iPhone Madness Decoded: It's All Very Freudian
Like many of you, I was reading lots of iPhone coverage over the weekend and I hoped for death. However, if you’d like to see the truth behind the coverage, feel free to use our Freudian Decoder to...
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Handybook Rebrands As Handy In An Effort To Become Amazon For Home Services
Handybook’s has rebranded itself simply as “Handy.” The two-year old company, which provides on-demand home services via web and mobile app, wants to become the definitive brand in the category… and...
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Handy Acquires London-Based Home Services Startup Mopp To Quickly Grow Its UK...
A few months ago, on-demand home services startup Handy opened up its first international office and launched services in London. In an effort to quickly grow its business there, today the company is...
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Handy Expands Its Vacation Rental Cleaning Service
Collaborative consumption is reworking all sorts of established societal norms and regulatory processes. It’s also generating new business opportunities for startups that sit outside the immediate...
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Handy In Talks To Acquire Homejoy As Home Service Startups Consolidate
As more startups rush into the business of providing on-demand services for our every consumer need, we’re also seeing an inevitable move to some consolidation. In the latest development, Handy — the...
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Handy Expands Into Furniture Delivery, Assembly (And Shopping) For A Flat Fee...
There’s been some significant consolidation among the rush of on-demand cleaning and home services startups. Now one of the companies vying to end up on the top of the heap is expanding into a new...
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Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble
Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $800...
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Checkr Is Raising $30M+ For Its Background Checking API, Y Combinator Investing
As on-demand businesses like Uber and Instacart grow quickly, so too do the B2B startups that service their wider ecosystem. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with...
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Handy Raises $50M Led By Fidelity, Reportedly At $500M Valuation, To Clean Up...
There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups, but others seem to be cleaning up in their wake. Handy — a platform for on-demand housekeeping...
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Life, by subscription
The American dream is no longer for sale — but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average day, you...
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Managed By Q gives five percent of the company equity to its Operators
Managed By Q, the company that lets you order on-demand cleaning services, IT help, handyman work and more all from an iPad in the office, has today announced a new stock option plan for its office...
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Move Loot, a YC-backed furniture resale marketplace, shuts down, sells...
There’s some closure (literally and figuratively) for Move Loot, the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month was up for sale. The startup — backed by nearly $22 million in...
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Silicon Valley’s favorite fixer: Bradley Tusk
Tusk made his bones in Silicon Valley through advising Uber, which paid him in equity for his services while still a Series A company, dramatically boosting Tusk’s net worth (he says he hasn’t sold...
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Government’s refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is...
The workforce of the 21st century has been changing for years. Government, only recently perceiving the movement from a traditional workforce to an independent contractor model, is stifling...
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Not every service needs to be an on-demand service
In recent months, we’ve seen several well-funded startups with strong teams either going through layoffs or shutting down entirely. The natural question to ask is why? The short answer is that...
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Handy’s Black Friday promo rewards contractors over customers
Handy, the on-demand service for cleaners, handymen, and more, has today announced the Give > Get promotion for Black Friday. This Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, customers pay the same amount...
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Handy and Managed by Q want to make the gig economy a force for good
Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan, and Managed by Q CEO Dan Teran joined TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Tuesday to discuss the evolution and shortcomings of the so-called “gig economy.” Both startups help...
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Handybook Rebrands As Handy In An Effort To Become Amazon For Home Services
What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot. That’s the thinking behind Handybook’s decision to rebrand itself simply as “Handy.” The two-year old company, which provides on-demand home services via a web...
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A few months ago, on-demand home services startup Handy opened up its first international office and launched services in London. In an effort to quickly grow its business there, today the company is...
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