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By Adam Rifkin

 

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20 moonshot projects by Google turned Alphabet

August 2015: Google is owned by Alphabet.

Google Ventures: Not Every Product Needs to Be Beautiful

Why lots of 'Uber for X' startups like HomeJoy may be in trouble

Google Ventures managing director said Secret was 'like a bank heist' to the New York Times

Secret app is ded. Like, so ded. After $35 million and 15 million users, Secret is shutting down.

April 2015: Why Slack raised $160 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, by Dan Primack of Fortune

After pocketing millions and buying a Ferrari, Secret founder David Byttow may be pivoting Secret to a startup incubator

The Juice Start-Up No One Needs Juicero Raised $120 Million in January 2015

Google Ventures' Bill Maris is Investing in Idea of Living to 500

A 29-year old invented a painless way to save money, and Google's buying into it

Behind the scenes with Blue Bottle and Google Ventures

Revealed at Last: Magic Leap's Vision for Augmented Reality

Google To Invest In SpaceX

This Explains Everything » Lesson 3: Should You Listen To Your Users or Your Data?

Slack October 2014 numbers: 73k daily users, 30k work groups, 200mm monthly messages, $1 million monthly revenue, worth $1.12 billion.

The horrific-trickle down of asshole culture at a company like Uber

Google Leads $542 Million Deal in Secretive Startup Magic Leap

Uber Tests Grocery & Product Delivery Service in DC

You Don't Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion Dollar Company

Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30 Million

Library | Google Ventures

Nest launches its answer to Apple’s HomeKit with a developer program

Anonymish Chat App Wut Raises Seed Round From Foundation, Google Ventures

YouTube Co-Founders Split As Chad Hurley Spins Out MixBit And Steve Chen Joins Google Ventures

Uber Sets Valuation Record of $17 Billion in New Funding

Google just bought Divide, one of the most popular enterprise Android apps. It had raised $23 million in funding and had 200k downloads.

Blue Bottle Coffee and the Next Wave of Artisanal Coffee Shops

Will a World of Driverless Cars Be Heaven or Hell? - Robin Chase - The Atlantic Cities

From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy | Co.Design

Google OKR Video: How Objectives and Key Results employee grading system works, with slides from John Doerr

Evan Williams explains why Medium raised $25 million.

Google Ventures: Year in Review 2013

Kevin Rose Is AngelList’s Million-Dollar Man, by Liz Gannes of AllThingsD

How Not to Launch a Site for Women: My Remix of Ten Opinion Pieces on the Launch of Bustle

New York Times on Safe VC Betting using Big Data

Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything' | The Verge

The grand ambitions of Google Ventures — Tech News and Analysis

Silver Spring Networks shares up sharply in first day of trading

ZenPayroll raises YC’s largest seed round ever: $6.1 million.

ClearStory Data raises $9M for Big Data Analytics

Google Ventures: What It Looks For In An Enterprise Deal - Forbes

Google invests $75M in a 50MW wind farm, has contributed almost $1B to the renewable energy sector - The Next Web

Google Ventures Scores $1.5B For Investments Through 2017 - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~Abe Lincoln

In a valley of VC clones, Google Ventures does more than just write checks | VentureBeat

How to get $20M pre-money:

Google Ventures employs 50 people........... Eight of them investing partners.

Engineers are nature's way of turning coffee into code. So it's no wonder the best Internet investors are investing in... COFFEE.