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Avoiding Apes By Building Equity Culture

Sep 20, 6:30PM

monkeys Great companies don’t start with massive office leases and hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown at a party. They start by building a culture of maximizing value with the minimal capital required to sustain huge growth. Read More



Watch The Disrupt SF Hackathon Live Right Here!

Sep 20, 5:57PM

hackathon-pres Before each Disrupt conference, something very special happens. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hackers come together to build a product in less than 24 hours. There is food, booze, caffeine, and usually a Nerf war of some sort. This hackathon was no different, including the fact that each hackathon is better than the last. Without any further ado, sit back and relax as we live stream you… Read More



Diversity, Tamales, and Hardware at the Disrupt Hackathon

Sep 20, 4:36PM

hackmidnight We are back, friends, in San Francisco for the year’s biggest Disrupt conference. The hackathon is currently in full swing, swarming with nerds, cars, technology, a Surface Pro 3, what I counted to be 897 Macbook Airs, and, of course, tamales. My good friend and colleague Megan Rose Dickey and I hung about aboot the venue until midnight, shot a host of nerf guns, and then doodled about… Read More



Spurring Investments And Innovation In Agriculture

Sep 20, 3:00PM

Wind mills in a corn field The federal government is often criticized by Silicon Valley for being outdated and slow to react to cutting-edge technologies. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture is striving to shed old-school labels, making swift strides in the past year to accelerate some of the innovative technologies combating the country’s water and ag-related resource issues. Read More



The TC Disrupt Hackathon Is Officially Underway

Sep 20, 2:42AM

Hackathon SF 2015 Hackers in Line Another September, another Disrupt SF. And with any Disrupt comes the Disrupt Hackathon, where more than 700 hackers have gathered to build a product in under 24 hours. They’re given food, beverage, and booze in the hopes that some combination of alcohol, caffeine and camaraderie will yield a stellar hack. We also equip the hackers with various APIs from our lovely sponsors, giving them… Read More



Tech Is Driving Collaboration In Behavioral Health

Sep 20, 2:00AM

shrink The proliferation of electronic medical records (EMRs) has left much to be desired. Though designed with care improvement and data exchange in mind, the necessary connective tissue layer is absent. Healthcare providers are still resorting to the phone and fax to communicate, and patients are still carrying their personal health information from one appointment to the next, or relying on memory. Read More



Bursting The Top Three Myths To Get Your Healthcare Startup Funded

Sep 19, 11:00PM

kittymyth The evolution of the healthcare industry has brought forth innovative startup opportunities in the past few years. A few are actually helping to change the world. Unfortunately, typical buzzwords for other startups have oversimplified the understanding of entry into the healthcare startup industry. Here are three myths I want to dispel to help some of those struggling healthcare startups find… Read More



This Guy's Periscoping A Marathon From His Wheelchair

Sep 19, 9:25PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-19 at 2.23.44 PM The great part about live-streaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat is that we get to see things that we rarely (or never) get to see from a different perspective. Today is one of those days, as well-known wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley is ‘scopin his race from a mounted phone on his wheelchair in Australia. Check out this perspective: Absolutely inspiring. LIVE on #Periscope:… Read More



Ford Brings In-Vehicle Notifications And Sensor Access To Its Sync AppLink Developer Platform

Sep 19, 8:53PM

Sync3AccuWeather Ford is holding its annual developer conference in tandem with the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon this weekend and ahead of the event, the company announced an update to its Sync AppLink developer platform. Read More



Is Personalized Discovery A Feature, Category Or New Paradigm

Sep 19, 8:00PM

discovery What do you do when you don’t know what you want to read, watch, listen to or do next? What do you do if you don’t know what to search for? Or can’t describe clearly what you’d be interested in next? There are so many great choices available in the digital realm. Nevertheless, a universal personalized Discovery solution doesn’t exist yet. Why? Read More



Reminder: Don't Retweet ISIS Or You Could Go To Jail

Sep 19, 7:19PM

tweetception According to a report by the NY Daily News, the FBI considers your retweets to be endorsements…especially when it comes to chatter about the terrorist organization ISIS. It’s not the first time. According to court documents filed on September 16th (embedded in its entirety below), the organization tracked the Twitter-actions of and then arrested a 22-year-old Queens resident Ali… Read More



The Internet And Its Discontents

Sep 19, 7:00PM

3648369152_9b7d1a6738_b The free market of ideas has been unleashed in all its fury, just as we’ve unleashed the free market in everything else — leaving ordinary, unlucky people to bear the costs of our grand experiment. Read More



How To Be A VC Without Any Capital

Sep 19, 3:00PM

raidpiggy One of the most frequent questions I get as a VC is how to become a VC. Newly minted MBAs and startup veterans alike want to get into the investing game in increasingly large numbers. Unfortunately, there are so few VC jobs available in any given year it makes the prospect unlikely for most. If you want to be a VC, my advice is to just get started; you can do the job of a VC without a dollar… Read More



It's Raining Donuts, Or, The Limits Of Exponential Decline

Sep 19, 1:00PM

raining-donuts In 1913, in what is now an affluent suburb of Cairo, Egypt, an American engineer named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, which pumped 100 gallons/second of Nile water into nearby cotton fields. He later declared in the New York Times: “After our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the… Read More



It's Now Officially Sundar Pichai's Show At Google

Sep 19, 1:37AM

Sundar Pichai Welp, journalists got some inbox candy on a Friday from Google — an invite to an event on September 29. What will the event be about? Is it hardware? Has to be hardware! Is it software? Has to be software! Is it…yes. It has to be that, too. My point is that it doesn’t even matter what they launch: Google has had hundreds of product launches, and it will have hundreds more. Read More



Wearables: A Pandora's Box For Security?

Sep 19, 1:00AM

Wearables_Topic - NOT FOR FEATURED IMAGE As many have noted, we’re entering a new era where wearable gadgets — from watches and fitness bands to glasses and health aids — are at the forefront of the new technological revolution. A PricewaterhouseCooper’s report found that more than 20 percent of U.S. adults already own at least one wearable, and estimates that soon we’ll be using them at home and work… Read More



You're European, In A Tech Startup, In SF On Sunday? Come For Drinks

Sep 19, 12:48AM

12009633_10101438244079500_3370918096119076530_n You’re a European tech entrepreneur in San Francisco or nearby, or you’ve just landed in town for TechCrunch Disrupt and you want to connect with other Europeans in the city while you’re here. What do you do? Well, one solution is to wait for Disrupt week. Usually, once a year — in the same week as Disrupt — I like to get the European crowd together in San… Read More



The Commissioned Makes Getting Personalized Artwork Easier And Less Expensive

Sep 19, 12:45AM

artwork If you’ve ever wanted to get a perfect picture to accompany your new bedroom interior, or fell in love with a piece of art you spotted on holiday, then you’ll know that buying artwork can be an expensive hobby. If you want to commission your own, bespoke piece, then things can get even pricier very quickly. That’s where a new company is hoping to make a difference. Read More



Google Is Unveiling 'New Treats' — Like Its Next Nexus Device — On September 29th

Sep 18, 11:58PM

Google's New Logo Good things are coming this month, and I don’t just mean our Disrupt San Francisco event. That’s because Google just pulled the trigger on invites to a press event later this month which could see it unveil its next Nexus device, among other things. Read More



User's Guide To Disrupt SF 2015

Sep 18, 11:12PM

startup alley Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsors who promise to make your experience at the conference better and better. Party with TechCrunch and Cheetah Mobile: Join us on Monday for the Official After Party at Mighty, sponsored by our friends at Cheetah Mobile. Party with TechCrunch and Intuit: Join us on Tuesday for… Read More




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