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Any.DO extends its productivity app with Moment, a simple planner to help you...
Any.DO has updated its productivity app for Android and iOS today with a new feature called Any.DO Moment, which is a daily planner that helps users manage their most pressing tasks and deadlines in a...
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Microsoft’s Bing Fund invests in social discovery app Sonar
New York City startup Sonar announced today that has received a strategic investment from Microsoft’s Bing Fund. Sonar taps into social networks to tell you how you’re connected to people nearby and...
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Inside ‘Cook Taste Eat,’ The Startup From Celebrity Chef Michael Mina That...
Celebrity chef Michael Mina has certainly conquered the world of haute cuisine. Through his Mina Group, he operates more than a dozen award-winning high end restaurants around the world, with his...
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Appboy partners with HootSuite to help developers manage frustrated Tweeters
There isn’t a problem that can’t be fixed in 140 characters and an at-reply. Or so we think as we tap out another Tweet complaining about our burnt coffee, delayed flight, or malfunctioning app,...
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Lenders are turning to social media to assess borrowers
VISITING the homes of poor Africans who want to borrow money helps Finca International, an American microfinance firm, weed out likely deadbeats. If an applicant has an indoor toilet, or household...
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Will Anyone Create a Killer App for Google Glass?
Last summer, Ian Shakil, then a recent graduate of Stanford business school, got to try on Google’s head-mounted computing device, Glass, earlier than almost anyone outside the company. Hanging out...
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Financial Technology: Ripe For Disruption
The use of technology in finance is not a subject that investment professionals frequently think about — unless it is not working. But being an investor in early-stage start-up companies, I’m...
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Blumberg Capital’s 5th Annual ad:tech After Party w/ co-sponsors: Silicon...
Kick start your evening at our annual party! Join us for a great evening of networking with Blumberg Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Dentons, Sensiba San Filippo LLP, entrepreneurs, brands, agencies,...
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Bad Credit? Start Tweeting
Startups Are Rethinking How to Measure Creditworthiness Beyond FICO The post Bad Credit? Start Tweeting appeared first on Blumberg Capital.
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The real opportunity for payment startups: simplicity
Payment-processing startup Paymill recently raised 10 million euros to drive expansion throughout Europe. As the lead investor from Blumberg Capital, I am positively biased about the opportunity, but...
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The Samwer brothers lift the veil off their latest investment in Kreditech
The Samwer brothers just invested in Kreditech, a German startup that uses thousands of data points to determine how creditworthy you are. This is the first known investment Oliver and Marc Samwer,...
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HootSuite adds support for 750M more users: China’s Tencent Weibo, and...
By John Koetsier In perhaps the clearest sign yet that enterprise social media management tool HootSuite has major global ambitions, the company announced this morning that it is adding support for...
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Paidpiper Launches At Disrupt NY, Letting You Pay For Others’ Purchases In...
Paidpiper launched at Disrupt NY today, aiming to make your physical wallet, and presence, less necessary — in a good way. At the beginning of my freshman fall at Stanford I was wandering around...
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With $3.2M In Funding, ‘Real-World Operating System’ Startup Dekko Refocuses...
When we we last talked to augmented-reality startup Dekko back in September of last year, the company was building a platform on which it hoped to find developers to build a new generation of...
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Intelligent To Do List App Any.DO Raises $3.5 Million, Will Further Expand...
By Sarah Perez Q: Why does a to do list application need $3.5 million in funding? A: Because it’s becoming more than a simple to do app. Today, Any.DO one of the more popular to do list applications...
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Would you give up half your company for $250K?
By Jon Soberg Giving up half of your company for a mere $250K seems an absurd proposition. Only offer on Shark Tank? Bad business school case study? I must have missed a zero or two, right? If that...
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Appboy expands to help Android developers avoid heartbreak
By Nathaniel Mott It’s been 25 years since Cinderella (the glam metal band, not the Disney princess) crooned “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone / I don’t know what it is that I did so wrong.”...
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With $250M revenue rate in site, JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes in search of...
By Michael Carney One year into its onslaught on Western Europe online women’s fast fashion retailer JustFab has acquired The Fab Shoes (no relation) to accelerate its pace. The move will add 500,000...
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Integrating work and home — tech dads need balance too
By Jon Soberg I recently had a Twitter conversation with a great friend about an article that really hit home for me. A recent Pew Research study concluded that more fathers feel they aren’t spending...
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Any.do announces Cal, a proudly not-so-smart calendar app
By Richard Nieva In an age of “smart” everything – phone, TV, scale, watch, fridge – here’s an idea that’s refreshingly contrarian: build an app that’s not so smart. Not dumb. Just one that doesn’t try...
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