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Rap Genius Now Partially Owned By a Republican: Andreessen Horowitz Invests...
Rap Genius, the Brooklyn-based site that lets the hive mind take a stab at explaining hip hop lyrics, announced today that they have received $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz. The...
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Mo’ Money for Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet...
Mr. Lehman, Mr. Zechory, and Mr. Moghadam (Photo: Sumner Dilworth, courtesy of Vibe) Visitors who search for Harlem rapper Azealia Banks’s breakout hit “212,” on Rap Genius, an online platform that...
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Booting Up: Maybe You’d Be More Qualified If You Were a College Dropout
(Photo: flickr.com/kla4067) In a talk at DLD, Ben Horowitz revealed that his VC firm had closed (non-seed) investments in a mere 24 companies, most of them created by “college dropouts with insane...
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Rumor Roundup: Rap Genius Cofounder Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
(Photo: theybf.com) Real Genius Andreessen Horowitz invested $15 million in Rap Genius to help its Ivy League cofounders to annotate the Internet. But how much will they have to pay to rein in the...
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Rumor Roundup: When Is Alexis Ohanian Gonna Run for Office Already?
(Photo: Tipster) Your Name Here A Silicon Valley source had the pleasure of dining near Path cofounder Dave Morin and his wife, Brit.co founder Brit Morin recently. Mr. Morin spoke about the future of...
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Booting Up: A Guilty Plea for Former Dotcom Millionaire
(Photo: Daily Tech) Quinn Norton speaks out on what life inside the Aaron Swartz investigation was like. "This will not be the final word on Aaron's story, nor is it intended to be. Two years later,...
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Study Suggests That Silicon Valley Is Not Actually the ‘Started From the...
"Wat?" (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Bad news if you're still clinging to the idea that Silicon Valley is some sort of marvelous Horatio Alger LARP. Reuters has done a deep dive on the...
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Best Tech Events This Week: International Women’s Day, Fireside Chat w/ Ben...
This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties....
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Rapper Nas Teams Up With Koru To Sponsor Even More Tech Scholarships
Nas made his fame making some of the greatest rap albums of all time. Now he's making seed level investments and developing young talent. (Photo via Getty) Rapper Nas is at it again — no, not another...
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Today in WTF Rap Genius News: $40M Raised, a Kanye West Redesign and Mahbod...
Rap Genius cofounders Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory and Mahbod Moghadam, who was recently ousted. When it comes to covering the tech industry, Rap Genius is the startup that keeps on giving. The average...
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