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Benjamin Joffe is a partner at HAX.
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The dream of a startup founder can often be summarized by the following well-intentioned, and mostly delusional, quote:&We&ll raise a few rounds and in a few years we&ll IPO on

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Gusto, which sells payroll, benefits and human resources management and monitoring services to small businesses, has raised $140 million in its latest round of funding.

The company said it will use the money to add new services to increase payment flexibility for employees. The company launched a new service called Flexible Pay, which gives

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For developers, the process of determining whether every new update is going to botch some core functionality can take up a lot of time and resources, and things get far more complicated when you&re managing a multitude of apps.

Test.ai is building a comprehensive system for app testing that relies on bots, not human labor, to see whether an

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In September of 2013, Jason Citron hopped on to the Disrupt Startup Battlefield stage to pitch Fates Forever, a multiplayer online battle arena game for the iPad. Now, five years later, Citron is gearing up to join us once again on the Disrupt stage to discuss the stellar growth of Discord.

Though Fates Forever had all the components to be a great

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Poland-based CallPage offers something other customer interaction apps don&t: the ability to call your website visitors as soon as they click on your page. In a world where the difference between a sale and a click past your site onto Facebook, this is a pretty cool little feature.

CallPage began in 2015 when the founders, Ross Knap, Sergey

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Marc Piette had a revelation as he buzzed in and out of the Palo Alto Airport in pursuit of his pilotlicense. Instead of freedom, he saw restraint. He also saw potential.

&It became pretty apparent that there were major issues with the general aviation industry with smaller aircraft,& Piette said in a recent interview with

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