When I think about my experience as an immigrant and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, I remember growing up in Brazil and how we saw tech founders and CEOs as kings. We imagined what it would be like to assume the throne. But these weren’t just any kings. Silicon Valley was …
Read More »Atlassian launches the new Jira Software Cloud
Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it’s available to all Jira users. To build the new Jira, Atlassian redesigned both the back-end stack and rethought the user experience from the ground up. That’s not an easy change, given how …
Read More »Essential Has Laid Off 30 Percent of Its Staff
Andy Rubin is known to most of the world as the founder of Android, which Google acquired and turned into the most popular computing platform on the planet. After leaving Google, Rubin founded Essential to make Android phones and smart home devices. However, the Essential Phone didn’t make much of …
Read More »Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy. Here, the examples of the 19th and 20th century inventors Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla are instructive. Even as aspiring entrepreneurs and inventors lionize Edison for his myriad inventions and business acumen, they conveniently fail …
Read More »PlayStation 4 supposedly crashing due to harmful message
Numerous PS4 owners on Reddit and across social media are caution of a message including a string of characters that can supposedly cause Sony’s console to take up and crash. Sometimes, the console gets so confused from this problem that users are performing a factory reset on the hardware to …
Read More »Tesla apply for ‘Teslaquila’ hallmark for tequila, Elon Musk states ‘coming soon’
What relatively started as a joke appears to become truth as Tesla declared a ‘Teslaquila’ trademark for tequila and Elon Musk states that it is ‘coming soon’. Earlier this year, Musk satirized Tesla haters with an April Fool’s joke about the company declaring bankruptcy. As part of the joke, Musk …
Read More »Brazilian startup Yellow raises $63M — the largest Series A ever for a Latin American startup
After selling their ridesharing startup, 99, to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion last year, Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas didn’t waste any time throwing their hats back in the ring. Months after their big exit, the pair joined forces with Eduardo Musa, who spent two decades in the bicycle industry, to start …
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Read More »Chargify launches a new payment management tool for subscription services
Chargify, the payment management service owned by Scaleworks, has launched a new tool for billing management. The new product is designed to remove limitations and allow payers to assign or reassign payment responsibility for subscriptions or groups of subscriptions, according to the company. Called WhoPays, the new service is pitched …
Read More »Shopify opens its first brick-and-mortar space in Los Angeles
Shopify, the provider of payment and logistics management software and services for retailers, has opened its first physical storefront in Los Angeles. The first brick and mortar location for the Toronto-based company, is nestled in a warren of downtown Los Angeles boutique shops in a complex known as the Row …
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