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Getting In Bed With Mattress Startup Casper
Earlier this year, I wrote about Casper, a Lerer Ventures-backed startup that says it’s trying to reinvent how mattresses are built and sold. Since then, the company actually launched its first product, so I decided to swing by Casper’s office in the Noho neighborhood of New York to try the mattress out for myself. In the video above, you can see the mattress, the material… Read More -
#Love: Wanderlust
Editor’s Note: The author of this essay is Jocelyn Voo, a nomadic photographer, writer and social media strategist. Her furniture lives in New York City. All likenesses to people in her real life are coincidence. Unless they’re not – in which case, Whatsapp her! Over the years, I’ve run my passport ragged, each foreign visa and customs stamp an inked reminder of… Read More -
How Cloud Startups Are Changing The Face Of Innovation
Editor’s note: Pete Sonsini is a general partner at New Enterprise Associates. After more than a decade of hype and billions of dollars of value creation, it would be reasonable to expect investors to start losing interest in cloud-related startups. In the venture business, me-too investors reap ever-diminishing returns compared to early entrants in a new sector. And while the… Read More -
5-Tiles Keyboard Targets Wearables To Hunt The Post-Qwerty Holy Grail
Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational being that’s a more realistic way to drive a wedge between Qwerty and its users’ fingers. As challenges go, disrupting Qwerty is akin to attempting to pass… Read More -
Stash For iPhone Finds The Best Prices For Beauty Products And Personal Care Items, Makes Re-ordering Easy
A company called Stash wants to take the hassle out of shopping for beauty and personal care items, while also scouring the web to find the lowest prices and best products, as recommended by experts, including fashion and beauty magazines, websites and blogs. The company has been quietly testing its iOS application over the past year with a couple thousand beta testers, and is now ready… Read More -
Fleex Lets You Learn English By Streaming Content With Popcorn Time
The beauty of open source software strikes again. Fleex is a platform to learn English by watching movies, TV shows, TED talks and more. The French startup just forked Popcorn Time, the so-called Netflix for streaming content, to get “interesting” content. As a non-native English speaker, this issue is dear to me. When I first learned English, an important part of my process… Read More -
With $5M In New Funding, Tinybop Releases “Plants,” Its Second Educational App For Kids
Children’s app-maker Tinybop is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was first revealed in a regulatory filing last fall, but the company didn’t confirm the news or share details about the investment until now — partly tying into this week’s launch of its second app, Plants. The company’s first release, The Human Body, came out… Read More -
Panda Reveals A Web Dashboard For Developer And Designer News And Inspiration
A new website (or Chrome extension, if you prefer) called Panda is offering entrepreneurs, developers and designers an easy way to keep up with industry news and inspiration from a variety of sources in one interface. Currently, the site features sources like Hacker News, Dribbble, Behance and Designer News, for example, which you can toggle on and off to customize your view. The idea for… Read More -
Dating App Coffee Meets Bagel Ditches Twilio With New IM Features
When I wrote about the Coffee Meets Bagel dating service more than two years ago, I hoped (but didn’t quite believe) that it would last this long. Yet, here we are. The company has received $2.8 million in funding and is today launching the biggest update yet to the app. Coffee Meets Bagel takes a different approach to online dating. Instead of offering up a buffet of potential matches… Read More -
Love My Provider Helps Parents Of Autistic Children Find The Best Services
While working as an autism specialist for the state of California, behavioral psychologist Sara Gershfeld met hundreds of families and realized they all had the same problem while seeking care for their children. While parents are provided with a list of 10 applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapists, there was little way of telling if any of the specialists would be a good fit for their… Read More
Sunday, May 25, 2014
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