SF News SFFD Urges You To Narc On Gasoline Delivery Startups The idea of never having to go to the gas station again is an appealing one — think electric, exhaust-free cars whisking you around a city that is suddenly just a bit less smoggy.
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Too Many Cooks? In Crowded Market, Catering Startup Kitchit Calls It Quits The dinner party could be coming to a close for San Francisco-based Kitchit, a catering startup with $8.1 million in investments according to Crunchbase. That news came from anonymous sources to Investors
SF News Blood Testing Startup Theranos Is Now Under Criminal Investigation, SEC Probe Federal prosecutors are investigating the possibility that Theranos, Inc., a blood testing startup once valued at $9 billion, misled its investors with regard to its proprietary pin-prick blood sample technology. That was the
SF News CEO Of Healthcare Startup Theranos Faces 2-Year Ban From Blood Testing Biz Theranos founder and chief executive Elizabeth Holmes, a 32-year-old Stanford dropout who claims her aversion to needles led her to invent proprietary blood testing technology requiring just a pin-prick, faces a two-year ban
SF News R2D2 Robot Things Want To Deliver You Stuff While human delivery people may someday face competition from flying Amazon and Google drones, those drones themselves may have a worthy competitor in robots, the likes of which the Chronicle now profiles. “It
SF News Extremely SF Startup Negotiates Buyouts On Rent-Controlled Units Landlords have been required to publicly disclose buyout agreements made with their tenants since 2014, finally giving us some numbers and transparency into what has previously been a shrouded subject last year. That
SF News For Success, Startups Look To Crazy New Metric: Profitability In a survey of 929 tech and healthcare startup executives, Silicon Valley Bank has made a shocking discovery. Just 64 percent felt business conditions would improve this year, writes Wired, representing an 18
SF News Zenefits Tells Employees To Stop F**king At Work San Francisco-based HR-platform startup Zenefits has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Fresh off the resignation earlier this month of the company's CEO and founder Parker Conrad, and the
SF News Van Shuttle Service Chariot Heralds New Mission Route Check the app, lords and ladies: Your "Chariot" awaits. The two-year-old network of about 90 14-seater vans that are only elegant when compared with Muni — which is maybe the point — is coming to
SF News Labs For Healthcare Startup Theranos Present 'Immediate Jeopardy To Patient Safety' The first results from an investigation into Palo Alto-based healthcare technology startup Theranos are in, and they aren't favorable for the health of the formerly whinnying Silicon Valley Unicorn. The blood-sampling technology upon
Arts & Entertainment Look Out, Uber: SF's Hottest New Unicorn Has Priceless Valuation Even those who subscribe to tech luminary Marc Benioff's view that “unicorn mania.. [is] dangerous for our Silicon Valley economy," a warning he issued in a recent interview, are sure to marvel at
SF News Health Regulators Investigating Complaints Against Healthcare Startup Theranos From Former Employees Palo Alto-based healthcare technology startup Theranos has been on the defensive since its core blood-sampling technology's capabilities were called into question by a Wall Street Journal article in October. Headed by founder and
SF News Oakland Startup Pioneers Pot Breathalyzer Soon, pot-doing drivers will have something other than a joint, bong, or vape-thing to wrap their lips around. Oakland-based startup Hound Labs has announced its handheld marijuana breathalyzer, a product developed at UC
SF News Tech-Employed Male Creates Elaborate Stats Model For SF Dating And Women's Attractiveness "There’s a joke that I’ve heard passed around the circles of frustrated single men in San Francisco," writes payments startup person Steven Tang in a Medium post he's sure to regret,
SF News E-Boards, The Vapes of Skateboarding, Are Going Street-Legal Test riding an electric longboard on smooth Mountain View asphalt near Boosted Board headquarters, I am Aladdin on a f--king magic carpet — but with, like, a helmet. Company founder Matthew Tran coasts at
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Take An MTV Cribs-Style Tour Of A Mission Tech Hostel SFist's Caleb Pershan is pinch-hitting on the Apartment Sadness column this week, with a video twist. "They haven't gotten much water, recently," says a resident of the 41-room, Bitcoin-friendly community at 20Mission, gesturing
SF News Oakland Startup Will Cancel Comcast For You, Saving 'Hours Of Beautiful Human Life' Cheekily choosing a very common enemy, one Oakland startup is gaining tons of press and good will — and fast. How fast? 5 minutes flat — or, rather, that's how long AirPaper says it can
SF News Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your
SF News Startup Doze Monetizes Nap Time For Tired Techies Nap time isn't just for cranky kindergartners anymore. Not exactly. Enter Doze — an actual startup spending real money that's selling twenty-five minute naps for just $20. Where's that capital going? Into EnergyPods, Bose®
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Total Bay Area Move, Food Writer Mark Bittman Leaves NYT For Food Startup When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in San Francisco, eat well and try to get hired by an early stage startup. That's of course what Mark Bittman's done, revealing in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UberEats Just Launched In SF, Here's What They're Offering With a dramatic website launch and video flourish featuring chefs from Craftsman and Wolves and Uno Dos Tacos (not pictured: fat checks), Uber announced its entry into SF' s crowded food space, just
SF News Literal Moonshot Startup Now Providing Lunar Funerals 'Within Reach' Until now, SoMa-based startup Elysium Space has been reaching for the stars. For $1,900, the company will arrange to have your loved one's cremated remains blasted into orbit as part of their
SF News [Update] Tech Exec Claims Washio May Have Delivered Used Condom With Infant's Clothes, But It Also May Have Been Used Glove "Better. Faster. Cleaner." That's the way of Washio, the Uber of someone else doing your laundry. But in a hastily deleted tweet from one prominent San Francisco tech executive, Washio appears to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Eggs Makes Big Layoffs, Shuts Down Outside Of SF Bad news for Good Eggs, the 2011-founded food delivery startup that just this last year raised $21 million in funding according to TechCrunch. Today the company announced that it is pulling out of
