This Week in Collaborative Fund
Our weekly update highlighting new products and jobs in our portfolio.
Launches & Product Updates
Codecademy’s Hour of Code app is now available on the iPad: http://bitly.com/1ayL0BR
Skillshare launches an Activity Feed on the web for users to follow classes, skills, and friends: http://bitly.com/1gdMILl
AngelList creates a new universal investor accreditation form: http://tcrn.ch/MbTNP6
AngelList tests charging for job listings, for successful hires startups will pay 10% salary or .25% equity: http://tcrn.ch/1mSTnLm
Balanced unveils new transparent pricing for volume card processing: http://tnw.co/1e8qSVW
Balanced will soon allow customers to push payments directly to debit cards. This new feature was crowdfunded by Balanced users: http://tcrn.ch/1dEMNj9
Kickstarter now allows crowdfunders the ability to generate targeted updates to backers: http://bitly.com/1feITlT
Lyft updates donations vs. set pricing for specific cities: https://www.lyft.me/help?article=1415358
Growth & Collaborations
On January 22 Upstart hit a new high of 50 upstarts in funding! https://twitter.com/davegirouard/status/426142075109654528
Lyft hires Google X Legal Director David Estrada as its VP of Government Relations: http://tcrn.ch/1d2RvqR
Rap Genius strikes a deal to license Universal Music’s lyrics: http://bitly.com/1ayLnwm
AngelList recruits Philipp Moehring from Seedcamp to launch syndicates in Europe: http://tcrn.ch/1dYAX9L
**Job Opportunities **
Makr is hiring a VP of Growth in Brooklyn: http://j.mp/1aVt8vx
MakeSpace is hiring a Mobile Developer (iOS) in New York: angel.co/makespace/jobs
HelloSign is hiring a Head of Sales in San Francisco: http://bitly.com/LXimyJ
Gumroad is hiring a Product Designer in San Francisco: http://bitly.com/1feKw2X
TaskRabbit is hiring an Online Marketing Manager in San Francisco: j.mp/1eeVu4N
Soma Water is hiring a Design Director in San Francisco: http://j.mp/1ihTVHw
Offline
Creative Mornings is recruiting new organizers in San Francisco, Boston and Milan: http://j.mp/1kExscb
Emily Castor, Director of Community Engagement at Lyft, will be speaking at the upcoming CMX Summit in San Francisco: j.mp/1ea4wmi
The first Gumroad Creators Studio is on February 13th in San Francisco: http://bitly.com/1mIb3X7
Awesome
Codecademy is featured on Apple’s timeline of the last 30 years: http://bitly.com/1dENqct
Lyft highlights its quirkiest drivers for promotion at Sundance: http://on.mash.to/1mYftfp
This ad agency wants to help make your Kickstarter campaign a hit: http://bitly.com/1dEO5L8
Explore (and rent!) a desk at Soma Water’s office in San Francisco: http://bitly.com/1fmesZa
Business Insider Q&A with Lyft driver Deco Carter, a.k.a Hip Hop Lyft: http://read.bi/1d2ScRe
“Doctors should be curators of the internet for their patients.” – Jay Parkinson, CEO of Sherpaa: http://bitly.com/LXdppE
Community
We hosted an AMA on Reddit yesterday with Zach Klein, co-founder & CEO of DIY.org redd.it/1w1v5a
We announced the winners of our Skillshare x Seth Godin scholarship contest! Winners received a Skillshare gift card to enroll in Seth Godin’s entrepreneurship class.
New on Collaborative Market – XO Tablet by OLPC, Bevel by Walker & Co., Hello Ruby by Linda Liukas, Sugru, Behance notebooks + more: www.collabmarket.tumblr.com
Press & Interviews
AngelList in Bloomberg Businessweek – “AngelList, a four-year-old startup based in San Francisco, is starting to open things up with a social network for the kind of people who create and invest in social networks.” http://buswk.co/1eSObTk
Kickstarter in Wired – How Kickstarter has changed indie moviemaking for good: http://j.mp/LW3QYJ
Zach Sims, CEO of Codecademy, spoke on a panel about higher education at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos: http://youtu.be/d4y5QDxts28
How technology is helping Blue Bottle Coffee serve up a great cup of coffee – Hunter Walk interviews CFO David P. Bowman: http://j.mp/1eFjssS
Inside the world of one-click grocery delivery, featuring Good Eggs: http://j.mp/1fbQrE0
MakeSpace in Apartment Therapy – “MakeSpace is a startup that promises that you’ll never have to visit a storage unit again.” http://bitly.com/1e5ysB3
Simple in Business Insider – “Why I stopped using regular banks for two weeks.” http://bitly.com/1iyqK5I
Progress Report
Ryan Jacoby on simplifying data networks to make them more usable: http://j.mp/1eh2dek
Craig Shapiro on transparency - “When you update your investors, be honest, tell the whole truth, and give context.” http://j.mp/1aLmYOH
Kanyi Maqubela on the big bets needed to change culture, featuring Hampton Creek Foods and Lyft: j.mp/1dMT3vd