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Dollar Shave Club Launches Razor Subscription Service, With Kleiner Funding
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There are few things in my life that seem less exciting than razors, but a new startup called The Dollar Shave Club wants to disrupt the market. And it has convinced some big names in the venture world, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, to back its...
Female-only VC firm Forerunner Ventures raises $40M fund
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Amid sweeping accusations that Silicon Valley venture capital firms have failed to attract female talent, one women-only firm has been quietly raising millions for its first institutionally-backed fund. If you haven’t heard of Forerunner Ventures, this firm has been making its mark in the fashion world. In its first year, Forerunner...
Threadflip Raises $6.5M From Chris Sacca, Andreessen And Others, Launches Mobile App
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Clothing swap in online form Threadflip (a service which I’m a power user and fan of, fyi) has just closed its $6.5M Series-A round. The financing was set at around a $20-25 million post-money valuation according to a source. And it was led by Shasta Ventures with follow on from Lowercase...
Halo 4 review: Jumping head first without a Bungie (and loving it)
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Most Halo fans (myself included) were nervous when they found out another company was taking up the mantle of telling Master Chief’s story—a story many thought closed. But after 343 Industries' excellent handling of Halo: Anniversary, I was cautiously optimistic for Halo 4, and that optimism paid off with...
Dollar Shave Club’s blades are “so f*cking great” they just raised a round for ‘em
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Dollar Shave Club, another startup from L.A.-based incubator Science, begins with a simple premise: They send all the dandy shave-oholics out there who love the idea of a close shave but hate the idea of spending a horrendous amount each month on high-quality disposable razors. We know, we know...
E-Commerce Focused VC Forerunner Ventures Raises $40 Million For Its First Institutional Fund
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Warby Parker, Birchbox, HotelTonight, Threadflip, Dollar Shave Club. People who follow the booming e-commerce trend will certainly find those names familiar. But up until today, they may not have known one thread that ties them (and a handful of other similar companies all together: Forerunner Ventures. A San Francisco-based venture...
Threadflip launches with $1.6M investment, turns your closet into a boutique
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For many women, the closet can become a place for outfits they no longer wear, leaving little room for items they’d like to buy. Threadflip, a new social marketplace for clothing, is launching today to help address that dilemma, giving women a way to sell their fashion while finding new...
Big Money For Cheap Razors: Dollar Shave Club Raises $9.8M, Launches In Canada
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Dollar Shave Club, the startup offering a subscription razor service that costs as little as $1 per month (plus shipping), has raised $9.8 million in Series A funding led by Venrock. Co-founder and CEO Michael Durbin said the new funding will allows the company develop “the next iteration of Dollar...
Dollar Shave Club Carves Off Another $9.8M to Take Business International
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The Dollar Shave Club aims to disrupt the Gillette’s and Bic’s of the world by offering razors sent to your door for as low as $1 a month plus shipping. The razor blade model has come to mean something in business: Selling something at a loss in order to lock-in future...
Threadflip Eliminates the Crappy Parts of Selling Your Clothes Online
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Lady magazines preach it all the time: Most of us wear 20% of the clothing we own 80% of the time. The reason we hold on to the stuff we never wear? It’s too much of a pain to get rid of. Many donate old clothing to Goodwill (where...
Not Your Mother's eBay, Threadflip Launches Online Consignment Shop
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Threadflip is a new marketplace coming out of private beta today that is making it insanely easy to sell used clothes, shoes, jewelry and other accessories online. The secret to the San Francisco company is that it handles all of the hard work for you. For example, once an...
Dollar Shave Club raises $9.8 million for international expansion
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The company started with a simple premise — there’s no reason razor blades should cost so much — and managed to create a viral marketing video that catapulted their company into relative mainstream fame (or at least among people familiar with YouTube). But what started with a viral video is...
Mobile: Square Buys Design Shop to Infuse Itself with Apple DNA
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Image: Square Square has always felt like a design company with a product rather than a payments company veiled in a sheen of design. At the beginning, everything about the mobile payments service co-founded by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey flowed from its elegant credit-card reader, including the company’s name. A...
The Men In Our Office Are Freaking Out About This Startup That Offers Razor Blades For $1 A Month
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Finally! A startup that addresses the needs of men. Dollar Shave Club just launched and it has us dudes at SAI pretty excited. For $1 a month, Dollar Shave Club will send out five dual-blade razor cartridges. For $6 a month, you can get four four-blade razor cartridges. And...
Can Airtime Revitalize Facebook?
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It's hard to look at Airtime, the video-chat service founded by Napster bad boys Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, and not think of Chatroulette – a forerunner that was beloved by nude exhibitionists and therefore abandoned by nearly everybody else. Much of the discussion around the unveiling of Airtime today refers to Chatroulette. But Airtime reminds...
$9.8M richer, Dollar Shave Club may have survived the subscription commerce reckoning
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Like any business model trend, subscription commerce companies appeared to grow on trees for the better part of the last 18 months. Many have rightly called the model a fad (we preferred “smokescreen”). As consumer and investor appetite waned, a few winners have risen to the top, while the majority...
Investors spend $2M on Wanelo, a social store that looks a lot like Pinterest
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Shopping for the next e-commerce hit, investors have spent $2 million on budding startup Wanelo, an online shopping community where regular people share their uncommon finds. Wanelo, a blend of the words “want, need, love,” is itself a blend of trendy, product-inspiration and social shopping sites such as Pinterest,...
Subscription Commerce Startup For Beauty, BirchBox Expands To Home Goods And Entertaining
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Birchbox, which offers a monthly subscription box full of new cosmetics and beauty products, is expanding to a new vertical today-home and entertaining and design. The company is debuting a limited edition box as well as an online shop featuring specially curated home décor and entertaining products. For background, the...
Metro to launch new website, Android app and Kindle Fire edition
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Regional freesheet's 'mobile first' strategy will include major overhaul of Metro.co.ukRegional freesheet Metro is to launch a new multi-platform website, Android app and edition for Kindle Fire, as part of an aggressive "mobile first" strategy to move beyond its reliance on print distribution on the London Underground.Daily Mail & General...
Social Network For Fashion Photos Trendabl Raises $800K From Khosla Ventures
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Social network for fashion photos Trendabl has raised $835,000 from Khosla Ventures, Forerunner Ventures and other angels. Trendabl is aiming to be a Instagram-like platform for fashion photos. Users are able to take a photo and tag it with descriptive information such as the brand of the item and share...
Funding daily: Make a tiny, creepy doll in your likeness
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Funding news was buzzing today, so we have plenty of stories for you. If you want funding news throughout the day, check out deals channel feed by clicking the RSS logo above. Wanelo uncovers a new investment Shopping for the next e-commerce hit, investors have spent $2 million on budding...
The Discovery Economy: Why Sharing Your Identity Is A Good Thing
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One of the worries about near field communication-enabled tech is that private data could be remotely snooped and used for evil. But the truth is that we may be volunteering info by NFC soon enough. And in the process, we'll find things we never knew we wanted.At last month's Coachella...
Garmin announces lightweight Forerunner 10 GPS watch for $129.99
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Not everyone needs a smartwatch — sometimes you just need something on your wrist to keep track of your latest run. For those people, Garmin has just announced an affordable new option called the Forerunner 10. The company's latest GPS-enabled watch is, according to Garmin, its lightest one yet....
Halo 4 trailer video shows Forerunners, new tech
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At the Microsoft press briefing this morning, the Halo 4 video showed the audience new and expected features of the highly anticipated upcoming game. In the video, strange new lifeforms creep out of the jungle. While we know that the covenant are returning for this installment, these are new...
Wantful unwraps $5.5M for alternative gift-giving service
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A startup aiming to help people avoid giving bad gifts is itself the recipient of the one gift we all tend to appreciate: cash. Wantful, an alternative gift-giving service that gives gift recipients the power of choice, has raised $5.5 million in a funding round led by Polaris Venture...
Score Your Free Ticket To Social Commerce Summit
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Hundreds of innovators in social commerce will convene in New York City for the Social Commerce Summit on February 6. They'll dive into disruptive retail trends and how to leverage Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social platforms. Speakers include the CEOs of fast-growth startups like Rue La La, One Kings...
Review: Halo 4 will make you hail the new Chief
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It's rare that an entertainment franchise built under the vision of one entity thrives in the hands of another, but Halo 4 is proof that 343 Industries shares the passion and singular vision of Bungie while innovating on the Halo gameplay formula to set themselves apart. Just because this...
Amazon to bolster gaming on Kindle Fire with newly-launched GameCircle
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The Kindle Fire isn’t really known as a powerful gaming device. But Amazon.com is looking to change that perception with the launch of GameCircle, a new tool for developers that is designed to easily add features such as leaderboards, achievements and a new syncing function that allows game players to...
Nikon 1 J2 mirrorless compact camera official
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Nikon has introduced a new mirrorless model to its Nikon 1 range, the new J2. The model is $100 cheaper than the J1 forerunner and includes some upgrades, but retains its 10.1-megapixel CX-format CMOS sensor. From a purely price perspective, it is one of the most affordable compact mirrorless interchangeable...
Wanelo Raises $2M … But Is Distilling Pinterest To Products The Right Idea?
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From Fab to Netflix to Amazon, the eCommerce world is starting to warm up to the future of online shopping: Social curation. Call it the “Pinterest-effect,” people are embracing the idea that bookmarking and social sharing slowly are replacing search with regards to product discovery. And this is leaving many...
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