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Our Lingering Questions For Hampton Creek

Aug 30, 5:30PM

15710391465_f5baf2460c_k Josh Tetrick, the charismatic founder of Hampton Creek, a food startup in Silicon Valley, bills it as one that uses science and technology to change the way the world eats. However, Tetrick has repeatedly found himself in trouble over company claims. The most recent accusation comes in the form of an official letter from the FDA that alleges Hampton Creek’s “Just Mayo”… Read More



An Insider on Switching Between Top Venture Firms — and Their Biggest Differences

Aug 30, 5:21PM

Brian O'Malley_Headshot Earlier this week, we sat down with venture capitalist Brian O’Malley of Accel Partners to talk about where he’s shopping now. We also asked O’Malley — who was recruited into Accel from Battery Partners in 2013 — what it was like to transition between the heavyweight firms, and what he views as the biggest differences between them. More from that candid chat… Read More



How Technology Is Fueling The Push Toward Solar

Aug 30, 4:00PM

Power plant using renewable solar energy with sun Solar energy in the United States has seen immense momentum throughout the years. When the Solar Energy Industries Association released its annual report in 2008, it concluded that U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity reached a total of 1.183 gigawatts — a stellar achievement at the time. Contrast that figure with today, and the number is dwarfed by the United States’ installed… Read More



Rating The Websites Of The 2016 Republican Political Candidates

Aug 30, 1:00PM

According to a recent report, 2016 political candidates will spend a billion dollars on digital communications before November of next year. More than likely, only a fraction of that will be spent on website design, content and optimization. Even so, candidate websites are where most voters will first connect and engage with a candidate. Read More



HTC Forges More VR Relationships As Co-Founder Peter Chou Joins Visual Effects Firm

Aug 30, 4:57AM

HTC Vive HTC’s much-anticipated VR headset, created in partnership with games firm Valve, just had its launch delayed until the first quarter of next year, but that isn’t stopping the Taiwanese firm from forging relationship with content companies in the virtual reality space. Read More



Graduated From An Engineering Bootcamp? Now What?

Aug 30, 4:00AM

graduates While hip hop may have ‘too many mc’s and not enough mics’, in tech, there are too many startups and not enough seasoned technologists. Over the last seven years, hopeful entrepreneurs have flooded the market, looking to cut their teeth in the hopes of building the next billion-dollar business. Read More



Email Is The Last, And Ultimate, Social Graph

Aug 30, 1:00AM

email-forgotten One of the magical innovations of the Web 2.0 era was when the bigger social platforms opened their doors to third-party app developers. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter widely touted ,and profited from, the concept of allowing consumers to plug their social graph into other applications. We saw the meteoric rise of games, apps and business tools that leverage the ability to quickly insert… Read More



Elon Musk Can't Be That Afraid Of Robots, Check Out This Tesla Production Line

Aug 29, 10:41PM

Elon Musk Elon Musk has warned us about robots taking over with the help of AI. He’s even donated money to make sure that it doesn’t happen. However, it sure does seem like Tesla relies on robots quite a bit, even if they’re not being primed to turn the company into Skynet. At one point this year Musk referred to AI as “summoning the demons.” He says it’s still… Read More



The SaaS Success Database

Aug 29, 7:00PM

unicorn-money What does it take to build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise-software company? We gave a 30,000-foot answer to this complex — and fascinating — question in a recent TechCrunch post, The SaaS Adventure. To recap: We’ve observed seven key phases in most SaaS companies’ go-to-market success. We dubbed this journey the “SaaS Adventure,” which is broadly how we… Read More



Baby, We Won't Drive Our Cars: The Future Of Automotive Transportation

Aug 29, 5:30PM

2782304329_aee16082bb_b “Transportation tech is not only changing how we get from A to B, it’s fundamentally altering the underlying infrastructure of our cities.” Read More



Gillmor Gang: Dog Days

Aug 29, 5:28PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 28, 2015. A surprise guest in the chat center, benevolent Zuckership, and the psychosocial benefits of dogs. Alternate title: Save the Robots. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Gené Teare, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More



The Tactico Geomaster Is A Crowdfunded Watch I Could Get Behind

Aug 29, 4:46PM

633bfc86baafa5eff269d1e0c408a542_original There are more Kickstarter watches out there these days than grains of sand on the beach. Everyone with a quartz movement and a NATO strap figures they can make and sell some kind of fashion watch to the masses, a concept that is as silly as it is flawed. That’s why the Tactico Geomaster GMT is actually interesting. First, it uses a mechanical ETA movement – an rare movement these… Read More



Opening Pandora's Dox: The Unintended Consequences of an Internet That Never Forgets

Aug 29, 4:00PM

Opening Pandora's Dox There’s some leaks that can’t ever be taken back or patched over or fixed–and they’re generally things that, as things stand, aren’t even illegal. Read More



The Surreal Emotional Cadence Of Tech Notifications, Illustrated

Aug 29, 3:00PM

BuzzFeed News notification Notifications have a dirty job to do to grab the flittish eyeballs of tech users. But some of these digital chat-up-lines go about this unlovely task by attempting to pull the kind of weird moves that would get a human swiftly ejected from the conversation… Read More



The Honeywell Bubble Count Revisited

Aug 29, 1:00PM

count-zero I am a tall straight white cisgendered Canadian man in excellent health, i.e. I won pretty much every available lottery on the day I was born. People expect me to excel at things, or at least they don’t expect me not to. Concierges at five-star hotels are eager to help me, and rarely even ask me whether or not I am a guest. Read More



Designing New Mobile Experiences For The Music-Loving Generation

Aug 29, 3:00AM

Apple-music As music fans go mobile, music festivals are following suit. The kids in America are rocking out to T-Swift with a Natty Lite in one hand and a mobile phone open to native festival apps in the other. Schedules, venue maps, artists and vendors are all in the palm of partygoers hands. And festivals are even designing other features specifically to engage the throngs of eager event-goers,… Read More



GOAT Lets You Cop Kicks Without Getting Jacked

Aug 28, 11:19PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 4.15.49 PM Buying used collector-level sneakers, which can run from a couple hundred bucks to $8,000 easy, is fraught with danger. This, says Sugano, is what they wanted to fix with GOAT. To make things safer for sneakerheads. Read More



The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation

Aug 28, 11:00PM

mathematics One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates how a company should spend its marketing and sales dollars. Unfortunately, many early stage startups struggle to measure LTV, because they haven’t been around very long and, consequently… Read More



CrunchWeek: Tech Stocks Fumble, Facebook Announces 'M,' And YouTube Takes On Twitch

Aug 28, 10:24PM

crunchweek-4-3 Welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. We’re very glad that you are here. This time ’round, our fearless Matthew Lynley headed the ship, while our own Josh Constine and your humble servant were on hand to help out along the way. We dug into the very turbulent global markets, and what that means for technology shares, along with a dive into the latest from Facebook, and,… Read More



Judge's Order To Shut Down NSA Phone Surveillance Reversed By Federal Appeals Court

Aug 28, 9:05PM

nsa headquarters A federal appeals court has just ruled against a 2013 decision ordering the NSA to stop its bulk metadata collection program. The three-judge panel issued its ruling Friday, contending that conservative privacy activist Larry Klayman had not adequately argued the likeliness that his own data had been collected as a part of the metadata collection program. Judge Stephen Williams wrote… Read More




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