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An Obvious Reason Why Some Startups Fail Shortly After Raising Tons Of Money

"The market conditions Aguhob speaks of, I’d estimate, involve Facebook’s proclivity to giveth and …

Alyson Shontell   


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Once-Hot App Viddy Returns $18 Million To Investors And Prepares A Final Attempt To Turn Around

"Viddy raised a substantial amount of capital last year, during different market conditions,” Viddy…

Alyson Shontell   


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This Story About A Startup CEO Who Got Canned Months After Turning Down $100 Million Will Make Your Stomach Turn

Photo-sharing app Instagram had just been acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, and Viddy – often ca…

Julie Bort   


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The losers of Amazon's HQ2 contest have been revealed - but some locals are rejoicing

"When I took office, I said we would build a new New York State - one that is fiscally responsible …

Mary Hanbury   


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These Startups May Have Blown It By Turning Down $100 Million

Gurley isn't the only investor urging founders to take their startups further. Last year, New York …

Alyson Shontell   


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Sometimes, Facebook Destroys Startups Built For Its Platform

In January, Tom Katis, the chief executive of Voxer, a voice-messaging app that has raised $30 mill…

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Beware The 'Vanity Metrics' Used To Boost Tech Startups

Pinterest, a social media scrapbook service whose last round of funding valued it at $3.8 billion, …

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Comic Book App Comixology Holds Off On Publishing Comic Depicting Graphic Gay Sex Fearing Apple Would Ban It

As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the prover…

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A Majority Of US Windows Phone Users Search With Bing

But from another perspective, it's likely that the remaining 48% of Windows Phone users bookmark Go…

Tony Danova   


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Vine, Twitter's New Video-Sharing App, Already Has A Porn Problem

Users can report videos as inappropriate within the product if they believe the content to be sensi…

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Twitter's Video App Vine Changes Age Rating To 17+ After Porn Controversy

A simple search for #sex or #porn would bring up an array of graphic video. At one point, Vine acci…

Megan Rose Dickey   


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Building A Startup On The Back Of Facebook Is Like 'Opening A McDonald's On An Active Volcano'

Last year, Facebook flooded content producers with traffic, possibly to prepare for the news reader…

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What It Feels Like To Walk Away From An Offer That Guarantees A Lifetime Fortune For You And Your Family

Video app Viddy walked away from a $100 million offer, then lost all of its traction. Yahoo and Fac…

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There's A Big Disconnect In The Way Apple Enforces Its Anti-Porn Policy

For example, it removed Viddy, a video-sharing app that's very similar to Vine, last year because t…

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Twitter Briefly Features Hardcore Pornography In Its New Video-Sharing App, Vine

It is unclear how a video that was reported for having inappropriate content became featured as an …

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Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere, Clickbaiting Articles To Millions Of Readers

"Even though the 1 million uniques is a great early milestone, the thing that has me really excited…

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Bryan Goldberg's Bustle Has 1 Million Monthly Readers 3 Months After Its Launch

Now Bustle's numbers are even higher. With its staff up to 16 people, including the recently-poache…

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An Ultra-Exclusive High School In California Is Producing Some Of Today's Top Startup Founders

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a private, K-12 program that was founded in 1971. With…