Beauty Salons Are Still Too Sacred for the Tech World to Take Over
There’s one area of living that the tech giants can’t take from us and it’s our precious beauty salons.
Thinx Says That Former CEO Miki Agrawal Is No Longer Involved With the Company
The last we heard about Thinx’s Miki Agrawal, she had settled a sexual harassment complaint with a former employee. At the time Agrawal had already stepped down as the company’s CEO but claimed she was still the “She-e-o” of the company, whatever that meant. And now Thinx says that Agrawal currently has nothing to do…
Who's Going to Stick With ClassPass Now That There's No Unlimited Plan?
Look out for the rolling heads around you, bitter gym bunnies. ClassPass has announced that it will officially no longer offer unlimited subscription plans to its members.
Discredited Blood Testing Company Theranos Shuts Down Facilities, Fires 40 Percent of Its Staff
Blood testing startup Theranos announced Wednesday that it’s shutting down its blood testing facilities and laying off more than 40 percent of its staff, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move comes after reports that Theranos’ patenting blood-testing technology is, in fact, extremely inaccurate, and after the…
Tyra Banks, Certified Businesswoman, Will Host a Business Competition Show
Variety reports that Tyra Banks, former Top Model host and proud owner of one very exaggerated certificate from Harvard Business School, will star as a “mentor” to would-be entrepreneurs on Funded, NBC’s answer to Shark Tank. Hopefully this time nobody ends up addicted to meth or murdered in a triple-homicide!
Oversharing at Work
The only things I have done tonight are masturbate and scroll through Cardi B’s Instagram until my wrist hurt. I am wearing a promotional Sopranos T-shirt that reads, “I WANNA MADE MAN” [sic], but what I really want is to have a drink.
The Essential Heartlessness of the Sharing Economy Will Be Revealed Now or Later, Maybe Via Deaths at Airbnb
At Matter, Zak Stone has written an astonishingly sad, lucid and important story that sees all the way around the legitimately complicated issue of who should be held responsible for his father’s death at an unsafe Texas property rented on Airbnb. The first paragraph:
Famous Young Entrepreneur Also Allegedly Skilled at Domestic Violence
Gurbaksh Chahal, the 31-year-old self-described "die-hard entrepreneur" and chief executive of online advertising company RadiumOne, was deemed one of the youngest and wealthiest entrepreneurs in the world by Oprah Winfrey in 2010. He was also charged last night with 47 counts of domestic violence-related crimes.…
Breaking News: Silicon Valley Startups Discriminate Against Old People
Silicon Valley has a "dirty secret," according to Reuters: age bias. We don't know if we'd call it a secret, exactly — it's pretty common knowledge that startups like to hire wunderkinds who are fresh out of college (or didn't even make it to graduation) who have few responsibilities other than staying up all night,…
This Social Media Startup Accidentally Become an App for Pedophiles
Before Facebook decides whether to allow kids 13 and younger to officially have their own (monitored) Facebook accounts, they should consider what's happened with the social networking app Skout, which has been used by at least three adults across the country to find and allegedly sexually assault minors in the past…
Pick the Perfect Neighborhood without Pesky Ethnic Groups Getting in the Way!
Detroit-based startup Picket Report, "a new online research tool that helps homebuyers find their perfect neighborhood," is perfect for those whose idea of the "perfect neighborhood" means no scary poor people. Curbed got some screencaps of the website's "Struggling Societies" feature, which seems to have been…
Lady-Businesses Should Be All About Lady-Skills, Like Shopping
Are you a woman with an entrepreneurial bent? By all means, follow your dreams — but when you're drafting that business plan, stick to things you're naturally good at. Like shopping!
Women In Tech Panel Devolves Into Anger, Ambivalence
Reports are trickling out that a TechCrunch panel on women in tech degenerated into a "catfight" and onstage "bitching." So what actually happened?
Capital Gains: Women, Babies, And Getting Ahead In Business
Where are all the female entrepreneurs? Vivek Wadhwa and Stacey Higginbotham both wonder why women are less likely to be in the top ranks of the business world. Is it gender bias? Baby bias? Or an infuriating combination of both?
