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Posted by dohertyjf[Estimated read time: 7 minutes] As a startup founder myself, it feels weird to talk about startups through the lens of backlinks. After all, there are so many other things to worry about — how’s my cash flow? Are my employees getting paid? How does the deal flow look? Are we going to hit our targets for this month/quarter? Why is the website/app so slow? Did that vendor pay us that huge amount they owe? What if I told you that I’ve seen (and helped) companies land funding off the back of... →

Tovala is a new startup out of Y Combinator that came up with what they hope to be a less expensive alternative to professional combination ovens. The Tovala is a smart oven that can bake, boil and steam meals at up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit in 10 to 30 minutes. The meals come prepackaged from Tovala or can be made using a crowdsourced recipe platform. Tovala utilizes a combination of dry and… Read More... →

VB EVENT: Two years ago, TurboTax had fewer than 200,000 customers filling out their taxes on their mobile phone. It was a tiny percentage of its 31 million users — and completely unsatisfactory for Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax. Sure, some tax returns are complicated by necessity, but […]... →

Virtual reality is not going to have quite as big of a 2016 as one research firm was originally predicting. SuperData is trimming its prediction for virtual reality sales in 2016 by 30 percent. In January, the analysts at SuperData forecast that VR would make $5.1 billion in revenues throughout this year. Now, the company is cutting […]... →

Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from “startup studio” Expa. It’s also announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Expa, SV Angel, Ram Shriram, Tim Ferriss, Fenwick & West and others. When I spoke to founder Luke Groesbeck last summer, he said… Read More... →

Imagine a much better world — the people-centered economy — where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents, passions, where they work with people they are inspired by and productive together with, where they engage in the most meaningful and fruitful opportunities that can be found for them. Read More... →

It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer letters, PDF riders, endless back-and-forth emails, spreadsheets, physical checks. Fax! It makes the whole process a headache that takes forever when organizers could be focusing on making the experience better for attendees and making performers… Read More... →

Now this is a way to cement a Silicon Valley legend. Madame Tussauds San Francisco said today it will make a wax figure of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. The legendary maker of wax figures and wax museums will reveal the 3D image of Woz on stage at the first-ever Silicon Valley Comic Con in San Jose, […]... →

By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from 9! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The so-called ‘talent first’ investor targets the best technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a 6 month program where they form teams and in turn found startups. This… Read More... →

Hearthstone really wants new players to feel welcome. Blizzard announced a new feature — Dark Recipes — for the digital card game today. Dark Recipes are preselected decks that players can create with the in-game deck-builder. If players do not have the cards needed to make the Dark Recipe, Hearthstone will recommend replacements based on […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

There is a new Android king in town, and its name is Lollipop. Google released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and the gold and silver positions have swapped. Android Lollipop has managed to finally pass Android KitKat in terms of adoption. The achievement took 16 months: Google debuted the […]... →

League of Legends is getting a few siblings. Developer Riot Games announced today that it has acquired developer Radiant Entertainment. The League of Legends company now owns the studio responsible for the castle-building PC game Stonehearth and fighting game Rising Thunder. Riot and Radiant are promising to continue development on the unfinished Stonehearth, but Rising […]... →

Happy International Women’s Day. This year, the theme is “Pledge For Parity,” meaning committing to achieving equality around status and pay. Last year, the World Economic Forum predicted that it would take until 2133 to achieve worldwide gender parity. Meanwhile, many tech companies are still dominated by men. In honor of this day, we’d like to highlight some… Read More... →

Austin 3:16 says I just matched three gems! Mobile game publisher company Scopely announced today that it will publish WWE Champions, a match-3 puzzle game based on the wrestling company and featuring its famous stars like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. WWE Champions is available in limited markets, and Scopely plans for a […]... →

Selerity, a content recommendation solution, announced today a $4.2 million investment from Citi. The New York-based startup, which says that it offers personalized content recommendation functions for enterprise applications, also announced that finance consultant Jeff Penney of McKinsey & Company will join Selerity’s board. IA Ventures’ Roger Ehrenberg and investor Mark Faulkner also participated in the round. To date, […]... →

Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free. Starting today, its desktop Auto-Uploadr tool will be exclusive to paying customers. But all is not lost, as the company is offering a 30 percent discount to non-paying members to upgrade. With the desktop […]... →

Google today updated its cloud-based document and spreadsheet apps, Google Docs and Google Sheets, on iOS, and there’s a notable addition for these updates — they’ve now officially been given iPad Pro support. Specifically this means the keyboard in the apps now looks much more fully fleshed out than it did a few months ago, […]... →

Using your hand to grasp a pen that’s lying on your desk right doesn’t exactly feel like a chore, but for robots, that’s still a really hard thing to do. How do teach robots how hard to grasp that pen, for example, and what happens when that pen is just one out of ten similar pens that are lying on your cluttered desk? So to teach robots how to better grasp random… Read More... →

Peeple, the controversial people-rating application that lets its users rate and review anyone, is not a hoax or vaporware, as many suspected following the media backlash surrounding the unveiling of the company’s intentions last fall. The Washington Post even called the app “terrifying,” given that the app didn’t plan to allow users to opt out of being reviewed… Read More... →