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Tom Boyd is 80 years old. He loves to play golf. He loves to make money. "I've had 17 businesses, and I never had one that didn't make money." His latest money-making endeavor tests dog poop left unscooped in public spaces. Using DNA, Boyd hunts down the dog's owner. Don't laugh. His detective work will bring in up to $7 million in revenues this year. "Sometime in the next five years it's going to be $120 million," he says, confidently.

Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150 million in funding at a $2.05 billion valuation.

It wasn’t the successful, industry-changing run we had all hoped for from the startup founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, but the Essential Phone might be done. After a good year and a half of price drops and flash sales after a rocky, expensive start, the Essential Phone has begun slipping away into unavailability land.

We Roam’s broken promises about a new life of remote work are an object lesson in the darker side of startup turnover.

Read the business tips for 2019 on how you can apply effective influencing strategies and results to your potential customers. Read complete at Urtasker.

For Days, a clothing startup that wants to reduce the enormous amount of textile waste created annually, announced today that it has raised $2.8 million in seed funding. The round was led by Rosecliff Ventures joined by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Congruent Ventures, Third Prime Capital, Closed Loop Ventures, Bleu Capital, Gramercy Fund, and Ride Ventures. For Days makes its clothing with a closed-loop manufacturing and recycling process...

If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series “Silicon Valley”.

In a blog post Monday, the Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -3.39% co-founder wrote that the Emmy-winning comedy is one of the few pop-culture offerings to really get the tech world right. “If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series ‘Silicon Valley,’” he wrote.

These Silicon Valley startups are on pace to achieve rapid growth in 2019. Several of the innovative startups who made our list include Nurx, Shippo, Gladly ...

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This new service makes 500 cookbooks and 100,000 recipes searchable, and cooking an even more social experience.

Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.

How one seemingly benign concept has been used as cover for all kinds of self-serving proposals.

A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.

Element AI has the pedigree to push the boundaries of what is possible with the technology.

The new book "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou (and an expected movie) will show how Elizabeth Holmes duped Silicon Valley and some of the nation's top investors into believing in Theranos, a giant scam.

One of the most hotly talked about topics in tech right now is starting an indie business. What is an indie business? It's one where you, and maybe a co-founder, attempt to start a business with no investor funding or large external influence. It goes by many names: boot-strapped, solo-founded, self-funded, indie-hackers...etc... and it's pretty hot right now!

Troubled theater subscription service MoviePass is rejiggering its subscription plan once again. The company announced via press release that, due to consumer feedback, it won’t be raising the monthly subscription fee to $14.95 a month. Instead, things are staying at $9.95.

The company rejects Silicon Valley’s aggressive, hype-driven way of doing business. But its slow and steady approach has frustrated some investors and employees.

When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France in May 2017, he set about exploiting the triple crisis of Brexit, Merkel trying to form coalition, and Donald Trump’s isolationism to recast France as a dynamic startup nation, open for innovation and business – a sales pitch best symbolised by the opening of Station F, Europe’s largest tech incubator. Still, the last 12 months have not been easy for Paris’s technology sector.

A new lab-grown meat startup called Meatable is taking on the industry's key hurdle by coming up with a way to make truly slaughter-free meat without relying on cow fetus blood, or "serum." The Dutch startup partnered with Cambridge and uses proprietary stem cell technology for faster production.

Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the co-founders of Brex, have raised $125 million at a $1.1 billion valuation just four months after the startup's public launch.

Arizona-based electric vehicle startup Atlis Motor Vehicles claims that it achieved “a full charge in 12 minutes, 35 seconds” of a prototype battery pack that it believes is scalable for its upcoming electric pickup truck. The company describes this as “the test of their first large-scale prototype pack used a public DC fast charge station,” but the prototype was only a 3 kWh pack.

Self awareness the biggest keys to my success. There are SO many people out there who are working jobs they hate because they haven’t found their passion. It’s why so many people struggle with working 18 hours a day. If you don’t love what you do, of course it’s going to be hard to put in work. It’s hard to spend time doing something you’re not excited about. One way you can do this is by asking the five people that you know best. You can split them into two categories: People who you deeply love, and people who you’re close with.

Turns out those rumours about Ford buying e-scooter startup Spin were true. The auto-maker has confirmed the purchase as it looks beyond car ownership to emerging modes of transport. Though it didn't disclose the financials

Hey Rob, It was good talking to you earlier today. I am looking forward to a mutually beneficial relationship going forward. I was wondering if you are able to meet for lunch next week so that we can go over some of the details to get this project off the ground. Let me know if …

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, let us take a moment to express what we are thankful for. For starters, I’m thankful that in the age of chat and instant messaging, email is still around.

There are those in the real-world Silicon Valley who think that HBO's "Silicon Valley," the network's long-running satire, is too critical of the tech industry. But in a new blog entry, no less than Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has a message for those people: lighten up. "I have friends in Silicon Valley who refuse to watch the show because they think it's just making fun of them," writes Gates.

Okay , let’s face it- You clicked on this article because creating a name for a new product is a daunting task! Creating a name that is catchy, so it is easily remembered, and that reflects the ethos of the product, is stressful.

Japan has long been hailed as one of the world’s most developed nations. But when it comes to innovation, things are less rosy. Why is it stifling its start-ups?

There are tons of gadgets to help golfers develop the perfect swing, but it’s hard to apply the same unobtrusive training tools to other sports. Evo One, though, is the counterpoint — it's a Kickstarter project that puts a tiny coach inside a basketball to help players improve their game.

So, you started an app for collaborative photo albums. You tried to tell us it was different because it was private, or centered around events or locations, or automatically identified friends’ faces.

Kevin O’ Connor, the founder of DoubleClick, which sold to Google for $3.1 billion, is putting that money to use. Since leaving DoubleClick, O’Connor founded a startup called FindTheBest. FindTheBest aims to help consumers discover and learn about the best electronics products out there.