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Dear Miss Disruption - An Advice Column from Silicon Valley
Dear Miss Disruption, I’m a thirty-five year old married man. My mother-in-law thinks I’m not good enough for her daughter. She never has a kind word for me. She never insults me to my face but she’s...
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This Is Why There Aren't Enough Women In Tech
Last Friday, Valleywag published a post about the tech sector's increasing abuse of the term “culture fit” as a way to discriminate against potential hires who don't match the pattern of a successful...
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Does Your Office Have a Lego Room and Guitar Zone?
Statistically, the answer is almost certainly no. I'll bet you there's no bed-that-looks-very-much-like-a-sex-swing, or in-house chef, either. If only you worked at Dropbox.Read more...
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LivingSocial Is Just Sort of Sad Now
No one likes flash deal sites anymore: the fad is over among people who buy things, and the ripoff is apparent for people who sell. We all want out—except those stuck running the sale operations, and...
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Dear Paul Graham, Your Priorities Are So Far Out of Whack
I'm very sorry to report that Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has decided to dig in his heels about the correlation "between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing...
View ArticleFirst they came for the perks.
First they came for the perks. Quirky, the product development startup that raised $68 million last September, just sent out a memo delaying the week off it promised employees in October until...
View ArticleThe Psychotic Investor Behind an Anonymous Startup Horror Story
Just before Labor Day weekend, TechStars cofounder David Cohen published an anonymous email from a concerned cofounder about his or her hellish experience with an unnamed "accelerator"—one of those...
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Silicon Valley Still Experimenting on The Homeless
Sometimes, beneath the sleaze and oblivion, you get the sense that techies do want to help others. But without basics like empathy, reason, or humanity, the startup community struggles to help its...
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Yahoo! Will Debut New Logo After Month of Hard Work
What's Marissa Mayer been up to other than posing in Vogue and buying sinking startups? The company just sprinted through not one, not ten, but 29 brand new logos, and the final choice is nigh. This is...
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Creator of GhettoTracker.com Surprised by All the "Negative Baggage"
GhettoTracker.com is just as deplorable as its name suggests. The website, which surfaced yesterday on Hacker News and PandoDaily, invites users to rate neighborhoods based on "which parts of town are...
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Larry Ellison Is a Billionaire Sailboat Cheater
Oracle founder and island owner Larry Ellison had a vision for yacht racing: it would be a sport so insane and magnificent, only the kings who ruled other kings could afford to participate. But in his...
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What Happens to Little Startups After Everyone Forgets?
In a week, the next breathless gathering in Silicon Valley's Liturgal Calendar begins: TechCrunch Disrupt 2013, a $3,000-per-ticket gala of business owners, investors, and their wannabe retinues. For...
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The New Yahoo! Logo Is Ugly (And Telling!)
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is very proud of her new logo up there—she made it herself over the weekend! And somehow made the company look more dated than ever. It also represents a Yahoo! that has little...
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If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at least look better with your...
If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at least look better with your shirt off.Read more...
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Will You Pay $15 To Use This Unpopular Social Network?
Dave Morin, spammy app guy and interpreter of God's will, has finally realized virtual stickers aren't going to make Path profitable. His radical idea: ask people to pay for a yearly subscription to...
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LivingSocial Now Renting Itself Out for Weddings
Washington's fading "local deals" portal, darling of the year 2010, is officially one step above holding a bake sale: you can now throw your wedding at LivingSocial's digs. Event planning is the...
View Article"Are we going to build an ad business?
"Are we going to build an ad business? Yes, at some point. Do we need to do it tomorrow? No. Do I think we’re going to be able to do it in a really cool way? Yeah, I think so. We have something that...
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Burning Man: Where Facebook Millionaires and Billionaires Hug It Out
You might think Burning Man is a silly, dust-caked hallucinogen playground for people who should never be naked. You'd be right. But it's more than that: Burning Man 2013 proved to be a place for...
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Uber and Lyft Both Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Drivers
In the future, you'll be able to call a limousine, whenever you want one! That will be fun—but perhaps not so fun is the quiet abolition of tipping that some smartphone chauffeurs claim Lyft and Uber...
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