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As the public cloud market pulls back, VCs and founders alike must prioritize recurring revenue over sky high valuations that are often as mythical as the unicorns they’re named after.

The age of the centaur: $100M ARR is the new cloud valuation milestone

Serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg has famously had his ups and downs, most notably with the e-commerce company Fab.com. He hasn’t stopped moving forward, however. In October, he launched a new…

Jason Goldberg raises $400K more to turn Pepo into ‘the best place to host live conversation’

Jason Goldberg — a founder that may be as well known for his high-profile startups (Fab.com, Fabulis, Jobster) as his failures and pivots (Hem, Fab.com, Fabulis, Jobster) — earlier this year…

Pepo, Jason Goldberg’s social media app, raises $2.35M from his old Fab.com backers

David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as chief financial officer. Dashlane is a password management service that helps users keep track of…

Dashlane hires former Fab.com and Makespace CFO David Lapter

It looks like another chapter is in the works for Hem, the home design startup headed by Jason Goldberg that first emerged as a pivot from the Fab.com design marketplace in 2014. We’ve heard from…

Hem.com Is On The Block, Swiss Furniture Maker Vitra Likely Buyer

Bezar, the curated online marketplace that takes after its predecessor Fab.com, is going live today with twelve designers across four categories: (art, accessories, house, and jewelry). Bezar was founded by…

Bezar, Bradford Shellhammer’s Reimagined Fab.com, Goes Live Today

Hem, the Berlin-based home furnishings company created last year by Jason Goldberg as a pivot after his previous online marketplace Fab.com collapsed, has confirmed the acquisition of assets from Discipline.eu, an online…

Hem Confirms Acquisition Of Assets From Italy’s Discipline As Fab.com Approaches Sale In U.S.

Hem, the Berlin-based home furnishings company that Jason Goldberg created last year as a pivot out of his flashy-but-challenged e-commerce portal Fab.com, is close to sewing up another acquisition. It is buying Disclipline.eu, a startup based…

Hem, Jason Goldberg’s Pivot From Fab, Is Buying Design Business Discipline.eu

Three months after Fab.com, the New York-based design/fashion marketplace, acquired Helsinki’s One Nordic and announced its intention to pivot its European business to focus solely on original home furnishings, the company is putting its eggs…

Hem, Fab’s Pivot Into Home Furnishings, Goes Live In 40 Markets

Interior Define, a Chicago-based e-commerce company wants to build you a better, and better-designed, couch for less, and has raised $1 million in seed funding to make that happen. The…

Interior Define Wants To Sell You A Better, Customized Couch

Earlier this month Re/code reported that designer portal Fab was eyeing up a European furnishings site to move further into the area of building its own stock and away from…

Fab Is Buying Helsinki’s One Nordic Furniture To Score Original Products

MakeSpace, the NY-based startup that thinks of itself as a Dropbox for physical objects, has recently announced that it secured Fab.com CFO David Lapter as new Chief Financial Officer, and…

Fab.com’s David Lapter Joins MakeSpace As CFO

Fab may have stumbled in its aggressive march on the European market, but the Samwer brothers and their Rocket Internet e-commerce incubator are using the moment to shore up its…

Westwing, Rocket Internet’s Home Design Portal, Upsizes With Another $99M In Backing

It’s been a busy few weeks for Fab.com. First the design-focused online retailer launched an updated Web site the same week it filed a counterclaim against JustFab in an ongoing…

Fab.com New Mobile Apps Focus On Personalized Product Recommendations

It was only in July of this year that Fab.com laid off 150 people in Europe and parted ways with its “Chief European Officer,” but today comes news that the…

Fab Growing Again In Europe, Buys Assets From MyFab To Expand In France

Lifestyle focused e-commerce company Fab has unveiled a new design for its website in time for the holiday shopping season. The core of Fab.com’s new user interface is its ‘Personalization’…

Fab.com Updates Site To Give Better Recommendations As It Pursues Global Growth

It’s been a tough week for Fab. Yesterday, word came that the company is being sued for trademark infringement and unfair competition by shoes and apparel site Just Fab, and…

Fab Lays Off 150 European Employees, But Its “Chief European Officer” Had Already Resigned

The fallout from Hurricane Sandy is still affecting startups left and right. New York’s Fab.com sent a memo out to customers today saying that it is temporarily halting shipments of…

New York’s Fab.com Temporarily Halts Shipping Over Hurricane Sandy Fallout

Big news and a big admission for online designer shop Fab.com as it continues to scale up and make itself more user-friendly: For the first time, the site is letting…

Fab Axes Sign-Up Requirement For Its Design Shop, Admits User Experience Sucked (But Did Help It Get 7M Users)

Fab.com’s international expansion continues, and this morning, the social shopping site is arriving in its 20th market: Canada. The additional market follows Fab’s European expansion to 13 more countries across…

Fab Expands To Its 20th Country: Canada; Now On Track To $140M In Sales By Year-End

Not even a month after news of Fab.de’s growth in Germany and Austria (revenue reaching 1.5M Euro per month), the company is today announcing its expansion across Europe. Starting now,…

Fab Expands Across 13 European Countries, Is Actively Looking For Acquisitions

Over three million users strong, design-focused flash sales platform Fab is expanding to a new vertical on Monday, with the launch of a beauty-focused pop-up shop in collaboration with Conde…

Fab Expands Into Beauty Products; Partners With Glamour Magazine For New Pop-Up Shop

Design-focused flash sales site Fab.com is debuting a new partner today—Madonna. The site is featuring a special offer for U.S. members today for Madonna’s new album MDNA. The album will…

Fab.com Teams Up With Madonna For New Album Sale

As Susan Feldman waited outside the Southwest Airlines arrivals terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in October 2008, she had a nervous feeling in her stomach, which she compares to…

One Kings Lane: From The LAX Arrivals Terminal To $200M In Revenue

Design-focused startup Fab.com is launching a new type of shopping experience today with the debut of what it’s calling “Weekly Speciality Shops.” These new stores will be targeted across five of…

Going After Parents, Pet Owners, Foodies & More, Fab.com Launches Weekly Shops

Fab.com founder and CEO Jason Goldberg just made a significant announcement on his blog about some new and upcoming changes at the ridiculously fast-growing startup. The design shopping site now…

Fab Hits 2 Million Members, Plots International Expansion, Opens For All

Fab.com, the incredibly fast-growing marketplace for all things design, has made its first acquisition after raising over $50 million in venture capital. The company this morning announced that it has…

Fab.com Acquires Indie Fashion Marketplace FashionStake

Exclusive – Fab.com, the ridiculously fast growing e-commerce startup, is launching a new social shopping feature today that lets members view and interact with any activity on the design flash…

Now At 1.4M Members, Fab.com Turns Up The Social With A ‘Live Feed’

Design sales site Fab.com is growing fast; adding nearly 200,000 new members the past 30 days alone, and processing ten thousand plus orders per week. That’s impressive for a startup…

Fab.com Nabs Former Etsy VP As COO, Design Within Reach Founder Joins As Advisor

Fab.com, which started out as Fabulis, a social networking site for gay men, has not only recently changed its name but also started from scratch with an entirely new business…

Fab.com Is Growing Like Crazy, Debuts Android And iOS Apps