NEWSLETTERS
Find Out What You Listened To Most On Spotify This Past Year
While the rest of the world is rocking to Ed Sheeran and his Top 40 friends, I’m mostly picking up dreamy indie pop the likes of Purity Ring and Bear Hands. Ignore the fact that you may have never heard of Bear Hands for a second (but trust me, they’re good). Spotify told me what I like most in its individualized Year in Review. This nifty application grabs all your 2014 data… Read MoreMicrosoft Makes Its Audience Polling Service Bing Pulse Available To Anyone
Microsoft is expanding its audience polling tool Bing Pulse today — Josh Gottheimer, general manager of corporate strategy, told me that it’s moving from a model of one-off partnerships to self-service. So basically anyone can now use Bing Pulse at their events and meetings. While there are a number of polling and visualizing products out there, Gottheimer said this is really… Read MoreFormer Justin.TV And Parse CEOs Join Y Combinator As Partners
Last month, former Pixar CFO Ali Rowghani joined Y Combinator as a part-time partner. This month, YC is adding not one, not two, but three new names to their partner/part-time partner rosters. Michael Seibel (pictured above), former CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam, is shifting from part-time partner to full time. According to an interview with USA Today, Seibel will focus on helping minorities… Read MoreLandbay Secures $2.35M From Omni For Its Buy-To-Let P2P Lending Platform
We covered the launch of Landbay in April and it’s since gone on to bring the peer-to-peer lending model to buy-to-rent mortgages, among a raft of other competitors piling into this space. The idea is that it offers lenders more attractive returns compared to banks. Read MoreKidaptive’s Latest App Learner Mosaic Puts A Preschool Teacher In Parents’ Pockets
Kidaptive, the maker of children’s educational iPad applications with a curriculum focused on Kindergarten readiness, has now released a new app designed just for parents. Called “Learner Mosaic,” the app offers parents personalized insights into how well their child is progressing based on their behavior and activity within Kidaptive’s applications, and soon, within… Read MoreHow Top Founders Juggle Term Sheets
Breakout startups that are ready for “Fundraising Acceleration” often face the challenge of managing interest from multiple investors. Having been involved in a number of these startups first-hand as an early-stage VC, I’ve noticed a common pattern to how they manage to “juggle” investor interest that we can all learn from. Read MoreAOL’s Tim Armstrong Says Shingy Is One Of The Company’s Best Assets
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was interviewed on-stage today at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, and sure, he touched on the ongoing speculation about a merger with Yahoo, as well as the company’s broader strategy. But towards the end of the interview he answered the question that’s on everyone’s mind: What’s the deal with Shingy? Read MoreAmazon Has Launched A GrubHub Rival For Food Takeout & Delivery
Back in June, we wrote about how Amazon was preparing to take on companies like Seamless, Grubhub and DeliveryHero with a restaurant takeout and delivery service that would sit within its Amazon Local app and website. Now that service is live. The Takeout & Delivery feature was quietly turned on over last weekend — when many were probably still working their way through… Read MoreFormation 8 Closes Its $500 Million Second Fund
Formation 8, the investment firm founded by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo and Jim Kim, has closed its second fund, the company is announcing today. The new fund will give Formation 8 another $500 million to make investments in startups anywhere from seed- to late-stage, as it seeks to capitalize on some early successes. Read More
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