For the Savvy Consumer:
Who knew you could raise nearly $100M to revolutionize socks?
Amazon takes on Etsy and The Grommet with Launchpad–a startup-oriented marketplace
Birchboxs ingenious strategy to drive male audience to its core beauty product line
Guides and Lists:
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Want to conquer SEO to drive traffic? Learn from the guys at UglyChristmasSweaters.com
Op-ed:
Fascinating comparison of American vs. Scandinavian financial conditions for Millennials
What does being a tech company actually mean? The benefits of such labeling are manifold.
Is there a common thread behind todays great companies?
Venture and Tech News:
Y Combinator expands its reach with the YC Fellow Program
Third-party tech company proposes virtual touch ID in later gen iPhone
The Bizarre and Enthralling:
Awesome trip down memory lane for Spotify in 35 slides
Hackers continue to stunt our technological advances…for fun?
Human gut microbiome research–a euphemism for going #2–is all the rage these days
Venture funding stats compliments of Mattermark:
July median startup fundraising round sizes show explosive growth