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Investor Proud His Startup Is Wasting Money Living in a Mansion
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...
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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...
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View ArticleHow did Bloomberg arrive at the block-headed conclusion that New York HATES...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleWill This Video Convince You To Work at a Failing Startup?
When Path sprayed a cheap bottle of champagne in its own face over the weekend, touting a new, loathsome investor, it ended on a positive note. Not only is the superfluous social network staving off...
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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...
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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...
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The First Interview that Calls Rap Genius Out on Their Bullshit
Rap Genius is a terrifically helpful website with the misfortune of being run by evasive wackball Yale dudes. Interviews with the crew rarely go beyond goofing around and bizarre outbursts—which is why...
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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...
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Jack Dorsey: Cash Register Receipts Are a New "Publishing Medium"
Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and internet poet laureate, has officially been high off the fumes of his own shit for too long. Today he took the stage at the National Retail Federation expo in New...
View ArticleMarc 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...
View Article"After the thermostat, we're going to reimagine every unloved product in...
"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...
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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...
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Path Got Hacked and No One Cared
How do you know your startup is bombing? It's so unpopular, even when users are getting unsolicited messages from robots saying "Make me cum now," there are so few of those users, it's like it didn't...
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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...
View ArticleWhere you see sick patients, venture capitalists see off-the-charts consumer...
Where you see sick patients, venture capitalists see off-the-charts consumer engagement. Since the Affordable Care Act, investment has "skyrocketed," like First Opinion, which raised $1.2 million from...
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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,...
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