Startups: This Week’s Top Stories // November 22, 2015

Gift Guide: 9 Excellent Back-Up Gifts For All The People You’ll Undoubtedly Forget | The 20 Highest Paying Startup Unicorns | Gift Guide: These 9 Kitchen Gadgets Can Be The Ultimate Sous Chef | 10 Carpooling Apps To Take This Weekend In San Francisco That Aren’t Uber | Readbug Wants To Be Spotify For Indie Magazines | Ex-TechCruncher Launches Y Combinator’s “Not News” Publication The Macro | Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Scores £9.5M Series C |

STARTUPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jordan Crook Gift Guide: 9 Excellent Back-Up Gifts For All The People You’ll Undoubtedly Forget Every year it’s the same. You shop, you cross name after name off of your list, only to be handed a perfectly wrapped present by that one person you never... Read More… Sarah Buhr, Anna Escher The 20 Highest Paying Startup Unicorns It makes sense for unicorns, or startups valued at more than $1 billion, to use those means to attract top talent with more generous pay, but which of this... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Announcing The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards This year, the Crunchies will be held at a new venue, the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, at 8:00pm on February 8th, 2016. Head over to the show page and start nominating your favorite candidates for each category. Nominations will close on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. We'll see you at the Crunchies! Learn More… Jordan Crook Gift Guide: These 9 Kitchen Gadgets Can Be The Ultimate Sous Chef They say the fastest way to someone’s heart is through their stomach. If that person is a chef of sorts, then kitchen gadgetry is a must-have on their... Read More… Sarah Buhr, Anna Escher 10 Carpooling Apps To Take This Weekend In San Francisco That Aren’t Uber Let’s all agree that public transportation in San Francisco is not the greatest, but there’s plenty more ways to get about town and not all of them... Read More… Natasha Lomas Readbug Wants To Be Spotify For Indie Magazines Readbug's pitch to its target indie magazine publishers is the chance to increase their digital reach without having to do any extra work or spend any extra... Read More… Josh Constine Ex-TechCruncher Launches Y Combinator’s “Not News” Publication The Macro There are plenty of tech blogs. But The Macro can go where no blogs are allowed -- deep inside the Hogwarts of startups, Y Combinator. Mixed in with... Read More… Steve O'Hear Flash Sales Site SportPursuit Scores £9.5M Series C SportPursuit, the flash sales site for 'premium' outdoor and sports gear, has raised £9.5 million in Series C funding. Investors this time around are Scottish... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service