Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois talked about startups, dealing with the press, and the Series A crunch on Wednesday in Mountain View. Here are five pieces of wisdom from the Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur. Read more »
Former Square COO Keith Rabois plans to announce Tuesday morning that he’s joining Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures beginning in March as an investor. Rabois left Square after allegations of sexual harassment that surfaced in January. Read more »
Keith Rabois, the COO of mobile payments startup Square, resigned following accusations of sexual harrassment, the company confirmed Friday. Rabois denied the allegations, describing them as a “shakedown,” and said he left the company to avoid distractions. Read more »
Keith Rabois, one of the most prominent faces behind Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s side project in mobile payments, Square, has decided to leave the company. Read more »
In this wide ranging interview, Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital talks about what founders need to know about their investors, what it takes to be a venture capitalist and what are the big opportunities in today’s world. Read more »
With the future of mobile quickly evolving, what do you need to know now? After a long cross-country flight home, I had plenty of time to digest the key data nuggets from our GigaOm Mobilize 2012 event held last week. Here are five worth sharing. Read more »
The future is bright for mobile payment company Square, which as COO Keith Rabois noted Friday is not only taking off with a Starbucks partnership that will bring its technology to stores across America, but with a popular product that sells itself through in-store presence. Read more »
Intuit is taking a key step in its competition with Square and other payment rivals by integrating QuickBooks Point of Sale product with its GoPayment mobile payment product. That means that customers will have an easy way to combine a traditional POS experience with mobile payments. Read more »
Square, the breakout mobile payment hit, faces more competition from deep-pocketed competitors. But the company is content to craft its own commerce tools without opening up an API or striking big partnerships. Square’s COO Keith Rabois explains how it will win by going solo. Read more »
BetterWorks, one of the most known startups to emerge from LA seems to have hit an air pocket. The company which was started by super angel, Paige Craig is said to have laid off close to thirty people and is looking at making some dire choices. Read more »
Square snagged one of the founding engineers of Google Wallet, making people wonder if it was going to embrace NFC. My guess – not likely, for they believe that their app-based approach has lot less friction. With recent talent exodus, something is not right at Google Wallet. Read more »
Mobile payment service Square has taken a stand against NFC touch technology in favor of its own card swipe and location-based services. But transatlantic rival iZettle says that it will remain agnostic as it tries to corner the European market. Read more »
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more at paidContent »
The COO of mobile payment startup Square, Keith Rabois, thinks that the mobile payment technology Near Field Communications (NFC) has no value proposition for consumers and merchants, he said at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference on Monday. Read more »
We are hosting the fourth edition of our Mobilize: The Internet Conference in San Francisco next week. I will be chatting with folks from Twitter, Instagram, Flipboard, Pandora, Square and T-Mobile USA. We are talking about “what’s next” for mobile. Hope to see you there. Read more »
Even with the rising competition from heavyweights Google and PayPal, Square isn’t sweating the added competition. I talked Square COO Keith Rabois about the increasingly busy mobile payments space, how Square will fare over time and the challenges facing both Google and PayPal. Read more »
The word is that once upon a time, eBay’s PayPal tried to buy Jack Dorsey’s Square. Today, the company announced that it is buying small Boston-based mobile-payment startup Fig Card. It seems the upstart and the incumbent are on a collision course. Read more »
Square, the San Francisco-based personal financial services company co-founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, has a simple mission: to become an iconic financial brand, much like Virgin is for airline travel and Apple is for mobile computing. The grand ambition of the company is reflected in […] Read more »
Many Y Combinator startups from this summer’s class already have money in the bank, and many hit up the same angel investors. I conducted an informal survey of investors at YC’s Demo Day to ask how many of the companies they had already invested in. Read more »
Keith Rabois, a well-known angel investor and senior executive at social gaming company Slide, that was recently acquired by Google for $182 million is leaving the company and joining Square, a company founded by Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey. Rabois is joining as Square’s general manager. Read more »
