, a way to test out your...
View ArticleThis Kid Left Harvard To Sell Spray-On Caffeine
Mega-VC Peter Thiel's eponymous, anti-college "fellowship" is part of his techno-libertarian fantasy: in the future, no one will need to attend bloated institutions like college. You'll just start a...
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Live Q&A with Art World Bad Boy and Facebook Millionaire David Choe
Chances are you first heard of graffiti artist, illustrator, and multimedia enfant terrible David Choe when Facebook’s IPO made him somewhere in the vicinity of $200 million. But that story (he took...
View ArticleMan Loves Driving Strangers So Much, He Bursts into Song
The "sharing economy" is a misnomer—Silicon Valley doesn't want you to think of it as an economy, so much as a lifestyle. We're not potential consumers, but potential friends, allies, and maybe even...
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Brit Morin Buys Bigger Office to Continue Doing Nothing
Brit Morin, Silicon Valley's favorite camp counselor, is expanding her plagiarist DIY movement: the San Francisco Business Times says her macaroni-gluing firm "signed a three-year lease for a...
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