LendingClub, the peer-to-peer Internet lender, has landed another Morgan Stanley heavyweight as part of its push to go from niche to mainstream. The company said today that Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley technology analyst turned venture capitalist, is...
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Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in October 2011.
LendingClub Brings Another Morgan Stanley Bigwig on Board
Leap, Hardware Startups Channel Steve Jobs to Lure Investors
Leap Motion was able to entice venture capitalists to invest $14.6 million in its motion-sensor device for controlling computers using just a wave of some fingers. The company was luckier than most. Entrepreneurs aspiring to build technology products that customers can...
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Dave Morin of Path spoke during the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York last year.
E-Mail From Path’s Dave Morin? You’ve Got Money
Last year, Dom Leca received an unexpected message. The French software developer was contacted by an investor from San Francisco who was eager to share his cash and ideas to improve Leca’s e-mail application, Sparrow. “I didn’t know Dave at...
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Jintronix is a startup that sees Kinect as a way to help rehabilitate patients who have suffered strokes or spinal cord injuries.
Startups Try to Help Microsoft’s Kinect Grow Up Beyond Gaming
Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor lets gamers wield a light saber or slice falling fruit ninja-style, but Jintronix sees a more serious use — rehabilitating patients who have suffered a stroke or spinal cord injury. Jintronix is among 11 startups housed...
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Charlie Cheever is co-founder of Quora, which just raised a $50 million round of financing.
Quora Taps Thiel and Facebook Connections to Raise $50 Million
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, was the lead investor in a $50 million round of financing for Quora, said Charlie Cheever, the company’s co-founder. Thiel, an early investor in Facebook and Zynga, was joined by Benchmark...
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Brad Garlinghouse has been named the new chief executive of file-sharing service YouSendIt.
Brad Garlinghouse Joins Online Storage Wars as CEO of YouSendIt
While deciding on his next career move, Brad Garlinghouse asked for advice from Sheryl Sandberg, who left Google to become chief operating officer of Facebook. “She said, ‘Go with growth,’” recalled Garlinghouse, 41, who used to run AOL’s West Coast...
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The Alchemist Accelerator program will focus on providing enterprise startups strong mentorship.
Stanford Instructor to Launch Accelerator for Enterprise Startups
Amid all the entrepreneurs striving to make the next Facebook, a new accelerator program is launching to help startups become the next Box or Yammer. Starting in July, the venture capital-backed Alchemist Accelerator program will help 12 teams whose mission...
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A mail clerk at the Patent Office processes applications.
Should Startups File for Patents?
Add one more thing to the tech entrepreneur’s to-do list: file patents. Startups on small budgets have often viewed patents as an unnecessary expense because each one can cost around $15,000. But as Apple, Facebook, Google and other tech companies...
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Bill Clerico, seen here in July 2011, is CEO of WePay, which just raised $10 million.
PayPal Rival WePay Raises $10M
Back in his days at Boston College, Bill Clerico knew how to stand out in a crowd. He did it by donning a costume of the school’s mascot, an eagle. Now as co-founder and CEO of WePay, one of many...
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Twitter executives talked with Tap Tap Tap, maker of the mobile photo app Camera+, about a possible acquisition.
Twitter Said to Have Considered Buying Mobile Photo App Camera+
Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said. Twitter executives held several meetings with Camera+ developer Tap Tap...
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