Greg Kumparak, Signing Off

By Greg Kumparak May 21, 2012

The strangest part of writing a goodbye post is figuring out the opening paragraph. Do I share a relatable anecdote, recalling any one of many times I’ve said goodbye to someone only to find that we’re both walking in the same direction for another five blocks? Do I kick off with some silly quote on doors and windows and whatnots?…

AngelList’s Week-Long Hackathon Gives A Glimpse Of What’s Next For The Company

By Greg Kumparak May 8, 2012

AngelList, the community for startup founders and the investors who love them (and who want to show their love with hugs made of money), just had me over to their headquarters to witness the tail end of a week-long battle. For the past seven days, the company’s engineers have been duking it out in an intracompany hackathon, armed only...

Kicksaver Lets You Be Someone’s Last Minute Funding Hero

By Greg Kumparak May 7, 2012

The web is awash with Kickstarter success stories. I mean, just look at the success of the TikTok! or Double Fine! or the Pebble! To the casual observer, it may well seem like Kickstarter is something of an Entrepreneur’s Eden, where every last person with a big idea and a heart full of hope can walk away…

Video: Sarah Lacy’s PandoMonthly Chat With Dustin Moskovitz

By Greg Kumparak May 6, 2012

Couldn’t nab a ticket to the most recent PandoMonthly before they sold out? Miss the livestream? You don’t know what you missed. Sarah Lacy sat down with Facebook co-founder (and soon-to-be World’s Youngest Billionaire) Dustin Moskovitz for a conversation on everything from his new company, Asana, to his time at (and departure from) Facebook, to why he thinks…

Live From PandoMonthly: Sarah Lacy’s Fireside Chat With Dustin Moskovitz

By Greg Kumparak May 3, 2012

Catch our live notes below! (more…)

KeepHerHappy Remembers to Buy Her Flowers When You Probably Won’t

By Greg Kumparak May 3, 2012

“Fast forward to February of this year. I found myself, for one reason or another, in a grocery store at 4:30pm on Valentine’s Day trying to buy flowers. There were a bunch of other men there, all with fear in their eyes, hoping there was still something, ANYTHING left at the flower counter so they wouldn’t have to go home…

Vungle’s Co-Founders Hustle Their Way To A $2 Million Seed Round For In-App Video Ads

By Greg Kumparak May 2, 2012

I hear the word “hustle” used a lot, probably 10 times a day. It seems to be everyone’s new favorite word. As everyone hops on the “hustler” bandwagon, the definition of the word has started to get a bit fuzzy. More often than not, the folks using it seem to be stretching it to mean, “I talk to a lot…

YC-Backed Crocodoc Shifts Focus To Enterprise, Finds Customers In Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Yammer

By Greg Kumparak May 1, 2012

PDFs have been the bane of every Internet-goers life for far too long. Oh, you accidentally clicked into a huge PDF? Screw it, better go get coffee and come back in a few minutes. Hopefully your computer has stopped grinding away by then. Fortunately, companies like Scribd and Crocodoc have popped up in the past few years with the valiant…

Etsy’s Growing Pains: 3300+ Etsy Sellers Rally to Protest the Site’s Policing Process

By Greg Kumparak April 30, 2012

Here’s a sentence I couldn’t have predicted I’d ever write when I became a tech reporter: There’s a controversy brewing in the world of handmade crafts. Etsy, a site often framed as a beacon of hope for those looking to sell goods that they’ve made with their own two hands, is battling a budding protest amongst the very userbase that...

Sink Or Ship Holds Your Wallet Hostage to Ensure Your Projects Ship On Time

By Greg Kumparak April 27, 2012

Procrastinators of the world, unite! There are projects that need finishing, now! Or, well, eventually. Maybe not today — I mean, come on, “Supertroopers” is on TNT tonight. Plus, you’ve spent this long working on it, what’s one more weekend spent figuring out how to make it SoLoMo and freemium with an emphasis on your social graph, crowd sourcing, and...