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As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees
Aug 25, 4:04AM
Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million unique visitors each month. But they also expect this growth to continue, as Weebly co-founder David Rusenko tells us that his company has signed a lease on 36,000-square feet of a historic warehouse in SOMA in downtown San Francisco, which will become its new headquarters. Not only that, but as the anchor tenant of this new space, the company has the option to expand to 50,000-square-feet, which Rusenko says the company plans to do. As a comparison, Weebly’s new office will be nearly five-times the size of its current space in Pac Heights, which is a puny 11,000-square-feet. Besides the fact that the warehouse that will play home to their new headquarters is apparently the “last brick-and-timber warehouse in SOMA to be converted to a more modern setup” — and is where many of the grapes would be shipped from Napa to make wine in San Francisco, Rusenko says — the reason for the move is that Weebly plans to hire hundreds of new employees and it’s going to need somewhere to put them. Weebly plans to move into the new space sometime in early 2014 and over the next year-and-a-half plans to grow to up to 600 employees globally — most of whom will be located in San Francisco, the co-founder tells us. When Weebly moved into their current offices in 2011, the company was just 19 employees, a team which today has grown to 80. Yes, that means beginning soon Weebly is going to begin a long-term push that will add over 500 people to its staff, many of whom will be engineers and designers. When asked how Weebly is making this possible, the co-founder says that the company has been profitable from day one and is backed by VCs like Sequoia, so that help build confidence among potential recruits that the company is actually going to be around in a year. It sounds a lot like Dropbox’s big move and growth spurt in 2011, doesn’t it? But how does it plan to pay for all that? Although the company won’t share specifics on its financial performance or how much it raised from Sequoia (and onlyGillmor Gang: Watching the River Flow
Aug 24, 11:57PM
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Doc Searls, and Steve Gillmor — digest the resignation of Steve Ballmer and its potential impact on the direction of the Post-PC Era. Whether he was pushed by Bill Gates or what, it's clear something changed in the last few days. Just how or who can do better will soon be apparent, as Ballmer's lame duck term has been accelerated by a cheering Wall Street.CrunchWeek: Ballmer's Classy Exit, Our Picks From YC's Demo Day, And The Gold iPhone
Aug 24, 10:00PM
Are you feeling like you're ready to kick off the weekend, but could just use three more opinions on the biggest tech news stories of the week before you really get the party started? Well you came to the right place, because it's time for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some real talk about the most interesting stories from the past week.The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business
Aug 24, 8:00PM
This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you're a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so. I might be missing things. If you want to argue with me, feel free. I might be wrong about any of it.Doximity, A LinkedIn For Medical Professionals, Now Reaches About 30% Of Doctors In The U.S.
Aug 24, 7:32PM
Doximity, which is like a LinkedIn for physicians that lets them share patient data in a HIPAA-compliant way, said that it’s now reaching about 30 percent of doctors in the country. They’ve got about 200,000 licensed physicians on-board across the U.S. in every major city and sub-specialty. Two hundred thousand users isn’t a grand number in the scheme of most apps. But in the case of a highly-specialized vertical like medicine, it is. “It took LinkedIn many times longer to reach that level of penetration in the white-collar workforce and Doximity has accomplished this in about three years,” said Jeff Spain, a general partner at Emergence Capital Partners who backed the company. The CEO Jeff Tangney is a second-time founder whose previous medical software company Epocrates went for an IPO in 2011. He founded Doximity a few years ago as a way to attack how doctors share medical data on their patients. Hand-offs between doctors are an eternal source of mistakes that can cost patients their lives. “The current system is positively Medieval in terms of how we ask doctors to communicate,” he said. “I saw how much time was wasted with fax machines. There are 15 billion faxes a year sent in the U.S. healthcare system and it’s because there is no other legal way to send your lab report from one office to the other. It’s not HIPAA compliant.” So they built Doximity as a social network for doctors where physicians could look up other colleagues or physicians. Tangney says the platform is speeding up the process with which doctors can find relevant specialists for patients. In one case this week, he said a doctor treating a patient with a tear in their retina was able to find an eye surgeon in the same day. That speed potentially saved the patient’s eyesight. Doximity has a freemium model with two revenue streams at the moment. One is charging for sending patient files above a certain limit, and the other is for honoraria or consultations. For example, an analyst on Wall Street might want to reach out and ask a physician about a potential healthcare investment. They would pay the doctor and Doximity would earn a cut. The company is not yet cash-flow positive, however. The service grew slowly at first, but they’ve started to pick up momentum with doctor-to-doctor referrals generating 80 percent of new users. It helps thatLivewith.us Makes The Roommate Search More Social, Less Painful
Aug 24, 6:00PM
Looking for someone to share your apartment on Craigslist can be a huge pain — so much so, in fact, that when my roommate moved out last year, I considered leaving the room empty. Thanks to some friend-of-friend connections, it all worked out in the end, but if it hadn't, I probably I could've used a service like Livewith.us. Perhaps the first thing to say about Livewith.us is that it's not actually trying to compete with Craigslist. Instead, its creators expect users to continue posting and finding roommate listings on Craigslist. However, when the someone finds a listing that seems like a good fit, they can apply via Livewith.us. It's there, in the latter part of the process -- the part that's largely conducted over email -- that the site should be useful.Gillmor Gang Live 08.24.13 (TCTV)
Aug 24, 5:15PM
Gillmor Gang - Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today.Forget Your Phone
Aug 24, 4:00PM
This video made the rounds yesterday, tugging at heartstrings and giving us all in the Era Of Communication a bit of a kick in the buttocks. It shows a woman who forgot her phone. The premise is hokey at best, but it still tells us something about ourselves these past few years. Our world is endlessly mediated through lenses and screens. They used to tell us we'd get cancer if we sat too close to the TV. Now we have TVs in our hands at all times. Where is that nagging voice now to tell us when enough is enough?How Fast Should You Be Growing?
Aug 24, 3:00PM
Paul Graham wrote a great post in which he defines a startup as a "company designed to grow fast" and encouraged founders to constantly measure their growth rates. For Y Combinator companies, he notes that a good growth rate is 5-7 percent per week, while an exceptional growth rate is 10 percent per week.Jobs, Robots, Capitalism, Inequality, And You
Aug 24, 1:00PM
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse. Or maybe the idea that all the homeless need are old laptops and a few JavaScript textbooks is not unlike the claim that new technologies automatically create new jobs for everyone. Maybe, unless something drastic changes, most people are totally screwed.Justdelete.me Wants To Help You Pull The Plug On All Those Pesky Online Accounts
Aug 24, 6:59AM
It's tiring, isn't it? Doing everything online, I mean. Everyday you log into services tailor-made for shopping, searching, sharing, watching, chatting, curating, reading, bragging -- that's a lot of places to keep your personal information, and no one could blame you if you wanted to try and pare down on those extraneous connections. Hell, I'd like nothing better myself sometimes.FitTrip Will Take You On Tours Of The World From The Safety Of Your Gym
Aug 24, 6:16AM
I'm a mediocre runner at best, and I've taken to blaming that on the dearth of idyllic running spots in my particular corner of New Jersey. For schlubs like me, the key to true fitness may lay in something like FitTrip, a Kickstarter project that vows to liven up the experience of working out indoors.Motorola's New Keyboard-Packing Droid 5 Reportedly Caught On Film
Aug 24, 5:06AM
Motorola just showed off three new Droid smartphones last month (or, if you prefer, one new Droid and two spinoffs), but it's apparently not done cranking out Verizon hardware just yet. Another new Motorola device clad in Verizon livery was spotted in a batch of newly-leaked images from Chinese social network Weibo, and it seems to hearken back to the Droid line's roots.Drivewyze Raises $7.5M From Emergence, iNovia To Streamline Commercial Trucking
Aug 24, 3:19AM
Drivewyze, which helps commercial trucking companies save time by bypassing weigh stations through a mobile app, just raised $7.5 million in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital. They’ll use the capital for a sales and marketing expansion of their bypass service that should bring their offering nationwide by next year. It works through a mobile app that alerts a subscribing trucker when they are about two miles away from an inspection site. It’s currently available in 16 states, but the company is hoping to get to full national coverage in 2014. The company is a spinout from Intelligent Imaging Systems, a Canadian road technology company that has been around for a decade. They launched Drivewyze as a standalone division last year and starting signing up truck fleets with good historical safety scores. They built a commercial mobile radio service that allows their platform to communicate with inspection sites. When truckers are about one mile from a Drivewyze-enabled inspection site, the app will let the driver know whether to bypass it or report in for an inspection depending on what the local law enforcement agency says they should do. Their business model is to charge $7.99 per month for a single state and $12.99 for a multi-state plan. Emergence Capital, which is an enterprise-focused fund that has backed Salesforce, Yammer and Box, has been looking for software-as-a-service bets that cater to very specific verticals including transportation and health. They have about $575 million under management.Yahoo Acquires Image-Recognition Startup IQ Engines To Improve Flickr Photo Organization & Search
Aug 24, 2:56AM
Oh, so you thought Yahoo's acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company -- this time it's an image-recognition startup called IQ Engines. Yahoo has declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but the IQ Engines team confirmed in a statement on their website that they have been tapped to join the Flickr team where they will be "working on improving photo organization and search for the community."Growth Project Manager Erin Teague Leaves Path For Quora
Aug 24, 12:55AM
Erin Teague, a project manager for growth at Path, is leaving for the same position at Quora, as first reported by AllThingsD's Liz Gannes. At Quora, Teague replaces Andrew Johns, who left in July to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Greylock Partners.Google Glass Isn't Coming To Best Buy Next Year, And It Won't Cost $299
Aug 24, 12:22AM
Even though Google Glass is out in the wild and on the heads of around 10,000 people, there are still plenty of questions about it. For a long time now, we've heard that Glass would retail for $299. And earlier this week, unofficial Glass evangelist Robert Scoble put a bit more oil on the fire when he wrote on Google+ that Best Buy would rent out 6,000 square feet inside each one of its stores to Google to showcase Glass.Inside Ballmer's Exit And Who Definitely Won't Be Microsoft's Next CEO
Aug 24, 12:04AM
Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that he will retire in the next 12 months. His successor is not known, but the move marks the end of an era in technology, as Ballmer himself has become a controversial stalwart in the sector.Locket, Which Puts Ads On Your Lock Screen, Asks Users To Vote For The Ads They Want To See
Aug 23, 11:11PM
Locket, the startup that pays Android users to engage with ads, is now asking those users to weigh in on the type of ads that they want to see. When users install Locket, they'll start to see ads on their lock screens, and they can swipe left to claim a deal, watch a movie trailer, or whatever the desired engagement is. (Or they can swipe right and go back to using their phone.) Users are paid 1 cent for each ad they engage with, capped at 3 cents per hour. That may not sound like much, but co-founder and CEO Yuna Kim said it can add up over the weeks and months, and users can then donate the money to charity, put it on a gift card, or just cash out.Instagram's First Acquisition Is Video Sharing App Luma
Aug 23, 10:11PM
Instagram has just made its first acquisition, buying both the team and technology of Y Combinator company Luma (formerly known as Midnox). Luma had created a video-capture, stabilization, and sharing app, which will be shut down soon. In fact, one source tells us Luma's stabilization technology is already live in Instagram.If 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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