Founder Of Construction-Software Firm Ignores World Saying He’s An Idiot. Now Procore Is Worth $500M

Tooey Courtemanche started construction-management software firm Procore Technologies before the recession hit, then rode it out while competitors went by the wayside. Today, he’s in the sweet spot as Procore expects $55 million in revenues this year.

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Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2016

  Startups are the spark that lights the engine of the U.S. economy. The most successful of them, companies like Airbnb, Uber, and Snapchat, change the way we live, travel and communicate. For Forbes’ second annual list of next billion-dollar startups, we’ve found 25 companies that are transforming their industries and […]

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Location, Location, Location Data Management, Yext Aims To Make The Internet ‘Less Static’

Where Yext is trying to justify its approach to Location Data Management (LDM) is the suggestion that a website that doesn’t update itself with contextual time-sensitive information becomes nothing more than a ‘digital brochure’. This of course is a waste, because the web is so much more than a set of static pages. So essentially it’s all about trying to make the Internet (as dynamic as Dynamic-HTML can be) just that little bit ‘less static’ and injecting some additional life into it.

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Why Disney, Salesforce, and Google Think Twitter Is Overvalued

Having lost over $2 billion over the last five years and suffering a slowdown in new subscribers, Twitter has been trying unsuccessfully to sell itself. Yet its market capitalization is still $12 billion — too much thanks to an easy-to-describe problem — Twitter is a toxic brand. Before getting into why that […]

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