Disrupt SF 2013
September 7 - 11, 2013 | The Concourse at San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA
Disrupt SF 2013 Coverage
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GitHub Hits The 4M User Mark As It Looks Beyond Developers For Its Next Stage Of Growth
GitHub has made its name as an online repository for developers to post, borrow and collaborate on code together -- with active users now numbering 4 million -- but in the future it wants to take that model to new frontiers as a center for all kinds of online collaboration. "We want lawyers, people in the government, everyone to use GitHub," its co-founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner said today. Read More
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Vinod Khosla: 70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups
Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems who later went on to create Khosla Ventures, says that the vast majority of VCs aren’t in a position to offer decent advice to startups. In fact, most of them probably hurt startups, he argued. TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington prodded Khosla to single out VCs that were horrible on boards. “Who is the VC who is the most full… Read More
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Vinod Khosla: In The Next 10 Years, Data Science Will Do More For Medicine Than All Biological Sciences Combined
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington and Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla took the stage to discuss the areas Khosla is currently most interested in. Besides food tech, the one area that seems to get him the most excited is clearly medicine. In his believe, "in the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the… Read More
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Two Booms, Two Busts: How Bitcoin Is Following In The NASDAQ’s Footsteps
by Alex WilhelmYesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt we hosted a panel discussing Bitcoin (a recap can be found here). During the course of that discussion, I noticed something interesting: The former boom in the price of Bitcoin, and its ensuing refractory period, is quite similar to the NASDAQ's infamous boom in the late '90s. Read More
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Kleiner Perkins Has Invested In A Stealth Startup To Improve Battery Power By 300%, Says Moore’s Law Is Running Out Of Steam
Kleiner Perkins has invested in a startup that partner John Doerr says will improve battery power by 300% compared to the usual 1-2% improvements that we normally see in the industry. Read More
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We’re Not Afraid Of Google Glass, Says GoPro Founder Nicholas Woodman
It's hardware day here at Disrupt SF and this morning's sessions kicked off with an interview with Nicholas Woodman, founder and CEO of action camera company GoPro. Woodman discussed how the GoPro evolved from being a wrist-mounted prototype he came up with on a surfing trip to today's hugely successful clip-on-anywhere lens that can capture the action from a variety of perspectives. Read More
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In An Age Of Crowdfunding, GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman Says Bootstrapping Is Still “Really Powerful”
Here's a question that more than few consumer hardware startups are struggling with these days: should they try and raise money from a slew of wary investors or bring their projects to the public in hopes of a Pebble-style success? GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman sat with down with our own Matt Burns on the Disrupt SF 2013 stage to address that same question, and his message to would-be… Read More
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Watch The Live Stream For TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Here!
by Jordan CrookThe final day of Disrupt SF 2013 is about to begin. Just like yesterday and the day before, today we have a jam-packed schedule, with some of the biggest names in tech making appearances. Read More
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Juengo Loyalty Platform Rewards For Actions Not Purchases
by Jay DonovanGreek startup Juengo (pronounced Joo-en-go), has an interesting spin on loyalty and are live with their concept in Greece. The concept — which is on display at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 — rewards consumers for the actions they do instead of the items they purchase. Read More
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Nubo Thinks It Can Solve Enterprise Mobile Problems By Virtualizing Android
Israeli startup Nubo is one of the companies at Startup Alley showing off their product at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The company offers enterprises an answer to their mobile device deployment woes, and it's one that's different than most mobile device management solutions. MDM usually involves locking down local content and managing devices individually, which can be… Read More