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This might seem like the best time to be running a startup involved in stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s always companies and products that are doing well, and there’s always comapnies and products that aren’t doing so well,” he said. “In adidtion to that, short-term fluctuations aside,… Read More... →

As consumers, we tend to focus on how virtual reality will work in our homes — the new types of games it allows, the insane 360-degree cinematic experiences, etc. Some of VR’s greatest potential, though, lays not at home but in the classroom. Hell, you can boil VR’s potential as a learning tool into just three little words: Magic. Friggin’. Schoolbus. Think shared… Read More... →

Postmates recently unveiled a revamped version of its app, dubbed Postmates 3.0, which features category discovery, delivery tracking, gifting and estimated delivery times. In addition to providing customers with timely information, one of the reasons why Postmates added estimated delivery times is to adjust customers’ expectations. “Most of our deliveries are not just under an hour. Read More... →

Make way for another wearable. Launching sign-ups for its alpha program on stage today, here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, is a startup called Humon — which is building a real-time lactic acid threshold monitor designed for endurance athletes to help them tailor training to their personal limits. Read More... →

Buying and running a bitcoin miner is either a labor of love or an effort at profit… but rarely both. 21.co, for their part, seems to have reached an interesting parity. Their new Bitcoin Computer is a Raspberry Pi 2 connected to a bitcoin mining rig. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon for $399. They also include a WiFi adapter and a 128GB SD card with a copy of the… Read More... →

A new wave of startups, including companies like Blue Apron, Plated, HelloFresh and more, have been catering to consumers looking to cook healthier meals at home, but lack the time to shop and source the right ingredients. Today, a new service called Scrumpt is offering a similar option for kids – or rather, for their busy parents who want an easier way to pack a healthy school… Read More... →

Mixmax, an e-mail startup that recently raised $1.5 million from Harrison Metal and Floodgate, integrated with Inbox to turn e-mails into much more than just a text-heavy experience. With Mixmax, you can schedule calendar availability directly from where you’re composing your e-mails from Google Inbox among other features. Mixmax was founded in the past year to turn e-mail from a static… Read More... →

Virtual reality’s breakthrough moment might not be gaming. Claude Zellweger from HTC, Dr. Richard Marks from Sony, Paul Raphaël from Felix and Paul Studios took the stage with our own Drew Olanoff at Disrupt SF to talk about virtual reality. These VR experts had a lot of things to say about the content that should hit your favorite VR headset in the coming years. Read More... →

Stitch, a central messaging hub for healthcare providers, is launching today on stage at Disrupt to cut down on the $11 billion that U.S. hospitals waste each year due to breakdowns in communication. You can think of Stitch as Slack for healthcare, except channels are organized around individual patients instead of teams or departments. When a patient checks in, the front desk can set up… Read More... →

Hardware startups are really cool and Brady Forrest has brought more of them to market than anyone we know. Now he and Dave McClure are the stars of Bazillion Dollar Club, a new show on SyFy that is showing exactly what it’s like to living inside a high-pressure startup. Forrest and McClure are the Jason and Thetis of the startup straits and are doing a bang-up job. I sat down with… Read More... →

Rise made its name in the world of health apps as a platform for people to connect with human coaches, to help them tailor their lifestyle and eating choices to lose weight. Now, Rise is adding in a new feature that it hopes will help it scale to a much bigger audience. Today, the company is taking the wraps off of CoachLine, a new real-time personal assistant that will let anyone… Read More... →

Independent retailers often have a hard time finding and retaining qualified employees. TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Staffly, a startup created by husband and wife team Bjorn and Marissa Ovick, wants to make it easy for them to fill their staffing needs. Staffly has created a digital temp agency of sorts in which retailers find staff, employees find work and Staffly runs… Read More... →

Most startups struggle when it comes to understanding the underlying financial metrics that typically determine the success or failure of their business. At the same time, they are often keeping the books in online tools with easily accessible data. Leap Financial,  a startup participating in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy to connect to… Read More... →

Tech has changed almost every aspect of our lives, from shopping to transportation. But despite the enormous amount of money Americans spend on healthcare, many treatments are decades old. In an onstage conversation with TechCrunch’s Sarah Buhr at Disrupt today, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers partner Beth Seidenberg said “healthcare is really the last industry to be… Read More... →

Virtual reality company Felix & Paul Studios announced Monday onstage at Disrupt SF the launch of a separate division focused on 3D, 360-degree sound mixing. Led by Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, Headspace Studios will bring the sound editing technology and innovation used in Felix & Paul productions to other leading VR companies. The studio is the first to focus only on 3D sound for VR… Read More... →

Pro-privacy secure messaging app Telegram is seeing some impressive usage growth this year. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF founder Pavel Durov revealed on stage the platform is now seeing 12 billion messages sent daily — up from two billion back in May, and 1 billion in February. Read More... →

Telegram выпустил обновленные версии приложений для iOS и Android с поддержкой Channels — публичных чатов с неограниченным количеством подписчиков и счетчиками просмотров для каждого сообщения.... →

The New Business Podcast has now officially become Youpreneur.FM. This first Youpreneur.FM episode kicks off with host Chris Ducker discussing the importance of why entrepreneurs need to go back to basics when it comes to building their businesses. Chris changed the name of the show to coincide with the launch of the Youpreneur Community, which launched very recently to a flying start! You'll also see that the show has become part of the Rainmaker.FM Network,... →

Having appealed France's "right to be forgotten" ruling, Google was rejected on the grounds that the company only delinked regionally, rather than across all its global search sites.... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a creative and somewhat reluctant entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Sherman Project and BeStrongPeaceful.com. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, she studied under healers and scholars from all around the world and has completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota, with a research focus in healing therapies for well-being promotion. Now, let's hack ' Aimee Prasek. In this 50-minute episode of Hack the Entrepreneur,... →