Keith Rabois successfully took on the finance and recruiting industries as an early executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Square. A newly minted venture capitalist, Rabois’s next target is the similarly entrenched world of health care. After an alleged improper relationship,...
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Keith Rabois during TechCrunch Disrupt New York May 2011 in New York City.
Former Square COO Rabois Targets Health Care in First Venture Bet
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Barry Diller's Aereo is perceived as a challenger to cable companies, but it may end up helping their bottom line.
Aereo’s Web TV Service May Be Cable Companies’ Ace in the Hole
If you’re thinking about canceling cable in favor of something cheaper, Aereo is a pretty attractive alternative at $8 to $12 a month. The online service, which is currently available in New York, plans to expand to 22 other U.S....
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AT&T and Microsoft are joining forces in the hopes of reaching more business customers.
AT&T Phones a Friend in Microsoft to Target Businesses
Skype was once the great threat to AT&T’s conventional phone system, with the carrier even banning it for a time from some of its mobile phones. Now, AT&T is hoping to use Lync, a unit of Skype’s Internet calling services, as a...
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Matt Mickiewicz left 99designs to start DeveloperAuction, an online marketplace that matches engineers and employers.
How Donuts Gave Rise to Site Where Employers Can Bid on Engineers
As co-founder of web startup 99designs, Matt Mickiewicz relied on 30 recruiters to find engineering talent for his company in the hyper-competitive market of San Francisco. Results were so poor that when one finally got a prospect hired, the recruiter...
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At SXSW, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, reminisced about the difficulties of building a business.
The Missed Airbnb Investment, Now Worth $250 Million
Airbnb Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky still crashes on couches. The difference is that now, Chesky, the co-founder of the service that lets people rent out rooms and homes online, doesn’t have to. Before the 6-year-old company took off, Chesky...
Read more »What If Amazon Web Services Were a Standalone Business? It’d Be Big
Amazon.com’s little cloud-computing skunkworks project isn’t so little anymore. In fact, if you pull apart Amazon Web Services (AWS) from its e-commerce parent, the seven-year-old cloud division is worth more than two-thirds of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s...
Read more »YouSendIt Hires Finance Chief With IPO Track Record
Less than a year after becoming chief executive officer of YouSendIt, Brad Garlinghouse has brought big changes to the online storage business by focusing its resources more on corporate customers and less on free users. Now he’s hired a chief financial...
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A chicken soup dish with accoutrements is served at Naamyaa Cafe in London
Hungry for Photos: OpenTable Buying Foodspotting for $10 Million
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but photos of restaurant food are apparently worth $10 million. OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation company, is announcing today it’s paying that amount to buy Foodspotting, a smartphone application that lets people share...
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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...
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