Startups articles

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  Failure is a feature: how Google stays sharp gobbling up startups

  By Ben Popper on September 17, 2012 12:09 pm + 171 comments

  I stepped out of my car in the parking lot of Google’s Mountain View headquarters and, not having Continue reading…

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  Six months of Paper: sketching the future of app startups

  By Ellis Hamburger on September 14, 2012 11:00 am + 110 comments

  Nearly six months after launching Paper for iPad to much praise and fanfare, George Petschnigg still Continue reading…

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  Cosmonaut stylus creator Dan Provost on how two guys make a living building hardware

  By Ellis Hamburger on September 4, 2012 11:43 am + 17 comments

  Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt are Studio Neat, the two-man outfit behind the Cosmonaut stylus and the Continue reading…

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  Study: App.net, Medium, and Svbtle users are overwhelmingly white and male

  By Laura June on August 29, 2012 04:49 pm + 48 comments

  Silicon Valley isn't known for diversity, so it's perhaps not terrifically surprising to find that Continue reading…

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  'Sent with Sparrow,' no more

  By Ellis Hamburger on July 20, 2012 04:22 pm + 328 comments

  While I congratulate the Sparrow team on moving on to bigger and better projects at Google, one Continue reading…

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  Big dreams and tiny spaces inside Silicon Valley's 'hacker hostels'

  By Joshua Kopstein on July 7, 2012 01:26 pm + 24 comments

  In the New York Times, Brian X. Chen explores a strange new kind of establishment that's popping up Continue reading…

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  Mac OS X architect Bertrand Serlet building secret cloud OS startup

  By Ellis Hamburger on June 29, 2012 01:05 pm + 32 comments

  Business Insider has done some serious digging and discovered that Mac OS X architect Bertrand Continue reading…

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  Reid Hoffman: 'your car will have more lines of code in it than LinkedIn does today'

  By Ben Popper on June 20, 2012 10:30 am + 43 comments

  Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley power player. He emerged at PayPal, where he was the first full Continue reading…

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  After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

  By Ben Popper on June 19, 2012 12:15 pm + 40 comments

  A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Continue reading…

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  Diffbot raises $2 million to help apps understand the open, unstructured web

  By Ben Popper on May 31, 2012 10:27 am + 18 comments

  Diffbot is a machine learning system that can read any web page and extract useful, structured data Continue reading…