Umbrella Raises $5M as the Tech World Awakens to the Needs of the Increasing Elderly Population
Between 2006 and 2030, the US population of adults aged 65+ is expected to double from 37M people to 71.5M ...
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25 NYC Startup Acquisitions in 2018 You Need to Know About
According to data from our friends at Crunchbase, there were 409 acquisitions of New York companies in 2018, up from 354 ...
The 15 Largest Global Startup Funding Rounds of May 2018
Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the 15 largest startup funding rounds globally during the month ...
FairFare is the Last Ride Sharing App You Will Ever Download
Lyft or Uber? You’ve asked yourself this question hundreds of times and you know how annoying it is to open ...
This NYC Startup Was Just Acquired by Uber for ~$200M
The Softbank-fueled buying spree continues for NYC companies... JUMP Bikes, the electronic bike sharing company that provides dockless bikes, has ...
7 New Business Ideas Whose Time Has Come and Gone
To an eager entrepreneur, it can seem like demand for certain products will never die. However, there are certain categories ...
5 Principles That Drive the New Market for Sharing
The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get ...
Uber Consolidates Its Power by Putting People Strategy First
If you want to know where the great tech companies are headed, don’t wait for the future. Look around you, ...
The Profitability Challenge
Founders note: We will do a story on any NYC Startup that completes this challenge this weekend and documents it on ...
What the Heck Happened to Creativity in Silicon Valley
Everyday I see the same things: The same startup names that take a perfectly normal word and change it by ...