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An Australian startup is "growing" water for drought-parched California
Water is California's most precious commodity these days, as the state endures a drought that scientists are calling the worst in 1,200 years. State officials say more than 1,200 wells have run dry this year, a nearly 50% increase over the same period last year. California's water crisis is most severe in the San Joaquin Valley, the country's most productive agricultural region. This year's snowmelt and rain have not been enough to replenish already-depleted groundwater supplies.
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The Underserved Market of Menopause
The history, market opportunity and investment outlook for the traditionally taboo space of menopause.
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Startup Valuations Entrepreneurs Should Be Aware Of
Startup valuations can be a tricky business. Just take a look at Flow, a real estate company that's still in its early stages. Despite not even being built yet, it was valued by investors at over $1B - and the founder, Adam Neumann, is far from an upstanding citizen.
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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs
You’ve heard of side hustles. Now, we’ve got side startups.
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Meet the First Indigenous Woman to Close a Series A. Her Startup Is Worth $40 Million
Bobbie Racette was once the hesitant face of Virtual Gurus, the Canadian tech company she started, but she has since embraced her identity.
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The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups
Companies that promise groceries delivered in 15 minutes surged during the pandemic—but are now in retreat.
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Startups raise millions for lunar rovers and asteroid mining
Two startups recently raised a combined $25 million in seed rounds to advance plans for lunar and asteroid missions, showing continued interest in space startups despite broader market uncertainty. Lunar Outpost announced May 24 it raised a $12 million seed round from several investors. Explorer 1 Fund led the round with participation from Promus Ventures, Space Capital, Type 1 Ventures and Cathexis Ventures.
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Startup offers $800-a-month bunk bed 'pods' in Bay Area home
For $800 a month you could live in a tiny bunk bed-style pod with 13 other roommates in the Bay Area. Eight-month-old startup Brownstone Shared Housing has come under the spotlight this week after an Insider profile on the company revealed what it looks like inside the Palo Alto home with 14 tenants each living in a "pod."
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How Anne Hathaway’s Bold Performance Saved ‘WeCrashed’: Column
Television, this spring, has been full of stories of real-life people struggling against the petty matters of their respective realities and reinventing themselves as heroic figures. On “The Dropout,” Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) pushed past the limits of science to declare herself a genius, no matter how unrealistic her putative accomplishments; on “Inventing Anna,” Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) made herself into a wealthy woman of leisure, despite having neither wealth nor, in her endless gyrating calculations, leisure time.
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The US military is partnering with a startup to build 3D-printed barracks in Texas
The US Department of Defense and Icon will print the three 5,700 square-foot training barracks over the next 10 months in Texas, which will become the largest 3D-printed structures in North America.
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Fast's collapse won't be unique
Around 450 people lost their jobs, and investors like Stripe, Addition and Index Ventures lost around $120 million.
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Another startup joins race to provide high-speed lunar communications
Aquarian Space said March 17 it has raised seed funding to deploy a high-speed communications network for the moon to meet anticipated demand from government and commercial lunar missions. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Associates, an early SpaceX investor, has injected $650,000 in Aquarian Space to support plans to deploy its first lunar satellite in the first quarter of 2024.
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WeCrashed Review: Anne Hathaway Steals The Show In A Sleek, Seductive Tale Of A Startup Gone Wrong
The writing is already on the wall for WeWork, the wildly profitable (but exorbitantly expensive) brainchild of co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann (Jared Leto, once again affecting an outsized accent), when "WeCrashed" throws viewers headfirst into the plot with its very first scene. Based on the Wondery podcast "WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork," the Apple TV+ series from creators Lee Eisenberg ("The Office," "Good Boys," "Little America") and Drew Crevello documents the whirlwind years leading up to the make-or-break moment when the co-working space company is set to go public ... or not.
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'Don't be Google': The rise of privacy focused startups
Google once used the slogan "don't be evil" to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are rallying to the mantra "don't be Google". They are taking on Google Analytics, a product used by more than half of the world's websites to understand people's browsing habits.
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70% Of Startups Offer Remote Work Options As Hiring Heats Up, Y Combinator Data Shows
Startup hiring during the pandemic boomed, as did the expansion of remote roles. That’s according to Y Combinator, the influential startup accelerator, which quietly launched its Work at a Startup platform back in 2018 to help companies hire the right people.
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Tech Startup Reveals Fully Autonomous Delivery Robot at CES: Meet the Ottobot
The world's biggest tech show is back. Today, January 5th, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opened its gates to all sorts of innovative and crazy machines. On-site made its apparition a fleet of autonomous robots as well. Called the Ottobots, these small robots are designed to deliver goods both indoors and outdoors.
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Remembering the startups we lost in 2021
When we penned the intro for this piece last year, little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. Amid another holiday season marred by a new variant, seemingly the more things change — well, you get the picture.
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Search engines try to rival Google by offering fewer ads, more privacy
The name Google has become so synonymous with online search that it's become a verb. Want to find out something? Google it. But a new crop of search engines is taking a stab at the online search market, promising to provide an engine with more customizable options, fewer ads and more consideration for users' privacy.
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TikTok is launching delivery-only restaurants across the US in March
TikTok is preparing to launch a new service that will turn its viral food videos into meals you can actually order and enjoy. The social app is partnering with Virtual Dining Concepts and Grubhub to launch “TikTok Kitchen”-branded delivery-only restaurants across the United States
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Alex Lieberman: Building A $75 Million Digital Media Empire - Hakune
Alex Lieberman unpacks how he built morning brew to a 75 million dollar digital media empire
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