Why is a vegan-food startup avoiding the term “vegan”?
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Mayonnaise, Disrupted
Is Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayo company just another over-promising, under-delivering startup?
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Two Ex-Googlers Want to Make A Lot of Viral Tweets
The internet is not pleased with start-up bros who want to “disrupt” bodegas.
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An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)
When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
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The Unsettled
In Ubud, Indonesia, Jessa Crispin looks at the impact of next-generation expats — Western tech workers and “digital nomads” in search of carefully curated, long-term authenticity.
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The “Facebook of Money” That Wasn’t
Tilt was once a start-up with extravagant soirées, hazy business plans, and a $375 million valuation. Then it came to the end.
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The Demise of Tilt
A brash, charismatic CEO. Big funding rounds. The inevitable beer-pong-on-the-office-roof-deck. How could the “Facebook of money” fail?
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‘Why Pay for Therapy When the Advice of Strangers Has Proven to Be Helpful and Free?’
Ben Popper takes a look at Koko, a startup with an app that helps people connect and provide emotional support to peers and, in the process, allows them to recognize and “rethink” their own problems.
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The Misguided Meal-in-a-Box Phenomenon
Andy Samberg and Colonel Sanders aren’t the only people to put memorable things in boxes. Corby Kummer wrote about his trials and issues with the booming meal kit delivery industry in The New Republic last October, weighing the benefits of convenience and culinary experimentation with the reality of waste: I won’t be marketing my services as an investment adviser, at least […]
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Will Technology Eventually Replace Marc Andreessen?
One challenge for Andreessen is whether venture itself has a skills problem. If software is truly eating the world, wouldn’t venture capital be on the menu? The AngelList platform now allows investors to fund startups online. Its co-founder Naval Ravikant said that “future companies will require more two-hundred-thousand-dollar checks and way fewer guys on Sand […]