Longform is trendy, but publishers are still chasing fast clicks
In 2013, the media world became obsessed with longform.There was the Epic, the longform project of Medium, and Beacon, the investigative project by Former Facebook managing editor Daniel Fletcher. Vox...
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Just add photos: Why Jelly could actually work
Today the stealthy app from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone revealed itself: It's a Q&A app called Jelly.The reaction was "meh." The most obvious reaction was to name all the other services offering...
View ArticleFab Europe no more: The dramatic retreat is complete
Say what you want about Fab.com's disastrous 2013 -- and we and plenty of others have -- CEO Jason Goldberg is nothing if not ambitious. Last year the commerce company raised a whopping $150 million at...
View ArticleNomi continues build-out of in-store marketing tools
Of the current class of hot "omni-channel" startups, Nomi has managed to gather a lot of venturefunding and press attention. (It has also managed to gather an impressive roster of 70 clients.)Today,...
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InstaEDU beefs up to its virtual tutoring service with screensharing
Earlier this year, when Tutorspree, a Y Combinator graduate, announced it would shut down, it seemed like the entire premise of an online tutoring startup was just a bad business idea. I wrote at the...
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Markerly pivots to platform to match up bloggers with brands, adds $600K in...
Ware and the Markerly teamWhen Markerly graduated from 500 Startups in 2012, it was a content sharing platform. The company's goal was to help publishers grow web traffic form social media. But if...
View ArticleEcommerce in 1984: Innovation is never pretty at first
In its earliest versions, technology is never the slick, smooth-operating magic it aspires to be. That takes iteration. Sometimes the tools just aren't yet able to do what some visionary imagines they...
View ArticleContently raises $9 million Series B, trading acquisition talks for IPO plans
Of the 50 or so companies which graduated from TechStars New York over the past four years, Contently might be the biggest breakout hit. The company started out as a marketplace for freelance writers,...
View ArticleThis startup makes networking hard… but in the best way possible
For most busy professionals, a brunch with seven strangers is not high on the list of ways to spend their Saturday, let alone one that requires jumping through many hoops to do so. But now that I've...
View ArticleWe definitely don't want to keep ads. So why not make them disappear?
When Snapchat, which makes zero dollars in revenue, turned down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook, the Internet nearly imploded. No way Snapchat can pull this off. It'll choke on its own...
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