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How Quickly a "Genius" Startup Can Tank
Bloodhound had everything going for it. TechCrunch once hailed the tradeshow app as "genius" and Peter Thiel lead a $3 million investment round in the "blowing up" company. So when a landlord drove...
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Restaurant Reservation Scalping Site Is Everything Wrong with SF
There are two things startups shouldn't fuck with in San Francisco. One is parking , and the other is restaurants. San Francisco is, after all, a city of foodies. Techies write bots to score...
View ArticleTaxi Apps Are Putting Us On The Road To Segregated Transit
For too long, the war of words over e-hailing apps has been dominated by the Uber's bombastic CEO and fat cat taxi companies defending their turf. But filmmaker Max Maddox flips that script, exploring...
View ArticleThe latest tempest from Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley's resident storm...
The latest tempest from Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley's resident storm king , concerns self-destructive startups. Wonder if any of his critiques—like going public before you're ready or assuming...
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Uber Kindly Agrees to Stop Price Gouging During Emergencies
Everyone's least and most favorite transit app catches a lot of flak for lacking anything you might call a conscience, but is that really so fair? It just said it will obey the law and no longer...
View ArticleFor $35, You Can Own a DVD of Airbnb's CEO in a Bodybuilding Contest
Earlier this year, a woman startup founder told me she'd once been hit on, persistently, by Airbnb's founder and chief executive . But she was grossed out, she said, because of his history as a...
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Lyft's New Commercial Is a Great Example of the Startup Savior Complex
Uber and Lyft are the Hatfields and the McCoys of ordering cars on your telephone—if the more affluent Hatfields had $1.5 billion in venture financing to the McCoys' piss poor $332 million. Now the...
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Truck Yeah! This City-Sized Gas Plant Has The Next Big Idea To Save The Planet | Paleofuture Newspaper Publisher Predicted Robot Editors in 1968 | Regressing Defending World Cup Champions Are Screwed...
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Reservation Scalping Startup Founder Defends Service as "Ethical"
ReservationHop only made it an hour after launching before the criticism to start pouring in. Twitter users were outraged. One restaurateur described the service as "disgusting and hurtful." Even...
View ArticlePinterest's new San Francisco headquarters is "all but dead."
Pinterest's new San Francisco headquarters is "all but dead." The move was blocked by the city over concerns their new landlord was exploiting a zoning loophole to evict dozens of tenants to make room...
View ArticleCEO Scott Kveton Resigns Amid Rape Investigation
Just days after allegations of rape, intimidation, and abuse against Urban Airship CEO Scott Kveton surfaced, he's calling it quits.Read more...
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Once Frivolous Yo App Now Helps Warn Israelis About Rocket Attacks
Yo, the short form messaging app that glibly flaunted its ability to raise $1 million for a jokey premise, has found a use case to justify its existence. The Times of Israel reports that the...
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Police: Google Exec Murdered by Heroin-Dosing Prostitute Aboard Yacht
A pleasure cruise went wrong for Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, after police say his expensive prostitute pal killed him with a heroin overdose aboard his 50-foot yacht. Read more...
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Open Thread: It's Sun Valley Season in America
Allen & Co. just kicked off its 32nd annual paean to power in Idaho, where Silicon Valley executives get photographed like they're the Kardashian klan at Valentino's château. Let's skip the boring...
View ArticleOne Tesla Isn't Enough For Gavin Newsom
California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom wants to be every techie's favorite politician. He wrote an entire book about technology reinventing government and routinely speaks at industry events. He...
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Tech PR Dummies: Spend a Night in a Hotel Bar with Randi Zuckerberg
Public relations requires discipline, integrity, and like a game of idiot chess, rules. The first rule of public relations: a truly great product will always sell itself. The second rule of public...
View ArticlePaleofuture Original Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard Up For Auction | Defamer...
Paleofuture Original Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard Up For Auction | Defamer William Friedkin in the Mix to Direct True Detective's Second Season | Regressing Germany Smashed Brazil So Hard It's Good...
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TechCrunch Rolls Over For Tinder CEO Sean Rad
Tinder's sexual harassment lawsuit hasn't even gone to trial yet, but TechCrunch already thinks it's a bunch of bullshit. Earlier today, tech's favorite mouthpiece published an investigation into...
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DC Uber Driver Kidnaps Passenger, Takes Him On High Speed Police Chase
Uber may have instituted a $1 "Safe Rides Fee " in April, but its background checks remain trivial to get around . Now their lax standards have resulted in another kidnapping. This time, a scofflaw...
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Google Launches $100 M. VC Fund in Europe While Under EU Investigation
The only way Google could be in worse trouble with European regulators right now is if Larry Page signed the order to wiretap Angela Merkel's phone himself. NSA revelations have hurt Google's European...
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