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[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,

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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

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

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

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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

[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 "

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

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

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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

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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

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

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&

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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&

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

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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

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