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VCs' Daughters Are the New Bankers' Daughters 27 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
While you were watching our national twerking nightmare unfold on your TV last night, venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar was backstage at the VMAs making his daughter's birthday dream come true. Re...
Wikileaks Reveals Reddit Co-Founder Tried to Work for Shady Intel Firm 27 Aug 2013 | 02:22 am
Internal emails from Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor leaked by Wikileaks show that it is, at best, a sleazy operation, offering corporate and government clients dubious information and ...
Bubble Watch: Ridiculous Stock Values Edition 27 Aug 2013 | 01:36 am
The farther we get from the last economic collapse, the closer we get to the next economic collapse. But which bubble is next to pop? Student loans? Desert real estate ? Today, we turn our untrained ...
Buzzfeed Censors Kanye West News on Twitter 27 Aug 2013 | 12:25 am
Buzzfeed, a business premised on the free sharing of news and information via social media networks, instructed its one billion employees not to tweet about an office visit from noted startup advisor ...
Startup Founder Mocks Airport Employee For Having Shitty Non-Tech Job 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
Years ago, Jason Kester made a TechCrunch-approved company called Twiddla. It lets you draw virtual pictures on websites with other people, which maybe you want to do, who knows. Today, globetrotting ...
How Much Is That VC in the Window? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:25 pm
really? estimated value of a lunch with a VC is $4K? http://t.co/PK5z3g0ci5 — Shai Goldman (@shaig) August 26, 2013 Read more...
Bustle's CEO is Even More of a Self-Serving Misogynist Than You Feared 26 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
When Bryan Goldberg interviewed himself on PandoDaily about the $6.5 million he received to launch Bustle, a website for women that "puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips," Bryan Goldber...
Daily Mail Duped By Fake Article About Google Selling Driverless Cars 26 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
According to this article in the Daily Mail, urban alterna-taxi service and annoying fashion-shoot-looking-website Uber will be purchasing 2500 of Google's new self-driving cars, the GX3200. This data...
VC Says His School Creates Startup "Heroes" Equal to Firefighters 26 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
Tim Draper, by any cursory Wikipedia skim, is a successful man. He's reaped enough through his venture capital endeavors to create his own zany vanity "school," where wannabe Zuckerbergs and Brit Mori...
TechCrunch Now Writing Imaginary Press Releases 26 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
The team at AOL's intrepid startup newsroom never shies away from thinly rewritten press releases—don't mess with a good formula. But today, TechCrunch reaches new heights/depths in the art: the press...
