Startups: This Week’s Top Stories // December 27, 2015

How I Created A $350 Million Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software | The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention | 13 Asian Startups To Watch In 2016 | Investing In Artificial Intelligence | Alibaba To Invest $1.25B In Restaurant Delivery Service Ele.me, Says Report | After 500,000 Apps Built, Bizness Apps Launches Apex, A New White-Label App Builder | If You’re Launching A Tech Startup In 2016, Focus On Privacy And Fast Data |

STARTUPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | John Sung Kim How I Created A $350 Million Software Company Knowing Nothing About Software I've always wanted to make a lot of money, have people pay a lot of attention to me and do a lot of exciting things. I just never knew how. Many of my friends... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | John Rampton The Freelancer Generation: Why Startups And Enterprises Need To Pay Attention Gone are the days of the 40-hour work week that kept us at work eight hours a day. I find that most startup founders or business owners in Silicon Valley work... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming to Boston this February Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on February 23, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Catherine Shu 13 Asian Startups To Watch In 2016 2015 was an eventful year for the tech industry in Asia. Funding started to flow in India, which is expected to become the world's second-largest Internet... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Nathan Benaich Investing In Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting and transformative opportunities of our time. From my vantage point as a venture investor at Playfair... Read More… Catherine Shu Alibaba To Invest $1.25B In Restaurant Delivery Service Ele.me, Says Report Alibaba will reportedly invest $1.25 billion in Ele.me, a food delivery service based in Shanghai, says financial news site Caixin (link via Google Translate).... Read More… Fitz Tepper After 500,000 Apps Built, Bizness Apps Launches Apex, A New White-Label App Builder Founded in 2010 as a DIY app and website development platform, Bizness Apps has quietly turned its attention to resellers and digital agencies, becoming one... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Stuart Bailey If You’re Launching A Tech Startup In 2016, Focus On Privacy And Fast Data Enterprises over the last decade have devoted large portions of their IT budgets to collecting, securing and analyzing huge volumes of big data. Or at least... 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service