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

Overwhelmed by your excessive library of mobile apps? WeChat can solve your first-world problems with its enormous bandwidth of services.

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:

Who knew canines were at the core of our hallucinations? Googles Deep Dream AI uses dogs as basis for neural image recognition via DreamScope web app

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:

Series A YoY growth stats

Series B YoY growth stats

July median startup fundraising round sizes show explosive growth