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Tableau Software Revamps Its Data Engine With Help From A Little German Startup
Forbes - Alex Konrad
After fifteen years and $5.7 billion in market capitalization created, data visualization company Tableau Software is hoping to get a major business boost from a new data engine acquired from a little
Jan 10, 2018
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Delphi acquires self-driving startup NuTonomy for $450 million
The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins
Delphi, one of the world’s largest automotive suppliers, is acquiring Boston-based self-driving car startup NuTonomy for an upfront purchase price of $400 million as well as $50 million in earn-outs, companies
Oct 24, 2017
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Stitch Fix
Stitch Fix, With Nearly $1 Billion In Sales, Files For An IPO
Forbes - Lauren Gensler
Clothing subscription company Stitch Fix has filed for an IPO, according to paperwork submitted to regulators on Thursday. The San Francisco-based e-commerce startup, which picks clothing for women using
Oct 19, 2017
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4 valuable tips for building pre-launch hype for your mobile app
TNW - Pratik Dholakiya
Launching a mobile app isn’t quite as easy as it was 10 years ago. When smartphones were flooding the market back in the mid 2000’s, there was a distinct “honeymoon phase” when it came to apps. In other
Oct 18, 2017
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Woebot names AI pioneer Andrew Ng as chairman to work on mental health
VentureBeat - Blair Hanley Frank, ISG
Andrew Ng, one of the cofounders of the Google Brain project, will be the new chairman of Woebot, a company that operates a chatbot of the same name. The bot is designed to help people work on their own
Oct 18, 2017
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The simple formula Jeff Bezos used to turn Amazon into a $480 billion company
Quartz - Zat Rana
He was nearing 30, and it was at the dawn of the internet revolution. The web was nowhere near what it is today, but the thing that caught Bezos’ attention was that usage was picking up at a rate of 2,300%
Oct 18, 2017
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Flipboard Partners
http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/want-to-be-acquired-by-microsoft-here-are-2-things-its-looking-for/
Oct 17, 2017
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Oct 17, 2017
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Magic Leap confirms $502 million Series D round
TechCrunch - Megan Rose Dickey
Mixed reality slash augmented reality startup Magic Leap announced today that it raised a $502 million Series D round led by Temasek with participation from EDBI, Grupo Globo, Janus Henderson, Alibaba
Oct 17, 2017
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Apple Considered Buying Medical Startup Crossover Health
Fortune
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Oct 16, 2017
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A new company allows you to monetize your genetic data
futurism.com - Brad Jones
The organizations and scientists working hard to develop the next generation of medical treatments and pharmaceuticals rely on genetic data for their …
Oct 12, 2017
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Startup Magic Leap seeks $1 billion funding, working on debut product
Reuters - Heather Somerville
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Magic Leap, a highly funded and secretive startup that has promised breakthrough augmented reality technology, is seeking to raise up to $1 billion in fresh funding from investors,
Oct 12, 2017
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Revolut signing up 40 new business customers, 3,000 consumers every day
Business Insider - Business Insider UK
• Foreign exchange startup Revolut has 16,000 business customers four months after launch.• Signing up 3,000 to 3,500 new retail customers each day.• Plans to launch in the US, Australia, Canada, Singapore,
Oct 12, 2017
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WeTransfer’s Plan To Disrupt The Creative Process
Fast Company - Diana Budds
“File-sharing” company no more–WeTransfer is aiming to become the pillar of creative communities. Enter your email address. Read the fine print. Sign up. Login. Exit out of the pop-up. Most digital services
Oct 12, 2017
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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Richard Thaler Wants Entrepreneurs and Fitness Buffs to Know This 1 Thing
Inc Magazine - Peter Economy
The decisions you make today could have a tremendously big impact on your future--one nudge at a time. Feel like you don't make the best decisions when it comes to your finances? There may be Nobel Prize-winning
Oct 12, 2017
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The No. 1 Thing to Look for When Investing in Artificial Intelligence
The Motley Fool - Keith Speights
The more of it a company has, the better the company's prospects are likely to be. So much for creating suspense. The absolute top thing to look for …
Oct 12, 2017
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The Rise of Behavioral Economics and Its Influence on Organizations
Harvard Business Review - Francesca Gino
Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago professor who just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, has inspired scholars across different disciplines and fundamentally changed the way we about
Oct 11, 2017
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LINE enters AI game set to dominate Asia
thejakartapost.com - Dylan Amirio
Japanese multimedia application LINE’s recent entry to the artificial intelligence (AI) industry could likely dominate Asia’s virtual assistant …
Oct 10, 2017
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Disney’s Big Bet on Streaming Relies on Little-Known Tech Company
The New York Times - By BROOKS BARNES and JOHN KOBLIN
For two days in late June, Disney’s board of directors gathered at Walt Disney World in Florida to wrestle with one topic: how technology was disrupting the company’s traditional movie, television and
Oct 8, 2017
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Entrepreneurship: A product should be based on need
Business Insider - Shana Lebowitz
• Dorie Clark is a marketing strategist and the author of "Entrepreneurial You."• She says entrepreneurs often make the mistake of pursuing an idea for a product without first checking if customers would
Oct 3, 2017
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6 AI-Powered Tools All Entrepreneurs Need to Run Their Business
Entrepreneur - Artur Kiulian
Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools can help you better your business. Here are the ones you should try. Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are now available to entrepreneurs
Sep 18, 2017
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Google partners with VCs to host its own machine learning startup competition
TechCrunch - John Mannes
On the heels of acquiring data science community Kaggle, Google is launching a machine learning competition of its own for startups. Google is targeting early-stage companies taking an innovative approach
Mar 10, 2017
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Check Out a New Podcast Hosted by Reid Hoffman -- And Join the Conversation on
Entrepreneur - Andrea Huspeni
The billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and Greylock partner is hosting a new 10-series podcast, 'Masters of Scale', one full of ideas worth talking about. Editor’s Note: In the new podcast Masters of LinkedIn
Apr 25, 2017
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An engineer’s guide to picking a startup
TechCrunch - Anshu Sharma
One of the questions I often get from engineers I mentor is how do you decide on what early stage startup is worth working for? Often, this is long before you have paying customer logos or big name venture
Apr 25, 2017
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Fintech investor: 'Anything that has machine learning or blockchain in it, the valuation goes up, 2, 3, 4, 5x'
Business Insider - Oscar Williams-Grut
Andy Stewart, a managing partner at Motive Partners, said at the International Fintech conference in London last week: "I would call valuations right now frothy in general... tech generally is frothy."
Apr 17, 2017
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Oval combines tracking, saving and investing into one app, driven by AI… and you
TechCrunch - Mike Butcher
There are several apps on the market that help you track your spending (Parity), save money (Pennies), or invest (Moneybox) using basic machine learning. Now an ambitious startup wants to do all three.
Apr 5, 2017
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Finance
Robinhood stock trading app latest round valued at $1.3 billion - Business Insider
Business Insider - Biz Carson
The new round of funding is reportedly led by Yuri Milner's investment arm, DST Global, and values the investing app at over $1 billion. That makes it a "unicorn" in Silicon Valley terms. Robinhood declined
Mar 31, 2017
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DataRobot raises $54 million to bring machine learning to predictive analytics
VentureBeat - Paul Sawers
DataRobot, a machine learning platform that helps enterprises build predictive models at speed, has raised $54 million in a Series C funding round led by existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Mar 23, 2017
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7 Tools That Startups Should Know About Right Now
Inc Magazine - Drew Hendricks
Bootstrapped startups and the entrepreneurs who run them need software and applications that help them do heavy lifting without having to hire large teams. Being an entrepreneur is no easy task, and while
Mar 21, 2017