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Why startups can't afford to ignore customer retention
Jun 19, 9:00PM
Venture-backed companies must walk the line between fast growth and efficient growth. Even as VCs value high-quality revenue, companies are still held to a minimum growth rate. To achieve sustainable growth, maximizing customer lifetime value is an important component and one that is often underestimated.
PitchBook now offers users suggested companies when they search
Jun 19, 8:30PM
This one’s for all the due diligence fiends and competitive landscape mapping mavens out there. PitchBook, the data and analytics service for private equity and public markets, is rolling out an automated suggestions feature for premium users when they’re doing searches on companies for market intelligence. The new service is based on machine learning technology […]
Using tech and $100M, Dr Consulta transforms healthcare for the poorest
Jun 19, 8:26PM
Healthcare delivery is an incredibly complex topic, but one that has a simple truth: health security is key to living a good life, and, ultimately, for developing a strong economy. Unfortunately, billions worldwide suffer from lack of access to even the most basic of medical diagnostics and treatments, since doctors often aren't available and the […]
Patriot Boot Camp wants to turn soldiers into entrepreneurs
Jun 19, 8:17PM
>From the earliest moments of boot camp, budding soldiers learn about entrepreneurship. They learn how to operate in unknown terrain, how to listen to signals and, perhaps most importantly, how to make things happen with extremely limited time and resources. Yet, when soldiers return home following a deployment, the transition to civilian life can be […]
Review: Chrome's Vega Transit Brief makes your work commute a little less uncool
Jun 19, 8:09PM
You’re either a Chrome bag person or you’re not. And if you’re not a Chrome bag person, it might be time to give the newly Portland-based bag maker another look. I’ve been a fan of Chrome Industries bags for a long time, but over the years I’ve only owned two: the discontinued Mini Buran, a […]
Personal finance startup SmartAsset raises $28M
Jun 19, 6:34PM
I first wrote about SmartAsset nearly six years ago, when it launched its first product, a tool allowing prospective homebuyers to analyze the rent vs. buy decision and to see what kind of home they could actually afford. According to co-founder and CEO Michael Carvin, “On the consumer side, our strategy has never really changed. […]
Anchor brings podcast creation and editing to the iPad
Jun 19, 6:29PM
Following its relaunch earlier this year as a podcast creation platform, Anchor today is bringing its suite of mobile podcasting tools to the iPad. Like its iPhone counterpart, the iPad version of Anchor lets you record, edit, then distribute your podcast anywhere, including iTunes and Google Play Music. The new app is also customized for […]
CityMapper, the urban transportation app, is integrating with bike-sharing company Mobike
Jun 19, 6:15PM
Hot on the heels of getting acquired for $2.7 billion by on-demand services startup Meituan-Dianping en route to its own $60 billion IPO, Chinese bike-sharing startup Mobike is ramping up its international push as companies like Uber, Lyft and other standalone bike-on-demand startups take their own expansion strategies up a gear. The company will this week […]
Feds crack down on Tesla Autopilot safety cheat device
Jun 19, 6:13PM
The federal government is stepping in to end the use of an aftermarket product designed to let Tesla owners skirt a safety feature from the electric automaker’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system. The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a cease and desist letter Tuesday to a California company known as Dolder, Falco and Reese […]
Facebook launches Brand Collabs search engine for sponsoring creators
Jun 19, 6:11PM
Facebook wants to help connect brands to creators so they can work out sponsored content and product placement deals, even if it won’t be taking a cut. Confirming our scoop from May, Facebook today launched its Brand Collabs Manager. It’s a search engine that brands can use to browse different web celebrities based on the […]
UK's first Space Camp Accelerator unveils its first 6 startups
Jun 19, 6:07PM
Back in March we covered the launch of Seraphim Capital's new "Space Camp Accelerator". This is the UK's first dedicated accelerator programme for startups in the spacetech industry. Ther’s now selected the six companies in this first cohort. They come from from the US, Denmark and the UK. The programme is underway and is 9 […]
Verizon stops selling customer location to two data brokers after one is caught leaking it
Jun 19, 6:06PM
Verizon is cutting off access to its mobile customers' real-time locations to two third-party data brokers "to prevent misuse of that information going forward." The company announced the decision in a letter sent to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who along with others helped reveal improper usage and poor security at these location brokers. It is not, however, getting out of the location-sharing business altogether.
ICOs are becoming funds
Jun 19, 6:00PM
What does a startup do with $48 million? $130 million? $1.7 billion? This question – one integral in the whole ICO craze – hasn’t quite been answered yet but it’s going to be far more interesting as ICOs and cryptocurrencies transform from purely product-oriented companies into actual funds. Take the news that the creator of […]
Engineer.ai aims at build-an-app platforms by using AI for speed and cost
Jun 19, 5:57PM
Engineer.ai has been up and running in private beta mode for two and a half years, totally boo-strapped by its founders. But today it launches with the claim to be the world's first human-assisted AI for building custom digital products. It's Builder platform claims to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced teams of designers and developers […]
Starz launches 14 channels on YouTube TV
Jun 19, 5:30PM
YouTube’s live TV streaming service is getting a big addition, starting today. Starz is rolling out its 14 channels, including Starz, Starz Encore, and Starz Encore Westerns, to the Google-owned streaming service as an add-on that costs $9 per month. The network joins YouTube TV’s other premium channel options, including Showtime, Shudder, Sundance Now, and […]
Facebook launches gameshows platform with interactive video
Jun 19, 5:30PM
Rather than build its own HQ trivia competitor, Facebook is launching a gameshow platform. Today the company announced a new set of interactive live and on-demand video features that let creators add quizzes, polls, challenges and gamification so players can be eliminated from a game for a wrong answer. The features could help Facebook achieve […]
PUBG juggernaut hits 400 million users, and for a limited time, players can get the PC version for $19.99
Jun 19, 5:01PM
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, the progenitor and once-reigning champion of last-player-standing battle royale gaming that’s swept the video game world by storm, has hit over 400 million players globally across all platforms. As a perk and potential sop to bring new players to its personal computing platform, PUBG is offering the full version of its full-throttle […]
GitHub Education is now free for schools
Jun 19, 5:00PM
GitHub, the code sharing and collaboration platform that Microsoft is acquiring, today announced that its GitHub Education suite of services is now available for free to any school that wants to use it to teach its students. GitHub previously trialed this program with a few schools and is now making it widely available. It’s worth […]
Pew: Social media still growing in emerging markets but stalled elsewhere
Jun 19, 4:52PM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s (so far) five-year project to expand access to the Internet in emerging markets makes plenty of business sense when you look at the latest report by the Pew Research Center — which shows social media use has plateaued across developed markets but continues to rise in the developing world. In 2015-16, roughly four-in-ten adults […]
Riskified prevents fraud on your favorite e-commerce site
Jun 19, 4:48PM
Meet Riskified, an Israel-based startup that has raised $64 million in total to fight online fraud. The company has built a service that helps you reject transactions from stolen credit cards and approve more transactions from legitimate clients. If you live in the U.S., chances are you know someone who noticed a fraudulent charge for […]
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