Landing the first serious, big-name customer account is an elating milestone for any start-up. All of a sudden, the prospect of prominently featuring the name of BigCo on Start-Up’s little website (and its road show materials) is within reach. The CEO wants hourly negotiation updates. The deal is…
The Coming Hyper-verticalization of Labor Marketplaces Published in Craft Ventures · 10 min read · May 7, 2019 -- Many people have written about the slew of unicorns created over the past decade by sa
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Source: Salon Digital media company Salon Media Group is for sale, including intellectual property rights and the Salon.com website, according to a May 8 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange C
Laura Elizabeth Loomer enters a diner in Burbank with a designer bag slung over her shoulder, wearing glammed-up eyeshadow, her Fox News-blonde hair dyed Transylvanian-black like her eyebrows. She orders black coffee and crispy bacon. She looks she’s attending her own funeral. Coffee with Laura is a…
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Michael Avenatti was looking at his phone, scrolling through his Twitter mentions, when it all came crashing down. Not long before noon on March 25, he was walking toward an escalator in the newly ope
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Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012, accordi
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