On paper, smartphones are amazing pieces of glass. They have magically cured boredom as we always have something to do — those endless feeds of content are a perpetual source of inspiration, information and amusement. And yet, feeds need to die because they distort our views and disconnect us from other human beings around us. Many people have deleted the Facebook app from their phone… Read More

Sramana Mitra: How much money did you raise in 2013? Jason Kassin: Our Series A was $20 million. Sramana Mitra: How many companies did you acquire? Jason Kassin: We acquired two companies. The first...

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 Not every startup journey starts as sweetly as the road co-founders Ishita Prasad and Maya Balakrishnan took to launching their new company, Polymer — but then again, not every startup takes its inspiration from a chocolate factory. Read More

 In what the company is calling “a very difficult time for hardware companies in the smart kitchen space,” Tea infusion device startup Teforia is saying it is ceasing operations today, according to its website. Teforia’s main product was an internet-connected tea infuser that could brew the pre-packaged teas from the startup, which it called “Sips.” Read More

 So, we’re midway through earnings season, and as you’ve probably seen, we’ve covered a majority of the big companies that have reported thus far. There are plenty more that have reported, and there are still more to come, but these are the periods that generally have the most impact on the best public barometer of a company’s success: its stock price. Read More

Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying is the backend of the web self-service systems of phone self-service systems have gone from rule-based systems to learning-based systems. Christopher Connolly:...

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Entrepreneurs in the early stages of building startups need to be aware of the myriad stages of seed funding that have emerged. By the time you’ve gone through three to five rounds of seed...

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Entrepreneurs are invited to the 374th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 2, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur,...

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 Continuing a tradition that began with the incubation and launch of Funny or Die (alongside Sequoia Capital and Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions), one of Hollywood’s top agencies is partnering with a group of Canadian investors to finance a new venture studio, Creative Labs, with $12.5 million. Read More

Earlier this week, ITSM provider ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) reported its third quarter results that surpassed market expectations. But the market was not pleased with the performance and the stock slid...

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Sramana Mitra: A couple of questions. When did you hit the million dollar mark from the point you started? What metrics did you raise funding with? Jason Kassin: I’m not exactly sure, but it was...

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Mark Achler, Managing Director, MATH Venture Partners, discusses their investment strategy and the industry trends. 

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Yanev Suissa is General Partner at SineWave Ventures out of Washington DC and Silicon Valley. The firm invests alongside some major firms like Andreessen Horowitz and NEA. Yanev talks about how they...

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Nathan Lustig, Managing Partner of Magma Partners, a Latin-America-focused fund, talks about their strategy, as well as the dynamics of the LatAm market.

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Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures, discusses pre-seed and seed investing.

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 If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is especially important for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is generally “hear a recording, then repeat it.” Blue Canoe uses an established curriculum and machine learning to make things easier and more effective. Read More

 Because it’s rude to leave out children, HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman has teamed up with Joanna and David Parker to launch a healthy prepared meal service for the little ones. Treiman, who joined the company last December, helped Yumble officially launch this past summer. Read More

 Meet Station, a startup that was created by startup studio eFounders. Station has been working on the only work app you need. It combines all the services you need into a single window and handles notifications and documents better than a normal browser. If you don’t spend your life in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, chances are you spend most of your days in a web browser,… Read More

 Researchers at the University of Basel and University College London have created a scale that can measure life. The scale, which can measure the mass of single cells lets and them “monitor how their weight changes over time … with a resolution of milliseconds and trillionths of a gram.”This means they can weigh a cell the instant it dies, finding definitely the mass of… Read More