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We definitely don't want to keep ads. So why not make them disappear?

We definitely don't want to keep ads. So why not make them disappear?

This startup makes networking hard… but in the best way possible

This startup makes networking hard… but in the best way possible

Contently raises $9 million Series B, trading acquisition talks for IPO plans

Contently raises $9 million Series B, trading acquisition talks for IPO plans

Ecommerce in 1984: Innovation is never pretty at first

Ecommerce in 1984: Innovation is never pretty at first

Markerly pivots to platform to match up bloggers with brands, adds $600K in seed funding

Markerly pivots to platform to match up bloggers with brands, adds $600K in seed funding

InstaEDU beefs up to its virtual tutoring service with screensharing

InstaEDU beefs up to its virtual tutoring service with screensharing

Nomi continues build-out of in-store marketing tools

Nomi continues build-out of in-store marketing tools

Fab Europe no more: The dramatic retreat is complete

Fab Europe no more: The dramatic retreat is complete

Just add photos: Why Jelly could actually work

Just add photos: Why Jelly could actually work

Longform is trendy, but publishers are still chasing fast clicks

Longform is trendy, but publishers are still chasing fast clicks

Live in 10 cities, Techstars grad Jukely closes seed round for concert promotion app

Live in 10 cities, Techstars grad Jukely closes seed round for concert promotion app

Whyd is like Instapaper for music (if that makes sense)

Whyd is like Instapaper for music (if that makes sense)

How Quibb has cleverly won over tech's early adopters by rejecting the majority of its users

How Quibb has cleverly won over tech's early adopters by rejecting the majority of its users

Integral Ad Science raises $30 million for ad policing

Integral Ad Science raises $30 million for ad policing

Get your life together with Agent, the utilities app for Android that just became free

Get your life together with Agent, the utilities app for Android that just became free

Want an immediate reaction to all that stuff you're sharing? Try this app

Want an immediate reaction to all that stuff you're sharing? Try this app

Neverware raises $3 million to save school computers

Neverware raises $3 million to save school computers

Dead Century fights monsters, heteronormativity with beautiful RPG game

Dead Century fights monsters, heteronormativity with beautiful RPG game

Meet the secret accelerator that many of New York's best startups have gone through

Meet the secret accelerator that many of New York's best startups have gone through

RetailMeNot wins the holidays by not overthinking it

RetailMeNot wins the holidays by not overthinking it

Native advertising is a $2.4 billion "thing," and it's not going away

Native advertising is a $2.4 billion "thing," and it's not going away

TechStars grad Sync OnSet raises $2.5 million to ensure Ron Burgundy's mustache is impeccable

TechStars grad Sync OnSet raises $2.5 million to ensure Ron Burgundy's mustache is impeccable

Kind of a big deal: Dealertrack buys Dealer.com for $1 billion

Kind of a big deal: Dealertrack buys Dealer.com for $1 billion

This bootstrapped startup is helping style bloggers drive $150 million in sales

This bootstrapped startup is helping style bloggers drive $150 million in sales

Boundless, the free textbook startup, settles lawsuit with publishers

Boundless, the free textbook startup, settles lawsuit with publishers

The ouroboros is complete: Forbes outsourced contributor outsources journalism to actual journalists

The ouroboros is complete: Forbes outsourced contributor outsources journalism to actual journalists

Sailthru breaks out: marketing services company bags $20 million to ramp up marketing

Sailthru breaks out: marketing services company bags $20 million to ramp up marketing

Discount commerce done right: quiet NYC startup NoMoreRack will top $325 million in sales this year

Discount commerce done right: quiet NYC startup NoMoreRack will top $325 million in sales this year

Meal kits are fine and all, but Feast wants to turn you into a cook for life

Meal kits are fine and all, but Feast wants to turn you into a cook for life

Nas and his manager have invested in 40 startups, and they're just getting started

Nas and his manager have invested in 40 startups, and they're just getting started

When competitors won't sell, Zuckerberg calls the man who did: Kevin Systrom

When competitors won't sell, Zuckerberg calls the man who did: Kevin Systrom

Spotify is now free on mobile. So why bother subscribing?

Spotify is now free on mobile. So why bother subscribing?

How did Exposure crack the photosharing code? By charging its users

How did Exposure crack the photosharing code? By charging its users

How MilkMade is turning a boutique ice cream company into a venture-backed startup

How MilkMade is turning a boutique ice cream company into a venture-backed startup

Freight Farms raises $1.2 million for greenhouses built in old shipping containers

Freight Farms raises $1.2 million for greenhouses built in old shipping containers

Here's why Twitter's CEO doesn't see the company as "the anti-Facebook"

Here's why Twitter's CEO doesn't see the company as "the anti-Facebook"

Medium gets even magazine-ier

Medium gets even magazine-ier

This is how you do "founder-friendly": Kima Ventures promises investments in 15 days

This is how you do "founder-friendly": Kima Ventures promises investments in 15 days

Work--Bench announces $10 million fund to back enterprise startups

Work--Bench announces $10 million fund to back enterprise startups

New York's hackathon superhero sells his hackathon hack to Intel

New York's hackathon superhero sells his hackathon hack to Intel

Edtech sales are nearly impossible, so Chalkable sold itself

Edtech sales are nearly impossible, so Chalkable sold itself

Software eats dinner: Why VCs are pouring cash into food startups

Software eats dinner: Why VCs are pouring cash into food startups

Proust and Heads Up are the antidotes to holiday boredom

Proust and Heads Up are the antidotes to holiday boredom

The Samwer brothers may have the last laugh on Fab after all

The Samwer brothers may have the last laugh on Fab after all

Rukkus launches its "Kayak for tickets" site with tickets from 100 different providers

Rukkus launches its "Kayak for tickets" site with tickets from 100 different providers

Techstars NYC is at an inflection point

Techstars NYC is at an inflection point

Poolsidepreneurs, where the cult of entrepreneurship goes to drown

Poolsidepreneurs, where the cult of entrepreneurship goes to drown

Turn your Instagram photos into oil paintings, thanks to China's counterfeit art villages

Turn your Instagram photos into oil paintings, thanks to China's counterfeit art villages

Shoppable bookmarking site Wantworthy shuts down

Shoppable bookmarking site Wantworthy shuts down

Crowdfunders beware -- your crowd can become an angry mob

Crowdfunders beware -- your crowd can become an angry mob

Hardware crowdfunding grows up and out of Kickstarter with new specialized platforms

Hardware crowdfunding grows up and out of Kickstarter with new specialized platforms

QuizUp scores a million downloads in its first week, hits #1 in the App Store

QuizUp scores a million downloads in its first week, hits #1 in the App Store

Web 1.0 travel site StudentUniverse buys its way into mobile with WeHostels deal

Web 1.0 travel site StudentUniverse buys its way into mobile with WeHostels deal

As traditional media adopts native advertising, not everyone is sold

As traditional media adopts native advertising, not everyone is sold

Makr launches iPad app to simplify design and branding for DIY mavens

Makr launches iPad app to simplify design and branding for DIY mavens

Costco-style commerce app Boxed expands nationally

Costco-style commerce app Boxed expands nationally

Native advertising is trolling us all

Native advertising is trolling us all

With $79 million Series D round, Quirky is New York's most underrated (yet well-funded) startup

With $79 million Series D round, Quirky is New York's most underrated (yet well-funded) startup

Too lazy to start a real startup? Play "Hipster CEO" instead

Too lazy to start a real startup? Play "Hipster CEO" instead

An interview with TechStars NY's new Managing Director, Alex Iskold

An interview with TechStars NY's new Managing Director, Alex Iskold

Thrillist delivers on the promise of fully integrated "content + commerce" with new native check-out

Thrillist delivers on the promise of fully integrated "content + commerce" with new native check-out

PandoWeekly with Adam Ludwin: When messaging, photo sharing and gaming blends together

PandoWeekly with Adam Ludwin: When messaging, photo sharing and gaming blends together

Behold, the latest craze in fitness apps: real life coaching

Behold, the latest craze in fitness apps: real life coaching

A live guide to Twitter's IPO

A live guide to Twitter's IPO

Squarespace has big plans to take over NYC tech, hiring Joris Luijke from Atlassian to staff up to 400

Squarespace has big plans to take over NYC tech, hiring Joris Luijke from Atlassian to staff up to 400

Score one for the little guy: Court dismisses ComScore's patent lawsuit against Moat

Score one for the little guy: Court dismisses ComScore's patent lawsuit against Moat

Skillshare has spent the last year quietly transforming itself. It's working

Skillshare has spent the last year quietly transforming itself. It's working

Teachers are earning millions of dollars selling their lesson plans on the "iTunes of education"

Teachers are earning millions of dollars selling their lesson plans on the "iTunes of education"

NYC startup Archetypes goes bankrupt

NYC startup Archetypes goes bankrupt

Surprise! Instagram users hate the new ads

Surprise! Instagram users hate the new ads

Fab has lost its special sauce

Fab has lost its special sauce

Blucarat wants to power the next wave of social shopping

Blucarat wants to power the next wave of social shopping

This whole "content and commerce" trend isn't dead yet, according to StyleCaster

This whole "content and commerce" trend isn't dead yet, according to StyleCaster

Facebook's otherwise stellar earnings tainted by teenage drama

Facebook's otherwise stellar earnings tainted by teenage drama

Silicon Valley might never solve the Web's impossible problem: taste

Silicon Valley might never solve the Web's impossible problem: taste

GetGlue CEO out as company fights for second-screen relevance

GetGlue CEO out as company fights for second-screen relevance

Craft spirits site Caskers skips the seed round, sells itself instead

Craft spirits site Caskers skips the seed round, sells itself instead

Vegas-based TuneGO connects music industry bigwigs with up-and-coming bands

Vegas-based TuneGO connects music industry bigwigs with up-and-coming bands

Listen to PandoWeekly with Refinery29 co-founders Phillippe von Borries and Justin Stefano

Listen to PandoWeekly with Refinery29 co-founders Phillippe von Borries and Justin Stefano

Mock all you want: Barkbox is laughing all the way to the bank

Mock all you want: Barkbox is laughing all the way to the bank

Bijan Sabet: David Karp's job was never in danger

Bijan Sabet: David Karp's job was never in danger

"Kindness alone won't solve the world's problems," and other lessons in buzz-building

"Kindness alone won't solve the world's problems," and other lessons in buzz-building

eBay: Forget auctions, we are all about curated boutiques. (Just like everyone else)

eBay: Forget auctions, we are all about curated boutiques. (Just like everyone else)

Space Ape's Samurai Siege game is a hit with 1.2 million players and 300k daily active users

Space Ape's Samurai Siege game is a hit with 1.2 million players and 300k daily active users

"Spotify of India" company Saavn moves into content, but in a different way than Spotify

"Spotify of India" company Saavn moves into content, but in a different way than Spotify

Here's how one venture firm is shifting from new and shiny things to old and rusty ones

Here's how one venture firm is shifting from new and shiny things to old and rusty ones

Listen to PandoWeekly with Scott Miller of Dragon Innovation

Listen to PandoWeekly with Scott Miller of Dragon Innovation

From prototype to production: How Dragon Innovation's "Kickstarter for hardware" aims to change consumer tech

From prototype to production: How Dragon Innovation's "Kickstarter for hardware" aims to change consumer tech

Will Poshmark pull away from the pack in the secondhand clothing wars?

Will Poshmark pull away from the pack in the secondhand clothing wars?

Gertrude opens its private artist salons to the world as art shifts toward experiences

Gertrude opens its private artist salons to the world as art shifts toward experiences

Refinery29 ditches commerce, raising $20 million to double down on content

Refinery29 ditches commerce, raising $20 million to double down on content

Steve Blank explains why accelerators should mimic "Moneyball"

Steve Blank explains why accelerators should mimic "Moneyball"

How ElectNext found its native ad groove

How ElectNext found its native ad groove

Artsy app scores 90,000 downloads in first three weeks, as galleries sign up in droves

Artsy app scores 90,000 downloads in first three weeks, as galleries sign up in droves

ffVC kicks off first general solicitation from a venture fund

ffVC kicks off first general solicitation from a venture fund

Gifting app Bond helps you trick people into thinking you're a thoughtful adult

Gifting app Bond helps you trick people into thinking you're a thoughtful adult

GroupMe co-founder unveils Splice, a music collaboration app with $2.75 million in the bank

GroupMe co-founder unveils Splice, a music collaboration app with $2.75 million in the bank

Can GroupMe still compete in the messaging wars?

Can GroupMe still compete in the messaging wars?

From postman to profit: A one-man startup goes the alternative route

From postman to profit: A one-man startup goes the alternative route

Listen to PandoWeekly with Alexis Ohanian

Listen to PandoWeekly with Alexis Ohanian

Hardware is the new software? Nope, says Marc Andreessen. "It's called hardware for a reason -- it is hard"

Hardware is the new software? Nope, says Marc Andreessen. "It's called hardware for a reason -- it is hard"

Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook

Twitter to investors: We are the anti-Facebook

Archetypes, the biggest NYC startup you've never heard of, completely unravels

Archetypes, the biggest NYC startup you've never heard of, completely unravels

Dinner Lab goes national with its underground supper club service

Dinner Lab goes national with its underground supper club service

20x200 lives: Affordable art site to gearing up for reboot

20x200 lives: Affordable art site to gearing up for reboot

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Two students at Tufts are trying

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Two students at Tufts are trying

Native advertising's blurred lines are the publisher's fault, advertisers say

Native advertising's blurred lines are the publisher's fault, advertisers say

Why Chris Hughes isn't part of FWD.us

Why Chris Hughes isn't part of FWD.us

SecondMarket goes all-in on Bitcoin, launching a private trust

SecondMarket goes all-in on Bitcoin, launching a private trust

ERA's demo day: "This is not a general solicitation"

ERA's demo day: "This is not a general solicitation"

Chute's user-generated photo tool adds permissions, because that's what big brands want

Chute's user-generated photo tool adds permissions, because that's what big brands want

Has Facebook quieted the mobile advertising haters? Marissa Mayer thinks so

Has Facebook quieted the mobile advertising haters? Marissa Mayer thinks so

One year into First Round's Dorm Room Fund: 8 schools, 24 investors, 24 deals

One year into First Round's Dorm Room Fund: 8 schools, 24 investors, 24 deals

Sold brings its used electronics sales to Android, expects $1 million in first-year sales

Sold brings its used electronics sales to Android, expects $1 million in first-year sales

Naval Ravikant's advice for getting your startup featured on AngelList

Naval Ravikant's advice for getting your startup featured on AngelList

Listen to PandoWeekly with Naval Ravikant of AngelList

Listen to PandoWeekly with Naval Ravikant of AngelList

General solicitation starts Monday. Demo day organizers, startups, and other general solicitors get ready

General solicitation starts Monday. Demo day organizers, startups, and other general solicitors get ready

Employers won't buy your health insurance much longer -- here's why that's okay

Employers won't buy your health insurance much longer -- here's why that's okay

Not all ideas make billion-dollar companies. Here's how SmallKnot handled that reality

Not all ideas make billion-dollar companies. Here's how SmallKnot handled that reality

An A-list group of investors bet a new app called Memoir can do our remembering for us

An A-list group of investors bet a new app called Memoir can do our remembering for us

Still clinging to the daily deals dream? One (very active) buyer remains

Still clinging to the daily deals dream? One (very active) buyer remains

When a Kickstarter flop isn't actually a flop

When a Kickstarter flop isn't actually a flop

Profitable Polyvore enters its first new vertical with home products

Profitable Polyvore enters its first new vertical with home products

Walking the walk: Travel site Vayable trades the Valley echo chamber for Paris

Walking the walk: Travel site Vayable trades the Valley echo chamber for Paris

Techstars NY grad Urtak suspends operations

Techstars NY grad Urtak suspends operations

Friendly reminder: We've hated banner ads since the beginning of banner ads

Friendly reminder: We've hated banner ads since the beginning of banner ads

PandoWeekly with Frontback founder Frederic Della Faille: selfies, minimum viable product, and moving to Silicon Valley

PandoWeekly with Frontback founder Frederic Della Faille: selfies, minimum viable product, and moving to Silicon Valley

Notch.me to shut down, founder Eli Holder joins wellness app maker, Noom

Notch.me to shut down, founder Eli Holder joins wellness app maker, Noom

Zuckerberg on Facebook Platform problems: Games were never "the full vision"

Zuckerberg on Facebook Platform problems: Games were never "the full vision"

Meet two rising stars from the Kaplan EdTech demo day: Verificient and Ranku

Meet two rising stars from the Kaplan EdTech demo day: Verificient and Ranku

Yikes! comScore CEO assaults a Moat employee during patent deposition

Yikes! comScore CEO assaults a Moat employee during patent deposition

With MoPub deal, Twitter combines basic tools with mobile ads that actually work

With MoPub deal, Twitter combines basic tools with mobile ads that actually work

RPX and the complicated business of stockpiling patents for good, not evil

RPX and the complicated business of stockpiling patents for good, not evil

YC alum Tutorspree shuts down

YC alum Tutorspree shuts down

Previewing a runway show via Snapchat is kinda brilliant

Previewing a runway show via Snapchat is kinda brilliant

Progress? Percentage of ladies raising venture capital on the rise

Progress? Percentage of ladies raising venture capital on the rise

The cheese stands alone: Hearsay Social's SaaS platform shifts to direct selling after all its competitors sell out

The cheese stands alone: Hearsay Social's SaaS platform shifts to direct selling after all its competitors sell out

Socratic Labs and the scourge of the sub-par accelerators

Socratic Labs and the scourge of the sub-par accelerators

Popbasic's fashionable "micro-collections" are selling out each month

Popbasic's fashionable "micro-collections" are selling out each month

Best way to deal with copycats? Don't

Best way to deal with copycats? Don't

Why ecommerce hotshot Warby Parker needs old school retail stores

Why ecommerce hotshot Warby Parker needs old school retail stores

GroupMe founders exit to work on separate stealth-mode startups

GroupMe founders exit to work on separate stealth-mode startups

From blog to platform: Stylecaster fashions itself into a tech company with Makeover Solutions

From blog to platform: Stylecaster fashions itself into a tech company with Makeover Solutions

This chart shows the future of venture capital

This chart shows the future of venture capital

Agency-turned-platform Carnival Labs snags $2.4 million to help brands manage all their apps

Agency-turned-platform Carnival Labs snags $2.4 million to help brands manage all their apps

The photosharing app wars roil on: StoryApp offers narrated tales in a whimsical interface

The photosharing app wars roil on: StoryApp offers narrated tales in a whimsical interface

The promise of Tumblr commerce is still alive, Yahoo be damned

The promise of Tumblr commerce is still alive, Yahoo be damned

PlateJoy joins the meal delivery mix with healthy, personalized meals

PlateJoy joins the meal delivery mix with healthy, personalized meals

Earmark: a budgeting app you might actually use

Earmark: a budgeting app you might actually use

Lerer Ventures hires Taylor Greene

Lerer Ventures hires Taylor Greene

Boxed is more than an Costco delivery app -- it's a mobile commerce platform built by mobile gaming experts

Boxed is more than an Costco delivery app -- it's a mobile commerce platform built by mobile gaming experts

How a small music agency is helping indie artists sell out

How a small music agency is helping indie artists sell out

Here's how Percolate is attacking the user-generated photo problem

Here's how Percolate is attacking the user-generated photo problem

Tinybop's whimsical educational app is topping the App Store charts

Tinybop's whimsical educational app is topping the App Store charts

Radical.fm's radio app has a radical business model: User donations

Radical.fm's radio app has a radical business model: User donations

How to avoid breaking your company as it grows

How to avoid breaking your company as it grows

Yes, "personal branding" is an important thing to do

Yes, "personal branding" is an important thing to do

Subscription commerce might not be as faddish as we thought

Subscription commerce might not be as faddish as we thought

With 400,000 subscribers, Birchbox expands from beauty-in-a-box to lifestyle products

With 400,000 subscribers, Birchbox expands from beauty-in-a-box to lifestyle products

Low growth, high return: How men's commerce site Svbscription has thrived by taking things slow

Low growth, high return: How men's commerce site Svbscription has thrived by taking things slow

Zypsee, an Uber competitor in NYC, raises $1.4 million from ff Venture Capital

Zypsee, an Uber competitor in NYC, raises $1.4 million from ff Venture Capital

Let's kill the demo day and replace it with a one-year reunion

Let's kill the demo day and replace it with a one-year reunion

The hottest new thing in recommendations: The "Why?"

The hottest new thing in recommendations: The "Why?"

Job site The Muse dips its toe into education with Muse University

Job site The Muse dips its toe into education with Muse University

My pick from DreamIt NYC's Demo Day: TradeUp, a platform connecting online students with actual jobs

My pick from DreamIt NYC's Demo Day: TradeUp, a platform connecting online students with actual jobs

Food52 lives out its ecommerce dreams with the launch of Provisions

Food52 lives out its ecommerce dreams with the launch of Provisions

NYC tech hiring bounces back in first half of 2013

NYC tech hiring bounces back in first half of 2013

Inside TimeSpace, the New York Times' new startup accelerator

Inside TimeSpace, the New York Times' new startup accelerator

Why Benchmark won't creep into seed stage investing, even if it's the trend

Why Benchmark won't creep into seed stage investing, even if it's the trend

Meet NYC SeedStart's first class of enterprise companies

Meet NYC SeedStart's first class of enterprise companies

Short form is king for mobile news; Seeking Alpha dives in-head first with Tech Stocks app

Short form is king for mobile news; Seeking Alpha dives in-head first with Tech Stocks app

Talk is cheap(er): iHeartRadio goes after podcast and talk radio market

Talk is cheap(er): iHeartRadio goes after podcast and talk radio market

Why would AHAlife, a luxury commerce site, buy Kaptur, a photo sharing app?

Why would AHAlife, a luxury commerce site, buy Kaptur, a photo sharing app?

What do failed startups have in common?

What do failed startups have in common?

Meet Steve Hogan, the Silicon Valley fixer-upper

Meet Steve Hogan, the Silicon Valley fixer-upper

Job hunting site Collegefeed offers "Pandora-like" suggestions to help applicants discover new potential employers

Job hunting site Collegefeed offers "Pandora-like" suggestions to help applicants discover new potential employers

Brands and the user-generated photo conundrum

Brands and the user-generated photo conundrum

Cheryl Rosner's Stayful launches to connect travelers with boutique hotels

Cheryl Rosner's Stayful launches to connect travelers with boutique hotels

Betable raises new round for real money gambling platform

Betable raises new round for real money gambling platform

Service industry job site Shiftgig crosses 350,000 users

Service industry job site Shiftgig crosses 350,000 users

Meet MasterStreet, a marketplace for professional development classes

Meet MasterStreet, a marketplace for professional development classes

Learn-to-code site Thinkful is carving out a niche between MOOCs and expensive schools, with retention rates to prove it

Learn-to-code site Thinkful is carving out a niche between MOOCs and expensive schools, with retention rates to prove it

Education data startup BrightBytes raises $2.5 million Series A

Education data startup BrightBytes raises $2.5 million Series A

Betaworks' John Borthwick: VCs are judging startups by the wrong metrics

Betaworks' John Borthwick: VCs are judging startups by the wrong metrics

One year in, Yahoo employees and shareholders are on Team Marissa

One year in, Yahoo employees and shareholders are on Team Marissa

Does general solicitation matter for tech startups? Not really

Does general solicitation matter for tech startups? Not really

VCs on the future of VC

VCs on the future of VC

Israeli video ad startup Carambola raises $1 million to expand into the US

Israeli video ad startup Carambola raises $1 million to expand into the US

12Society's sale proves that "slap a celeb on it" doesn't work

12Society's sale proves that "slap a celeb on it" doesn't work

Is Mayer aiming for a turnaround of Yahoo's stock or a turnaround of the business?

Is Mayer aiming for a turnaround of Yahoo's stock or a turnaround of the business?

Inside the surprising master plan of John Borthwick

Inside the surprising master plan of John Borthwick

Two startups settle patent case with ComScore as Moat continues to fight

Two startups settle patent case with ComScore as Moat continues to fight

Meet Homepolish, the bootstrapped design company decorating NYC's startup offices

Meet Homepolish, the bootstrapped design company decorating NYC's startup offices

Meet Sleepbot, the fast-growing sleep tracking app with a over a million users

Meet Sleepbot, the fast-growing sleep tracking app with a over a million users

Foursquare Explore is amazing. But only for a very small group of people

Foursquare Explore is amazing. But only for a very small group of people

TechStars New York demo day: "Do more faster"

TechStars New York demo day: "Do more faster"

Why Placemeter abandoned the buzzed-about "omnichannel" category for a more ambitious goal

Why Placemeter abandoned the buzzed-about "omnichannel" category for a more ambitious goal

Jukely makes concert discovery social by inviting your friends along

Jukely makes concert discovery social by inviting your friends along

Soundwave raises €1 million in seed funding from Mark Cuban and ACT Venture Capital, hits 560,000 plays five days after launch

Soundwave raises €1 million in seed funding from Mark Cuban and ACT Venture Capital, hits 560,000 plays five days after launch

Finally, Pinterest knows what it wants to be. Now how about that API?

Finally, Pinterest knows what it wants to be. Now how about that API?

WeeSpring revamps mobile site for kid gear ahead of TechStars demo day

WeeSpring revamps mobile site for kid gear ahead of TechStars demo day

Clean Cube is like Amazon Locker mixed with a doorman

Clean Cube is like Amazon Locker mixed with a doorman

Chasing the automotive graph: TechStars NY company Dash is a Fitbit for your car

Chasing the automotive graph: TechStars NY company Dash is a Fitbit for your car

Pivotshare juices up its video content platform (so creators can actually make money)

Pivotshare juices up its video content platform (so creators can actually make money)

In 3D printing merger, Stratasys gets a hot "prosumer" brand and Makerbot gets resources to grow

The guys behind Turf are now building an app to fix contact lists

The guys behind Turf are now building an app to fix contact lists

Monetizing content beyond eyeballs and clicks: Urtak rolls out ad products to cash in on online polling

Monetizing content beyond eyeballs and clicks: Urtak rolls out ad products to cash in on online polling

With 8 million users, Rounds is the Google Hangouts you've never heard of. Today it adds co-browsing

With 8 million users, Rounds is the Google Hangouts you've never heard of. Today it adds co-browsing

Matrix Partners' Antonio Rodriguez on his investment in Oculus Rift

Matrix Partners' Antonio Rodriguez on his investment in Oculus Rift

Meet Work--Bench: New York's first "post-accelerator" program for enterprise startups

Meet Work--Bench: New York's first "post-accelerator" program for enterprise startups

That didn't take long: recruiters already circling ex-Zynga employees

That didn't take long: recruiters already circling ex-Zynga employees

What Fred Wilson, the Godfather of New York tech, learned from the dotcom bubble

What Fred Wilson, the Godfather of New York tech, learned from the dotcom bubble

Daily deals are dead, but flash sales live on: Yabblr launches DIY flash sale marketplace

Daily deals are dead, but flash sales live on: Yabblr launches DIY flash sale marketplace

Investing marketplace Covestor raises $12.75 million Series B

Investing marketplace Covestor raises $12.75 million Series B

"Children are tiny idiots and we are slaves to them"

"Children are tiny idiots and we are slaves to them"

Peter Thiel-backed "Netflix for art" startup Artify.it shuts down

Peter Thiel-backed "Netflix for art" startup Artify.it shuts down

Estimize now crowdsourcing earnings estimates for private companies like Twitter, Hulu and Pinterest

Estimize now crowdsourcing earnings estimates for private companies like Twitter, Hulu and Pinterest

Namely raises $3.5 million Series A after expanding HR services to media and tech industries

Namely raises $3.5 million Series A after expanding HR services to media and tech industries

CustomMade is quietly building a custom commerce empire out of Boston -- now it has $18 million to expand

CustomMade is quietly building a custom commerce empire out of Boston -- now it has $18 million to expand

Startup idea tracker Elevatr hits 40,000 users in first month

Startup idea tracker Elevatr hits 40,000 users in first month

More startups are advertising on TV, but why?

More startups are advertising on TV, but why?

Imagoo raises $1.2 million for mobile "Hot or Not" with instant answers and challenges

Imagoo raises $1.2 million for mobile "Hot or Not" with instant answers and challenges

The secret to custom commerce? Call it "remixing"

The secret to custom commerce? Call it "remixing"

Betaworks' storytelling anchor, Tapestry, updates with more curation

Betaworks' storytelling anchor, Tapestry, updates with more curation

Bloomberg LP dedicates $75 million to Bloomberg Beta, a new "un-corporate" VC fund

Bloomberg LP dedicates $75 million to Bloomberg Beta, a new "un-corporate" VC fund

How not to scale: Zynga edition

How not to scale: Zynga edition

Merchant Exchange raises $1 million, launches upscale consumer loyalty platform

Merchant Exchange raises $1 million, launches upscale consumer loyalty platform

Honey raises $1.25 million to get non-urgent communication out of your email inbox

Honey raises $1.25 million to get non-urgent communication out of your email inbox

Betaworks to turn its six "Hacker in Residence" products into real companies

Betaworks to turn its six "Hacker in Residence" products into real companies

Edtech startups have great products. Their sales? Not so great

Edtech startups have great products. Their sales? Not so great

Software eats food: FarmersWeb raises $1 million brings wholesale food sales online

Software eats food: FarmersWeb raises $1 million brings wholesale food sales online

Seed funding is like playing the lottery, so SoftBank is all about the Series A with its new $51 million NYC-focused fund

Seed funding is like playing the lottery, so SoftBank is all about the Series A with its new $51 million NYC-focused fund

Facebook kills our ad network dreams, again

Facebook kills our ad network dreams, again

Two wrongs make a right: Why not turn selfies into ads?

Two wrongs make a right: Why not turn selfies into ads?

Star Farm Ventures launches in New York to import Israeli innovation

Star Farm Ventures launches in New York to import Israeli innovation

To disrupt an industry, it's best to know it well

To disrupt an industry, it's best to know it well

Luxury brands are still unsure about how to engage the Web's unwashed masses

Luxury brands are still unsure about how to engage the Web's unwashed masses

Proof we'll never tire of photo sharing: "A Beautiful Mess" hits #1 in app store

Proof we'll never tire of photo sharing: "A Beautiful Mess" hits #1 in app store

Fandium raises $1.25 million for sports app that blends storytelling with betting

Fandium raises $1.25 million for sports app that blends storytelling with betting

Rallyverse, a platform that helps brands spread authentic content, releases API

Rallyverse, a platform that helps brands spread authentic content, releases API

Totsy burns through $34 million, lays off its 83 employees, selling assets

Totsy burns through $34 million, lays off its 83 employees, selling assets

"If you're building specifically for mobile, you're in the past"

"If you're building specifically for mobile, you're in the past"

Is influencer marketing over? Here's another pivot, this time from Wahooly

Is influencer marketing over? Here's another pivot, this time from Wahooly

Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the "win" we needed

Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the "win" we needed

Forget armchair activism, new app Buycott helps people shop with a conscience

Forget armchair activism, new app Buycott helps people shop with a conscience

Gliph joins Boost.vc, launches bitcoin messaging and payments app

Gliph joins Boost.vc, launches bitcoin messaging and payments app

The center of tech is shifting from Silicon Valley to "application towns" like New York and LA

The center of tech is shifting from Silicon Valley to "application towns" like New York and LA

With 2 million users, "secrets app" Whisper launches on Android

With 2 million users, "secrets app" Whisper launches on Android

As venture capital becomes a commodity, it's all about community

As venture capital becomes a commodity, it's all about community

"Commerce has become marketing and marketing has become commerce"

"Commerce has become marketing and marketing has become commerce"

Chartbeat crosses the Chinese wall with ad sales tools, focusing on quality over clicks

Chartbeat crosses the Chinese wall with ad sales tools, focusing on quality over clicks

Bitcoin investors rush in: Liberty City Ventures raises $15 million dedicated fund

Bitcoin investors rush in: Liberty City Ventures raises $15 million dedicated fund

"Infrastructure as a service" company Dyn acquires Trendslide for mobile monitoring

"Infrastructure as a service" company Dyn acquires Trendslide for mobile monitoring

Condition One founder unexpectedly kills business model, lays off half of its staff

Condition One founder unexpectedly kills business model, lays off half of its staff

Meet Tuxedo Kittie and Zombiegram

Meet Tuxedo Kittie and Zombiegram

Inside the spectacular implosion and resurrection of ShoeDazzle

Inside the spectacular implosion and resurrection of ShoeDazzle

Can't raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo

Can't raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo

Consumr revamps its "Yelp for consumer goods" app with $565,000 from Lerer, IA, Mesa+

Consumr revamps its "Yelp for consumer goods" app with $565,000 from Lerer, IA, Mesa+

Meet New York's first enterprise-focused accelerator, backed by the governor

Meet New York's first enterprise-focused accelerator, backed by the governor

Movable Ink goes big on "live" email marketing with $11 million Series B

Movable Ink goes big on "live" email marketing with $11 million Series B

Do not expect the New York Times to go native

Do not expect the New York Times to go native

Greenstart backs Carrotmob, the crowdfunding startup for social good

Greenstart backs Carrotmob, the crowdfunding startup for social good

Naval Ravikant joins board of Wanelo as the fast-growing social commerce site expands beyond its mall rat demographic

Naval Ravikant joins board of Wanelo as the fast-growing social commerce site expands beyond its mall rat demographic

How Cater2.me is quietly scaling without venture capital

How Cater2.me is quietly scaling without venture capital

Software, meet horse racing: Derby Jackpot brings off-track betting to the Kentucky Derby

Software, meet horse racing: Derby Jackpot brings off-track betting to the Kentucky Derby

Wander is now Days, an authentic storytelling app for everyday life

Wander is now Days, an authentic storytelling app for everyday life

Yahoo nearing deal to buy travel rewards startup Milewise, according to sources

Yahoo nearing deal to buy travel rewards startup Milewise, according to sources

One way to take a stand on carried interest: Give it away

One way to take a stand on carried interest: Give it away

Facebook gives Wall Street what it wants with mobile. Doesn't make Facebook ads any less crappy

Facebook gives Wall Street what it wants with mobile. Doesn't make Facebook ads any less crappy

Fab's eyes are bigger than its wallet. That's nothing $100 million can't fix

Fab's eyes are bigger than its wallet. That's nothing $100 million can't fix

Teachers first: How Schoology is changing the way schools buy technology

Teachers first: How Schoology is changing the way schools buy technology

Here are some companies (ERA Demo Day)

Here are some companies (ERA Demo Day)

Here's why schools are wary of edtech: Coursesmart crashes before student exams

Here's why schools are wary of edtech: Coursesmart crashes before student exams

This accelerator charges its companies $25,000. That's just wrong -- right?

This accelerator charges its companies $25,000. That's just wrong -- right?

Estimize aims to replace sell-side analysts with crowdsourced earnings estimates -- and now Gnip is selling its data

Estimize aims to replace sell-side analysts with crowdsourced earnings estimates -- and now Gnip is selling its data

Don't give up on PCs yet. Here's why Soluto hasn't

Don't give up on PCs yet. Here's why Soluto hasn't

BACTrack is the "quantified self" app for boozers

BACTrack is the "quantified self" app for boozers

Andreessen Horowitz backs Shapeways, bringing 3D printing (and New York) out of the Silicon Valley fringes

Andreessen Horowitz backs Shapeways, bringing 3D printing (and New York) out of the Silicon Valley fringes

Ex-sommelier launches Foodia for food check-ins. And the app fragmentation continues

Ex-sommelier launches Foodia for food check-ins. And the app fragmentation continues

Why are journalists hostile to Forbes' Lewis DVorkin? He wants them to get real

Why are journalists hostile to Forbes' Lewis DVorkin? He wants them to get real

Crowdfunding for the crowd, not the funds: Why Lively launched on Kickstarter after raising VC money

Crowdfunding for the crowd, not the funds: Why Lively launched on Kickstarter after raising VC money

Under Complex Media, SuperGlued relaunches its concert alert app as a content play

Under Complex Media, SuperGlued relaunches its concert alert app as a content play

A crowdfunded house for techies in Vegas. What could possibly go wrong?

A crowdfunded house for techies in Vegas. What could possibly go wrong?

Hopscotch teaches kids to code with the first ever coding language designed for mobile

Hopscotch teaches kids to code with the first ever coding language designed for mobile

UPlanMe's secret to monetizing with local businesses? Focus on events

UPlanMe's secret to monetizing with local businesses? Focus on events

Bandsintown now telling five million users when their favorite bands are… yep, you guessed it

Bandsintown now telling five million users when their favorite bands are… yep, you guessed it

As Madison Avenue adopts native video ads, Giant Media expands East from LA

As Madison Avenue adopts native video ads, Giant Media expands East from LA

While crowdfunding waits for the SEC, companies like DietBet close seed rounds on SeedInvest

While crowdfunding waits for the SEC, companies like DietBet close seed rounds on SeedInvest

With Piki, Turntable.fm co-founder Billy Chasen navigates the two-sided hype cycle

With Piki, Turntable.fm co-founder Billy Chasen navigates the two-sided hype cycle

GE gets on the right side of the patent fight with Quirky partnership

GE gets on the right side of the patent fight with Quirky partnership

Today in gloriously pointless apps: Snap, Snap, Go!, the iPhone game "for awful people"

Today in gloriously pointless apps: Snap, Snap, Go!, the iPhone game "for awful people"

Check out New York tech's massive "science fair" on April 25

Check out New York tech's massive "science fair" on April 25

How one edtech startup is selling to the impossible K-12 market (hint: it's not by going bottom-up)

How one edtech startup is selling to the impossible K-12 market (hint: it's not by going bottom-up)

As content players fight to get into cars, Aha Radio simply hosts it all

As content players fight to get into cars, Aha Radio simply hosts it all

Dorm Room Fund heads to San Francisco, Philly team backs Whamix in second deal

Dorm Room Fund heads to San Francisco, Philly team backs Whamix in second deal

Joor's B2B fashion marketplace on track to do $350 million in transactions this year

Joor's B2B fashion marketplace on track to do $350 million in transactions this year

Lightspeed invests $3 million in Whisper, the "secrets" app with Snapchat-like adoption

Lightspeed invests $3 million in Whisper, the "secrets" app with Snapchat-like adoption

CoFoundersLab now bringing online "founder dating" to 10,000 founders-to-be

CoFoundersLab now bringing online "founder dating" to 10,000 founders-to-be

Human curation or algorithms? Sosh, the local recommendation app, chooses both

Human curation or algorithms? Sosh, the local recommendation app, chooses both

Former BuyWithMe CEO Cheryl Rosner raises $2.4 million for a stealthy travel startup called Stayful

Former BuyWithMe CEO Cheryl Rosner raises $2.4 million for a stealthy travel startup called Stayful

PuzzleSocial raises seed funds for insanely addictive crossword game

PuzzleSocial raises seed funds for insanely addictive crossword game

Solving New York's talent problem

Solving New York's talent problem

LivingSocial takes Andrew Mason's advice with new targeting tech from Custora. But is it too late?

LivingSocial takes Andrew Mason's advice with new targeting tech from Custora. But is it too late?

Not everyone is bearish on IPOs

Not everyone is bearish on IPOs

When sharing economy goes corporate: LiquidSpace's work space rental goes enterprise-level

When sharing economy goes corporate: LiquidSpace's work space rental goes enterprise-level

Food52 announces Series A to expand publishing, commerce and mobile offerings

Food52 announces Series A to expand publishing, commerce and mobile offerings

Shutterstock dives into Getty's domain with Offset, a premium photo site. Next step? Video

Shutterstock dives into Getty's domain with Offset, a premium photo site. Next step? Video

Holler wants to be the voice layer of your apps

Holler wants to be the voice layer of your apps

Can industry-specific accelerators succeed? NAR believes so with its first class of real estate startups

Can industry-specific accelerators succeed? NAR believes so with its first class of real estate startups

Experience marketplace SideTour raises $2.5 million in Series A-1

Experience marketplace SideTour raises $2.5 million in Series A-1

Do we need Couple, the couples app? No. Here's why we love it nonetheless

Do we need Couple, the couples app? No. Here's why we love it nonetheless

Humblebrag on Twitter. Tell Expereal, an app for self-reflection, how you really feel

Humblebrag on Twitter. Tell Expereal, an app for self-reflection, how you really feel

Early adopter? Try *earliest* adopter with Betaworks' new Openbeta community

Early adopter? Try earliest adopter with Betaworks' new Openbeta community

"Voice slide" iPad app bContext picks up steam with teachers, marketers

"Voice slide" iPad app bContext picks up steam with teachers, marketers

Data, at last: Native ads are killing it, say the sellers of native ads

Data, at last: Native ads are killing it, say the sellers of native ads

ShopBevel launches its crowdsourced jewelry site with seed money from Lightbank, Great Oaks

ShopBevel launches its crowdsourced jewelry site with seed money from Lightbank, Great Oaks

Marketing is the worst, but it enables a lot of cool stuff. I think

Marketing is the worst, but it enables a lot of cool stuff. I think

NewsCred backed into brand publishing, now it has $15 million to do more of it

On the fight for fair fees in digital streaming

On the fight for fair fees in digital streaming

Greenstart kills its accelerator. Will it have better luck with a studio?

Greenstart kills its accelerator. Will it have better luck with a studio?

"Netflix for Art" service Turning Art gives artists new tools for promoting and selling their work

"Netflix for Art" service Turning Art gives artists new tools for promoting and selling their work

Does money taint the sharing economy?

Does money taint the sharing economy?

The music industry has irreversibly changed -- the labels have not

The music industry has irreversibly changed -- the labels have not

Everything you missed on day five of SXSW

Everything you missed on day five of SXSW

YouTube and Apple are launching streaming services. Where does that leave Spotify?

YouTube and Apple are launching streaming services. Where does that leave Spotify?

I was wrong on my SXSW predictions. My winner is a company that isn't even here

I was wrong on my SXSW predictions. My winner is a company that isn't even here

What you missed on day three of SXSW

What you missed on day three of SXSW

Nate Silver to startups: Go for the low hanging fruit

Nate Silver to startups: Go for the low hanging fruit

What you missed on day two of SXSW

What you missed on day two of SXSW

The sharing economy platforms would like you to know that it is not just for coastal hipsters, okay?

The sharing economy platforms would like you to know that it is not just for coastal hipsters, okay?

What you missed on day one of SXSW

What you missed on day one of SXSW

This year, SXSW trades social media hype for actually cool shit

This year, SXSW trades social media hype for actually cool shit

A business model emerges for TastemakerX, the digital game for music snobs

A business model emerges for TastemakerX, the digital game for music snobs

Why Wander isn't launching at SXSW, even though it would make perfect sense

Why Wander isn't launching at SXSW, even though it would make perfect sense

About face: Event platform Splash takes off, causing VCs to eat their words

About face: Event platform Splash takes off, causing VCs to eat their words

Y Combinator alum Study Edge changes the way Florida students learn Algebra

Y Combinator alum Study Edge changes the way Florida students learn Algebra

Two years in, here's how BaubleBar is increasing women's metabolism for jewelry

Two years in, here's how BaubleBar is increasing women's metabolism for jewelry

Will the real "sharing economy" please stand up?

Will the real "sharing economy" please stand up?

Dispatch's redesign allows for beautiful, email-free collaboration. Well, mostly email-free.

Dispatch's redesign allows for beautiful, email-free collaboration. Well, mostly email-free.

With 23 million weekly listeners, digital radio platform Jelli partners with Entercom to supercharge distribution

With 23 million weekly listeners, digital radio platform Jelli partners with Entercom to supercharge distribution

From buzzword to bloodsport: native advertising gets competitive with new leaderboard

From buzzword to bloodsport: native advertising gets competitive with new leaderboard

Proof of concept, check. Big Series B round, check. StellaService's next move? Become the Nielsen of customer service

Proof of concept, check. Big Series B round, check. StellaService's next move? Become the Nielsen of customer service

Let's kill the marketing funnel, says Obama CIO

Let's kill the marketing funnel, says Obama CIO

Long live the search bar: Jackthreads expands beyond flash sale model

Long live the search bar: Jackthreads expands beyond flash sale model

Gojee launches home vertical, prepares designer marketplace

Gojee launches home vertical, prepares designer marketplace

No hotel for SXSW? WeHostels has the hook-up (for that, and overbooked events around the world)

No hotel for SXSW? WeHostels has the hook-up (for that, and overbooked events around the world)

Drew Houston of Dropbox: Y Combinator made us into Valley insiders

Drew Houston of Dropbox: Y Combinator made us into Valley insiders

Yes, another photo sharing app. Here's how Albumatic strives to be different

Yes, another photo sharing app. Here's how Albumatic strives to be different

Gaming app developers beware: Here's why Turf Geography Club failed

Gaming app developers beware: Here's why Turf Geography Club failed

Twitter finally opens an ads API. Your move, Pinterest and Tumblr

Twitter finally opens an ads API. Your move, Pinterest and Tumblr

Bloomberg's parting gift to NYC tech: an online hub to make building companies easier

Bloomberg's parting gift to NYC tech: an online hub to make building companies easier

Is this the future of groceries? Blue Apron raises $3 million for subscription meal kits

Is this the future of groceries? Blue Apron raises $3 million for subscription meal kits

Boundless challenges textbook publishers to trial over OER

Boundless challenges textbook publishers to trial over OER

Dear awesome startups, don't join an accelerator, unless...

Dear awesome startups, don't join an accelerator, unless...

What happens when 5th avenue fashionistas meet Silicon Alley hackers

What happens when 5th avenue fashionistas meet Silicon Alley hackers

With 30,000 advertisers in 8 months, Video marketing platform Virool lures in $6.62 million "seed round"

With 30,000 advertisers in 8 months, Video marketing platform Virool lures in $6.62 million "seed round"

Tapestry, a Betaworks storytelling app, now on Android

Tapestry, a Betaworks storytelling app, now on Android

Private chef service Kitchensurfing grabs $1 million, expands beyond New York

Private chef service Kitchensurfing grabs $1 million, expands beyond New York

Skip co-founder dating – CollabFinder is your new home for serendipitous collaboration

Skip co-founder dating – CollabFinder is your new home for serendipitous collaboration

Each day on CollabFinder, new connections are made.

With $135 million in AUM, Betterment lures two key hires away from traditional finance

With $135 million in AUM, Betterment lures two key hires away from traditional finance

Backed by $3 million, Nomi seeks to bridge online and offline retail with omni-channel platform

Backed by $3 million, Nomi seeks to bridge online and offline retail with omni-channel platform

What happens if the cost of textbooks drops to zero?

What happens if the cost of textbooks drops to zero?

Why is venture capital, the industry that funds innovation, so very un-innovative?

Why is venture capital, the industry that funds innovation, so very un-innovative?

Now that's contrarian: Amid enterprise fever, Qwiki turns away revenue to go for consumer play

Now that's contrarian: Amid enterprise fever, Qwiki turns away revenue to go for consumer play

Flash sales are (still) the most scalable e-commerce business model

Flash sales are (still) the most scalable e-commerce business model

HarvestGeek seeks to empower local farmers with "brains" for gardens

HarvestGeek seeks to empower local farmers with "brains" for gardens

Zillow moves into the next most logical market -- home improvement

Zillow moves into the next most logical market -- home improvement

Who's hiring the fastest in New York tech?

Who's hiring the fastest in New York tech?

Stublisher spins fragmented social content into rich stories

Stublisher spins fragmented social content into rich stories

Meeteor shuts down -- can people discovery apps keep fighting?

Meeteor shuts down -- can people discovery apps keep fighting?

20x200 suspends operations, Indaba Music restructures

20x200 suspends operations, Indaba Music restructures

"Yo, I did this" -- Sophia Amoruso of Nasty Gal answers the female entrepreneur question

"Yo, I did this" -- Sophia Amoruso of Nasty Gal answers the female entrepreneur question

Techstars NY hires Eugene Chung as Managing Director

Techstars NY hires Eugene Chung as Managing Director

Facebook can still innovate... but only as it relates to ads

Facebook can still innovate... but only as it relates to ads

Startup employees sold major equity last year, SecondMarket reports

Startup employees sold major equity last year, SecondMarket reports

Floored unveils 3D modeling for real estate in the form of an app

Floored unveils 3D modeling for real estate in the form of an app

Lightbank plants NYC flag with Principal Vicki Levine

Lightbank plants NYC flag with Principal Vicki Levine

After two years of development, Knack launches simple online database building tool

After two years of development, Knack launches simple online database building tool

Betaworks year-end report: Startup studio enters "Chapter two," investments valued at 5.6x

Betaworks year-end report: Startup studio enters "Chapter two," investments valued at 5.6x

Instagrok to make Web research easier (and more social) for students

Instagrok to make Web research easier (and more social) for students

Chad Dickerson has kept Etsy alive. Can he ensure the company lives for fifty years?

Chad Dickerson has kept Etsy alive. Can he ensure the company lives for fifty years?

Etsy's Year in Review: 22 million members, $895 million in sales

Etsy's Year in Review: 22 million members, $895 million in sales

AppNexus CEO Brian O'Kelley on his $75 million round, the IPO market, and life after realtime bidding

AppNexus CEO Brian O'Kelley on his $75 million round, the IPO market, and life after realtime bidding

Education startups: The bottom-up approach doesn't work here

Education startups: The bottom-up approach doesn't work here

Meet RealSelf: the profitable, under-the-radar plastic surgery site

Meet RealSelf: the profitable, under-the-radar plastic surgery site

The Test Tube is product feedback plus speed dating

The Test Tube is product feedback plus speed dating

Meet Musical Toilet, the latest innovation in the "connected bathroom"

Meet Musical Toilet, the latest innovation in the "connected bathroom"

Mark your calendars: NY Tech Day is April 25

Mark your calendars: NY Tech Day is April 25

The world's largest student-run hackathon isn't at Stanford or MIT -- it's at Penn

The world's largest student-run hackathon isn't at Stanford or MIT -- it's at Penn

"Accidental" startup See.Me, now 600,000 artists strong, revamps site

"Accidental" startup See.Me, now 600,000 artists strong, revamps site

Is Spotify hurting record sales? Not exactly

Is Spotify hurting record sales? Not exactly

Reachli (formerly Pinerly) raises seed money for in-image ads

Reachli (formerly Pinerly) raises seed money for in-image ads

Tiki Barber's Thuzio raises $1.5 million to pimp out pro athletes

Tiki Barber's Thuzio raises $1.5 million to pimp out pro athletes

Style Coalition bridges between fashion bloggers and brands

Style Coalition bridges between fashion bloggers and brands

Facebook's Graph Search: A tool for marketers disguised as a tool for users

Facebook's Graph Search: A tool for marketers disguised as a tool for users

The iPad, our mobile advertising savior

The iPad, our mobile advertising savior

DJs, meet royalties from TheFuture.fm

DJs, meet royalties from TheFuture.fm

Introducing Done Not Done, the first lovechild of Betaworks and Fictive Kin's union

Introducing Done Not Done, the first lovechild of Betaworks and Fictive Kin's union

Social media might drive brand awareness, but search still drives the sales

What Silicon Valley overlooked about Steve Jobs

What Silicon Valley overlooked about Steve Jobs

Bazar NY delivers New York window shopping to Latin America

Bazar NY delivers New York window shopping to Latin America

CircleUp funds five food companies, partners with SecondMarket

CircleUp funds five food companies, partners with SecondMarket

In which the New York Tech Meetup momentarily channels Sex and the City

In which the New York Tech Meetup momentarily channels Sex and the City

Fake your way to Internet coolness with CouchCachet, the social media hack for lazy bums

Fake your way to Internet coolness with CouchCachet, the social media hack for lazy bums

Email marketing will never die, so we may as well make it smarter

Email marketing will never die, so we may as well make it smarter

Portlanders love vodka, Detroiters volunteer and New Yorkers play board games: What HowAboutWe's 1M dates say about the way we go out

Portlanders love vodka, Detroiters volunteer and New Yorkers play board games: What HowAboutWe's 1M dates say about the way we go out

How Google Author Rank could change content marketing... and journalism

How Google Author Rank could change content marketing... and journalism

Meet Puppystream, where dog parents can be their crazy, dog-obsessed selves

Meet Puppystream, where dog parents can be their crazy, dog-obsessed selves

Unreasonable at Sea: It's an accelerator, on a cruise ship

Unreasonable at Sea: It's an accelerator, on a cruise ship

The Gilted Age: Ex-Gilt Groupers are running this town

The Gilted Age: Ex-Gilt Groupers are running this town

The exit environment is tough. Private equity to the rescue?

The exit environment is tough. Private equity to the rescue?

Shopilly takes the most effective (and annoying) form of marketing -- email -- and makes it awesome

Shopilly takes the most effective (and annoying) form of marketing -- email -- and makes it awesome

With peer pressure and actionable advice, HelloFax aims to kill paper in 2013 (for good this time)

With peer pressure and actionable advice, HelloFax aims to kill paper in 2013 (for good this time)

2013, the year of storytelling

2013, the year of storytelling

"Content and commerce" is hardest for those who need it the most

"Content and commerce" is hardest for those who need it the most

Silvercar goes live with airport car rentals in Dallas

Silvercar goes live with airport car rentals in Dallas

Modernizing Bailment: Coatchex's POS system works on more than just coats

Modernizing Bailment: Coatchex's POS system works on more than just coats

Not everyone believes the consumer Web is over -- Meet Backspaces

Not everyone believes the consumer Web is over -- Meet Backspaces

Trade your mass holiday text for a song

Trade your mass holiday text for a song

Turf Geography Club -- now more Monopoly than Foursquare

Turf Geography Club -- now more Monopoly than Foursquare

Back from the dead: Workfu gets acquired

Back from the dead: Workfu gets acquired

How one "Series A crunched" startup traded user acquisition for dollar acquisition

How one "Series A crunched" startup traded user acquisition for dollar acquisition

Koding raises $7.25 million Series B

Koding raises $7.25 million Series B

bMobilized lands $2.5 million Series A for mobile website conversion tools

bMobilized lands $2.5 million Series A for mobile website conversion tools

A brief experiment with Twitter ads

A brief experiment with Twitter ads

Trustifi raises capital to postmark email

Trustifi raises capital to postmark email

Live from New York! It's enterprise! (Sort of)

Live from New York! It's enterprise! (Sort of)

With Nielsen Deal, can Arbitron step into the digital age?

With Nielsen Deal, can Arbitron step into the digital age?

Watch out, Google, Facebook, Apple. Amazon is coming for your advertisers

Watch out, Google, Facebook, Apple. Amazon is coming for your advertisers

What will ad-tech look like without cookies?

What will ad-tech look like without cookies?

All retailers trick us into spending, but they're smarter about it online

All retailers trick us into spending, but they're smarter about it online

Rewind.me launches Klout scores for real life

Rewind.me launches Klout scores for real life

Muzooka goes after the recording industry, a market too tiny for Pandora

Muzooka goes after the recording industry, a market too tiny for Pandora

What does the New York TLC have against e-hailing?

What does the New York TLC have against e-hailing?

Taking New York tech from "young" to "permanent"

Taking New York tech from "young" to "permanent"

Seatgeek goes mobile after three years of Web-only

Seatgeek goes mobile after three years of Web-only

F-commerce might be dead, but Facebook -- not Pinterest -- still rules social commerce

F-commerce might be dead, but Facebook -- not Pinterest -- still rules social commerce

HowAboutWe does Android right with its new dating app

HowAboutWe does Android right with its new dating app

Music startups: your product is probably just a feature

Music startups: your product is probably just a feature

Memrise adds $5.1 million in new funds

Memrise adds $5.1 million in new funds

Why Facebook wants you to friend Mom and Dad

Why Facebook wants you to friend Mom and Dad

Spotify pulls a trump card on the haters with Metallica addition

Spotify pulls a trump card on the haters with Metallica addition

Textbook startup Boundless continues blowing up an industry everyone wants out of

Textbook startup Boundless continues blowing up an industry everyone wants out of

From kidnapping and bribery to insurance comparison: Leaky is boring, and that's okay

From kidnapping and bribery to insurance comparison: Leaky is boring, and that's okay

Is the Pandora backlash finally coming?

Is the Pandora backlash finally coming?

The Karma hotspot: ambitious, clever, and hopefully not too naive

The Karma hotspot: ambitious, clever, and hopefully not too naive

Philly student-investors choose Dorm Room Fund's first deal: Firefly

Philly student-investors choose Dorm Room Fund's first deal: Firefly

We know accelerators are headed for a shakeout -- but do they?

We know accelerators are headed for a shakeout -- but do they?

Ray Ozzie's Cocomo raises $4M for "cloud-based backends"

Ray Ozzie's Cocomo raises $4M for "cloud-based backends"

Of a Kind expands beyond stuff that's, well, "of a kind"

Of a Kind expands beyond stuff that's, well, "of a kind"

From busking to big business: how one founder brings the selling power of video to iPhones

From busking to big business: how one founder brings the selling power of video to iPhones

Google+ Chief touts the only thing Google+ is beating Facebook on -- Search

Google+ Chief touts the only thing Google+ is beating Facebook on -- Search

Reesio launches Dotloop competitor to streamline real estate deals

Reesio launches Dotloop competitor to streamline real estate deals

An HTTP Status hack to rule them all

An HTTP Status hack to rule them all

The travel startup fallout is here. Will anyone survive?

The travel startup fallout is here. Will anyone survive?

Startup FaithStreet lives at the corner of tech and Christianity

Startup FaithStreet lives at the corner of tech and Christianity

Backed by 500 Startups, Silver Living offers honest reviews of senior communities

Backed by 500 Startups, Silver Living offers honest reviews of senior communities

The Facebook legal notice meme is hilarious and scary (for Facebook)

The Facebook legal notice meme is hilarious and scary (for Facebook)

Shop It To Me beefs up its shopping personalization engine with "Threads"

Shop It To Me beefs up its shopping personalization engine with "Threads"

Stealthy Tunespotter raises seed round

Stealthy Tunespotter raises seed round

The dirty little secret of music streaming startups: On-demand is a bitch

The dirty little secret of music streaming startups: On-demand is a bitch

Profitable, bootstrapped RevTrax now follows coupon sharing across all social media

Profitable, bootstrapped RevTrax now follows coupon sharing across all social media

Why a jewelry startup had to build enterprise software to survive

Gift better: Pickie's "HackXmas" app serves super-personalized gift ideas

Gift better: Pickie's "HackXmas" app serves super-personalized gift ideas

Karma's gift to Facebook: F-commerce done right, finally

Karma's gift to Facebook: F-commerce done right, finally

AngelList now powering applications for incubators like TechStars Boston, AngelPad

AngelList now powering applications for incubators like TechStars Boston, AngelPad

Ravikant: If you have a strong hand, play it. But money has karma

Ravikant: If you have a strong hand, play it. But money has karma

Oh look, another marketplace for used clothing. Here's why Forewillow is different

Oh look, another marketplace for used clothing. Here's why Forewillow is different

Mobile first, desktop second: Instacart launches website to complement its grocery delivery app

Mobile first, desktop second: Instacart launches website to complement its grocery delivery app

Dubbed the "next Buddy Media," Percolate goes big with Series A

Dubbed the "next Buddy Media," Percolate goes big with Series A

Our hands can do more than tap and poke, so why shouldn't our phones understand?

Our hands can do more than tap and poke, so why shouldn't our phones understand?

Loosecubes shuts down after raising $7.8 million in June

Loosecubes shuts down after raising $7.8 million in June

Wedgies raises seed money from VegasTechFund

Wedgies raises seed money from VegasTechFund

Email is still effective as hell: Hipiti consolidates shopping emails and highlights the sales

Email is still effective as hell: Hipiti consolidates shopping emails and highlights the sales

Photos + Hashtags = Swirl, the newest Betaworks studio project

Photos + Hashtags = Swirl, the newest Betaworks studio project

Daniel Ek: New York tops Silicon Valley precisely because it's not Silicon Valley

Daniel Ek: New York tops Silicon Valley precisely because it's not Silicon Valley

Daniel Ek's "impossible thinking" started at age 13 with a Web development mini-empire

Daniel Ek's "impossible thinking" started at age 13 with a Web development mini-empire

How many startups will Facebook Gifts kill?

How many startups will Facebook Gifts kill?

GroupMe Experiences partners with Zozi, Excursionist and Underground Eats for super unique group fun

GroupMe Experiences partners with Zozi, Excursionist and Underground Eats for super unique group fun

Rivals2nite, besties tomorrow: the unlikely beginnings of one of New York's hot adtech alliances

Rivals2nite, besties tomorrow: the unlikely beginnings of one of New York's hot adtech alliances

Thirty tickets left for PandoMonthly NY with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Thursday

Thirty tickets left for PandoMonthly NY with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Thursday

Big, beautiful data: Poshly begins monetizing its super-personalized beauty products platform

Big, beautiful data: Poshly begins monetizing its super-personalized beauty products platform

A revolution deflated? Open source book company Flat World Knowledge starts charging

A revolution deflated? Open source book company Flat World Knowledge starts charging

Oh hey, a solution to the Facebook Page drama! That was fast

Oh hey, a solution to the Facebook Page drama! That was fast

Sacca: Entitlement has crept into startup culture, but rationality is on the rise

Sacca: Entitlement has crept into startup culture, but rationality is on the rise

Lowercase Capital is bullish enough on LA tech to launch a dedicated fund

Lowercase Capital is bullish enough on LA tech to launch a dedicated fund

Sacca: VC self-promotion has reached intolerable levels

Sacca: VC self-promotion has reached intolerable levels

Yelp not worried about Google's "struggling" local content play

Yelp not worried about Google's "struggling" local content play

Crowdsavings.com continues to daily deals slog

Crowdsavings.com continues to daily deals slog

Moveline raises $1.5 million to deal with moving companies (so you never have to)

Moveline raises $1.5 million to deal with moving companies (so you never have to)

Enough with the entitled whining -- Facebook isn't running an advertising charity

Enough with the entitled whining -- Facebook isn't running an advertising charity

Stocktoberfest: Where startups and Wall Street actually get along

Stocktoberfest: Where startups and Wall Street actually get along

Paul Berry's Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors

Paul Berry's Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors

Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters beware, Stocktwits has opened its API for financial data dominance

Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters beware, Stocktwits has opened its API for financial data dominance

Oh right, 8Tracks! The original human-curated playlist startup is still going strong with five million active users

Oh right, 8Tracks! The original human-curated playlist startup is still going strong with five million active users

No longer an underdog, Pandora gets a powerful ally

No longer an underdog, Pandora gets a powerful ally

Wherein dudes discuss fashion: Introducing Swaag, the streetwear app

Wherein dudes discuss fashion: Introducing Swaag, the streetwear app

Was this quarter Facebook's big turn around moment? Not likely

Was this quarter Facebook's big turn around moment? Not likely

A Zynga ad platform? Way too little, way too late

A Zynga ad platform? Way too little, way too late

Bow & Drape chases the bespoke dollar for ladies dresses

Bow & Drape chases the bespoke dollar for ladies dresses

From one to many: "Foursquare for the future" startup Wendr now a branded content agency

From one to many: "Foursquare for the future" startup Wendr now a branded content agency

The beauty of Birchbox: it's not subscription commerce, it's marketing that women actually pay for

The beauty of Birchbox: it's not subscription commerce, it's marketing that women actually pay for

Instagram sold, but it hasn't won yet, Systrom says

Instagram sold, but it hasn't won yet, Systrom says

Kevin Systrom's fundraising advice for entrepreneurs

Kevin Systrom's fundraising advice for entrepreneurs

Instagram's Kevin Systrom: "Sudden hockey stick growth doesn't just happen."

Instagram's Kevin Systrom: "Sudden hockey stick growth doesn't just happen."

Gilt reverses its stance on selling Jetsetter

Gilt reverses its stance on selling Jetsetter

PureWow's audience of a million ladies think they love wine, but they really love tech

PureWow's audience of a million ladies think they love wine, but they really love tech

Namely raises Lerer Ventures-led seed round to expand HR tools beyond ad agencies

Namely raises Lerer Ventures-led seed round to expand HR tools beyond ad agencies

Equity is the new cash: Late Labs adds projects to crowdsourced coding community

Equity is the new cash: Late Labs adds projects to crowdsourced coding community

Former Peixe Urbano exec launches BazzApp to make F-commerce happen

Former Peixe Urbano exec launches BazzApp to make F-commerce happen

Petflow jumps into monthly stuff-in-a-box game with "Spoiled Rotten" subscriptions

Petflow jumps into monthly stuff-in-a-box game with "Spoiled Rotten" subscriptions

Curio Road launches curated marketplace, a "Fab.com for Anthropologie lovers"

Curio Road launches curated marketplace, a "Fab.com for Anthropologie lovers"

Let the ad viewability games begin: Moat fires back at comScore

Let the ad viewability games begin: Moat fires back at comScore

Crowley: The press puts tech companies through a hazing period

Crowley: The press puts tech companies through a hazing period

Dennis Crowley's favorite thing about NYC tech? The Muggles are here

Dennis Crowley's favorite thing about NYC tech? The Muggles are here

Boston talent wars descend into Internet geekery and philanthropy

Boston talent wars descend into Internet geekery and philanthropy

Oyster raises $3 million from Founders Fund for "Spotify for books"

Oyster raises $3 million from Founders Fund for "Spotify for books"

Silvercar snags $11.5M to disrupt airport car rentals

Silvercar snags $11.5M to disrupt airport car rentals

EzCater banks $2.16 million for catering marketplace site

EzCater banks $2.16 million for catering marketplace site

OpenSky beating Pinterest to the "social commerce" punch, launches iPhone app

OpenSky beating Pinterest to the "social commerce" punch, launches iPhone app

Sportaneous launches retooled fitness discovery app in NYC

Sportaneous launches retooled fitness discovery app in NYC

Meet Shoutroulette, a Comedy Hack Day project "coded entirely in upper case letters"

Meet Shoutroulette, a Comedy Hack Day project "coded entirely in upper case letters"

Catch a crowdfunding wave with Deeyoon, Michael Lohan and Octomom

Catch a crowdfunding wave with Deeyoon, Michael Lohan and Octomom

Automating curation: The long-awaited launch of Art.sy arrives

Automating curation: The long-awaited launch of Art.sy arrives

Hacking food, deliciously, with Ordr.in's API (now expanded to NYC, Philly and Boston)

Hacking food, deliciously, with Ordr.in's API (now expanded to NYC, Philly and Boston)

LOL, Hacker News

LOL, Hacker News

Spotify's Best Chance at Beating the Digital Streaming "Suicide Pact" Is With Ads

Spotify's Best Chance at Beating the Digital Streaming "Suicide Pact" Is With Ads

Blurtopia Launches "Addictive" Instant Feedback App

Blurtopia Launches "Addictive" Instant Feedback App

500 Startups Hires Shai Goldman in NYC, Pankaj Jain in New Delhi

500 Startups Hires Shai Goldman in NYC, Pankaj Jain in New Delhi

Native Advertising Will Save Us All. Maybe.

Native Advertising Will Save Us All. Maybe.

Cash Money Millionaires: RapGenius Raises $15 Million from Andreessen Horowitz

Cash Money Millionaires: RapGenius Raises $15 Million from Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen: The Stock Market Has Changed in a Way That's Good for Startups and Bad for Investors

Andreessen: The Stock Market Has Changed in a Way That's Good for Startups and Bad for Investors

Kindling Raises $2.3 Million Series B for Idea Management Platform

Kindling Raises $2.3 Million Series B for Idea Management Platform

Startups to Brands: "We're Not Your Creative Agency"

Startups to Brands: "We're Not Your Creative Agency"

Why Celebrating a Startup's Death Shows Greater Life for the New York Ecosystem

Why Celebrating a Startup's Death Shows Greater Life for the New York Ecosystem

Kollabora Raises $2.3 Million for Crafty Supplies

Kollabora Raises $2.3 Million for Crafty Supplies

Abandoned for Years, Web 2.0 Tool EasyBib Is Now a Thriving Business

Abandoned for Years, Web 2.0 Tool EasyBib Is Now a Thriving Business

Local Corp., a Web 1.0 Company, Thrusts Itself into Mobile Era with New iOS and Android Apps

Local Corp., a Web 1.0 Company, Thrusts Itself into Mobile Era with New iOS and Android Apps

David Cameron Hangs with Founders at New York's Other General Assembly

David Cameron Hangs with Founders at New York's Other General Assembly

Stop Toiling in App-scurity: PreApps Will Promote the Crap Out of Your App (For Free! Sorta!)

Stop Toiling in App-scurity: PreApps Will Promote the Crap Out of Your App (For Free! Sorta!)

Ev Williams Defends Twitter, Gives Zero Shits About App.net

Ev Williams Defends Twitter, Gives Zero Shits About App.net

Lore Opens Up Class-Focused Platform for Academic Groups

Lore Opens Up Class-Focused Platform for Academic Groups

For Students, By Students: First Round Capital Announces Dorm Room Fund in Philly

For Students, By Students: First Round Capital Announces Dorm Room Fund in Philly

Crowdfunding Isn't Killing Seed Funding -- It's Helping It

Crowdfunding Isn't Killing Seed Funding -- It's Helping It

Mobile Eating the Web: 22 Percent of Web Content Now Consumed on Devices

Mobile Eating the Web: 22 Percent of Web Content Now Consumed on Devices

ERA's Summer 2012 Demo Day: Politics, Planes and Paperwork

ERA's Summer 2012 Demo Day: Politics, Planes and Paperwork

Joor Banks $3.25M to Modernize Fashion Wholesale

Joor Banks $3.25M to Modernize Fashion Wholesale

Introducing Pheast: A Super Shareable Recipe Site

Introducing Pheast: A Super Shareable Recipe Site

MoPub Wrangles Fresh Capital and Agency Hire to "Get Mobile Ads Right"

MoPub Wrangles Fresh Capital and Agency Hire to "Get Mobile Ads Right"

Peretti: Human Curation Beats SEO in the Social Web

Peretti: Human Curation Beats SEO in the Social Web

Beg Your Friends and Family for Money On the Go with GoFundMe's Mobile-Optimized Site

Beg Your Friends and Family for Money On the Go with GoFundMe's Mobile-Optimized Site

How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool

How Much Should Startup Employees Earn? Wealthfront Tells Us With A Clever Tool

Kinvey Is a Partnership Machine: The BaaS Startup Teams Up With Brightcove to Simplify Video Distribution

Kinvey Is a Partnership Machine: The BaaS Startup Teams Up With Brightcove to Simplify Video Distribution

Startup Weekend Going Massively Global in Fall Battle

Startup Weekend Going Massively Global in Fall Battle

While Big Tech Chases the Elusive Small Business Market, a Startup in Ohio Has Already Quietly Cornered it

While Big Tech Chases the Elusive Small Business Market, a Startup in Ohio Has Already Quietly Cornered it

Conduit Turns Toolbar Riches Into Massive Dividend

Conduit Turns Toolbar Riches Into Massive Dividend

With 10 Million Visitors in 10 Months, Sulia Raises $1.5 Million for Interest-Based News Aggregation

With 10 Million Visitors in 10 Months, Sulia Raises $1.5 Million for Interest-Based News Aggregation

Should Startups Move to Las Vegas?

Should Startups Move to Las Vegas?

Hsieh: Bezos Is Okay with Downtown Vegas Experiment

Hsieh: Bezos Is Okay with Downtown Vegas Experiment

Birchbox Enters Europe with Purchase of JolieBox

Birchbox Enters Europe with Purchase of JolieBox

We're Still Waiting For Internet Ad Spend To Catch Up to the Web -- Let's Not Make The Same Mistake With Mobile

We're Still Waiting For Internet Ad Spend To Catch Up to the Web -- Let's Not Make The Same Mistake With Mobile

Facebook Exchange Opens with Promising Early Results from Launch Partners

Facebook Exchange Opens with Promising Early Results from Launch Partners

BunchBall Opens a Research Lab to Legitimize "Gamification"

BunchBall Opens a Research Lab to Legitimize "Gamification"

Going Public Has Changed Mark Zuckerberg...Finally

Going Public Has Changed Mark Zuckerberg...Finally

The Consumerization of Life's Ickiest Chores Continues: LearnVest Injects Its Financial Planning Tools With Steroids

The Consumerization of Life's Ickiest Chores Continues: LearnVest Injects Its Financial Planning Tools With Steroids

Meet Dreamit Ventures Philly's New Class of Startups

Meet Dreamit Ventures Philly's New Class of Startups

This Curation Trend has One Big Problem: Scale

This Curation Trend has One Big Problem: Scale

Flybridge Capital Partners Plants NYC Flag for Early Stage Deals

Flybridge Capital Partners Plants NYC Flag for Early Stage Deals

The Great Pinterestification: How Pinterest's Design Legacy Might Trump the Company Itself

The Great Pinterestification: How Pinterest's Design Legacy Might Trump the Company Itself

One Way to Maintain a Celeb-Driven Subscription Commerce? Employ a Whole Lot of Celebs

One Way to Maintain a Celeb-Driven Subscription Commerce? Employ a Whole Lot of Celebs

Content and Commerce Only Flow One Way

Content and Commerce Only Flow One Way

99Designs Launches German Site a Month after Acquiring 12Designer

99Designs Launches German Site a Month after Acquiring 12Designer

Gojee to Make its Recipe Site into a Swipeable Discovery and Inspiration Platform

Gojee to Make its Recipe Site into a Swipeable Discovery and Inspiration Platform

Telly Launches Social Video App, Which Is Totally NOT "Instagram for Video"

Telly Launches Social Video App, Which Is Totally NOT "Instagram for Video"

How 10Gen Is Pulling Engineers from Wall Street to Become an Anchor of NYC Tech

How 10Gen Is Pulling Engineers from Wall Street to Become an Anchor of NYC Tech

Why French Startups Want an American Touch

Why French Startups Want an American Touch

Landlord Takes Foursquare Mayorships to the Next Level

Landlord Takes Foursquare Mayorships to the Next Level

First Round Capital Opens Portfolio Company Services to the Community with +Startup Series, Starting with Design

First Round Capital Opens Portfolio Company Services to the Community with +Startup Series, Starting with Design

Puppy Power: BarkLoudly Promotes Animal Shelters, Rewards Volunteers

Puppy Power: BarkLoudly Promotes Animal Shelters, Rewards Volunteers

ChillWith.me Launches Group Planning App with a Clever Business Model

ChillWith.me Launches Group Planning App with a Clever Business Model

Material Wrld: Another Fashion Marketplace Pushing All the Right Trends

Material Wrld: Another Fashion Marketplace Pushing All the Right Trends

Here's One New York Startup Talking About Revenue

Here's One New York Startup Talking About Revenue

GateGuru Adds Capital to Make Air Travel Less of a Headache, More "Magical"

GateGuru Adds Capital to Make Air Travel Less of a Headache, More "Magical"

Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch

Big Data Be Damned, The Web Still Needs a Human Touch

Concert Window Earns Cash for Venues and Artists with Live-Streaming Platform

Concert Window Earns Cash for Venues and Artists with Live-Streaming Platform

With "Wish Lists," Grabio Creates the One Thing Most "Sell Your Stuff" Marketplaces Lack: Liquidity

With "Wish Lists," Grabio Creates the One Thing Most "Sell Your Stuff" Marketplaces Lack: Liquidity

Fun Org Launches Events App to Help New Yorkers Have More… Yeah, You Guessed it

Fun Org Launches Events App to Help New Yorkers Have More… Yeah, You Guessed it

Lore Preps for Back-to-School with Spate of New Features

Lore Preps for Back-to-School with Spate of New Features

The Dreaded Business Model Question and Why Now May Be the Time to Ask It

The Dreaded Business Model Question and Why Now May Be the Time to Ask It

Former Playfish VP Raises $2.6M from Accel for Stealthy Game Company

Former Playfish VP Raises $2.6M from Accel for Stealthy Game Company

Aviary COO Paul Murphy Joins Betaworks as Entrepreneur in Residence

Aviary COO Paul Murphy Joins Betaworks as Entrepreneur in Residence

What Ever Happened to the Promise of B2B Ecommerce?

What Ever Happened to the Promise of B2B Ecommerce?

Gamifying Love: Kahnoodle Launches Couples App to Strengthen Relationships

Gamifying Love: Kahnoodle Launches Couples App to Strengthen Relationships

Obvious Corp. Wants its Startups to Build the Next Wikipedia, Not Zynga

Obvious Corp. Wants its Startups to Build the Next Wikipedia, Not Zynga

Betaworks, High Line Venture Partners, SV Angel Back LayerVault

Betaworks, High Line Venture Partners, SV Angel Back LayerVault

Don't You Forget About.me

Don't You Forget About.me

Lerer: New York Tech Needs Late Stage Capital and $10B Companies

Lerer: New York Tech Needs Late Stage Capital and $10B Companies

Why Thrillist Raised $13 Million After (Basically) Bootstrapping for Seven Years

Why Thrillist Raised $13 Million After (Basically) Bootstrapping for Seven Years

It Took Yaron Galai Four Startups to Build the One He Always Wanted to Build

It Took Yaron Galai Four Startups to Build the One He Always Wanted to Build

Songza's Founders Realized They Weren't Thinking Radically Enough--Here's How They Changed That

Songza's Founders Realized They Weren't Thinking Radically Enough--Here's How They Changed That

SEOMoz Kicks Off Buying Spree with Followerwonk

SEOMoz Kicks Off Buying Spree with Followerwonk

Battle Bears: Lightbank's First Gaming Deal is More Angry Birds Than Zynga

Battle Bears: Lightbank's First Gaming Deal is More Angry Birds Than Zynga

Media Strike Aims to be the Glam Media of Sports

Media Strike Aims to be the Glam Media of Sports

ComScore's Lawsuit Against Three Startups Is Pretty Deplorable

ComScore's Lawsuit Against Three Startups Is Pretty Deplorable

Hoffman: "I Never Wanted to be LinkedIn's CEO Forever"

Hoffman: "I Never Wanted to be LinkedIn's CEO Forever"

Hoffman on Paypal: We Didn't Know What We Were Doing, But We Learned

Hoffman on Paypal: We Didn't Know What We Were Doing, But We Learned

WantWorthy Keeps its Seed Round in the UPenn Family

WantWorthy Keeps its Seed Round in the UPenn Family

Clickfuel Raises $4 Million for SMB Marketing Tools

Clickfuel Raises $4 Million for SMB Marketing Tools

Radical.fm Goes After Traditional Radio's "Last Bastion of Security"

Radical.fm Goes After Traditional Radio's "Last Bastion of Security"

Dejamor Spices Up Stale Relationships with "Romance in a Box"

Dejamor Spices Up Stale Relationships with "Romance in a Box"

Starbucks Approached Square After Rejecting Every Other Mobile Payment Player

Starbucks Approached Square After Rejecting Every Other Mobile Payment Player

Office Crashers with RapGenius: the Lyrics, the Lifestyle, the Beefs

Office Crashers with RapGenius: the Lyrics, the Lifestyle, the Beefs

Latest Entrant Social Home Page Wars: Vizify Off to a Strong Start

Latest Entrant Social Home Page Wars: Vizify Off to a Strong Start

So Much Social Aggregation: HypeMarks Is like RebelMouse, Glossi, and Vizify, But With Discovery

So Much Social Aggregation: HypeMarks Is like RebelMouse, Glossi, and Vizify, But With Discovery

Feeling the Vybe: New Music App Pushes Song, Show and Video Updates to Fans

Feeling the Vybe: New Music App Pushes Song, Show and Video Updates to Fans

For Online Video Ads, Bigger is Better (No, Really)

For Online Video Ads, Bigger is Better (No, Really)

Turf Geography Club Launches with $600K from RRE, Vaizra, Lerer

Turf Geography Club Launches with $600K from RRE, Vaizra, Lerer

Eight Y Combinator Companies to Watch

Eight Y Combinator Companies to Watch

With Wildfire Sale, One Large Social SaaS Target Remains Amid Plenty of Hungry Buyers

With Wildfire Sale, One Large Social SaaS Target Remains Amid Plenty of Hungry Buyers

The Great Digg Experiment Begins Tomorrow -- Will It Work?

The Great Digg Experiment Begins Tomorrow -- Will It Work?

reKiosk's Marketplace Helps Bands, Bloggers Actually Make Money

reKiosk's Marketplace Helps Bands, Bloggers Actually Make Money

Watch PandoMonthly NYC with Rob Burnett

Watch PandoMonthly NYC with Rob Burnett

Facebook's Biggest Challenge? Upending All of Advertising

Facebook's Biggest Challenge? Upending All of Advertising

Burnett: The Web and DVR Have Killed the Golden Era of Talk Shows

Burnett: The Web and DVR Have Killed the Golden Era of Talk Shows

Burnett: Hollywood's Gates Aren't Closed -- They've Merely Moved

Burnett: Hollywood's Gates Aren't Closed -- They've Merely Moved

Facebook's New Revenue Streams Will Be Assists, Not Slam Dunks

Facebook's New Revenue Streams Will Be Assists, Not Slam Dunks

Facebook Needs New Revenue Streams, Fast

Facebook Needs New Revenue Streams, Fast

Weesh Takes on Pair, Avocado with Its "Wish List" App for Couples

Weesh Takes on Pair, Avocado with Its "Wish List" App for Couples

What the Heck Happened to Zynga This Quarter?

What the Heck Happened to Zynga This Quarter?

Here's One Solution for the Mobile Privacy Problem: Open Source It

Here's One Solution for the Mobile Privacy Problem: Open Source It

First GitHub, Now Meteor: Andreessen Horowitz Backs Another Developer Favorite

First GitHub, Now Meteor: Andreessen Horowitz Backs Another Developer Favorite

OneTok Launches Voice Recognition Platform for App Developers with $1.5 Million from RRE

OneTok Launches Voice Recognition Platform for App Developers with $1.5 Million from RRE

What Will You Look Like in Google Goggles? Ditto Shows Us in 3-D

What Will You Look Like in Google Goggles? Ditto Shows Us in 3-D

BaubleBar Raises $4.5 Million from Accel and Greycroft

BaubleBar Raises $4.5 Million from Accel and Greycroft

The Search Box Will Never Die, Let's Stop Trying to Kill It

The Search Box Will Never Die, Let's Stop Trying to Kill It

Will Zynga Be Around in 100 Years?

Will Zynga Be Around in 100 Years?

Pincus: I Never Aspired to Be a Serial Entrepreneur -- That's Failure

Pincus: I Never Aspired to Be a Serial Entrepreneur -- That's Failure

Crowdfunding Is Now Big Enough to Require a Shadow Services Industry

Percolate Is Solving the One Problem its Social SaaS Competitors Won't Touch

Percolate Is Solving the One Problem its Social SaaS Competitors Won't Touch

More Than Any Other Industry, FinTech Needs Accelerators

More Than Any Other Industry, FinTech Needs Accelerators

Glossi's Social Megafeed Takes on RebelMouse,Vizify

Glossi's Social Megafeed Takes on RebelMouse,Vizify

Pricing Engine Simplifies Digital Advertising for Mom and Pop Buyers

Pricing Engine Simplifies Digital Advertising for Mom and Pop Buyers

Nudge Makes Workplaces Healthier Through Gamification

Nudge Makes Workplaces Healthier Through Gamification

Michelle Phan's MyGlam Raises $2.75 Million

Michelle Phan's MyGlam Raises $2.75 Million

Space-Age Risks and Profound Effects on Humanity: Why Elon Musk is Thinking Bigger than the Internet

Space-Age Risks and Profound Effects on Humanity: Why Elon Musk is Thinking Bigger than the Internet

Can Betaworks Make Digg into the Web's First Ever Turnaround?

Can Betaworks Make Digg into the Web's First Ever Turnaround?

Dizzion Closes Seed Round for Virtual Desktops

Dizzion Closes Seed Round for Virtual Desktops

Open Air is Out to Remake Publishing, Now with Cash from SV Angel

Open Air is Out to Remake Publishing, Now with Cash from SV Angel

Badgy Raises Angel Round from Mark Cuban for Social Marketing

Badgy Raises Angel Round from Mark Cuban for Social Marketing

uBeam Raises 750K from FF Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund, and Angels

The Talent Problem Isn't Solving Itself, Here's One Startup's Campaign to Help

The Talent Problem Isn't Solving Itself, Here's One Startup's Campaign to Help

Loosecubes Hires Greg Whalin of Meetup.com as its CTO

Loosecubes Hires Greg Whalin of Meetup.com as its CTO

Barkbox Raises $1.7 Million For Subscription Pet Gear

Barkbox Raises $1.7 Million For Subscription Pet Gear

Tripl Launches Social Travel Site with $300k from High Peaks and Quotidian Ventures

Tripl Launches Social Travel Site with $300k from High Peaks and Quotidian Ventures

International Ecommerce Co. FiftyOne Raises $10.1 Million

Bizodo Turns On Revenue with Paperwork Automation Tool

Bizodo Turns On Revenue with Paperwork Automation Tool

Macmillan Knows Publishing Is Doomed, So It's Funding the Future

Macmillan Knows Publishing Is Doomed, So It's Funding the Future

The Startup Alliance to Defend Internet Freedom (And Why It Needs to Exist)

The Startup Alliance to Defend Internet Freedom (And Why It Needs to Exist)

Wildfire Interactive Rages on in the Wake of Competitors Getting Scooped Up

Wildfire Interactive Rages on in the Wake of Competitors Getting Scooped Up

Triposo Raises $4.2 Million Toward Series A

Triposo Raises $4.2 Million Toward Series A

Home Efficiency Startup PlotWatt Raises $3 Million

Home Efficiency Startup PlotWatt Raises $3 Million

Vidmaker, a TechStars Cloud Company, Raises Angel Round

Vidmaker, a TechStars Cloud Company, Raises Angel Round

Ketup Joins the Army of Startups Taking on Craigslist

Ketup Joins the Army of Startups Taking on Craigslist

Startups Who Sell to Other Startups: iDoneThis Jumps Into the Tech Daisy Chain

Startups Who Sell to Other Startups: iDoneThis Jumps Into the Tech Daisy Chain

Refashioner, the Couture Swap Site, Pivots to Virtual Consignment

Refashioner, the Couture Swap Site, Pivots to Virtual Consignment

As the "Maker Movement" Goes Mainstream, Sites Like Caskers Spring Up to Provide Distribution

As the "Maker Movement" Goes Mainstream, Sites Like Caskers Spring Up to Provide Distribution

Assessing Hatch Labs' Accelerator Hybrid Strategy One Year In

Assessing Hatch Labs' Accelerator Hybrid Strategy One Year In

Bain Ventures-Backed AppNeta Acquires Bain Ventures-Backed Tracelytics

Bain Ventures-Backed AppNeta Acquires Bain Ventures-Backed Tracelytics

New York vs. The Valley: Crazy Valuations Haven't Crept East Yet

New York vs. The Valley: Crazy Valuations Haven't Crept East Yet

Built by Expats in Berlin, Moped Raises Capital from US Investors

Built by Expats in Berlin, Moped Raises Capital from US Investors

Security Company White Sky Adds $7.5 Million to Coffers

Security Company White Sky Adds $7.5 Million to Coffers

Audio Equipment Site Unique Squared Raises $1 Million

Audio Equipment Site Unique Squared Raises $1 Million

3 Years in With 4 Million Users, Grindr is at a Crossroads

3 Years in With 4 Million Users, Grindr is at a Crossroads

RealtyPerks Draws in Client-Hungry Realtors With Its Homebuyer Rewards Program

RealtyPerks Draws in Client-Hungry Realtors With Its Homebuyer Rewards Program

Dmitri Grishin is like a Russian Elon Musk -- He's Got Big Ambitions for Real Problems

Dmitri Grishin is like a Russian Elon Musk -- He's Got Big Ambitions for Real Problems

Here Are Some Companies [TechStars NY Demo Day]

Accumulating Stuff is Easy, Bondsy Helps Us Get Rid of It

Accumulating Stuff is Easy, Bondsy Helps Us Get Rid of It

Recovering Lawyers Build Crowdfunding for Communities with Smallknot

Recovering Lawyers Build Crowdfunding for Communities with Smallknot

Honest Company Follows ShoeDazzle's Lead and Drops Subscription Requirement

Honest Company Follows ShoeDazzle's Lead and Drops Subscription Requirement

Personal History Tracker Rewind.Me Raises Seed Round Ahead of TechStars Demo Day

Personal History Tracker Rewind.Me Raises Seed Round Ahead of TechStars Demo Day

PeerJ Raises $950K from Tim O'Reilly's Ventures To Make Biomedical Research Accessible to All

PeerJ Raises $950K from Tim O'Reilly's Ventures To Make Biomedical Research Accessible to All

Rock the Post Unveils Crowdfunding Platform for Small Businesses

Rock the Post Unveils Crowdfunding Platform for Small Businesses

Bitponics Automates Gardening For Brown-Thumbed Plant Killers

Bitponics Automates Gardening For Brown-Thumbed Plant Killers

Startup Culture is Becoming Mainstream Culture, and Startup Threads is Capitalizing On It

Startup Culture is Becoming Mainstream Culture, and Startup Threads is Capitalizing On It

Foursquare Redesign: So What if the Check-In is Dead?

Foursquare Redesign: So What if the Check-In is Dead?

Is the Crowdsourcing Debate Finally Over?

Is the Crowdsourcing Debate Finally Over?

Crashlytics Acquires Firetower for Mobile Web Analytics

GetTaxi Raises Capital in Race to New York Launch

GetTaxi Raises Capital in Race to New York Launch

Northside Festival "Gets" New York Tech

Northside Festival "Gets" New York Tech

Big Celebs, Big Ideas: The Double-Edged Sword of a Big Flashy Launch

Big Celebs, Big Ideas: The Double-Edged Sword of a Big Flashy Launch

Forget Facebook, Buddy Media Joined Salesforce For Its, Um, Sales Force

Forget Facebook, Buddy Media Joined Salesforce For Its, Um, Sales Force

Institutional Investors Loved Venture Capital to Death

Institutional Investors Loved Venture Capital to Death

Peer Vouching Site Wikify.me Raises 300K to Launch, Move to San Francisco

Peer Vouching Site Wikify.me Raises 300K to Launch, Move to San Francisco

Stealing Is at the Heart of Creating Anything

Stealing Is at the Heart of Creating Anything

Luxury Commerce Site Svbscription Ups the Ante on the "Stuff in a Box" Trend

Luxury Commerce Site Svbscription Ups the Ante on the "Stuff in a Box" Trend

Meet Pinerly, the Buddy Media of Pinterest

Meet Pinerly, the Buddy Media of Pinterest

Wordpress and Tumblr are Complementary, Wordpress Founder Says

Wordpress and Tumblr are Complementary, Wordpress Founder Says

Matt Mullenweg and the Cult of WordPress

Matt Mullenweg and the Cult of WordPress

The Social Land Grab Begins With Oracle's Out-of-Nowhere Deal for Vitrue

The Social Land Grab Begins With Oracle's Out-of-Nowhere Deal for Vitrue

With Legitimacy from Triton Metrics, Pandora Aggressively Courting Local Ad Dollars

With Legitimacy from Triton Metrics, Pandora Aggressively Courting Local Ad Dollars

Fancy Hands, With $1 Million in Funding, Launches Group Accounts

Fancy Hands, With $1 Million in Funding, Launches Group Accounts

Bunchball Goes Freemium with Salesforce Gamification App

Bunchball Goes Freemium with Salesforce Gamification App

New York Tech Grows Up, PandoMonthly Moves In (Get Tickets Now)

New York Tech Grows Up, PandoMonthly Moves In (Get Tickets Now)

DotLoop Raises Capital to Expand its Paperwork-Killing Technology Beyond Real Estate

DotLoop Raises Capital to Expand its Paperwork-Killing Technology Beyond Real Estate

Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz

Bootstrapped GitHub Raising a Round from Andreessen Horowitz

WorkFu Launches its Less Ugly, More Useful Version of LinkedIn

WorkFu Launches its Less Ugly, More Useful Version of LinkedIn

No Pop Equals a Flop? Welcome to the Irrational World of Public Markets, Facebook

No Pop Equals a Flop? Welcome to the Irrational World of Public Markets, Facebook

Dustin Moskowitz on Facebook's Early Days, Working with Zuck, Facebook's #1 Mistake, and More

Dustin Moskowitz on Facebook's Early Days, Working with Zuck, Facebook's #1 Mistake, and More

IPO? What IPO? Here's a Liveblog of Everything You Need to Know About Facebook Today

IPO? What IPO? Here's a Liveblog of Everything You Need to Know About Facebook Today

Kleiner Perkins Closes New Fund at $525 Million, Lower than Previous Reports

Kleiner Perkins Closes New Fund at $525 Million, Lower than Previous Reports

Why Ron Conway Is Jazzed On Ecommerce

Why Ron Conway Is Jazzed On Ecommerce

Social Media Allocations and the Facebook IPO Trickle-Down Effect

Social Media Allocations and the Facebook IPO Trickle-Down Effect

VoteIt Officially Launches to Help Groups Quibble Over Decisions Online

VoteIt Officially Launches to Help Groups Quibble Over Decisions Online

Lenddo Nets $8 Million for Community Lending in Emerging Markets

Lenddo Nets $8 Million for Community Lending in Emerging Markets

Honestly, the Pivot Machine, is Now TalentBin

Honestly, the Pivot Machine, is Now TalentBin

Groupon Earnings: Is the Cute Email Company Ready to Be a Real Business?

Groupon Earnings: Is the Cute Email Company Ready to Be a Real Business?

Refer.ly Launches Influencer Affiliate Platform Ahead of YC Session

Refer.ly Launches Influencer Affiliate Platform Ahead of YC Session

Course Hero, a DIY Education Startup, Is Now Paying Students*

Course Hero, a DIY Education Startup, Is Now Paying Students*

Adaptly's $10.5 Million Round Will Buy the Social Marketing Platform a Sales Force

Adaptly's $10.5 Million Round Will Buy the Social Marketing Platform a Sales Force

Dwolla Finally Releases Solution to the ACH Payment Problem, Makes API Available to All Banks

Dwolla Finally Releases Solution to the ACH Payment Problem, Makes API Available to All Banks

Venture Returns are Horrible, and It's the Fault of...the Investors?

Venture Returns are Horrible, and It's the Fault of...the Investors?

Dustin Moskovitz: Asana Could "Certainly" Be a $100 Billion Business

Dustin Moskovitz: Asana Could "Certainly" Be a $100 Billion Business

Key To Facebook's Early Success? Slow Growth, Moskovitz Says

Key To Facebook's Early Success? Slow Growth, Moskovitz Says

New York Tech: Where Are the Big Exits?

New York Tech: Where Are the Big Exits?

Pandora Has a Monetization Problem That Streaming Hybrid Jelli Cleverly Solves

Pandora Has a Monetization Problem That Streaming Hybrid Jelli Cleverly Solves

Personalization Company Sailthru Acquires TechStars Alum Frame

Personalization Company Sailthru Acquires TechStars Alum Frame

Intro, the Professional (and More Useful) Highlight, Now Has Networks

Intro, the Professional (and More Useful) Highlight, Now Has Networks

Wikinvest Pivots to SigFig, a Comparison Site for Investments

Wikinvest Pivots to SigFig, a Comparison Site for Investments

Etsy Weddings Marks New Emphasis on Commerce + Content

Etsy Weddings Marks New Emphasis on Commerce + Content

Jesse Middleton and The Importance of 100% Focus On Your Best Idea

Jesse Middleton and The Importance of 100% Focus On Your Best Idea

Thefuture.fm Has Solved a Problem That Turntable, YouTube, and Spotify Couldn't

Thefuture.fm Has Solved a Problem That Turntable, YouTube, and Spotify Couldn't

Yes, More Cloud News: OfficeDrop Opens to All File Types, Doubles Storage Space

Yes, More Cloud News: OfficeDrop Opens to All File Types, Doubles Storage Space

MyCityWay Launches New Version, Featuring the App Equivalent of a Mood Ring

MyCityWay Launches New Version, Featuring the App Equivalent of a Mood Ring

Coursekit is Now Lore: Rebrand Reflects Expansion Beyond College Courses, With New Investment from Peter Thiel

Coursekit is Now Lore: Rebrand Reflects Expansion Beyond College Courses, With New Investment from Peter Thiel

StockTwits Unveils Heatmap, a Trending Topics Page for Market Chatter

StockTwits Unveils Heatmap, a Trending Topics Page for Market Chatter

Wait, Self Serve Ads Are a $400 Million Business for Twitter?

Wait, Self Serve Ads Are a $400 Million Business for Twitter?

Picle, the Instagram With Audio, Has 50,000 Users After a Month

Picle, the Instagram With Audio, Has 50,000 Users After a Month

Spotify's Coke Partnership: 'None of Us Love Ads'

Spotify's Coke Partnership: 'None of Us Love Ads'

Meet Eli Dragen, The Developer Behind Those Ubiquitous Facebook 'Challenge Lists'

Meet Eli Dragen, The Developer Behind Those Ubiquitous Facebook 'Challenge Lists'

Threadflip Eliminates the Crappy Parts of Selling Your Clothes Online

Threadflip Eliminates the Crappy Parts of Selling Your Clothes Online

Chartbeat Reveals New Social Features, iOS app, Redesign, and $9.5 Million Series B Round

Chartbeat Reveals New Social Features, iOS app, Redesign, and $9.5 Million Series B Round

Iowa-Based Dwolla Expands to New York with Two New Hires

Iowa-Based Dwolla Expands to New York with Two New Hires

Solve Media's Captcha Ads are the Tip of the 'Brand Washing' Iceberg

TastemakerX Rewards Music Snobs (and PandoDaily Readers With Pre-Coachella Beta Invites)

TastemakerX Rewards Music Snobs (and PandoDaily Readers With Pre-Coachella Beta Invites)

WordPress Dominates Blogs, But Squarespace is Gunning For It With Version 6

WordPress Dominates Blogs, But Squarespace is Gunning For It With Version 6

Hard Work is a Given, Luck is No Guarantee (A Lesson from YouGift)

Hard Work is a Given, Luck is No Guarantee (A Lesson from YouGift)

Speakerfile Launches eHarmony for Experts and Conference Planners (Plus! Premium Accounts for Pando Readers)

Speakerfile Launches eHarmony for Experts and Conference Planners (Plus! Premium Accounts for Pando Readers)

In Other News, AOL's Stock is Actually Way Up

In Other News, AOL's Stock is Actually Way Up

The DMR Index Helps Agencies Cut Through the Adtech Noise

The DMR Index Helps Agencies Cut Through the Adtech Noise

Gripevine To Civilize Angry Twitter Mobs With Its Customer Complaint Platform

Gripevine To Civilize Angry Twitter Mobs With Its Customer Complaint Platform

Boundless Learning Raises $8 Million to Make Expensive College Textbooks Free

Boundless Learning Raises $8 Million to Make Expensive College Textbooks Free

Impossible and Inevitable: When Core Users Turn On You

Impossible and Inevitable: When Core Users Turn On You

Ben Nelson is Building a Virtual Harvard. It's Ambitious -- Just Don't Call it Disruptive.

Ben Nelson is Building a Virtual Harvard. It's Ambitious -- Just Don't Call it Disruptive.

Nitro Raises $3.5 Million to Take On Adobe Acrobat

Plink Gathers 633K for Facebook Credits Loyalty Programs

Plink Gathers 633K for Facebook Credits Loyalty Programs

The Great Startup Prank War of Boulder, Colorado

The Great Startup Prank War of Boulder, Colorado

WhoGotFunded Will Make My Job Easier, Less Relevant

WhoGotFunded Will Make My Job Easier, Less Relevant

Hailo Nabs $17 million for Cabbie-Passenger Matchmaking

Hailo Nabs $17 million for Cabbie-Passenger Matchmaking

ShoeDazzle's New CEO on Killing The Subscription Model, The Company's New Apparel Line, and Ms. Kardashian

YogiPlay Raises $1 Million to Improve Kiddie Apps

YogiPlay Raises $1 Million to Improve Kiddie Apps

'Our Velocity is Blowing the Doors Off'--Hootsuite Sells $20 Million Stake to OMERS Ventures

'Our Velocity is Blowing the Doors Off'--Hootsuite Sells $20 Million Stake to OMERS Ventures

GraphScience Raises $2 Million Series A for Social Ad Optimization, Data Services

GraphScience Raises $2 Million Series A for Social Ad Optimization, Data Services

Pair, the 'Path for Couples' Hit 50k Users in Four Days

Pair, the 'Path for Couples' Hit 50k Users in Four Days

A Startup Goes to Washington: How Motaavi Lobbied for Its Right to Survive

A Startup Goes to Washington: How Motaavi Lobbied for Its Right to Survive

Tracelytics Raises $5.2 Million From Bain Capital Ventures, Opens Boston Office

Tracelytics Raises $5.2 Million From Bain Capital Ventures, Opens Boston Office

Flash Website Maker Wix Launches HTML5

Flash Website Maker Wix Launches HTML5

Jessica Alba's The Honest Company Raises $27 Million for Non-Toxic Baby Products

Jessica Alba's The Honest Company Raises $27 Million for Non-Toxic Baby Products

568 Broadway Now Home to 10 Hot Startups

568 Broadway Now Home to 10 Hot Startups

Live from San Francisco, it's PandoMonthly with Dave Morin!

Live from San Francisco, it's PandoMonthly with Dave Morin!

Under Zynga's Ownership, OMGPop Wants NYC to Be a 'Hotbed' for Game Development

Under Zynga's Ownership, OMGPop Wants NYC to Be a 'Hotbed' for Game Development

Vapps Alums Raise $1.5 Million for OneTok, an App Platform With Voice Control

Vapps Alums Raise $1.5 Million for OneTok, an App Platform With Voice Control

As It Turns Out, FanBridge's Most Exciting Product is Boring Old Email

As It Turns Out, FanBridge's Most Exciting Product is Boring Old Email

MyCityWay Gunning For Foursquare, Yelp, Everything with Version Two

MyCityWay Gunning For Foursquare, Yelp, Everything with Version Two

Stealthy SilverCar Raising Capital for Luxury Car Rentals, Headed by Former Skybus CEO

Stealthy SilverCar Raising Capital for Luxury Car Rentals, Headed by Former Skybus CEO

Social Shopping Site OpenSky Adds Former GSI Exec as CTO

Social Shopping Site OpenSky Adds Former GSI Exec as CTO

The Tale of Two South-Bys

The Tale of Two South-Bys

As Crowded Ad-Tech Market Heads for Shake-Out, Flite Hires VivaKi SVP to Position Products for Buyers

As Crowded Ad-Tech Market Heads for Shake-Out, Flite Hires VivaKi SVP to Position Products for Buyers

InBed.me Makes Hostel Booking Social in a Way that Industry Mainstay Hostelworld Cannot

InBed.me Makes Hostel Booking Social in a Way that Industry Mainstay Hostelworld Cannot

Adlibrium Revamps Platform, Launches Enterprises.me, an About.me for Merchants (Plus! Tablet Giveaway to Pando Readers)

Adlibrium Revamps Platform, Launches Enterprises.me, an About.me for Merchants (Plus! Tablet Giveaway to Pando Readers)

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Tuesday)

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Tuesday)

Rdio's Reboot: More Like Spotify, But Prettier and Possibly Better

Rdio's Reboot: More Like Spotify, But Prettier and Possibly Better

The Year Nobody "Won" SXSW

The Year Nobody "Won" SXSW

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Sunday)

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Sunday)

Geoloqi, Solver of the Great Location Problem, Partners Up

Geoloqi, Solver of the Great Location Problem, Partners Up

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Saturday)

Everything You Missed at SXSW Today (Saturday)

Timehop Has A Delorean, Real Time Memories and My Favorite Daily Email

Timehop Has A Delorean, Real Time Memories and My Favorite Daily Email

Everything You Missed at Sxsw Today (Friday)

Everything You Missed at Sxsw Today (Friday)

Empire Avenue Ditches Influence for Engagement with Relaunch

Empire Avenue Ditches Influence for Engagement with Relaunch

We're All Friends Here, Just Not on Google+

We're All Friends Here, Just Not on Google+

SXSW and Great Tex-pectations (Get it?!)

SXSW and Great Tex-pectations (Get it?!)

Skillshare's Users Are Solving the Company's Problems

Skillshare's Users Are Solving the Company's Problems

'Anti-Display' Network BlogFrog Raises $3.2 Million for NY Office and Mom Blog Empire

'Anti-Display' Network BlogFrog Raises $3.2 Million for NY Office and Mom Blog Empire

Pandora's Market Share Grew Last Year Despite New Competition, and That's Precisely the Problem

Pandora's Market Share Grew Last Year Despite New Competition, and That's Precisely the Problem

AirCover's New Security App Comes with Priority Party Access for Pando Readers!

AirCover's New Security App Comes with Priority Party Access for Pando Readers!

Instagram Isn't Monetizing Those Retro Photos; This New Ad Network Is

Instagram Isn't Monetizing Those Retro Photos; This New Ad Network Is

Etsy Meeting Investors for New Funding Round

Etsy Meeting Investors for New Funding Round

Machinima Raising Capital at $250 Million Valuation

Machinima Raising Capital at $250 Million Valuation

Facebook's New Ads Walk a Very Fine, Spammy Line

Facebook's New Ads Walk a Very Fine, Spammy Line

fMC: The F8 New York Actually Cares About

fMC: The F8 New York Actually Cares About

Display Ads: Now, Less Crappy! Flite Launches New Platform and App Store for Ads

Display Ads: Now, Less Crappy! Flite Launches New Platform and App Store for Ads

Meeteor Will Help You Network Your Face Off at SXSW

Meeteor Will Help You Network Your Face Off at SXSW

Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow on the Future of Paid Social, F-Commerce and the Company's Second Acquisition

Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow on the Future of Paid Social, F-Commerce and the Company's Second Acquisition

HowAboutWe to Sell 'Experience' Deals to Couples

HowAboutWe to Sell 'Experience' Deals to Couples

Split(able) Passes the Electronic Hat on Group Purchases

Split(able) Passes the Electronic Hat on Group Purchases

It's Time for Another Turntable.fm Pivot

It's Time for Another Turntable.fm Pivot

Why Gilt Should Spin Off Its Growth Businesses

Why Gilt Should Spin Off Its Growth Businesses

Stop Trying to Make F-Commerce Happen

Stop Trying to Make F-Commerce Happen

Twitter's Self- Serve Ads Solve a Big Problem, But Create A New One

Twitter's Self- Serve Ads Solve a Big Problem, But Create A New One

HearMyPitch, The Brand-Startup Matchmaker

ThrillCall Launches App With Exclusive Event Offers

ThrillCall Launches App With Exclusive Event Offers

SecondMarket to Launch Internal Stock Exchanges to Stop Talent Hemorrhage at Media Companies

SecondMarket to Launch Internal Stock Exchanges to Stop Talent Hemorrhage at Media Companies

Chirpify Facilitates Scarily Seamless Twitter Payments

Chirpify Facilitates Scarily Seamless Twitter Payments

Zynga Addresses 'Issues With Mark as a Person' in First Ever Earnings Call

Zynga Addresses 'Issues With Mark as a Person' in First Ever Earnings Call

The Small Cap IPO Ghetto

The Small Cap IPO Ghetto

Myspace Pins User Gain on Music Player…But How?

Myspace Pins User Gain on Music Player…But How?

"You're Not Happy and Neither are We"--Lessons From Wahooly's Crash-And-Burn Launch

"You're Not Happy and Neither are We"--Lessons From Wahooly's Crash-And-Burn Launch

The Once-Hot Textbook Rental Market Is Already Shifting to Ebooks

The Once-Hot Textbook Rental Market Is Already Shifting to Ebooks

Groupon's First Public Quarter: Overvalued, Schmovervalued

Groupon's First Public Quarter: Overvalued, Schmovervalued

Group Commerce Turns Media Outlets into Shills... But in a Good Way

Group Commerce Turns Media Outlets into Shills... But in a Good Way

The Future of Daily Deals is New Categories, Apparently. I'm Not Terribly Convinced.

The Future of Daily Deals is New Categories, Apparently. I'm Not Terribly Convinced.

IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation

IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation