Published in Employbl·2 days agoTop Los Angeles Based Startups to Watch in 2022Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States. In addition to having one of the nation’s largest ports it’s a hub for entertainment, fashion, commerce and tech startups. This post highlights fifty one startups to watch in the LA tech scene. When I worked as a…Los Angeles3 min read
Published in Employbl·2 days ago51 New York City Startups to Watch in 2022These are fifty one startups HQ’d out of NYC that have raised tons of capital from top tier investors and were founded in the past five years. Most are backed by ‘top tier’ investors. While the world has shifted dramatically towards remote work since 2020, location still remains important. Cities…New York2 min read
Published in Employbl·May 4Startups that raised investment capital in April 2022Fifty six non-public tech companies raised investment capital in April 2022. This post provides a list and CSV file of all the companies that raised money from investors and Venture Capital firms. Epic Games topped the list with $2 billion dollars of capital to play with. In this monthly report…Startup Finance2 min read
Published in Employbl·May 3Top San Francisco Startups to Watch in 2022This post outlines 112 top startups with headquarters in San Francisco. We selected them based on market opportunity, amount of funding, team and notable investors 🕺🏼 🚀 🎸 🦄 Come and get your rainbows, rockets and unicorns. We got the 2022 startups report up in here. Welcome to a completely…San Francisco28 min read
Published in Employbl·Apr 3381 Silicon Valley Tech Companies that have raised money in the past yearThis article lists out all the funding rounds for companies that are headquartered in Silicon Valley. These companies raised over $26 billion in the past twelve months. Previously I’ve listed out early stage Silicon Valley companies and shared a map of Silicon Valley. In this post we list out all…Silicon Valley2 min read
Mar 24Get started web scraping with Scrapy and PythonFirst up install Pip — Pip is a package manager for Python. There are a couple strange gotchas, the first is a highly active stackoverflow question that the install script for pip on Mac doesn’t quite work, instead you need to run: $ python -m ensurepip --upgrade --user With that you should have the “pip3”…Python1 min read
Oct 10, 202110 less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day2.7K27The Useful TechI'd like to add Paste App.I'd like to add Paste App. It's changed my life. Save your copy and paste history: https://pasteapp.io/1 min readI'd like to add Paste App. It's changed my life. Save your copy and paste history: https://pasteapp.io/----
Aug 1, 2021The American Rental Car CartelThree giant conglomerates have rolled up the American rental car industry, resulting in low wages, less opportunity, higher prices and worse service. — Renting a car takes forever. Last week we rented a car, there was a huge line, then we got transferred to another line. By the time we got to the front desk the agency was out of car seats even though we’d specifically reserved them online with our booking. The…Car Rental4 min read
Jul 30, 2021What Countries have the Least Athletes Per Capita at the Tokyo Olympic Games?I was watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics last night. As each country walked in they showed the country’s total population and the number of Olympic athletes they had representing their country. This got me thinking, which countries are the least represented in terms of total population? Bangladesh definitely…Olympics2 min read
Published in Employbl·Jun 29, 2021Startups in Oakland — Public Web DataThis post contains a comprehensive list of startups and software companies in Oakland, CA + my favorite picks of private startups well positioned to succeed 🚀 Oakland’s great. If you’re reading this article you’re probably already interested in the tech scene in Oakland, CA. Maybe you’ve founded your own startup…Startup7 min read