Tag: Startups
What Your Klout Score Really Means
Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for...
Airbnb Purges More Than Half of Its Boston Listings
Airbnb Sunday deactivated thousands of listings in Boston to comply with a new city law, shrinking its footprint in the area significantly. Most...
Would You Pay Someone $40 to Keep You Focused on Work?
The pair came up with the idea for Focused this spring, while working alongside one another at a coffee shop. “We were not...
Every Startup Needs to Prepare for Its Downfall
Last year, Jibo—“the world's first social robot for the home”—began to lose its mind. First came memory problems. The bot started to spend...
Tech Marketing Is Losing Its Cool
The year 2015 was a heady time to do marketing for tech startups. The venture baronry that controlled the fates of founders had...
Who Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs? The Middle-Aged
Back in 2007, a 22-year-old Mark Zuckerberg gave some advice at Y Combinator's Startup School: Do a startup before you're old. In technology,...
These Startups Are Building Tools to Keep an Eye on AI
In January, Liz O’Sullivan wrote a letter to her boss at artificial intelligence startup Clarifai, asking him to set ethical limits on its...
Stumbles at Uber and WeWork Don’t Mean the End of Tech
It would be an understatement to say that it’s been a disappointing few months for some high-profile Silicon Valley darlings. Shares of Uber,...
Inside Pioneer: May the Best Silicon Valley Hustler Win
Even founder Daniel Gross has a hard time explaining Pioneer. Over the course of one phone call, he compared it to Fortnite Battle...
How Ruben Harris Used the Power of Stories to Break Into Startups
In this week's...
