Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Rapper Snoop Dogg has built a new startup called Merry Jane, a community that’s centered around the cannabis lifestyle and business. It includes content from various partners including actor Seth Rogan. The site will launch in October and will only let 420 people into the site in beta. At the TechCrunch Disrupt […]... →

Headspace, a guided meditation and mindfulness startup, recently raised $30 million from The Cherin Group, Advancit Capital, Allen & Company, Breyer Capital, The Honest Company CEO Jessica Alba, actor Jared Leto, TV personality Ryan Seacrest, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and others. The plan is to hire more engineers, content marketers and expand Headspace’s content. The size of the… Read More... →

Today at Disrupt SF 2015, Zenefits’ Parker Conrad joined our own Matthew Lynley on stage to dig into how the startup has managed to become one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Zenefits is notable here in the TechCrunch house as it first launched its product at Disrupt NY in 2013 when it was a finalist in our Startup Battlefield. Read More... →

Portea Medical, a startup that provides in-home healthcare in India, has raised a $37.5 million Series B led by returning investor Accel. The round’s other participants include International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast. Read More... →

A Twitter account in the hands of a hothead startup founder can be a dangerous thing. The New York Times ran a piece Sunday looking into why a 62-year-old pill saw its price skyrocket from $13.50 to nearly $750 after it was acquired by Turing Pharmaceuticals last month. The increase in the price of Daraprim, a drug that the Times reported “is the standard of care for treating a… Read More... →

Zenefits, a fast-growing startup with cloud software for managing health insurance and other employee benefits, is announcing today the new ACA Compliance Automation feature to ensure that companies provide health care in accord with the rules of the U.S. Affordable Care Act. Zenefits provides its core software free of charge — the startup brings in […]... →

TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 25 startups selected to participate in the Startup Battlefield of Disrupt SF 2015. Over the next three days, these companies will compete on tech’s biggest stage for $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. The Battlefield represent the crème de la crème; the startups onstage represent just over 2.5 percent of those that applied. Startup Battlefield… Read More... →

More consolidation underway in the area of point of sale services. New York-based payment startup ShopKeep is buying Ambur, a payments service for restaurants, food trucks and other food and drink establishments. ShopKeep will keep the product alive as it integrates it, and will be taking on Ambur’s 1,500 customers in the process. The terms of the deal were not disclosed,… Read More... →

О том, как переехать в Италию по стартап-визе, и всех ее достоинствах и недостатках рассказывает основатель видео-платформы Together  Денис Буличенко.   Сейчас многие страны задумываются о привлечении талантливых предпринимателей для создания инновационных стартапов и развития своей экономики. Для некоторых стран одним из инструментов привлечения являются долгосрочные стартап-визы. Одной из первой к этому инструменту прибегла Италия. А я оказался одним из первых, кто получил Italy Startup Visa и заветный шт... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — свадебный сервис Wedvice. Передаём микрофон.... →

И другие итоги акселерационной программы банка AlfaCamp 2.0... →

Проект «Сейчас» выиграл конкурс стартапов UpStarter Contest в рамках ИТ-форума Дальинфоком-2015 и получил 1 млн от бизнес-ангелов Приморья. Подробности вложений не раскрываются.  Мобильное приложение «Сейчас» разработано Игорем Карклиным и Романом Садовниковым. Оно которая бы позволяет узнавать о событиях во Владивостоке в мобильном формате. О форуме Дальинфоком Дальинфоком — индустриальное мероприятие IT-отрасли в Дальневосточном федеральном округе России. Дальинфоком проводится во Владивостоке с 2006 года... →

Каждый день редакция vc.ru выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Try, пользователи которого могут бесплатно примерить одежду из интернет-магазинов.... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях, а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников.... →