I met with a couple of extremely impressive entrepreneurs recently, and I was so blown away by these guys, I wanted to share a bit of their wisdom (without disclosing any specifics about their stealth company).

By Richard Nieva In an age of “smart” everything – phone, TV, scale, watch, fridge – here’s an idea that’s refreshingly contrarian: build an app that’s not so smart. Not dumb. Just one that doesn’t try to be smart enough to do everything for a user. That’s the idea behind [...]

By Jon Soberg I recently had a Twitter conversation with a great friend about an article that really hit home for me. A recent Pew Research study concluded that more fathers feel they aren’t spending enough time with their kids than mothers (including working mothers), and I have to say [...]

By Michael Carney One year into its onslaught on Western Europe online women’s fast fashion retailer JustFab has acquired The Fab Shoes (no relation) to accelerate its pace. The move will add 500,000 subscribers in France and Spain to its existing 1.5 million in Germany and UK, bringing …read more [...]

By Nathaniel Mott It’s been 25 years since Cinderella (the glam metal band, not the Disney princess) crooned “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone / I don’t know what it is that I did so wrong.” I suspect that they were singing about heartbreak and not about app [...]

By Jon Soberg Giving up half of your company for a mere $250K seems an absurd proposition. Only offer on Shark Tank? Bad business school case study? I must have missed a zero or two, right? If that sounds bad, how about half of your company for $90K? Crazy? No. [...]

By Sarah Perez Q: Why does a to do list application need $3.5 million in funding? A: Because it’s becoming more than a simple to do app. Today, Any.DO one of the more popular to do list applications for web and mobile, announced a seed round of funding led by existing investor [...]

When we we last talked to augmented-reality startup Dekko back in September of last year, the company was building a platform on which it hoped to find developers to build a new generation of applications that blend computing with the real world. And while it still hopes to be that platform, which it’s calling [...]

Paidpiper launched at Disrupt NY today, aiming to make your physical wallet, and presence, less necessary — in a good way. At the beginning of my freshman fall at Stanford I was wandering around campus with a lanyard around my neck buying books, a bike, a mini fridge and more. Not [...]