Today, Facebook introduced us to Facebook Marketplace, a new Craigslist-style forum where users can buy and sell items with their […]
Lyft Plans To Be Mostly Electric Self-Driving Cars in Five Years
This has been a big month for transportation. We saw a solar car, an electric bus, and now, a detailed article from Lyft […]
Ping For Airbnb Hosts Provides Physical Touchpoints to Guide Digital Tours
If you’re an absentee Airbnb host renting out your house or apartment, you’ll soon have no need to feel guilty […]
Simbi Network Back to Barter Letting You Exchange Skills for Services
Either it’s been the theme of many Throwback Thursdays running, or the barter system is actually making a comeback. Whatever […]
Snagajob App Offers Easy Search For Entry-Level Jobs As Part-Time Employment Grows
The online job listing website Snagajob released its mobile app this past June, allowing job seekers to view an interactive […]
Have A Dog Day Afternoon: Borrow Dogs From Other Owners With Bark’N’Borrow
Love dogs, but don’t have the time, space, or money to own one? If so, there’s a service that lets […]
Josephine Helps People Get Home Cooked Meals From Neighbors
In the age of Uber and one-hour deliveries, we’ve all become used to convenience. Convenience is great, but in the […]
A Startup Showing You The World By Letting You Swap Homes With People Abroad
Before we were swapping wives and jobs and lives on reality TV, we were watching people swap homes. House swapping is […]
Dude I Need A Truck Is On-Demand Truck Rental That Comes With Its Dude (or Dudette)
Dude, where’s my truck? Even if you don’t need one right now, you’re likely going to need one in the near […]
Elizabeth Warren: Digital Fairness Czar
Recently, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren leveled some heavy criticisms against Silicon Valley. “Google, Apple, and Amazon have created disruptive technologies […]
Small Business Saturday: Making It a Year-Round Celebration
In 2015 Small Business Saturday generated $16.2 billion for local, independently owned businesses. We should do that more often. Here’s some tips for SMBs to take advantage of local marketing and ways consumers can share the small biz love.
We Spoke To One of the Authors of ‘Valley Speak’, The New Silicon Valley Jargon Guide
Ever wonder how much back-channeling goes on before an acqui-hire? Ever known someone in the C-Suite of a disruptive startup […]
5 Great Startups For Book Lovers
Whether you’ve read Harry Potter a million times or you know every line of every John Green book, book lovers […]
Paqqy Uses Random People as Couriers to Shake Up The Package Delivery Industry
Over the last 20 years, peer-to-peer networks have disrupted industries dominated by big players. It began with Napster, who rocked […]
Buying Luxury Furniture Made Easier with Startups Like Vinterior
Finding second hand, luxury furniture on classified sites like Craigslist or Gumtree is neither easy nor particularly enjoyable. Even if you think […]
WaiveCar Puts Ads On Shared Cars So You Can Drive for Free
To businesses, it’s an opportunity to make their outdoor advertising campaigns smarter and easier to track. For the rest of […]
Will VarageSale Beat Out Craigslist on Mobile?
Three years ago, Tami Zuckerman was pregnant and cleaning out her house to make room for the baby. Frustrated with […]
Zify Incentivizes Carpooling by Matching Like-Minded Individuals
Another carpooling app? *Yawn* Or maybe not… The team behind Zify, a carpooling application that intelligently matches work commuters with people […]
Airbnb Is Fighting Its Own Deflategate and The Struggle Is Real
Airbnb, the popular short-term rental website with over 2 million listings in 34,000 cities, was relatively unheard of five years […]
Let Droners.io Find An Ace For Your Next Mission
Have you ever wished you had longer arms to hold your camera over a crowd to snap that perfect shot? […]
Clutter Wants Moving Stuff To Suck Less, No Matter How Many Times You Do It
Several years ago, my wife and I temporarily moved to another state for 10 months. One of the biggest pains […]
This Travel Startup Gives The Local Experience By Doing Tours with Real Locals
Travel tour companies are everywhere. Literally. Whether you want the camaraderie of a Contiki Tour, the rush of a G […]
Breather Is Trying To Be The Uber Of Office Space
I’m a freelance copywriter, which means I spend an inordinate amount of time working in coffee shops. Usually this isn’t […]
Getaround Creates an Airbnb for Cars
San Francisco startup, Getaround, embarked on its mission to relieve the world’s car overpopulation problem back in 2009 and it […]
Startup Funding Roundup – 3/13/15
From companies like Eko raising $2 million for a smartphone-connected stethoscope to BugCrowd raising $6 million in Series A funding […]
The Rise of Silicon Beach
The startup scene began its ascent in the Los Angeles area in the late 2000s. During that time, MySpace was […]
