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Lyft hasn’t acquired a bike-sharing startup or gotten a scooter permit yet, but it’s already preparing its app for them with a feature codenamed “last mile”. Code and screenshots dug out of Lyft’s Android app reveal a way to search a map for last mile vehicles, and scan a QR code or enter a pin to unlock them.
These materials come to TechCrunch
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When we look around at some of the Silicon Valley superstars, it’s easy to wonder how they got here. Was it luck Brute force Wits Charm
At Disrupt SF, Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister is going to tell her story, and it might not be the narrative you’d expect. Not everyone in Silicon Valley goes to Stanford or Harvard, but sometimes it’s tha
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Meet Riskified, an Israel-based startup that has raised $64 million in total to fight online fraud. The company has built a service that helps you reject transactions from stolen credit cards and approve more transactions from legitimate clients.
If you live in the U.S., chances are you know someone who noticed a fraudulent charge for an expensive
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PAX Labs, makers of the popular PAX 3 and PAX Era vaporizers, have today updated their app to offer a new feature called Session Control.
The idea here is based around the fact that people can sometimes overindulge when using a vaporizer for the first time, as the effects of cannabis oil can take a minute or two to kick in, leading people to
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Write comment (92 Comments)When Redpoint’s partners handed hims CEO Andrew Dudum the term sheet for the company’s early financing round, one of the most surprising part of that whole process was that the investment partners had actually figured out the font that the company used — and printed out the term sheet with that font.
“I have no idea how they even found it,” Dudum s
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Paperless Post, the design-first invitations service, has today announced the launch of a new product called Flyer.
Flyer is meant to be a more lightweight invitation, for events like a BBQ or a casual birthday as opposed to a formal event.
The idea started when Paperless Post founder and CEO James Hirschfeld realized there were certain events in
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