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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Wired For Extremes

Namibia Chris McNamara stood at the overhang of what would be his final wingsuit BASE jump (parachuting or wingsuit flying from a fixed structure: building, antenna, span and Earth). A 1,500-foot drop was a conservative risk in a community that saw around 30 deaths last year. “After I took flight I had never realized how much physical strength was required in wingsuit BASE. I wasn’t nervous… Read More

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Friday, July 3, 2015

Sources: YC Alums Club Together For Crystal Towers, A $100M VC Fund For Promising YC Startups

10724558026_940f702785_k Y Combinator has helped over 800 startups come to market that are today worth a collective $30 billion (and possibly even more very soon). Now it looks like a new VC is emerging out of it that will be dedicated to help the most promising of these grow. TechCrunch has learned of a new VC fund called Crystal Towers. Backed by several YC founders, it will start out with between $90 million… Read More

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PicoBrew’s Zymatic Beer Making Machine Made A Brewer Out Of A Noob Like Me

Zymatic by PicoBrew PicoBrew is a beer-centered startup in Seattle, founded by brothers Bill and Jim Mitchell and Avi Geiger. The machine at the heart of their operation is The Zymatic—an apparatus that simplifies beer-making by reducing the need to monitor the cooking process of creating Wort (unfermented beer). Did their device turn a beer drinker like me, with zero brewing experience, into a beer maker? Read More

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John Sculley On Drawing The Mac Phone For Steve Jobs

{rss:content:encoded} John Sculley On Drawing The Mac Phone For Steve Jobs http://ift.tt/1GUVHbm http://ift.tt/1IyTR5e July 03, 2015 at 06:00PM john sculley We had a chance to sit down with the founders of Zeta Interactive — John Sculley and David Steinberg — last week to talk a bit about their online marketing service. But Sculley isn’t just known for that company, or the ones that came just before it where he worked with Steinberg. He also had a stint running Apple, coming from running Pepsi in the middle of its… Read More

Startup Sues A Domain Name Owner To Grab A 16-Year-Old URL

Bully2 Jason Kneen is a programmer and happens to own about a hundred domain names picked up over a sixteen year period. One of those, workbetter.com, he purchased in 1999 and it has been available on his site for years. In late April 2014 a company, OfficeLinks, approached him about buying the domain for use as a URL for their co-working space. @jasonkneen @hjmehta Jason: We're sorry about… Read More

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Y Combinator-backed Gemnote Saves Companies From Cheesy Gift Baskets

Gemnote packaging This may come as a surprise to anyone who has ever received a rattan basket packed with novelty cheese logs, but corporate gifts are a huge business. According to research from the Advertising Specialty Institute, U.S. companies spend about $19 billion a year sending swag to clients and employees. Gemnote, which just launched from Y Combinator, gives companies an alternative. Read More

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Interview: Tim Draper Doubles Down On Europe

draper esprit DFJ, the storied Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has built out a global presence not just through direct investments but through a network of firms that are affiliated with the mothership yet raising and investing from their own funds. Now that network is going through some changes, and with it comes a new role for one of the firm’s founder. The DFJ Network has rebranded to the… Read More

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

India’s BankBazaar Raises $60M Series C Led By Amazon

India rupees BankBazaar, a startup that lets Indian consumers compare financial products online, has scored a $60 million Series C led by Amazon, with participation from Fidelity Growth Partners, Mousse Partners, and returning investors Sequoia Capital and Walden International. Read More

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Tips For Finding Success As A Female Engineer

femaleengineer It was apparent from the first time I took a computer programming class in high school that it was one of the few subjects that really excited me. Initially, it was just an option I was trying out, but I soon knew that engineering was what I wanted to major in and pursue for my lifelong career. The thing I love most about engineering is that there are limitless opportunities to do meaningful… Read More

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Smigin Is a Foreign Language Tool That Doesn’t Make You Sound Like A Tourist

unnamed If you’ve ever tried to learn a foreign language, you probably know that most existing methods focus on aspects of the language that aren’t very helpful in everyday life. For example, newcomers to a language are often first taught the names of animals or colors, words that aren’t normally applicable to the common traveler. Smigin aims to fix this problem with its app… Read More

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An Interview With Blue Apron CEO Matt Salzberg

Blue Apron, the NY-based startup that delivers weekly pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to your home, has been cooking over the past year. The company recently announced that it had surpassed 1 million meals shipped monthly, putting estimated yearly revenue at $120 million. And if that weren’t enough, the company raised $135 million in Series D at a $2 billion valuation. We sat… Read More

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Sources: On-Demand Cleaning Startup Hassle Merges With Rocket Internet’s Helpling

cleaning According to multiple sources, the U.K.’s Hassle.com, which also operates in Ireland and France, has been acquired by Rocket Internet’s Helpling. Both companies declined to comment. However, TechCrunch understands that this is now a done deal. Read More

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In Wake Of Apple Music, SoundCloud Update Focuses On Music Discovery, Better User Experience

{rss:content:encoded} In Wake Of Apple Music, SoundCloud Update Focuses On Music Discovery, Better User Experience http://ift.tt/1C2VYwX http://ift.tt/1CdKSFQ July 02, 2015 at 06:59PM soundcloud-ios All the buzz this week may be about the launch of Apple Music, but another popular streaming music application, SoundCloud, has also now rolled out a notable update to its mobile application. The update – which delivers new features including related tracks, shuffle, direct playlist editing, and more – is aimed at both improving music discovery and the overall user experience.… Read More

In Wake Of Apple Music, SoundCloud Update Focuses On Music Discovery, Better User Experience

soundcloud-ios All the buzz this week may be about the launch of Apple Music, but another popular streaming music application, SoundCloud, has also now rolled out a notable update to its mobile application. The update – which delivers new features including related tracks, shuffle, direct playlist editing, and more – is aimed at both improving music discovery and the overall user experience.… Read More

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Trash-Focused Rubicon Global Hires Its First CTO

trash cans Rubicon Global, a startup helping customers find money-saving, environmentally-friendly ways to handle their waste and recycling, is announcing the hire of its first chief technology officer — Phil Rodoni, previously vice president of software at Esurance. Atlanta-based Rubicon doesn’t haul trash itself, but instead connects businesses with waste hauling and recycling companies… Read More

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Read This Before Meeting VCs For Pre-Pitch “Advice”

footindoor Startups often ask VCs for pre-pitch meetings. These requests usually are positioned along the lines of, “We aren’t looking for money yet, just advice.” Of course, we all know this is just a nice way of getting your foot in the door for a soft pitch. And that’s ok; these meetings enable both sides to get acquainted before the real ask. However, when startups come… Read More

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Prêt d’Union Grabs $34 Million For Its Online Credit Marketplace

Euro Dollar Bill French startup Prêt d’Union just raised $34 million (€31 million) from Eurazeo, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet as well as its existing investors. Prêt d’Union is a European online credit marketplace that matches lenders and borrowers without any financial institution in-between. You can call it a sort of Lending Club for Europe. Read More

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Gozoomo Gets $5M To Make Buying Used Cars In India Easier

Gozoomo buyer When Arnav Kumar started looking for his first car, he was determined to buy a used one to save money. The process of sorting through online listings and trying to figure out which ones were legitimate was so tedious that he gave up after a day. To save other buyers from the same headache, Kumar founded Gozoomo, which just landed a $5 million Series A from returning investors SAIF Partners. Read More

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HomeToGo, The European Metasearch Engine For Holiday Rentals, Raises €6M

kGhG3ajGvEK4oSjbJ-86-UYOd8QO4UiVi9eZ0ah54hQ HomeToGo, the European ‘metasearch’ engine for holiday rentals, has raised €6 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is DN capital, and Acton Capital Partners, adding to the €2 million previously raised from various angel investors. Read More

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant

www.your.md Your.MD is on a mission to improve the way we seek health-related, namely self-diagnosis, information online. If you’ve ever tried to google your symptoms, you know it’s not for the feint hearted. The U.K. health startup wants to change that via its ‘smart health assistant’ app for smartphones. Read More

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Xiaomi Sold 34.7M Smartphones In First Half Of 2015, Up 33% Year-On-Year

{rss:content:encoded} Xiaomi Sold 34.7M Smartphones In First Half Of 2015, Up 33% Year-On-Year http://ift.tt/1gbVRph http://ift.tt/1IPCXeF July 02, 2015 at 05:11AM xiaomi Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi today confirmed that it sold just shy of 35 million phones in the first half of this year. Read More

Rakuten Acquires Tokyo-Based Travel Startup Voyagin

Voyagin Rakuten not only runs Japan’s largest e-commerce site, but also one of its leading online travel agencies, booking over 3.8 million hotel nights each month. Now the company is expanding its horizons beyond hotels and flights with the acquisition of Voyagin, a Tokyo-based tour planning startup. Read More

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CEO Kevin Gibbon On Why Shyp Is Converting Its 1099 Workers Into W2 Employees

DSC03076 This morning, Shyp, the San Francisco-based shipping services company, announced that, “After careful consideration, we’ve decided to transition Shyp couriers, the individuals who complete pickups at our customers’ homes and offices, to W2 employees.” Read More

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