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Sense, a New Sleep Tracker with a Kickstarter Campaign, Has Raised at Least $10.5 Million from Investors

James Proud, a former Thiel Fellow who sold his first company, is back with a new company and sleep-tracking product called Sense that’s “part-Nest thermostat, part-Fitbit,” as Forbes describes it. In its original story, Forbes makes the company sound bootstrapped, saying Proud “seeded the company with earnings from selling his first startup,” and that the company’s “unmanufactured product” […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Startup Tagged With: Hello, James Proud, Sense, Thiel Fellow

StrictlyVC: May 12, 2014

Good morning, everyone! Hope you had a terrific weekend. —– Top News in the A.M. Faced with pressure from Google and other corners of the tech world, FCC Chair Tom Wheeler is revising his proposed rules to allow Internet service providers to charge content companies like Google for faster access into U.S. homes, reports the WSJ. Doubtful it goes far enough […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Hello, James Proud, Orkut Buyukkokten, Thiel Fellowship

A New Startup by Orkut Buyukkokten (Yes, that Orkut)

Orkut Buyukkokten, the Turkish engineer who is best known for building Google’s early social network, also named Orkut, has left the company after nearly 12 years to co-found Hello, a still-stealth social network that’s been flying under the radar for the last three months — though likely not for much longer. Buyukkokten hasn’t yet responded to […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Google, Hello, James Proud, Orkut Buyukkokten

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