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How to do remote work right, from the teams that know it best
What are the most important things to get right about remote work? What needs to be prioritized? With more and more teams being thrown headfirst into remote work, I spent a few weeks talking with some
Former Tinder VP Jeff Morris Jr. opens up Product Club, an accelerator meant to stay small and focused
Startup accelerators tend to grow the size of each new class over time, as more of their portfolio companies find exits, their network of mentors expands and they find new ways to scale things up. The
FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton on what newly remote companies tend to get right and wrong
Over the last few months, just about any tech company that can go remote has gone remote. Are companies adopting remote for the long haul, or is it just a holdover until they can get people back in t
Joe Coffee raises another $1.3M to help more coffee shops take mobile orders
Gone — or at least on hold for a long while — are the days of hanging around a coffee shop, poking around the internet on the free Wi-Fi while sipping the same coffee for three hours. The entire i
Sony will now pay researchers $50,000+ for critical PS4 bugs
Think you’ve found a way to consistently brick someone’s PS4, or make it run code that it shouldn’t? Sony wants to know — and now they’re willing to pay. This morning Sony an
Here’s everything Apple announced in the WWDC 2020 keynote today
Today marks the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (or WWDC, as it’s known.) With the pandemic continuing to rage on throughout the world, this year’s WWDC is entire
Apex Legends is heading to the Nintendo Switch, with PS4/Xbox/PC crossplay coming this fall
Respawn just dropped a big ol’ bundle of news about its popular free-to-play Battle Royale shooter, Apex Legends, during a livestream event hosted by its parent company, EA. The key bits: Apex i
Twitch launches its own free broadcasting software for Mac users
Back in November of last year, Twitch rolled out a beta build of Twitch Studio — a free, straightforward broadcasting app meant to be the first step for anyone curious about streaming on the ser
HappyFunCorp’s Ben Schippers and Jon Evans will talk tech stacks at TC Early Stage
How do you decide what tools and languages to use to build your concept into a company? How can the tech stack decisions you make in the early days affect you down the road — and how might your need
Learn how to give your brand a distinct voice from Slack’s Head of Brand Communications Anna Pickard at TC Early Stage
How do you give your brand a voice that feels authentic and unique? How can you communicate with users in a way that helps and engages without feeling weird or forced? We’re thrilled to announce
Apple to discontinue iTunes U after 2021
If you’re a teacher who has been relying on Apple’s iTunes U platform to digitally share your courses with the world, it’s time to shift to something new. After a few years of lettin
Quibi gets Chromecast support on iOS and Android
If you haven’t checked out Quibi and the lack of Chromecast support was the thing holding you back: Now’s the time. Just a few weeks after adding AirPlay support, Quibi has released anothe
TaxProper raises $2M to automate getting your property taxes lowered
If you own your home, how much do you pay for property taxes? Does it seem like too much? If you disagree with how much you’re paying in property taxes, you can appeal the assessment. Most peopl
Sony will show off the first PlayStation 5 games on June 4th
Sony has been dishing out details on the PlayStation 5 piece-by-piece, rather than dropping all of the details at one big mega event. First came word of the Holiday 2020 release window. Then came an o
4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience
While the present is largely bleak, preparing for the future has retailers adopting technologies faster than ever. Their resilience and innovation means retail will look and fee different when the wor
Siren raises $11.8M for its limb-saving smart socks
Can a pair of socks help those with diabetes avoid foot amputations? That’s one of the ideas behind Siren, a company that’s building smart, washable fabric wearables — the first of which is
Box will let employees work from home until at least 2021
Another tech company is joining the list of those planning on going remote for the long haul: Box . Box CEO Aaron Levie announced this morning that the company will “remain a digital-first organ
What people tend to get wrong about remote work
What do people tend to get wrong about remote work? And how can companies make it work better for them? While just about every tech company on the planet has become remote over the last few weeks, Git
GitLab’s head of Remote on hiring, onboarding and why Slack is a no-work zone
With more than 1,200 employees distributed across over 65 countries and a valuation of nearly $3 billion, GitLab is one of the world’s most successful fully remote startups. Describing it as a t
Here are the 15 companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s first fully digital demo day
As with just about any big gathering, the traditional approach to Demo Day — in which a startup incubator debuts all of its latest companies to a huge room full of investors — has been put on hold