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How are there so many unicorns? Survey of 37 unicorns by Silicon Valley legal firm shows liquidation preferences protecting investors in 100% of funding deals — Here's One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common — They're called unicorns — young companies valued at $1 billion or more …
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Fenwick & West LLP, New York Times, PE Hub Blog and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @pmarca, @startupljackson, @ipaullee, @mikeisaac and @adamsinger
| Heidi Roizen: |
How to build a unicorn from scratch and walk away with nothing, or why deal terms matter more than valuations — How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch - and Walk Away with Nothing. — This is a grim fairy tale about a mythical company and its mythical founder.
Tweets: @stevesi, @pmarca and @benedictevans
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft's strategy for supporting apps developed for Android and iOS differs from similar plans by BlackBerry and IBM — Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work? — Running a competitor's apps has been done before. It hasn't worked.
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| Boris Wertz / Version One: |
“Uber for X” works well only when X is a frequently-used, time-sensitive, commoditized service — Why there won't be an Uber in every vertical — The success of Uber has inspired hundreds of startups to call themselves the “Uber of X, Y, or Z.”
Tweets: @jordanrcrook and @startupljackson
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast's Apple Watch app redesign shows why scaled-down iPhone apps don't work well on Watch — Redesigning Overcast's Apple Watch app — I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app's structure.
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The Next Web, Pixel Envy, Fortune, Apple Spotlight, MacStories and TechCrunch
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @stevesi, @stevecheney, @stevekovach, @lukew, @applespotlight, @marcoarment, @johnolilly, @gassee and @panzer
| David Scheltema / Make: |
Next Thing Co. unveils CHIP, a $9 Raspberry Pi competitor with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, running Debian Linux — Next Thing Co. Releases “World's First” $9 Computer — Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) — Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga says it's shutting down data centers it spent $100M to build, goes back to Amazon — For Zynga, a Journey From the Cloud to Home — and Back Again — In 2009, Zynga was a marquee customer for Amazon.com 's cloud-computing services. Two years later, it spent $100 million to build … | John McDuling / Quartz: |
Q&A with Google Ventures' Bill Maris on conflicts of interest, life sciences investments, international investments, and more — What it's like to run Google's $2 billion venture capital fund — When Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund …
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Numerous security holes found in Open Smart Grid networking protocol used by over 4M smart power meters — Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol — In the three years since its inception, the Open Smart Grid Protocol has found its way into more than four million smart meters and similar devices worldwide.| James Appell / Foreign Policy: |
Skolkovo, Russia's $4B tech incubator near Moscow, languishes as funding is cut and startups leave — The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia's Silicon Valley — In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
Tweets: @kasparov63, @eurasiagroup and @pmarca
| U.S. Department of Justice: |
Two Men Who Breached Photobucket.com Indicted and Arrested on Conspiracy and Fraud Related Charges — Two men have been arrested after breaching the computer services of Colorado based Photobucket, a company that operates an image and video hosting website, announced U.S. Attorney John Walsh …
| Rose Pastore / Fast Company: |
Side project of computer vision startup Dextro categorizes Periscope videos in real time — Dextro side project Stream is using its algorithms to categorize Periscope videos in real time — Does this video contain a cat? — Is the cat inside, or on the beach? — Is it night or day?
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PCWorld, Digital Trends, Wired, Fusion, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Next Web and Xconomy. Tweets: @kylebrussell
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