SF News Startup Showers Dolores Park With Confetti To Celebrate Acquisition [Updated] Twice, a fashion resale startup based in the Mission District, has a lot to celebrate. After raising over $20 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and IA Ventures, they've recently announced a
SF News Cleaning Service Startup Homejoy Shuts Down Over Worker Classification Lawsuits In what could be the first of several shakeups in the "on-demand" / "gig economy," San Francisco-based startup Homejoy is calling it quits on July 31. The primary reason: It's fighting four lawsuits over
Arts & Entertainment Valley Speak: Silicon Valley Dictionary Is The Urban Dictionary The Tech World Needs Before Urban Dictionary provided satirical definitions to ridiculous terms, Ambrose Bierce satirized Webster's list of words and phrases with his Devil's Dictionary. Bierce began the project as a newspaper columnist right here in
SF News [Update] One Of Leap's Private Buses Now For Sale On eBay And Craigslist According to the latest and perhaps last tweet from Leap Transit, the private bus startup is still "offline to deal with a regulatory issue." To get technical, Leap received a "Cease and Desist"
SF News With This SF Delivery Service Flowchart, You'll Never Go Anywhere To Get Anything Again Click to enlarge. Stephanie Pakrul lives with 45 roommates in what she calls "one of those startup/hacker/artist co-ops in the Mission everyone loves to hate." As the keen observer of local
SF News What Does It Say About SF That No One Knows If This Trashcan-Scooting Startup Is Real? Big takes on These Disruptive Times seem better suited to multimilliondollar, VC-funded, vanity-project sites than to the pages of SFist, but I'll tell you this: if no one can tell if your startup
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Startup Disrupts Your Day With Fake Parking Ticket Marketing Campaign You know what sucks? Walking back to your car after leaving a restaurant, only to find a #parkingticket. #mealticket pic.twitter.com/5Ry4UsUNj3— Kitchit (@Kitchit) May 18, 2015 Double check that potential parking
Arts & Entertainment Mission-Based Sex Toy Startup Seeks Seed Money The blog Capp Street Crap caught this Craigslist ad in which a Mission-based startup is seeking investors for some kind of sex toy business that they're being a bit cagey about. They say
SF News Do You Believe In 'Magic,' The Anything Delivery Service? What if I told you that a simple text message could secure you anything your heart desired? Plane tickets emailed to you, dinner delivered, flowers sent to your fiancé. A new SMS service
SF News Coming To A Skate Park Near You: Real-Life Hoverboards If Back to the Future Part II is right, it's in 2015 that we can expect the appearance of the hoverboard.* And what better ground to hover over than San Francisco's: turf that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Munchery Breaking The Law By Storing Food In Idling Refrigerated Trucks? [Updated] It appears that swiftly growing prepared-food startup Munchery is, like some other startups, breaking some laws in order to do business here in S.F. As Uptown Almanac reports, in addition to collecting
SF News Are Startups In The '1099 Economy' Taking Advantage Of Contract Workers? There’s a long read in New York Magazine today about how well-funded startups are using contract workers to keep costs low, a trend called the “1099 economy.” Reading with the caveat that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Paleo And Gluten-Free Craze Hits Peak Weirdness As S.F. Startup Turns Crickets Into Flour A new San Francisco startup called Bitty Foods is banking on people setting aside their qualms about eating bugs in favor of a protein-rich, gluten-free diet. Bitty manufactures cricket flour by freezing, boiling,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Whysk, A Transportation Startup Please enjoy this bit of humor from ClickHole, the Onion's brilliant sendup of all things viral and BuzzFeed-esque. It's all about an app, well, sort of... a company called Whysk that "gets people
Arts & Entertainment Looking To Rent A Hot Pool Boy? New Startup To Deliver 'ManServants' On Demand Everything about the new startup ManServants looks like a promo from the latest J Lo or Lady Gaga video, but its founders — two San Francisco women who work in advertising — say it’s
SF News New Startup Lets You Buy A Car With Bitcoin A new online used-car marketplace is running a promotion in which, if you are a nerd who happens to have a lot of bitcoin saved up, you can purchase a car with that
SF News Passive-Aggressive Neighbor Notes Get Tech Bro Spin Check out this pretty hilarious neighbor war that played out recently in an unidentified San Francisco elevator. A Redditor posted the pair letters below, taped to the wall of said elevator, proving that
SF News Greg Gopman, Startup Founder Who Lambasted Homeless People, Is Getting Sued Just days after we wondered what despiser of the undomiciled Greg Gopman was up to, we have our answer: he's busy getting sued. Former AngelHack CEO Gopman, as you know, authored a Facebook
SF News Tech Guy Says Work/Life Balance Notion Is Dumb, Antiquated Once upon a time when life was less terrible, San Francisco was referred to as a place "where young people go to retire." That is less and less the case these days, what
SF News Startup Bro Apologizes For San Francisco Rant Startup co-founder Peter Shih whose anti-San Francisco rant sparked an outcry that, among other things, resulted in these flyers strewn about town on Friday published an apology over the weekend. Shih's screed, if
SF News Infamous Silicon Valley Hoaxster Takes Con Act To GOP Convention Shirley Hornstein, noted in today's morning links as the notorious hoax artist outed by TechCrunch for using photoshopped pictures of herself with celebrities to climb Silicon Valley's greasy social ladder, has apparently already
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Promotional Stunt Promises In-N-Out Delivery Anywhere In San Francisco for Ten Bucks Burgerto.me, a recently launched website powered by hamburger delivery slaves service networking startup TaskRabbit is solving an age-old San Francisco dilemma. Namely, how does one get a Double-Double and a strawberry milkshake
SF News Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels' While the newly rich continue to gobble up overpriced real estate in San Francisco proper, the budding young entrepreneurs who continue to flock to Silicon Valley, heads all filled with Zuckerberg dreams, are
Arts & Entertainment Britney Spears Spotted Loitering Around Westfield Centre While swirling around some Lady Gaga rumors, lost in a Jean Paul Gautier fervor the city somehow failed to notice the recent arrival of another celebrity type in San Francisco. According to rumor,
SF News Young Startup Founder Deems San Francisco "Too Nice" Josh Miller, a young entrepreneur who left Princeton last year and headed West to become a protege of Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone at Obvious Corporation, is already bailing on San
