Startups

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  • Tyra Banks on startup investing and her new TV show

    Tyra Banks rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco this afternoon. The supermodel turned entrepreneur and startup investor was there to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of Tyra Beauty. Tyra Beauty is both “beauty business and badassery,” Banks quipped in a video chat with TechCrunch. It’s a “cosmetics experience, not… Read More
  • GoGoGuest helps coffee shops manage their Wi-Fi, customer-by-customer

    GoGoGuest helps coffee shops manage their Wi-Fi, customer-by-customer

    Be honest: Have you ever spent an entire day working at a coffee shop, despite only buying a single cup of coffee? I’ve definitely been guilty of this, and I’ve also been to coffee shops that try to fight back by removing outlets, turning off their Wi-Fi or outlawing laptops on certain tables. A startup called GoGoGuest is taking a different approach that could help coffee shops… Read More
  • Tinder Boost lets you pay your way to the front of the line

    Tinder Boost lets you pay your way to the front of the line

    Tinder is introducing a new premium feature called Tinder Boost. The feature will let users pay to have their profiles displayed first to other users on the app in the same locale for 30 minutes. According to the announcement, it’s all about saving users’ time and making sure that the Tinder experience is maximized during the time that they’re actually using the app. From… Read More
  • “Good guy” loan startup LendUp fined $6.3M for overcharging

    “Good guy” loan startup LendUp fined $6.3M for overcharging

    LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash. But in its early days, LendUp charged customers illegal fees, miscalculated interest rates, falsely advertised loans nationwide that weren’t available there and misled people that borrowing from LendUp would boost their credit score. Now LendUp will have to pay $6.3… Read More
  • Avoid the startup graveyardCRUNCH NETWORK

    Avoid the startup graveyard

    The startup world moves at breakneck speed — what’s hot one minute is old news the next, and it can feel like the rules of the game change every day. For successful startups, rapid growth often attracts the attention of incubators and accelerators. However, there are other options. Namely, partnering with tech “titans” — bigger tech companies that used to be… Read More
  • Color Genomics raises $45 million to provide cheaper genetic tests that detect cancer risk

    Color Genomics raises $45 million to provide cheaper genetic tests that detect cancer risk

    Othman Laraki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened to contain data on his genome being sequenced — and Laraki wanted to take a look at the data. That led to the original hypothesis of Color Genomics: what if you could apply the same principles… Read More
  • The mPod is a 3-D body scanner coming to a gym near you

    The mPod is a 3-D body scanner coming to a gym near you

    Looking in the mirror or stepping on a scale can tell us much about our bodies and wellbeing, but not with the greatest precision. Now, a Sydney, Australia-based company called mPort is bringing its mPod body scanners to gyms and malls in the U.S., where they think users will be interested in getting granular data about their bodies. The mPod, which looks like a large photo booth or a… Read More
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