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Hedge Fund Leads $45 Million Round In HotelTonight, An App That Helps Millions Of People Book Discounted, Last-Minute Rooms
The lead investor is Coutue Management, a hedge fund that has a lot of experience with the online t…
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7 Entrepreneurs On The Brink Of Greatness
The one common thread is that they are all at crucial moments for their startups, having proven a c…
Owen Thomas
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Fitness App RunKeeper Adds HotelTonight's Sam Shank To Its Board And Hires Pandora Executive Tim Leedom
RunKeeper currently has more than 26 million users. It tracks everything from outdoor jogs to indoo…
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The CEO of a top travel app who gets up at 5:15 a.m. says he tricked himself into becoming a morning person by changing his daily exercise routine
As someone who wasn't necessarily hardwired for early mornings, Shank used to exercise after work. …
Lina Batarags
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HotelTonight's CEO called the app 'the best-kept secret' in travel - here's how you can use it to get a half-price room at some of the world's most luxurious hotels
"It really depends on what level of spontaneity you're feeling like. If you see something you feel …
Alison Millington
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Major hospitality chains are buying up independent boutique hotels, and it's creating a new challenge that's at odds with the main reason people travel in the first place
In September, Warren spent three days in Lexington, Kentucky, at a thoroughbred sale. While there, …
Melissa Wiley
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Uber's pick for its next CEO hasn't accepted the job yet, but his Twitter account makes it look like he will
Khosrowshahi, who is currently the CEO of Expedia, isn't typically active on Twitter. But in t…
Caroline Cakebread
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Hotel Tonight on the Apple Watch lets you book last-minute rooms from your wrist in seconds
"What we've done is condensed the Hotel Tonight experience into the form factor of the watch," Hote…
Steven Tweedie
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The Mysterious $50 Million Investor In Snapchat Is Hedge Fund Coatue
"They were able to see where HotelTonight was going and provide insight to us as well," Shanks said…
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Luxury travelers want more than ever before, and hotels are borrowing a tactic used by Netflix and Amazon to keep up
And hotels are already making changes to the way they serve their guests drinks. The Landmark Manda…
Lina Batarags
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There's a service that CEOs and investors are raving about at SXSW that's like Netflix for flights
But there is one service a few CEOs and investors in California are talking about that they say is …
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Silicon Valley 100 2014: A-Z
Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jordan, Chris Dixon Grace Garey, Netta Marshall, Chase Adam, Je…
Megan Rose Dickey
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These Are The Most Stylish People In Silicon Valley
Wennmachers was recently profiled in SF Gate and dubbed the "marketing guru" of Silicon Valley. She…
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7 New Startups San Francisco Can't Stop Talking About
Hinge: A lot of single San Franciscans are beginning to ditch Tinder or use it in tandem with anoth…
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Empty Walmart Shelves Show The Biggest Problem With The U.S. Economy
"The premise of this story, which is based on the comments of a handful of people, is inaccurate an…
Ashley Lutz
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The Navy Is Developing A Next-Generation Drone That Can Land On Aircraft Carriers
The contractor ran successful trials of the X-47B last August and September, using a manned L…