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Kajabi may not be an American household name, but users of the web hosting and video tech platform are now being seen in a lot of American households. The company, initially bootstrapped and profitable since its launch, raised a minority investment from Spectrum Equity Partners last November, but that was …

Photo: Twenty20 It’s a holiday tradition to make a list of all the goals you want to accomplish in the New Year: Lose weight. Mediate more. Eat more chia seeds. But it’s almost become a national pastime to diss our collective aspirations. Your sister snidely remarks, “You’re going to train …

Photo: Pond5 In today’s fast-paced world, we’re all looking for quick ways to take charge of our health. That’s probably why biohackers are willing to drink butter for breakfast in the name of superhuman energy and… fat loss? And why the Quantified Self movement — or the practice of studying …

Can mobile app startups please stop building SMS invite systems into their apps already? The latest example of a venture-backed startup getting dinged by customers for having spammed their entire address book without permission is Sequoia portfolio company Tribe. The video chat app hit the App Store last year, and had been …

JetSmarter has raised $105 million in Series C funding, at a $1.5 billion pre-money valuation, to build its marketplace for private jet services according to Sergey Petrossov, the startup’s founder and CEO. The massive funding round will be used primarily for global expansion of JetSmarter in Asia and Latin America, Petrossov …