Startup promise Karma deflates; Kobe Bryant is daring investor – Sprout

1. Adamic startup promise Karma deflates

After a dream start are the founders of mobile hotspot startup Karma, which in 2012 was in the Challenger 50, again with both feet on the ground. The majority of the staff, including the founders, four years after the company started resigned after a conflict with shareholders, as sources confirm to the FD. Initially, the sale of the Never Stop was a cabinet to use unlimited WiFi at home, so well that it was taken after three months of the market. Reason? User milked the unlimited WiFi bundle completely. In order to carry extra money was needed. The founders wanted to continue in the consumer market, the shareholders wanted to explore other options. What those are remains vague. Because of the difference in opinion has drained most of the staff, including the two founders, Steven van Wel and Stefan Borsje who worked at the company.

2. Basketball player Kobe Bryant is daring investor

The former basketball player in the NBA Kobe Bryant is an investment begun worth 100 million dollars. Together with the experienced entrepreneur Jeff Stibel start the American fund Bryant Stibel, reports the Wall Street Journal. To outside investors the men do not need, the investment comes from their own pockets. The aim is to stabbing 100 million over the next few years in technology, data and media companies. Completely new is investing not for Bryant and Stibel they have already invested in 15 companies money since 2013.

3. Apple takes secretly startup Gliimpse about

Without informed Apple earlier this year acquired the personal health data startup Gliimpse (site seems all offline) to the outside world. Not really unique for the tech giant to leave nothing out anyway. In an attachment to Fast Company reports a spokesman that Apple occasionally taking over small businesses and, in principle, has been mum on the purpose or plans. Gliimpse was founded in 2013 by Anil Sethi and Karthik Hariharan and makes it possible to store data about your health, to collect and share.

4. Staff Drenthe company distributes profits themselves

Drenthe ICT company New Nexus let the staff choose what they do with the profits of the company. Tennminste: half of the profits. After years of data found founder Jan Schut gave, as he told RTL Z. Therefore, the employees can now with half the remaining money trough at the end of the year choose the benefits to shareholders what they do with it. The company follows the I-we-them logic. “I” can be a perk for employees mean, ‘we’ course and ‘them’ is to give something back to society.

5. Supervisor hunts own product-opkopende mayo startup

Your

own product purchases in the supermarket in order to boost your numbers show an even worse idea than it sounds though. First the (vegetable) mayo-makers of Hampton Creek public were mangled. Meanwhile, it is even worse: the American regulator has launched an investigation, reports Bloomberg. Specifically looking at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or repurchased products were counted as revenue, because that is not allowed. The study does not mean that Josh Tetrick foolproof being sued.

6. And then this: Kalashnikov-buying souvenirs at the airport

In Moscow you can buy a counterfeit Kalashnikov since this week at the airport. Real AK-47 are not sold there, however replicas that are indistinguishable from the operating stuff, report different media. Also you can buy shirts, carrying cases and watches with lyrics about the famous rifle on it. It will probably surprise few that there are already people in the aviation industry who have criticized the store in an airport. From the editor, we recommend: if you do want to take your vacation address something, please bring a good investment and let it lie fake gun.

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