The Poet, Scientist, Journalist, Boxer Approach To Entrepreneurship
One of the great challenges for startups is figuring out where to start. Entrepreneurs believe that unless they build something now, their idea will become outdated or stolen by their competitor. However, that thought process is akin to running a marathon with one month of training. Yes, it can be done, but you run the risk of burning out and failing more quickly. What is needed is a… Read More-
Vine Competitor Groopie Lets Vloggers Create TV-Style Shows Together
YouTube stars are more popular among today’s U.S. teens than Hollywood celebs, a recent study found. Hoping to capitalize on this trend, a new social video network called Groopie has just launched on iPhone, allowing the next generation of vloggers to record video shows with friends, which may include both scripted and unscripted content. The L.A. and San Francisco-based startup… Read More -
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Food And Sex
As the end of summer sends people on vacation and essentially stops time as we know it, a couple good distractions for this slow time include food and sex. That said, we take a look at the new Foursquare before awkwardly chatting about the new AutoBlow 2 and OhMiBod sex toys. Read More -
Mobile Intelligence Startup Quettra Comes Out Of Stealth, Raises $2.9M Seed Round
Quettra, a mobile advertising startup founded by the former head of search and discovery for Google’s Play Store Ankit Jain, today announced that it has raised a $2.9 million seed round. Investors include CrunchFund (which was founded by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington), Data Collective, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Miramar Digital Ventures and SV Angel, as well as… Read More -
Casper Mattress Startup Lands $13.1 Million Series A
Casper, the company looking to reinvent the way mattresses are made and sold, has closed a $13.1 million Series A round led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing its total funding to $15 million. Not unlike other up-and-coming ecommerce startups, Casper looks to cut out the commission-based middle man and sell well-made mattresses at a much lower cost. Read More -
These Are Our Favorite Startups From The DreamIt NY Demo Day
This week, we met 12 new companies that graduated from DreamIt’s NY Demo Day. We have the scoop on all of them here, from the shoppable Pinterest to an ID scanning app to a real-time CRM app for all businesses. But we also decided to take a lap around the room to meet some of our favorites. Read More -
Hired Now Helps Tech Companies Find Executives
Hired, a startup working to make recruiting more efficient, has expanded to include a category for VPs of engineering and chief technical officers (CTOs). Just months after raising its $15 million Series A round, Hired seems to be growing at a healthy rate. Read More -
Twitch On Defense After Abrupt Changes To Its Content Policies Anger Users
Until recently, Twitch could do no wrong. The streaming service, born out of Justin.tv to cater to the burgeoning gaming and e-sports industries, grew quickly, raised lots of capital and subsumed its parent, and was tipped to be headed for a $1 billion exit to Google. Recently the company announced changes to its VOD service and instituted an audio recognition service that mutes stored… Read More -
Disrupt Winner Vurb Raises $8 Million To Steal Mobile Search From Google
The conundrum of mobile is you either use one convenient app that is mediocre at doing many things, or you have to discover and hop between a flotilla of single-purpose apps. Vurb wants to solve this for mobile search by aggregating utility from top third-party apps so you can make decisions rather than click links. Today the 2014 Disrupt NY Battlefield winner announced it’s raised a… Read More -
Bikanta’s Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads
Y Combinator-backed biotech company Bikanta wants to find and stop cancer at its source by inserting tiny, fluorescent diamonds inside your body. The brainchild of Dr. Ambika Bumb, who holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Georgia Tech, these nanodiamonds can detect molecular abnormalities at a much earlier stage, essentially stopping cancer from spreading any further. Bumb was working on… Read More
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