| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.10.2013 | Twitter and social commerce: Facebook generates 10X shares, 20X traffic, 30X customers | In its run-up to IPO, Twitter has built ad tools for geotargeting and retargeting as well as ad products for the music industry and the TV industry. It’s built an Ads API for partners, and even bought an ad exchange to broaden access to its... |
| 25.10.2013 | Twitter and social commerce: Facebook generates 10X shares, 20X traffic, 30X customers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In its run-up to IPO, Twitter has built ad tools ... |
| 31.05.2013 | Connecting Offline Shopping With E-Commerce, Curebit Partners With Bonobos On New “Retail Referrals” Program | Curebit, an e-commerce startup that has built its business around optimizing and tracking word-of-mouth referrals for customers like Bonobos, Restaurant.com, Jawbone, True & Co., and others, is now stepping into the world of offline bri... |
| 11.03.2013 | How YC’s Curebit Has A “Sixth Sense” Into E-Commerce Startups That Are About To Blow Up | Bonobos. Dodocase. Warby Parker. A generation of e-commerce companies is growing up using a vertically integrated strategy where they take more ownership of the design, production, marketing and branding of their products. But how do you kn... |
| 06.09.2012 | Quora, DropBox, Others Made $30M in Job Offers To Engineers In First 2 Weeks Of DeveloperAuction | DeveloperAuction has built what they call the “first transparent marketplace for recruitment,” allowing engineers to put their talent up for auction from startups that need talent.
In the company’s first auction, which ended August 31st, 88... |
| 23.04.2012 | Want FounderDating In Your City? Now You Can “Unlock” It | FounderDating, which helps entrepreneurs with co-founders through online networking and offline events, announced a big geographic expansion earlier this year. But what if you don’t live in a traditionally startup-heavy city like San Franci... |
| 06.02.2012 | What The Curebit Saga Teaches Us About Copyright, Plagiarism And Reputation | The startup Curebit brought something of a firestorm down on its head recently. Here’s how VentureBeat broke the story: |
| 30.01.2012 | Curebit apologizes for theft, but leaves something out | Curebit co-founder Allan Grant has posted a public apology to 37signals for stealing its design and code.
Social-referral startup Curebit made the admittedly boneheaded mistake of ripping off design and assets from 37signals, one of the bes... |
| 28.01.2012 | Curebit Apologizes for Copying 37Signals: “Stupid, Lazy, and Disrespectful” | That’s awkward: Just as it was announcing a $1.2 million round of funding, online referral startup Curebit was caught lifting designs and code from 37Signals, the company behind popular collaboration tools Basecamp, Highrise, and others.
Th... |
| 28.01.2012 | Pass the popcorn: Y Combinator startup caught stealing from 37signals | Here’s some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37sig... |
| 27.01.2012 | YC Alum Curebit Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System | Y Combinator alum Curebit, an online customer referral platform that leverages social media for “word-of-mouth” advertising, has just raised $1.2 million in funding. The investors include 500 Startups, Karl Jacob, Auren Hoffman, Dharmesh Sh... |
| 26.01.2012 | Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching Site, Expands To NY, Boston, LA | Finding the right cofounder is often the hardest part of doing a startup, as most anyone with experience will tell you. As a personal example: the cofounder of my first company, Phil Kast, was an old high school buddy employed as a whitewat... |
| 17.10.2011 | Y Combinator Alum Curebit Wants To Optimize Your Referral System, Turn Your Customers Into Marketers | Word-of-mouth is the tried and true way to spread the word about your business, news, or product updates. For businesses, allowing your customers to tell their friends about how awesome your product or service is can be a great way to incre... |
| 22.03.2011 | 43 Promising Startups Present At Y Combinator's Biggest Demo Day Yet | Twice a year, Y Combinator holds special events called Demo Day, when its most recent batch of startups present to a packed room full of top investors. It’s the grand finale of the program, where entrepreneurs have a few minutes to show off... |
| 22.03.2011 | Y Combinator’s best startups ever? Here are my favorites | Was the most recent class of startups incubated by Y Combinator the best group ever? That’s what Garry Tan told me, and he should know — he was a YC alumnus through his simple blogging startup Posterous, and now he’s back at the famous incu... |
