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| Dave McClure / 500 Hats: |
Dave McClure apologizes for inappropriate advances towards multiple women, says Christine Tsai and 500 Startups senior management were unaware until recently — By now you may have heard I f**ked up, and people are calling me a creep. — While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person …
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| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
More female entrepreneurs describe sexual harassment by investors on the record; Dave McClure is no longer running 500 Startups after an internal investigation — Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush. — One female entrepreneur recounted …
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| Christine Tsai / 500 Startups: |
Christine Tsai says she is now CEO of 500 Startups after Dave McClure was found to have behaved inappropriately with women — “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — This is the advice I give to people whenever they ask for it. It's aspirational, which means it is a lot easier said than done.
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| HBR.org: |
Study: TechCrunch Disrupt videos show VCs focus more on potential gains when interviewing male founders, more on losses in interviews with female entrepreneurs — There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% …
Tweets: @carnage4life, @wondermerchant, @adammgrant, and @wrowro
| Politico: |
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request made to all states is a gold mine for hackers, say infosec experts; 20+ states refuse, including Mississippi and Virginia — Cybersecurity specialists are warning that President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission may unintentionally expose voter data …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Alibaba will introduce an Amazon Echo-like device for Chinese consumers as soon as next week — Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba plans to introduce a digital personal assistant similar to Amazon.com's Echo device in coming days.
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| Brian Feldman / New York Magazine: |
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube — Earlier this month, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo, incorporating the internet-portal pioneer's slate of brands under a new umbrella corporation named, ominously, Oath.| Mo Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Block.one sets record with $185M ICO over a 5 day period for its EOS token, says its blockchain platform can process millions of transactions/second fee-free — Blockchain startup Block.one announced this morning that it has raised $185 million in just five days of selling its EOS cryptocurrency token.| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Inside Yelp's six-year campaign to get antitrust regulators to sanction Google for displaying info from its own properties above competitors in search results — Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive of Yelp, the local search and reviewing site, would like this article to be focused on his company's growth …
Tweets: @lutherlowe, @randfish, and @caseynewton
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nike-Amazon deal shows how even the major brands now must sell on Amazon, or risk losing the grip on pricing and distribution to third party resellers — Big brands want control of their image and marketing, which is hard to do through the giant online retailer.
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| Patrick Klepek / Waypoint: |
Palmer Luckey pledges $2,000 per month to a crowdfunding campaign for software that makes Oculus exclusives playable on HTC Vive — The co-founder, who left Facebook a few months after a political controversy, hasn't fully left VR behind. — Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey may not longer …
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| Jon Gambrell / Skift: |
US lifts laptop ban at Abu Dhabi International Airport, one of the 10 Middle East airports where DHS banned laptops in cabins of US-bound planes in March — It didn't hurt that there was already a U.S. Customs pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi Airport. This could be the first step …
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