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Mobile Companies Are Just Getting Started

Feb 29, 3:00AM

treegrowth It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after compliance issues forced the CEO to resign. Publicly traded tech companies like Twitter weathered layoffs and stock sell-offs. Those few companies that are doing well have created their own sets of problems, with The New York Times… Read More



Bill Maris on Algorithms, Zenefits, and Increasing GV's Yearly Fund to $500 Million

Feb 29, 1:33AM

24683926623_81746732fb_k On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, I talked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its Europe fund, why GV didn’t invest in Zenefits, and why Maris alone makes every decision on behalf of the powerful venture unit, which now employs 70 people. I’m a venture geek and found much of what he had to say interesting. Read More



Marketing Tech's Bumpy Road: Consolidation, Growth And A New Frontier

Feb 28, 11:00PM

roughroad Marketing technology has become big business over the last five years, securing $134 billion in venture funding and spawning more than 2,000 new companies. New channels, new data streams and new workflow have emerged to disrupt important aspects of marketing at big and small companies alike. And CMOs are buying — roughly $23 billion in 2015, according to IDC, and likely growing to… Read More



Director John Hillcoat Says The Film Industry Has "Lost Its Nerve"

Feb 28, 9:15PM

triple 9 While most of the current Hollywood headlines are focused on the Academy Awards, there were some new movies this weekend, too — including Triple 9, a sprawling crime drama with a cast that includes (deep breath) Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson and future Wonder Woman Gal Gadot. I spoke to director John Hillcoat before the… Read More



These Are The Startups Pitching At The Brooklyn TC Meetup + Pitch-Off!

Feb 28, 8:41PM

TC Meetup pitch off USE The Brooklyn TC Meetup crept up faster than any of us anticipated. In just two short days, we’ll head over to Output in Williamsburg and ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of judges and an adoring, primarily hipster audience. But which companies have been selected? Without any further ado, I’m pleased to introduce the startups pitching at… Read More



How To Stream The 2016 Oscars Tonight

Feb 28, 7:36PM

5490663341_49d1396ab8_b The Oscars are finally here. Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally get his Oscar? Will we see another epic celeb-filled selfie from Ellen? If you want to catch all the action but won’t be in front of a TV, here are all the ways you can stream the event tonight, starting at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET. The show will stream live on ABC.com and the Watch ABC app to cable subscribers in the eight… Read More



How Smart Founders Can Take Advantage Of The Platform Shift

Feb 28, 7:00PM

gaming-super-mario-bros-3 About 15 years ago, the Internet triggered a platform shift in the delivery of enterprise software; a wave of cloud startups quickly unseated the kings of the server era. Now, another platform evolution — the mobile era — is upon us. For nimble and opportunistic founders, the shift toward mobile is a monumental opportunity to stake ownership in a newly dominant platform. Read More



Monetizing Mobile Gaming

Feb 28, 4:00PM

vainglory The mobile gaming industry made $29 billion in 2015 — and it is only set to continue growing (with estimates as high as $49 billion by 2018). But the mobile gaming industry is in the “wild west” phase of its history right now, with the constant improvement of mobile devices and so many variables to successful monetization. Though it’s difficult to know exactly what… Read More



After The Gold Rush

Feb 28, 2:00PM

after-the-gold-rush The startup gold rush of the last ten years is over. Sorry. Those hordes of ambitious entrepreneurs still stampeding to the Bay Area in the hopes of building their Minimum Viable Product, getting into Y Combinator, and growing their app into the Next Big Thing–they’re already too late. That era is behind us. It was a good run, even a legendary one, but it is over. Time for the new… Read More



Netflix: The Force Awakens

Feb 28, 4:00AM

netflix-awakens I’ve argued in the past that Netflix will have the last laugh — that its success with content production will soon rival and surpass traditional TV networks and movie studios. Now I’m more convinced than ever. Ironically, it’s a smear campaign spearheaded by NBC to undermine Netflix that has reinforced my opinion. Read More



Self-Driving Cars And The Kobayashi Maru

Feb 28, 12:00AM

car crash In 1966, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek would boldly go where no man had gone before, telling the tale of Captain Kirk and his crew as they explored the galaxy while taking on myriad sci-fi adventures. In the opening scene of the franchise’s 1982 motion picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call from another ship, the Kobayashi Maru. Read More



Why Clayton Christensen Is Wrong About Uber And Disruptive Innovation

Feb 27, 9:00PM

taxi-ridesharing1 Silicon Valley has disrupted disruptive innovation, and Clayton Christensen isn’t happy about it. Christensen vaulted to rock-star status in the tech world in 1995 when he introduced the theory of disruptive innovation. Two years later, he published his bestselling book, The Innovator’s Dilemma. His work was widely praised. The concept of disruptive innovation was a hugely… Read More



Biden Comes To Silicon Valley For Innovation In White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative

Feb 27, 8:31PM

8013700958_b7a88bc237_k Vice President Joe Biden showed up at the University of California San Francisco’s Genentech Hall this morning for a round table discussion with those in the tech industry about efforts towards a future without cancer. Biden’s 46-year-old son Beau passed away from the disease last Spring and President Obama announced Biden would be in charge of a $1 billion national cancer… Read More



Heidi Roizen On How To Choose Your VC

Feb 27, 6:49PM

untitled-3567 On Thursday night, this editor hosted nearly 200 investors and entrepreneurs who came together in San Francisco to hear several guest speakers, including Heidi Roizen, a former entrepreneur, a longtime VC, and a Stanford alum who has taught entrepreneurship at the university for more than a decade. Roizen thinks the boom-boom tech economy we’ve been living through in recent years… Read More



Gillmor Gang: Poorly Educated

Feb 27, 6:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 26, 2016. The Gang finds it hard to concentrate purely on technology as we wake up to the increasing likelihood of more Trump in our diet. + G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, Mary Hodder, and Tina Chase Gillmor @stevegillmor, @scobleizer,… Read More



EU Approach To Regulating Data Needs More Hope And Less Fear

Feb 27, 4:00PM

14784329985_2bc1c0d4a3_o >From Britain’s railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, innovative new technologies have routinely touched off periods of near hysteria as marketers and commentators promise world-changing disruption; excitement builds to a fever pitch and the marketplace wildly over-allocates resources to the latest shiny new thing until people regain their senses and… Read More



Is 3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution?

Feb 27, 4:00AM

3d printing It was in 1909 when Henry Ford, master of efficiency and standardization, famously said that a “customer can have a car painted any color…so long as it is black.” While the First Industrial Revolution introduced machines to replace hand labor, Ford helped usher in what was ultimately the principle of mass production; using those machines to produce large quantities of… Read More



HTC Hints It's Looking At Mobile VR

Feb 27, 2:35AM

HTC One M9 Rear + Camera Despite not unboxing a new high end smartphone at Mobile World Congress this week, embattled mobile maker HTC has told TechCrunch it’s not ready to admit premium defeat — saying it has a new flagship device coming soon… Read More



Color Switch Falls To The No. 2 Games Slot (But Is Still As Addictive As Ever)

Feb 27, 12:29AM

colorswitch Did you hear about that crazy-popular game that sat in the No. 1 Games spot on iTunes for more than a month and a half? I’ll give you a hint, it has color in the title. Color Switch is a tap-based obstacle game that adds an additional level of difficulty because you are constantly changing colors. The game offers eight modes, including the recent release of gravity and split. And if you… Read More



LinkedIn And The Golden Age Of American Education

Feb 27, 12:00AM

Graduating students smiling and laughing with diplomas A new book declaring the end of the golden age of economic growth has set the wonky world of economics aflame. Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth juxtaposes the world-altering impact of 19th-century inventions with a disbelief that today’s digital transformation might foster growth on the same scale as refrigeration, aviation or the birth of telecommunication. Read More




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