Lyft Inc., a service for connecting drivers to ride-seekers via smartphone software, has raised $60 million from venture firms led by Andreessen Horowitz LLC as it seeks to almost double its staff and take on rivals. Lyft, which competes with Side.Cr LLC and...
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Lyft, which offers ride sharing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago, helps arrange more than 30,000 rides per week.
Andreessen Backs Lyft Ride Sharing With $60M Investment
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An example of Tableau's chart-making ability, a Web Traffic Trends Dashboard.
Chart This: NEA’s Investment Return on Tableau — 3,000%
For New Enterprise Associates, its investment return on Tableau Software was — fittingly — off the charts. NEA’s $29.2 million stake in the digital chart provider, which made its stock market debut today, was valued at more than $925 million...
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Draper University Gets Aspiring Entrepreneurs Out of the Classroom
Welcome to the Draper University of Heroes, a new school in San Mateo, California, where aspiring entrepreneurs get a taste of the madness involved in running a startup. We featured the program in this week’s issue of Bloomberg Businessweek and...
Read more »SoftBank Capital Raises $250M Fund to Help Startups Expand to Asia
SoftBank Capital, the venture firm that backed the Huffington Post, Buddy Media and OMGPOP, is raising a $250 million fund to help startups expand internationally. And by “internationally,” they mostly mean Asia. SoftBank Capital is the venture arm of Softbank...
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There are over a million home design photos to browse and save, to create your dream space.
Houzz Raises $35 Million to Connect Architects and Homeowners
Like so many entrepreneurs, Adi Tatarko and her husband, Alon Cohen, got into the startup game after they couldn’t find a solution to their problem. The Israeli couple wanted to renovate their newly-purchased Palo Alto home, but picking the right...
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Among crowdsourced Q&A sites, the winner may be whoever can answer the business question first.
Can a Q&A Site Be a Real Business? $14M Will Help ChaCha Find Out
ChaCha, a website where you can ask about anything and get answers from volunteers or the site’s database of 2 billion queries, doesn’t have a response yet to one big question: Is crowdsourced Q&A a standalone business? Enter that into...
Read more »Lynda.com Lands $103 Million in Biggest Education Financing
Over the past two years, as money poured into online education startups, Lynda Weinman sat back and operated her profitable bootstrapped company to little fanfare. With 2 million members signed up for Lynda.com’s tutorials on web design, photography and business...
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One of the most successful campaigns on Indiegogo aimed to raise money to buy back Nikola Tesla's old laboratory.
Crowd-Funding Site Indiegogo Is Going International
In many parts of the Eurozone, now is not the best time for an entrepreneur to go to the bank and expect to skip away with a loan. But a growing alternative for some Europeans could be crowd-funding websites, which...
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Founder Gabe Rivera said he would 'hate to see Techmeme wither or die inside a bigger company.'
No VC: Why Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera Resists Investors
This is the fifth in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. Gabe Rivera often hears from Silicon Valley’s elite, who are eager to invest in his startup Techmeme, the...
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Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu doesn't want to bring in venture capitalists who could ruin the fun of running the business, he said.
No VC: Zoho CEO ‘Couldn’t Care Less for Wall Street’
This is the fourth in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. At first, Sridhar Vembu couldn’t raise money for his enterprise software startup because he didn’t know how to...
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