Liz Gannes in News on May 14 at 9:06 am PT
Danielle Morrill, director of marketing at developer-focused cloud communication start-up Twilio and its first employee, has left to found her own company: Referly.
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Liz Gannes in Social on May 11 at 10:35 am PT
Diaspora, the open source social network that rose to fame on the back of Facebook privacy scandals and one of the first viral Kickstarter campaigns, is now rebuilding itself around creative self-expression, following setbacks including the suicide of a co-founder, as detailed in this
good Bloomberg Businessweek profile. One tidbit the profile reveals is that the team has been accepted to participate in the next round of Y Combinator, starting next month.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 25 at 2:30 am PT
People-search start-up Ark.com has led a bit of a charmed existence.
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Peter Kafka in Media on April 16 at 6:40 pm PT
Twitter has “acqhired” the team behind social media analytics start-up
Hotspots.io. At least three members of the start-up have joined Twitter’s “revenue engineering team” to build tools for Twitter advertisers and publishers. Hotspots.io graduated from start-up factory Y Combinator a year ago,
but at that time called itself Moki.tv, a “personalized TV guide for streaming video online.”
Liz Gannes in Social on March 27 at 2:27 pm PT
One start-up that caught my eye at Y Combinator’s supersized Demo Day today is Pair, which makes a smartphone app to help two people in a relationship stay in touch and share little moments — and “thumbkisses.”
Liz Gannes in News on March 27 at 3:00 am PT
Today a considerable slice of the early stage Internet technology world heads to Mountain View, Calif., to see the latest batch of Y Combinator start-ups.
Liz Gannes in News on March 20 at 10:44 am PT
It says something about the current state of Silicon Valley that a recent Web start-up trend is personal wealth management.
Liz Gannes in Commerce on February 29 at 9:22 am PT
Justin Kan, who you may remember as the eponymous co-founder of Justin.tv, is onto his next start-up. It’s an iPhone app called Exec that helps people complete tasks on demand.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16 at 9:00 am PT
New location-sharing apps promise to provide more value to users than ever — but they will surely teeter awfully close to the edge of creepy for many people.
The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers.
– WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg
