Paul Carr’s NSFWCorp ...
Former TC’er Paul Carr’s latest venture, called NSFWCorp, has launched into private beta. It’s a weekly news magazine dubbed as the “ the Economist as written by ‘The Daily Show’” and will be available for $26 a year or “two bucks a month.”...Greatist Wants To Build...
When it comes to health and fitness, content farms rule the Internet. Try to search for something like “how to lose weight” and you’ll get a long list of anonymously-written, poorly-sourced articles. So Derek Flanzarich is trying to build something better with Greatist...
Facebook to Marketers, ...
Editor’s note: Brian Solis is principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm, and the author of “ The End of Business As Usual .” You can follow him on Twitter @ briansolis . You Like me…you really Like me. Wait. Maybe you don’t really Like...Under New JOBS Act, Mor...
SolarCity , the cleantech company backed by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, filed for an IPO this past week. But there’s hardly been a peep about it compared to most offerings. That’s because under the recently passed JOBS Act, SolarCity didn’t have to publicly share...
Please Also Welcome Rya...
We’ve been writing so many “ please welcome star writer ” posts lately that we’re having to work hard to think of new versions of that headline. But that’s the only painful part of this one, as we’re very excited to announce that pro blogger Ryan...
Why Can’t BlackBerry ...
Horace Dediu at Asymco has run the numbers and it’s not looking good. Samsung and Apple now control an estimated 99% of vendor profits with HTC scraping in with 1%. BlackBerry and Nokia barely register and, in fact, form a loss. First, I’d like to note why Dediu believes...OnSports Raises $2M Led...
In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just closed a $2 million round led by Mike Maples’ Floodgate fund . The company, also...
Look, See: Warby Parker...
There are plenty of places to turn if one is looking to buy prescription glasses, but the problem is that most of those options are expensive. So David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal started Warby Parker last year to breathe some new life into the eyewear industry by selling designer,...