A blueprint for startups: Try to kill it before you start
By George Deeb, managing partner, Ensemble and Red Rocket Ventures Starting a business for the first time is one of the most rewarding,...
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Bislr has built an ‘intelligent marketing OS’ to help enterprises generate and act on more qualified leads
A Q&A with Bislr co-founder and CEO Michael Sharkey. The San Francisco-based startup, which offers a suite of marketing applications bundled into...
Funding & Acquisitions Roundup: Goldbely lands $3M for its nationwide food delivery service from famous restaurants
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Goldbely, a startup that delivers famous and gourmet cuisine to customers around the...
Featured Startup Pitch: Ubooly is a plush, interactive educational toy that interacts with kids via mobile device
By Carly Gloge, Ubooly co-founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Ubooly is an educational companion that talks and listens to kids. We deliver...
Kickstarter-funded OLIVERS Apparel was founded to address a very specific pain point: the lack of comfortable, high-quality athletic shorts for men
A Q&A with OLIVERS Apparel co-founder David Wolfe. The San Francisco-based startup, which has designed high-quality athletic shorts for men,...
Disrupt SF highlights: Seed money, health…and Bitcoin
By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor Like many others this past week, I watched and listened intently to the TechCrunch Disrupt SF conference...
Funding & Acquisitions Roundup: Sproutling nabs $2.6M in Seed funding for its mobile- and wearable-device powered baby monitor system
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Sproutling, creator of a wearable device for babies that monitors their sleeping...
Local Motion is a keyless fleet management system that has generated significant investor attention
A Q&A with Local Motion co-founder Clement Gires. The Burlingame, California-based startup, which offers an in-car device-based vehicle fleet...
Funding & Acquisitions Roundup: Sixense obliterates its Kickstarter funding goal for a new wireless version of its motion-sensing gaming and VR controller
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Sixense, which has built a motion-sensing controller for VR and gaming, has blown...
Sooqini is helping Londoners get things done—one paid task at a time
A Q&A with Sooqini co-founder and CEO Raj Singh. The London-based startup, which is a task marketplace for the UK based on a reverse marketplace...
Funding & Acquisitions Roundup: Temnos gets $1.25M to help media sites create better user engagement
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Temnos, a content intelligence startup focused on media companies, has completed a...
Featured Startup Pitch: One Hour Translation is on a mission to bring quick, accurate translation to websites around the world
By Yaron Kaufman, One Hour Translation co-founder and Vice President of Marketing Elevator Pitch: One Hour Translation, the web’s largest...
