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Valuing a startup is never an easy or clean process, but it’s necessary for determining almost every aspect of funding. Unlike common economics, reaching a pre-money valuation requires more than just simple math, but i...

GUEST: Every entrepreneur must choose whether to bootstrap a company or use venture capital to fuel it. I've traveled these two drastically different paths. I spent more than a decade building a bootstrapped, profitable ...

OPINION: Remember Tidal? Jay Z’s high-quality music streaming service? It hasn’t gone anywhere, per se, besides swan-diving out of App Store rankings and everyone’s collective consciousness. But it still exists, so...

Spammers have taken an odd turn in their unending quest to sell you fake Viagra. According to a post by TorrentFreak, Google is currently awash in “fake” Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices sent by spammers usin...

GUEST: The Internet of Things (IoT) is dramatically accelerating the pace of innovation in the transportation industry--especially the cars and trucks we drive every day. And when you apply the laws that have been drivin...

Here’s something you might have missed: the latest mind-controlled, robotic prosthetic arm can communicate the sensation of touch back to a user’s brain. You read that correctly. While the whole world was foaming at ...

FEATURE: Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger is figuring out how to make money in media again. To do it, he’s making Esquire’s bevy of articles and essays written by some of the most prominent writers of the last c...

GUEST: As the world recovers from yet another international stock-market roller-coaster -- an outright crash probably only prevented by safety algorithms installed after the Singapore flash crash of 2013 -- it might be h...

Periscope web profiles have finally arrived. In a blog post, the mobile livestream platform announced that every single user now has a dedicated desktop page. “We think it's really important for broadcasters to have a ...

GUEST: If you’re looking for growth in mobile games, India is the place. In 2008, Apple launched the App Store, changing the game market forever. While in hindsight it would have made perfect sense to immediately launc...

Tencent said on Friday that its popular messaging app WeChat — with over 600 million users — was hacked through a security flaw, but has since been patched. No user data or money held in Tenpay ewallets, which allow ...

Remember when it took just eight characters to crash Skype? Apparently it takes double that to take out Chrome: Typing in a 16-character link and hitting enter, clicking on a 16-character link, or even just putting your ...

Apple sat down with the California Department of Motor Vehicles this summer to talk about its autonomous vehicles using California’s roads. The Guardian obtained documents detailing the meeting’s content and particip...

A growing number of startups are thinking about how they can help publishers make money outside of advertising. These innovative young companies may not be able to sever the tie between publishers and advertisers, but th...