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When Dolores Labs changed its name to CrowdFlower, it left behind a sprawling loft of an office, a hip logo, and a culture of innovation. A VC firm seized the opportunity. When Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures was considering investing in San Francisco-based crowdsourcing start-up Dolores Labs, he laid one significant stipulation on the company's CEO, Lukas Biewald
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Dr. Ann Hohenhaus, WebMD pet expert, describes useful tips if your pet breaks a bone
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Antidepressant medication sets stage for relapse by interfering with levels of key neurotransmitters, Canadian researchers say
Read More »Oakland Hills to host 2016 US Amateur
Oakland Hills Country Club will celebrate its centennial by hosting the U.S.
Read More »Facing The Issues At Different Financing Stages
Not all financings are created equal. This is especially true when you factor in the different stages that your company will evolve through over its lifetime
Read More »Counting calories? Don’t be too quick to trust restaurants’ tallies
Scientists find nearly 20 percent of food items have calorie counts 100 calories less than what label says
Read More »WePay Makes It Easy For "Casual Vendors" To Open Online Stores
"She doesn’t need customization," WePay co-founder Rich Aberman says of a Nebraska theater major. "She just wants to get up and running quickly." Let’s say you’re a 20 year-old college student, and you want a simple way to sell the crafts you make as a hobby to help fund a summer trip. Where do you go?
Read More »Funny Or Die Gives Earwolf New Life
From the twisted mind behind some of the funniest, weirdest, cringe-inducing comedy of the last decade comes a new podcast channel born for Funny or Die. At any given moment of the day, you can be in the front row of your own curated comedy club: Conan sidekick Andy Richter yukking it up with comedian-writer Paul F. Tompkins , for instance, or Patton Oswalt expressing deep disgust about well--does it matter?
Read More »Facebook Scores Poorly on Customer Satisfaction
The company is so ubiquitous it has no incentive to "delight" users. Wikipedia topped the social media sites for customer satisfaction.
Read More »Study: HIV risks rise with some birth control
Women found to be twice as likely to transmit HIV if on pill
Read More »How Insight Labs Gets Smart People To Brainstorm Solutions To The World’s Problems
A Chicago agency is finding that the best way to tackle a conundrum, no matter how big, is to put the best and brightest together to think it through.
Read More »Sell on Value, Not on Price
Don't want to compromise on price? Experts explain how to stay competitive based on the value of your product or service to consumers.
Read More »America’s best hospitals 2011: Where to go for 16 common conditions
What's the best hospital? That depends on what ails you
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