Browsing Tag: Startups

 The most logical thing to do when you decide to step back from your successful startup, which didn’t end up in the deadpool like the other 99 percent, is to take some time off. Appreciate things. Enjoy the fact that years of work paid off, literally. Watch your kids grow up, get an expensive hobby, chill.
These are all things that Chok Ooi, co-founder of little-known but lucrative… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Kenzie Academy is an ambitious project to bring tech jobs to Middle America

 On paper, smartphones are amazing pieces of glass. They have magically cured boredom as we always have something to do — those endless feeds of content are a perpetual source of inspiration, information and amusement. And yet, feeds need to die because they distort our views and disconnect us from other human beings around us. Many people have deleted the Facebook app from their phone… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | How I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds

 Not every startup journey starts as sweetly as the road co-founders Ishita Prasad and Maya Balakrishnan took to launching their new company, Polymer — but then again, not every startup takes its inspiration from a chocolate factory. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Factory operations manager Polymer spins out from Dandelion Chocolate

 In what the company is calling “a very difficult time for hardware companies in the smart kitchen space,” Tea infusion device startup Teforia is saying it is ceasing operations today, according to its website. Teforia’s main product was an internet-connected tea infuser that could brew the pre-packaged teas from the startup, which it called “Sips.” Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | ,000 tea infuser startup Teforia shuts down

 So, we’re midway through earnings season, and as you’ve probably seen, we’ve covered a majority of the big companies that have reported thus far. There are plenty more that have reported, and there are still more to come, but these are the periods that generally have the most impact on the best public barometer of a company’s success: its stock price. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Here’s a chart that shows why financial earnings are a big deal

 Continuing a tradition that began with the incubation and launch of Funny or Die (alongside Sequoia Capital and Will Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions), one of Hollywood’s top agencies is partnering with a group of Canadian investors to finance a new venture studio, Creative Labs, with $12.5 million. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Startup studios go Hollywood as CAA launches Creative Labs

 If you want to pick up a new language, there’s no shortage of options. But one aspect of the process that has been neglected is pronunciation, which is especially important for professionals. Online, learning pronunciation is generally “hear a recording, then repeat it.” Blue Canoe uses an established curriculum and machine learning to make things easier and more effective. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Blue Canoe takes on language learning with a focus on pronunciation

 Because it’s rude to leave out children, HelloFresh co-founder Dan Treiman has teamed up with Joanna and David Parker to launch a healthy prepared meal service for the little ones. Treiman, who joined the company last December, helped Yumble officially launch this past summer. Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | HelloFresh co-founder is working on a prepared meal service for kids

 Meet Station, a startup that was created by startup studio eFounders. Station has been working on the only work app you need. It combines all the services you need into a single window and handles notifications and documents better than a normal browser. If you don’t spend your life in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, chances are you spend most of your days in a web browser,… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Station combines all your messy web apps into a single app

 Researchers at the University of Basel and University College London have created a scale that can measure life. The scale, which can measure the mass of single cells lets and them “monitor how their weight changes over time … with a resolution of milliseconds and trillionths of a gram.”
This means they can weigh a cell the instant it dies, finding definitely the mass of… Read More
Source: Tech Crunch Startups | Scientists weigh life