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Boon + Gable Hopes To Bring Personal Shoppers To The Masses
Online shopping continues to rise in popularity, but it’s still tough to know if the items you pick out on a website will work as an outfit in real life. New startup Boon+Gable hopes to change that by sending a personal shopper to your house. Startups like StitchFix and Le Tote act as virtual personal shoppers, sending you recommended items through the mail on a monthly basis. But… Read More
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Startup Step-By-Step: No Cryptocountry For Old Men
“Let’s make a country,” my friend Rich said. He was serious. He and I were talking outside of a bitcoin conference in New York. It was April, 2014 and we were inside the Javits Center, the glass abomination on the Hudson that event goers hated. It was raining wildly and the crypto-folks were bumping into each other as they milled about talking about the future of money. I… Read More
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Meet The Startups Vying For The Crunchie For Fastest Rising Startup Of 2015
The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, people from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House to take part in an event that’s best described as the Oscars of startups and technology. Vivek Ranadive On How He’ll Invest UC’s $250 Million
Entrepreneur and Sacramento Kings owner Vivek Ranadive sat down with TechCrunch to discuss how he’ll be allocating the University of California’s $250 million investment. The venture fund will be used to invest in innovative “value-driven” startups, many stemming from the UC ecosystem. The University of California and its ten campuses have been granted more patents than… Read More
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Utah’s Unicorns, How “Silicon Slopes” is Gaining Momentum
Four of these fabled creatures popped up along the Wasatch this last year, including Omniture founder Josh James’ business intelligence platform Domo. There’s also Pluralsight, Qualtrics and InsideSales – with several more “soonicorns” in the ready. Utah has seen the most economic growth in the nation for the past two years, with tech leading the charge. But many… Read More
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Behind The Prezi Pixels
Interactive presentation startup Prezi has been in quiet mode lately, but invited us behind the scenes to discuss its startup roots in Budapest, Hungary, and juggling two offices in different time zones.
Prezi pulls in clients the likes of Salesforce, Lufthansa, Marriott and IBM to create unique presentations. It has also seen an explosion in growth since hitting the scene in Silicon Valley… Read More
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PeerSpace Raises $5 Million Series A, Expands To New York City
PeerSpace, a short-term meeting space reservations marketplace, has announced a $5 million Series A round of financing led by Foundation Capital to propel growth. Existing investor Structure Capital also participated in the round.
The startup is a bit like Airbnb but for empty meeting spaces. The idea is to utilize creative spaces in the cities the platform operates instead of the same old… Read More
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