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The broken world of mobile payments and how to fix it
It’s being predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the U.S. will grow 210 percent. Despite this impressive gain, it turns out that not everyone is taking advantage of mobile payments. Why aren’t more people enjoying the convenience and ease of mobile payments? Some have said that the system for money exchange in the mobile world was broken before… Read More
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Autodesk CEO Carl Bass on investing in the future
A year ago, the design-focused software firm Autodesk announced it would stop selling standalone perpetual licenses of its desktop software and instead sell subscriptions. Early last month, it began implementing that switch, a move that will be complete by mid-year, when the company’s older products will no longer be available. Perhaps unsurprisingly, as part of its… Read More
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Cognitive correction and creating better human-to-machine interaction
The lifetime of the computer has been marked by an ongoing struggle to communicate with the machine. When two human conversational participants come from different languages, true communication only occurs when one can learn to speak in the language of the other. At the beginning of the history of computation, it was the human who had to use the language of the machine; early programmers… Read More
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There’s more to early-stage funding than VC money
Good companies will always get funded. If that’s your company, it’s important to make sure you have the resources to keep it alive long enough to get funded. Murmurs of a looming downturn in venture capital are pressuring more companies to preemptively begin fundraising, whether or not they have gained sufficient traction to justify their stated valuations. Read More
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Can you take the Internet out of the Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things and the Internet might seem inextricably linked, but, increasingly, there are questions centered around how IoT devices should work with one another — and what happens when the Internet connection goes down? Read More
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3 signs you’ll soon be attending a coding bootcamp at your college
It all started as an alternative to the traditional college education. Now they’ve caught the eyes of deans across the country. Coding bootcamps have been a trending topic in higher education as their focus on job readiness and generous starting salaries has garnered the attention of both college students and career switchers — but those aren’t the only groups that have… Read More
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Oh, the places you can go with Google Street View
Google Street View uses in-house data-capturing tech that lets you see the world from the comfort of your own device. GSV allows us to see not only photos of certain gems on the planet, but provides new perspectives that only its cameras can capture. Read More
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Crunch Network
The Dark Ages of Austin startup capital
An Austin-based venture capital firm recently offered my company $400,000 for 40 percent of its equity. This was one week before their counterpart in the Bay Area offered $2 million for 20 percent of the same company. Nothing had changed in that week, and both received the same pitch and deck in the weeks prior. Read More
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MIT spin-out Thunkable hopes its drag-and-drop app builder can be a money-spinner too
Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average. The two-man strong founder team of Thunkable is coming from the rather more comfortable position of already having fostered a community over four million strong — thanks to the drag-and-drop app builder interface they helped developed at MIT… Read More
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On the war between hacker culture and codes of conduct
Did you know that a Code of Conduct war is underway in the world of open-source software development? I realize that this sounds ridiculous. Codes of Conduct boil down to: “a) don’t be an asshole, b) this is how we define ‘asshole’ around these parts”. Who could argue with that? And yet this has become eruptively controversial — and with good reason. Read More
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PayPal makes money every time you use Uber, Airbnb
PayPal has been going through some big changes since separating from eBay last year. The company recently introduced a redesigned app and is now monetizing its popular peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo. Already with 18 million users, PayPal is expanding its One Touch checkout to 120 new countries. And they are doubling down on Braintree, which powers the mobile transactions on Uber, Airbnb… Read More
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How to politely ask people to get the f*ck off their phones
You’re with a small group of friends at a nice restaurant. Everyone is enjoying the food and conversation when someone decides to take out his phone — not for an urgent call, but to check email, Instagram and Facebook. Maybe you’ve witnessed this behavior and found it unsettling. What do you do? Do you sit idly by, thinking disparaging thoughts? Or do you call out the offender? Read More
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SpaceX successfully launches SES-9 into GEO but crash lands rocket on drone ship
Today at 6:35pm EST, SpaceX successfully launched the SES-9 communications satellite into Geostationary orbit (GEO). Launching the SES-9 payload was the primary goal of today’s mission, but many had their eyes back on the ground for what would have been the first successful landing of a rocket on a drone ship in the ocean. Unfortunately, however, the rocket landing was… Read More
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Legal battles loom as technological ubiquity creates tensions between privacy and security
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Kissmetric’s Hiten Shah on VC funding vs bootstrapping and how to determine founder ‘grit’
What’s it like being the founder of two wildly successful startups, advisor to Linkedin and Automattic and a prolific angel investor with Buffer and Mattermark? Hiten Shah shares a glimpse in our latest interview. We discussed the pros and cons of VC funding compared to bootstrapping your startup, the implications of financing and self-funding and how Hiten’s time in the startup… Read More
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Andreessen Horowitz talking with investors about a new, $1.5 billion fund
The Sand Hill Road venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is in the thick of fundraising and talking with investors about a fresh $1.5 billion fund, according to several sources who note the fund could always close at a higher number. It was almost exactly two years ago that the firm closed its forth, multi-stage venture capital fund, Andreessen Horowitz Fund IV, with $1.5 billion. The money also… Read More
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Mig Me
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LightSail Education
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dr. consulta
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Slidebean
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GabBox
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Swapit
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Auction House Portal
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Elucify
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Gravity Sketch
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Cypheme
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- HQ: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island
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Ninjacart
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Lab Sensor Solutions
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WorkHere
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vivereinforma
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Salaso Health Solutions
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- HQ: New York, New York
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Apricus Biosciences
- $10M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: San Diego, California
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Aahaa
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eNaturr
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- HQ: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast'
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OrthoFi
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Denver, Colorado
- Categories: Software
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Zappka
- $100K Angel
- HQ: Gurgaon, Haryana
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Isotropic Systems Limited
- $1.0M Seed
- HQ: London, England
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Kurio
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya
- Categories: Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Content Syndication, Apps, News, Media
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BondSheet.com
- $250K Series A
- HQ: Houston, Texas
- Categories: Financial Services, Crowdsourcing, Peer-to-Peer
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Terrestrial Energy
- 5.7M CAD Grant
- HQ: Oakville, Ontario
- Categories: Energy, Oil and Gas
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Metro Bank
- 400M GBP Private Equity
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Financial Services, Banking
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Onslip
- $1.3M
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: Payments, Financial Services, Point of Sale
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Toucan Ventures
- 700K GBP Seed
- HQ: London, England
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Loop Energy
- $7.5M Grant
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