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- Bill Gates on Saving Babies, Educating Kids, and Picking a Major https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/04/27/bill-gates-on-saving-babies-educating-kids-and-picking-a-major/ 7 comments
- California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2013/01/15/california-to-hit-startup-founders-with-big-retroactive-tax-bills/ 303 comments
- Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/11/28/broken-iphone-call-icracked-the-aspiring-aaa-of-smartphones/ 36 comments
- Picplum (YC S11) aims to make photo printing effortless http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/08/16/point-shoot-print-picplum-aims-to-make-photo-printing-effortless/ 11 comments
- Bill Gates tells students being a billionaire is "quite strange" http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/10/27/bill-gates-uw/ 24 comments
- Technology Is Taking Jobs Away, But Here’s How It Might Give Them Back http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/05/27/yes-technology-is-taking-jobs-away-but-heres-how-it-might-give-them-back/ 26 comments
- Optimizely (YC W10) brings data-driven Web design to the masses http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/05/17/hunting-hippos-optimizelys-testing-tools-bring-data-driven-web-design-to-the-masses/ 9 comments
- Lanyrd (YC W11): It's Twitter meets LinkedIn meets IMDB for conferences http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/05/12/lanyrd-twitter-meets-linkedin-meets-imdb-for-the-conference-circuit/ 19 comments
- The news embargo is dead. TechCrunch killed it. Let's move on. http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/05/06/the-news-embargo-is-dead-techcrunch-killed-it-lets-move-on/ 9 comments
- Four Kinds of Startups http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/04/19/four-kinds-of-startups/ 2 comments
- Steve Blank assesses the startup culture in Ann Arbor, MI http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2011/04/07/one-hand-clapping-entrepreneurship-in-ann-arbor/ 11 comments
- Investors Bet Big on Box.net with $48M Round http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/24/investors-bet-big-on-box-net-with-48m-round/?single_page=true 14 comments
- World's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer, from Crocodoc (YC W10) http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/16/crocodoc-rolls-out-embeddable-html5-document-viewer-yc-startup-wants-to-be-the-new-adobe-of-the-web-sans-flash/ 33 comments
- How oDesk became the leading outsourcing platform for developers http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/15/odesk-charts-the-future-of-distributed-work/ 3 comments
- Exits for Two More Y Combinator Startups, Movity and Etacts http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/12/22/exits-for-two-more-y-combinator-startups-movity-and-etacts/ 12 comments
- CarWoo (YC S09) promises car buyers hassle-free quotes, raises $4.2M http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/10/13/carwoo-promises-car-buyers-hassle-free-quotes-online-raises-4-2-million/ 81 comments
- The Fridge (YCS10): Private Mini-Facebooks that Put Social Networking in Context http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/09/15/the-fridge-private-mini-facebooks-that-put-social-networking-in-context/ 10 comments
- AdGrok (YC S10) is out to replace the 'craptacular' Google AdWords interface http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/26/adgroks-grandiose-proposition-replacing-the-craptacular-google-adwords-interface/?single_page=true 22 comments
- The story of Rapportive (YC S10) - 'social CRM' plugin that replaces Gmail ads http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/23/rapportives-social-crm-gmail-plugin-makes-e-mail-social-again/ 76 comments
- Hipmunk (YC S10) Embarks on Mission to Make Travel Search Easier http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/18/hipmunk-conceived-by-david-pogues-teenage-co-author-embarks-on-mission-to-make-travel-search-easier/ 4 comments
- InDinero (YC S10) sees huge market for small-business expense tracking http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/08/11/indinero-founder-sees-humungous-market-in-small-business-expense-tracking/ 10 comments
- How LearnBoost listened to teachers, built new Web-based gradebook http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/07/28/learnboost-bets-on-better-tools-for-teachers/ 7 comments
- Greylock’s Henry McCance On Why Firm Moved to CA and How Boston Needs Its Google http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/07/26/greylock%E2%80%99s-henry-mccance-on-why-the-firm-moved-its-hq-to-silicon-valley-and-how-boston-must-find-its-google/ 4 comments
- WePay (YC S09): Innovating Where Banks Won’t http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2010/07/08/innovating-where-banks-wont-talking-with-rich-aberman-about-wepays-vision-for-group-payments/ 49 comments
- Why the drug-discovery model is broken http://www.xconomy.com/national/2010/06/24/fixing-the-broken-model-look-inside-your-company/ 4 comments
- Color e-book devices coming from E Ink in 2011 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/03/15/new-e-ink-leader-sees-colorful-future-for-company-under-taiwans-prime-view-international/ 5 comments
- Revolutionary Angels' new business plan competition: $250K prize, $5K entry fee http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/05/revolutionary-angels-launches-pay-to-play-business-plan-competition/ 23 comments
- Nine new startups from TechStars -- from golf to Twitter to baby monitors http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/11/techstars-first-class-of-boston-startups-launched-at-microsoft-hosted-gala/ 4 comments
- Why the Kindle 2 is the real Goldilocks of e-book devices http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/05/08/why-kindle-2-is-the-goldilocks-of-e-book-readers/ 2 comments
- How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/12/03/how-to-spot-a-breakthrough-tips-from-early-amazon-investor-nick-hanauer/ 28 comments
- Boston Best Place in World for Interdisciplinary Research, Says Microsoft Lab Director http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/09/23/the-best-place-in-the-world-for-interdisciplinary-research-a-talk-with-microsofts-jennifer-chayes/ 2 comments
- Oh no... I hope you’re all out of CRSP. 96% of test subjects had natural immunity to CRISPR gene editing in latest studies, confirming the preliminary conclusions from January that sent the stock down. https://www.xconomy.com/boston/2018/10/29/pre-existing-immunity-to-crispr-found-in-96-of-people-in-study/ 146 comments wallstreetbets
- The Fda is becoming more open to new ways of testing drugs http://www.xconomy.com/national/2017/05/30/woodcock-new-approvals-show-fda-is-adapting-to-precision-medicine/ 4 comments science
- Here's What Convinced Me to Order a $2000 Glowforge Laser Cutter http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2015/09/24/heres-what-convinced-me-to-order-a-2000-glowforge-laser-cutter/ 4 comments technology
- "In 1983, the top 20 percent of U.S. families held 81.3 percent of household wealth, according to an Economic Policy Institute briefing paper. By 2009, they held 87.2 percent." http://www.xconomy.com/national/2014/03/21/the-missing-middle-class-jobs-in-the-second-machine-age/ 33 comments politics
- Don’t Panic, But We’ve Passed Peak Apple. And Google. And Facebook. http://www.xconomy.com/national/2013/06/14/dont-panic-but-weve-passed-peak-apple-and-google-and-facebook/?single_page=true 7 comments technology
- We’ve Passed Peak Apple, Google, and Facebook -- "Apple will never again come out with a product as transformative as the iPhone. Google will never build anything more useful than its existing search engine...FB won’t ever be anything more than a place we share photos and links" http://www.xconomy.com/national/2013/06/14/dont-panic-but-weve-passed-peak-apple-and-google-and-facebook/ 9 comments technology
- "MIT researchers looked at 150 of the school's spin-out companies in manufacturing businesses over a decade, and found many of them hit the same chasm: Once it was time to ramp up to large-scale production, they couldn't find domestic investors and had to go overseas. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/02/28/mit-report-us-manufacturing-hits-a-wall-when-its-time-to-scale/ 53 comments business
- "MIT researchers looked at 150 of the school's spin-out companies in manufacturing businesses over a decade, and found many of them hit the same chasm: Once it was time to ramp up to large-scale production, they couldn't find domestic investors and had to go overseas. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2013/02/28/mit-report-us-manufacturing-hits-a-wall-when-its-time-to-scale/ 117 comments technology
- MIT spinoff startup Levant Power is trying to help drivers cut fuel consumption—by turning their shock absorbers into a source of energy. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2010/05/03/mit-spinoff-levant-power-on-track-to-produce-energy-boosting-shock-absorbers-for-cars-tanks-and-trains/ 3 comments technology