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A Closer Look At European Investing

Sep 26, 7:00PM

Euro Dollar Bill We’re bullish on Europe, and that strikes some folks in the U.S. as a bit strange. It’s not that Europe is all we know — we’re an investor in early venture stage funds (an “LP”) in the US, Europe and Israel. Our portfolio skews towards the U.S.; and within the U.S., to the Bay Area. Over the last 18 months or so, we’ve been crossing and re-crossing… Read More



Lyft Moves Customer Support Team To Nashville To Combat High-Priced SF Market

Sep 26, 5:54PM

Nashville Peer-to-peer ride-sharing startup Lyft informed 20 members of its San Francisco-based customer support team this week it will be relocating them to Nashville, Tennessee. Lyft is building out its new customer service headquarters in Nashville, where overhead such as rent and salaries are cheaper. It will also help Lyft’s east coast support. The ride-sharing startup is asking customer… Read More



11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Sep 26, 4:05PM

weekly roundup USE It was a big week in tech, including everything from Disrupt SF 2015, the launch of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus and a big Oculus announcement. But before we get into the top stories of this week, a quick recap of Disrupt. This year, Agrilyst, a startup that helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently, took home the Disrupt Cup as well as the $50,000 Startup Battlefield… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Special Edition

Sep 26, 3:32PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Firesign Theatre A conversation with David Ossman and Philip Proctor The two surviving members of the Firesign Theatre took to Skype to remember their late colleagues Phil Austin and Peter Bergman. The group’s final show was in 2011, and Peter Bergman died in 2012. Phil Austin died June 18 at his home on Fox Island, Washington; he was 74. Read More



Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today's On-Demand World?

Sep 26, 3:00PM

ondemand Intuit recently released an eye-opening new survey reporting that there are currently 3.2 million American workers who participate in the on-demand economy. By 2020, it’s estimated that there will be almost 8 million of these on-demand workers. Many (including Intuit) praise this on-demand movement as supporting a “new class of entrepreneur,” giving workers the tools they need… Read More



I Like To Block It Block It

Sep 26, 1:00PM

nfl-block And lo, on the day of the ninth release, the Lord Cook did cry ‘havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of flamewars, and permitted ad blockers in iOS; and there was much rejoicing, and much wailing and gnashing of teeth, because freaking everyone had a strong opinion on the subject. Who would have thought that the chattering classes had so much passion in them? Read More



Globalize, Don't Localize: Three Ways To Properly Ignore Boundaries

Sep 26, 3:00AM

boundaries A hipster in New York is not that different from a hipster in Bangalore. Ten years ago, this would not have been the case. Our marketing textbooks tell us that the highest classes of society in any given region have similar tastes and habits, but that habits then start to disseminate based on surroundings. Today, with Internet access expanding to the far corners of the world, those tastes… Read More



It's Time To Embrace, Not Fear, Shadow IT

Sep 26, 12:00AM

ideas_1 At this very moment, the IT department at a typical enterprise is staring at a mind-numbing list of IT project requests from employees and business units — ranging from building a custom mobile app for warehouse operations to integrating Salesforce.com with back-end office systems. To manage this endless to-do list, the IT department logically arranges requests by how significantly… Read More



Uber Has A New Pre-Paid Ride Service Called UberEVENTS

Sep 25, 9:54PM

newsroom-header Uber just announced UberEVENTS, a new service for event organizers to pre-pay rides for their guests. Uber is launching the service first in New York for “select riders” and Uber for Business users. In the coming weeks, Uber will roll out this feature to everyone in New York so that all event hosts can purchase rides, in the form of guest passes, ahead of time for… Read More



Open-Sourcing Data Is The Only Way Forward For An Advanced Internet Economy

Sep 25, 9:00PM

woven The founder of all that we survey on the web, Tim Berners-Lee, said on this site a few years ago that, “Data is the New Links.” He argued that with the ever-expanding world of data-driven products, and the explosion of graphs and social media, the benefits would only be realized by a positive attitude to sharing the data in an accessible way, without expecting too much in return. Read More



55 Memorable Quotes From Disrupt SF 2015

Sep 25, 8:39PM

21576348836_8ba247a6cb_k Disrupt SF 2015 has come to an end, but the stories and experiences will continue to inspire us for years to come. The TechCrunch social media team has compiled 55 of the most memorable quotes from Disrupt SF 2015. Enjoy! Read More



Creating A New Type Of Internet

Sep 25, 8:30PM

earth, connected, flight patterns Creating the infrastructure for satellite internet is a capital intensive business, requiring potentially thousands of satellites to be built and launched. It also needs ground-based infrastructure that can “talk to” the satellites and ultimately connect to the end user. Read More



5 Reasons To Incorporate Your Startup As Early As Possible

Sep 25, 8:00PM

handshake Since the benefits aren’t immediate, it’s easy to delay incorporation. Yet, unlike first-time entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs often learn the hard way just how quickly things can get ugly, and eagerly incorporate as early as possible. Read More



CrunchWeek: iPhone 6S Madness, Telling Time, And Instagram's Growthsplosion

Sep 25, 7:26PM

crunchweek-4-3 Hello internet aliens, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. As you can tell from the show, we spent the entire week in a warehouse talking about disruption, but have no fear, we’ve had our eyes and ears open about what happened this week. The iPhone 6S and 6S plus made their debuts, Watch OS2… Read More



The Worst Possible Name For Your Brand And Three Things You Can Learn From It

Sep 25, 6:00PM

A stack of blue and red "Hello, my name is" name tags or badges Let’s say you want to come up with a great brand name for a new beverage brand you’re launching. You know what consumers are looking for, and you’re the creative type. What’s the biggest naming mistake you could make? How about a name like “Sweat” or “Pschitt?” Or something difficult to spell and pronounce? Those missteps would certainly be… Read More



Twitter Polls Are An Awful Idea

Sep 25, 5:22PM

If you use this photo, please link to www.CGPGrey.com for attribution. They’ve done it. Twitter has cracked the code. No, it’s not a new CEO. Nope, it’s not a new way to deliver content with context that you might be interested in. It’s polls. Read More



Live Broadcasting Is Too Important To Be Left To The Broadcasters

Sep 25, 3:00PM

mobile-stream When we founded the mobile live video broadcasting service Bambuser several years ago, we embarked on a mission to democratize live video broadcasting — something that was available only to media giants with multi-million dollar budgets. One of our fundamental ideas was that, given the pace and scope of smartphone development and distribution, not even these global brands would eventually… Read More



Data Driven Everything Remains Elusive

Sep 25, 1:20PM

shutterstock_117664681 One thing was clear at Dreamforce last week, Salesforce’s enormous customer conference — something that has become apparent to anyone paying attention. It’s becoming a data-driven world. We are awash in data, but the problem is figuring out what we are supposed to do with it. Salesforce wants to be the center of your data-driven customer strategy, of course. To that end,… Read More



Apple's iPhone 6s Produces A Colorful Vision Of Haiti Through A Painter's Eyes

Sep 25, 12:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-24 at 11.32.37 PM In advance of the release of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple gave one to RYOT, maker of VR and documentary films. They produced a short about a painter in Haiti who is trying to transform the very poor neighborhood he lives in into a bright palette of colors. The entire film was shot on the iPhone 6s, which now supports 4K resolution. I noted in my review of the new device, out today, that… Read More



An Investor's Journey To Future Science And Technology

Sep 25, 3:00AM

sciencemoney Venture capital is booming again. VCs invested a total of $48 billion last year — the highest amount in a decade. The lion’s share went to software, which attracted $19.8 billion, versus just $6 billion for biotech. There are many reasons why, and it’s worth in-depth exploration: Our ability to thrive on planet Earth depends on our ability to make continued scientific… Read More




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