Aileen Lee is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. She partners at the earliest stages with enterprise and consumer-oriented startup teams to build products customers love, and to help teams […]
Fancy founder returns with $1000-per-month luxury shopping startup, Long Story Short
A new luxury goods e-commerce startup dubbed Long Story Short has a provocative concept: it’s $1,000 per month to join for the privilege of shopping its curated collection. […]
Amazon Fire HD 10 (2023 release) review: A budget-friendly tablet made for streaming
Lacking in app or browser options, the Amazon Fire HD 10 shines for streaming and gaming. It’s a great, affordable entertainment tablet.
Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down
Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind […]
Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI
Pimento is a new French startup that is using generative AI in an interesting way as the company focuses on the first step of creative processes — ideation, […]
Pinterest begins testing a ‘body type ranges’ tool to make searches more inclusive
Pinterest is today expanding on its efforts to make its product more inclusive with respect to body type diversity with the test of a new consumer-facing tool that […]
Lapse, the photo app that forced users to invite friends, is running out of steam
Lapse, a photo-sharing app that growth hacked its way to the top of the App Store earlier this year, is starting to lose steam. The app, which had […]
What does a Harry Potter fanfic have to do with OpenAI?
Have you ever puked and had diarrhea at the same time? I have, and when it happened, I was listening to a fan-made audiobook version of Harry Potter […]
With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again
In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting on that article, I’m not sure that 2018 […]
Six outdoor gear gift ideas for the adventurer in your life
At the risk of overcomplicating one of the last bastions of low-tech, totally offline recreation, there are a few things you can take into the outdoors that add […]