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Redfin CEO: To survive, keep thinking like a startup

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
May 11, 2017
Glenn Kelman says the most important qualification for his job is passion.
“We still have to be financially disciplined in a different way than Google or Facebook, because we still employ real people to help sell these houses,” says Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO.
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Nashville accelerator home for music tech start-ups

by Marketplace Contributor
Aug 1, 2016
Music tech start-ups welcomed to Nashville after little love elsewhere
Erik Mendelson pitches his music app company, RecordGram, to an auditorium of investors at the Country Music Hall of Fame in May. 
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A startup sparks conversations with Syrian refugees

by Reema Khrais
May 25, 2016
NaTakallam pairs students studying Arabic with native speakers who need work.
From her Los Angeles home, Kelsey Norman Skypes a Syrian refugee about once a week to chat in Arabic.
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The Dispatch, Ep 9: Silicon Prairie

by Molly Wood
Mar 31, 2016
Drones over North Dakota, plus some thoughts on Waze.
Open space and state funding are just a few of the reasons North Dakota is becoming a hotbed of development for the drone industry.
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Come on Japan, get with the program

by Sally Herships
Sep 21, 2015
Silicon Valley appreciates a good failure. The Japanese...not so much.
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A giant robot that shoots ... T-shirts?

by Molly Wood
Jul 31, 2015
Could fighting exoskeletons be the future of sports entertainment?
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What's Silicon Beach?

by Marketplace Staff
Jul 27, 2015
We talked with CEOs in Silicon Valley's LA counterpart, and they're far from beach bums.
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Young money: how kids start their startups

by Luke Quinton
May 7, 2015
They conceive, plan and pitch in just three days.
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Startup mattress companies disrupt a stiff business

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 12, 2015
There’s a new set of companies getting into the mattress game, and they’re disrupting the traditional model of lying on bed after bed to compare. Kyle Stock explores the mattress industry and the newcomers that are changing things up in his piece, “New Startups Aren’t Keeping Big Mattresses Up At Night,” for Bloomberg Business. In […]
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How a humble stray dog helped launch Instagram

by Kai Ryssdal , Millie Jefferson and Tommy Andres
Feb 19, 2015
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom on his company's short history and bright future.
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