Uber-SoftBank Deal In Jeopardy Over Spat About Kalanick’s RoleUber Technologies Inc.’s effort to close a multibillion-dollar investment by SoftBank Group Corp. is on the rocks as co-founder Travis Kalanick tussles with fellow board members over the limits of his power at the ride-hailing giant, people familiar with the matter said. Uber in recent days had reached an agreement in principle on the deal with a group of investors led by SoftBank that would reshape Uber’s board and other aspects of its corporate governance and bring on a powerful partner in SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi... [ WSJ ] Life is changing for men for two reasons — and new startups are on itIt’s never been a better time to be a man who privately suffers erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation or hair loss. Before you roll your eyes, that is a lot of men. They are not the silver-haired septuagenarians depicted in drug advertisements, either. Approximately 25 percent of men with male pattern baldness begin shedding their locks before they reach the age of 21, says the American Hair Loss Association. Another stat that might surprise: According to the Cleveland Clinic, as many as 52 percent of men experience erectile dysfunction, with 40 percent of men age 40 affected. As for premature ejaculation, it may impact upwards of one in three men, estimates the Mayo Clinic. [ Tech Crunch ] These are the 25 most attractive start-ups to work for, according to LinkedInUber has had a turbulent year, but that hasn't slowed the company's ability to attract the best talent. The ride-sharing company lands atop LinkedIn's inaugural Top Companies | Startups list. Despite challenges ranging from sexual harassment claims to the hunt for a new CEO, of every start-up on this list, Uber has had the most employees leave LinkedIn Top Companies like JPMorgan and Facebook to join its team. To determine this list, LinkedIn's data team analyzed billions of searches by the site's more than 500 million members, considering employee growth, job seeker interest and engagement with the company on the platform, as well as how well these upstarts were able to attract talent away from the established players on LinkedIn's Top Companies list. [ CNBC ] The Entrepreneur Behind ‘Female Viagra’ Wants to Make Women ‘Really F**king Rich’You may know Cindy Whitehead as the woman behind Addyi, the women’s libido-enhancing pill dubbed “the female Viagra.” After two failed attempts, she finally got the drug through FDA approval and promptly sold the company behind it for $1 billionto Valeant. Now, Whitehead has turned from entrepreneur to investor through her new venture The Pink Ceiling—a cross between VC fund, incubator, and consulting firm. She invests in woman-led or female-focused companies that are using technology to tackle health-related problems. Whitehead’s investment thesis boils down to this sentence: “I want to make other women really fucking rich.” She adds, “I firmly believe that when women have money, they have the freedom to make decisions and invest in those things that matter to them.” [ Fortune ] Wedding tech startup felled by its own married co-foundersOnline wedding vendor marketplace Borrowed & Blue last November raised $7 million in VC funding led by Foundry Group. But now the Charlottesville, Va.-based startup is shuttered -- and more than two dozen employees are out of work — after the board discovered alleged financial improprieties related to Borrowed & Blue's married co-founders, Adam and Christin Healey. What happened? Sources tell Axios that Christin used a company credit card to make large personal purchases, both domestic and international, and that Adam was aware of the financial mismanagement but did nothing to stop it. There also were broader questions about Chirstin's role and compensation, as she originally was introduced to investors as a non-operating co-founder, but that seemed to shift over the past year. [ Axios ] Whether you’re a morning person or a night owl, we all start our day at some point. And we all seem to start it differently. Some of us hop online to check social media, others dive in to email, still others eat breakfast, exercise, or pack lunches for the kids. There’re a million different ways a morning could go. Which morning routine might be best? While there’s probably not an ideal morning routine that fits everyone, we can learn a lot from the morning routines of successful people as well as from the research and inspiration behind starting a morning on the right foot. [ Fast Company ] THE COLLEGE KIDS DOING WHAT TWITTER WON'TTwo days before real-life troll Milo Yiannopoulos would descend on UC Berkeley’s campus in September, Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte were sizing up a railing partisan on Twitter from their college apartment. Hovering over his laptop, Bhat explained why he suspected @PatriotJen was actually a bot, maybe even one controlled from Russia. He pointed to the kitschy patriotic header image ripe for a truck stop T-shirt: a bald eagle flying towards heavenly rays. The bio seemed a liberal’s cliche of a Trump supporter, “Deplorable mom, wife, & homeschooler,” complete with red-meat hashtags: @AmericaFirst #MAGA #LockHerUp #BuildTheWall. All her tweets were retweets: an anti-Hillary tweet from Julian Assange, sensational pro-life news, a gloating tweet (“BOOM!”) about federal immigration raids that will punish California for protecting undocumented immigrants. Moreover, @PatriotJen’s feed was filled with the toxically shrill tone replicated throughout Twitter—showing Americans to be a bratty, spiteful species, and driving people like me out of the bilious swamp. The language of bots. [ WIRED ] Smart earbuds startup Doppler Labs shuts down after raising $50M+Doppler Labs, a smart earbud company that raised more than $50 million in funding from backers like Universal Music, Live Nation and the Chernin Group has shut down after running out of cash and options. The company posted a farewell note to customers on its site this morning. The startup most notably developed the Here One earbuds, a competitor to Apple’s AirPods that packed in noise-cancelling and a feature called “active listening,” which allowed users to augment the way they heard the world around them so they could tune out the hum of traffic or a jet engine while still being able to hear human voices. [ Tech Crunch ] Brighteye Ventures announces new €50 million edtech fundKate Hudson Thinks Memberships Are The Secret To Fabletics’s $250M SuccessThe Most Important Decision is Getting Started – Laura Behrens WuCarmel Ventures raises $170 million for new fund, rebrands as Viola VenturesA man who sold his company for $700 million in all cash in his 20s reveals a disappointing truth all startup founders need to hearThe U.S. government is investing about $200 million in overseas venture capital fundsCasey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for InterestingnessSilicon Valley Tried to Reinvent Schools. Now It’s RebootingCancer-detecting start-up Grail is seeking more funding, mere months after raising $900 millionBlue Apron competitor HelloFresh prices IPO, raising up to $369 million |