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How To Self-Publish A Bestseller: Publishing 3.0
Jul 21, 1:00AM
Every entrepreneur should self-publish a book, because self-publishing is the new business card. If you want to stand out in a world of content, you need to underline your expertise. Publishing a book is not just putting your thoughts on a blog post. It's an event. It shows your best curated thoughts and it shows customers, clients, investors, friends and lovers what the most important things on your mind are right now.MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking
Jul 21, 12:12AM
I'm not a huge fan of banks and when senior director Michal Panowicz approached me about mBank my interest was pigued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the coolest, most high-tech banking experiences I've seen? The more important question, however, was how could a Polish bank beat the big guys - the Chases, the Citibanks, and the Credit Suisses of the world - to the punch in terms of improved user experience and unique features?How This Kid Tossed One Raccoon In 43 Seconds
Jul 20, 9:40PM
Some days you're on call for weekend news duty and it's pretty boring and you get tired of just sitting around waiting for something to happen and you're just sort of hanging out and watching Twitter and HOLY SHIT IS THAT KEVIN ROSE TOSSING A RACCOON? Why yes, yes it is.Dropbox Acquires Mobile Coupon Startup Endorse A Month After Shutdown
Jul 20, 8:03PM
About a month after shutting down its app, mobile coupon startup Endorse has been acquired by Dropbox, the team announced on its blog today. The deal follows a number of other recent acquisition Dropbox has been making, as it looks to add headcount in an increasingly constrained talent market.Bay Area Tech Wages Are The Nation's Highest At $123K, But Should Entrepreneurs Look Elsewhere As Costs Rise?
Jul 20, 8:01PM
The San Francisco Bay Area pays the highest median tech wage, at $123,497, but comes with higher taxes and housing costs, according to data assembled by Good April, an online tax-planning startup based in SF. The median wage for tech workers in San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo counties is nearly 21% higher than the second highest, Boston, at $102,230.Why 3D Printing Will Work In Fashion
Jul 20, 8:00PM
In case you haven't heard, 3D printing has entered the mainstream, and it will disrupt every industry's manufacturing processes slightly differently. Let's talk about why it will work in fashion. 3D printing is not entirely new to the fashion industry, as jewelry designers have for years outsourced quick modeling jobs to printing companies. But as 3D printed pieces begin to pop up on the runway and in presentations outside of fashion week as the finished product, it's worth asking why the method stands a chance of proliferating among designers.CrunchWeek: Microsoft Stock Nosedives, Path Raising Again, Netflix's Emmy Nods
Jul 20, 6:00PM
Welcome one and all to a brand new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us writers together in front of the TechCrunch TV cameras to dish on some of the more interesting stories from the past seven days.Will The Real Berlin Please Stand Up? - A VC Puts The City's Tech Boom in Context
Jul 20, 5:13PM
This is a guest post by Ciaran O´Leary, a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Berlin. Earlybird manages €600m in funds and are investors in companies such as Carpooling.com, Peak Games, SocialBakers, The Football App, and Wunderlist. He usually blogs here. He'll be among those attending Disrupt Europe in Berlin in October.Gillmor Gang: iBeacon & Eggs
Jul 20, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb filter across our head. Television is going streamland in a big way, and the Emmy nominations of Netflix' House of Cards are but the most obvious indicator of the transformation. And what Apple has in store for us is becoming tangibly clear based on its dance with the studios."Designing Facebook Home" Video Gives Rare Look At Prototypes And Iteration Process
Jul 20, 3:45PM
Facebook Home's launcher was inspired by Lunchables. That's just one nugget of insight into Facebook's design process from a presentation it gave to Bay Area designers in May and that it's now released as a video. The 40-minute clip illustrates how Home evolved, iteration by iteration. Facebook's Julie Zhuo introduces it saying "the things that the articles never write about is the journey."When Will Doom Come To Hollywood?
Jul 20, 1:00PM
Jane Austen? Shakespeare? Tolstoy? Hacks. Beethoven? Bach? Mozart? Wildly overrated. Statistically speaking, at least. It's a curious fact that while the long-dead titans of literature and music are revered above all others, they were working in a time when the talent pool--the educated population of the planet--was a tiny rounding error compared to today's. What's more, today's writers and musicians have the advantage of learning from those who went before. Simple statistics implies that most of history's great works of art must have been created within the last fifty years--Let's Have General Solicitation As Congress Intended It
Jul 20, 4:00AM
Everyone passionate about the startup company funding ecosystem was overjoyed by the news last week that "general solicitation" would soon be okay for startups looking for angel investors. With one fell stroke, the artificial networking inefficiency imposed by the ban on public communication would be gone. Entrepreneurs and accredited investors would be able to talk freely. Startups would have no impediments to tweeting, blogging, taking out Facebook ads, or engaging in any other kind of social media (or old media) to optimize both the chance to get funded and the chance to fully and expeditiously fill out financing rounds.In Wake Of Outcry Over Censorship, Tumblr Explains Its NSFW Policy (Kind Of)
Jul 20, 3:19AM
So, I was searching for pornography on Tumblr this morning. (It was work-related!) Word was, the now-Yahoo-owned blogging network made a significant change to the way adult-themed blogs could be discovered on the site, which even further hid their content from public consumption. Tumblr finally addressed the issue this afternoon, following user outcry.Nate Silver Is Leaving The New York Times For ESPN
Jul 20, 1:15AM
Nate Silver, the statistician who rose to national prominence for his scarily accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, is leaving The New York Times for ESPN. Silver will take the Five Thirty Eight brand with him to the sports giant, according to The Times' Brian Stelter .Apple To Buy Transportation App HopStop - Mass Transit To Return To Apple Maps?
Jul 19, 9:55PM
Apple has agreed to acquire transit navigation app HopStop.com, according to a report in Bloomberg. AllThingsD has apparently received confirmation from an Apple spokesperson. I've reached out to both companies and will update if I hear back from either of them. HopStop offers walking, taxi, and bicycle directions, but is probably most useful when it comes to mass transportation. When Apple broke away from Google and launched its own mapping application for iOS 6, on top of all the other problems it had, it removed transit directions and instead directed users to download other apps — including HopStop. (Indeed, it was through those recommendations that I became a regular HopStop user.) So acquiring the company could be a way to bring that information back into Maps.Ask A VC: Resolute Ventures' Mike Hirshland On Why He Hates Party Rounds (And Why Founders Still Raise Them)
Jul 19, 9:35PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Resolute Ventures' founder Mike Hirshland joined us in the studio to talk about seed-stage investing, party rounds and how startups should structure boards.Poppy Is Now Courting Developers To Build 3-D Augmented Reality Games For Your iPhone
Jul 19, 9:25PM
Remember Poppy? It's that device -- now on Kickstarter -- that lets you watch and record 3-D photos and videos using your iPhone. It's kind of like a Viewmaster for the digital age. Now it's looking to court game developers to build for its device.Motorola Will Officially Unveil The Moto X In New York On August 1
Jul 19, 9:17PM
Well, here we go. After a considerable amount of teasing (not to mention cheerleading from Google execs during earnings calls), Motorola Mobility is finally ready to unveil its long-awaited Moto X smartphone to the world, and it's going to do it at a special event in New York City on August 1. Actually, you know what? "Unveil" may not exactly be the right word -- the veil has basically been off for months if you go the sheer number of leaks we've seen make the rounds.As The Series A Crunch Tightens, Teams of Coders Are Looking To Find New Jobs On DeveloperAuction
Jul 19, 8:59PM
DeveloperAuction, an online marketplace that lets startups submit salary bids to talented engineers, has expanded to allow teams of coders and designers to put themselves up for auction as a group. "As a general trend around the Series-A Crunch, we've seen a huge influx of talent on our marketplace in the last two months who are on there because their current company has been unable to secure fundingThrive Capital's Kushner Looks To Build A Modern Health Insurer With $40M For Oscar
Jul 19, 8:38PM
With new parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) going into effect next year, Thrive Capital’s Josh Kushner is betting that health insurance — an area long considered off-limits to tech entrepreneurs because of its legal and political complexities — is finally ripe for change. Kushner, whose venture fund Thrive Capital has $200 million under management with bets in Instagram, Nasty Gal and Warby Parker, has amassed a team to revolutionize health insurance through a new stealth startup called Oscar. While the company isn’t sharing details about the product yet or even talking publicly, you can bet that its health insurance offering will likely have a more customer-friendly experience that is transparent about costs. The startup is actually licensed as a health insurance operator in the state of New York, so it isn’t some kind of front-end for existing providers, sources tell us. It will have its own plans so it can offer something truly differentiated. The company launches later this fall and it will only be for New Yorkers at first. Here’s the landscape: next year, some very key parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go into effect. There will be an individual mandate, where consumers will be required to have coverage or pay a penalty. New health insurances exchanges are being established where consumers can compare and contrast different plans. Then there are also subsidies provided for those near the poverty line who can’t afford coverage. This is already having a profound effect on health care insurance costs. New York state insurance regulators say rates approved for next year, are at least 50 percent lower on average than this year’s rates, according to The New York Times. What that means is that there is a fresh market opportunity for new health insurance providers, especially ones that offer exceptionally good customer service, design, marketing and leverage big data. Kushner put together a team including his old Vostu co-founder Mario Schlosser, a Harvard Business School classmate Kevin Nazemi who oversaw marketing for Microsoft’s CRM programs and Fredrik Nylander, who ran engineering and operations and Tumblr. On the company’s board is Charlie Baker, who ran insurer Harvard Pilgrim out of Massachusetts, the only state with an insurance exchange before the Affordable Care Act was passed. The company also includes other long-time health care executives, who have at least a collective 250 years of experienceIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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