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A relatively small group of people from underwriting banks on Wall Street define the market’s appetite for the year’s IPOs. And right now, sources say, those people are thinking happy thoughts about digital health and other health-related IPOs. Why now? The quick answer is that the most recent handful of health IPOs have been strong performers. Fitbit […]... →

Everyone wants to be free and standalone. Remember when Facebook Messenger got its own site that maybe people use but we’re not sure because they don’t talk about it? Google Hangouts wanted some of that action, too. Starting today you can go to http://hangouts.google.com to make a phone call or ping a friend: Interestingly enough, the product hasn’t broken away from the… Read More... →

The biggest problem with disrupting an industry is that you start an earthquake. And the after-shocks can bring you down as well. That was the subtext to the three opening onstage chats at VentureBeat’s GrowthBeat conference, which opened today in San Francisco. Appropriately enough, a moderate, early morning earthquake preceded the opening of the conference. […]... →

On the heels of our gallery looking into the best performing technology IPOs of the last twelve months, here is the other side of the spectrum, with help from CrunchBase data. Read More... →

If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events marketing and analytics suite coming out of stealth from Y Combinator today. The Ticket Fairy’s goal is to make sure all its clients’ events sell out. Promoters let The Ticket Fairy sell their tickets, run their analytics,… Read More... →

The number one online travel marketplace, Priceline.com, has evolved its thinking about A/B testing to the point that the practice is more a state of mind than a periodic function. “We have a tendency to look at A/B testing as function,” Priceline.com’s chief product officer John Caine said at GrowthBeat Monday. “A/B is actually a discipline; […]... →

Директор по инвестициям фонда «ВЭБ Инновации» Анна Ненахова запустила центр корпоративных инноваций Next Capital. Согласно данным ЕГРЮЛ, компания зарегистрирована в ноябре 2014 года. Next Capital является оператором трека Power and Energy акселератора GeneratoinS, который был запущен при участии Российской Венчурной Компании (РВК). Как указано на сайте, задача Next Capital – оказать «комплексную поддержку специалистам, отвечающим в компаниях за инновационное развитие: от методик и подходов к организации и у... →

Need something to spark a bit of creativity this week? How about a super clever hack for Amazon’s $5, single-purpose Dash buttons? Originally meant to serve as a quick way to re-order household goods you order often (Order a lot of laundry detergent? Stick a Dash button on your washing machine, press it when you’re running low. Bam. Ordered.), Cloudstitch CTO Ted Benson has found… Read More... →

Индийский сервис продажи, аренды жилья и недвижимости Housing, инвестором которого является Юрий Мильнер, купил стартап HomeBuy360 за $2 млн. HomeBuy360 (Бангалор) предоставляет своим клиентам платформу для совершения сделок в сфере недвижимости. По собственным данным, компания сотрудничает с 70 застройщиками в семи городах Индии.   Housing планирует расширить и улучшить HomeBuy360 – и достичь за счет этого сотрудничества с 20 000 застройщиками. Компания также планирует обеспечить свое присутствие на террит... →

EXCLUSIVE: Startups need marketing as well as tech chops and cash. To help with the former, marketing automation platform Real Magnet is announcing a special program this week at VentureBeat’s GrowthBeat conference. Called Real Magnet for Startups, it provides several startup-optimized campaign templates as well as the platform’s regular tools at 50 percent off, plus a […]... →

For investors of Zulily, today is a good day. The company has agreed to be acquired by the parent company of QVC in a roughly $2.4 billion deal. The agreement values Zulily at $18.75 per share, up nearly 50 percent from its prior close. Temper your excitement. When Zulily went public, it sold 11 million shares at $22 apiece. As TechCrunch wrote at the time, the online deal shop had a massive… Read More... →

Do you want to quit your job, write a few books, and build a business that allows you to be your own boss? Kevin Kruse did just that. Here's how ' In this episode of Authorpreneur,... →

Google has introduced a new Web app for its Hangouts cross-device messaging app, a full two years after the app first launched to the world. It’s live now at the convenient URL: hangouts.google.com/. (Hat tip to Droid Life for covering the new site today.) The app allows users to make voice and videos calls for […]... →

This past Saturday in Oakland, CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHub Oakland for Tech808, an intimate startup conference inspired by hip-hop. “From the very beginning of hip-hop’s evolution as a culture and a music, it’s been entrepreneurial… Read More... →

(By Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters) – Daniel Negari could not be clearer – his company is not for sale. XYZ.com LLC’s founder and CEO Negari says he was literally shaking with excitement when he read Google Inc’s announcement that .xyz would host the website of the tech giant’s new company, Alphabet Inc. “I walked over […]... →

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Last week on New Rainmaker with Brian Clark, Brian talked about the concept of "native commerce" as a way to create content, build an audience, and ultimately find out what people will actually buy. It's about creating a unique experience for the right type of person, but how does that happen? Brian realized shortly after last week's episode went live that we had just explored the idea of creating a seamless, valuable experience for our ideal customers and clients.... →

Facebook basically locked Notes in the basement for the past half-decade. Its bare-bones blogging feature launched in 2006 as a place for writing missives that wouldn’t fit in a status update. After a few tweaks like the ability to insert photos, Facebook left Notes to languish. The launch of Timeline in 2011 buried the feature so deep in the interface that one could conclude Facebook… Read More... →

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Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a real estate investor, one-time real estate agent, podcaster, web designer, and Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the online real estate networking platform, BiggerPockets. The platform now has more than 330,000 members. Today's guest is also the CEO of BiggerPockets's publishing division, and has co-written and published two Amazon bestsellers.... →