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Matt Mullenweg in Startups
Vunky Blog | 6 hours ago by Jack Led
Last week I was checking out Matt Mullenweg’s website. As some of you might know – Matt is the founder of the Wordpress blogging platform. He was interviewed by Jason Calacanis for This Week in Startups. TWiST is a great initiative run b read more
Exchanging Education Everywhere - academiacs.org
The Next Web | 19 hours ago
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I am revealing many of the sites I have been working on in the past year in this blog. This one has been in stealth mode and in hardcore development. I think this is one of sexiest businesses and its very tim read more
Yes, we’re acquiring Internet phone company Jajah
Gadget Reviews | 21 hours ago by Ninja Guy
O2, the mobile division of Spanish telecommunication company Telefónica, confirmed today that it’s acquiring Israel-based Internet phone company Jajah for 145 million euros (that’s $207 million). This seems to be  part o growing int read more
Local Newspapers Sign Up for PaperG's Service
NY Convergence | 23 hours ago
The New York Post and The Asbury Park Press are among a number of newspapers across the country that have signed up for local online ad provider PaperG's Flyboard platform, which is a virtual billboard for people and businesses to post ads.The New Yo read more
Home-based Mobile Phone Repair Illustrates Mulitple Trends
My Venture Pad | 23 hours ago by Mark Lazen
I got an interesting comment on our Top 10 Homepreneur Trends for 2010 list. It is from a company called Intelligy. I don't know anything about the company beyond what is in the comment, which says t... read more
NY Tech Meetup Lists Local Startups
NY Convergence | December 23rd 2009
The New York Tech Meetup, with the help of local entrepreneur Michael Karnjanaprakorn, have compiled a list of technology startups in the New York area. You can see the list on the New York Tech Meetup site or on Karnjanaprakorn's site. If you want read more
First Startups to Reside at New Incubator Revealed
NY Convergence | December 23rd 2009
The startups that are setting up shop in Polaris Ventures' new incubator called Dogpatch Labs in NYC on 36 East 12th Street are listed here on Business Insider. Dogpatch Labs offers small startups (2-3 people) office space for 3-6 months. Business In read more
Ybrant Digital To Launch Location-Based Ads For Mobiles
Online Shopping in India | December 23rd 2009 by Joshan
Imagine thinking of gifting your girl friend something that she loves, and immediately you recieve an SMS from a nearby gift shop who have amazing discounts at their store. Well, wishful thinking and a very premature strategy at this point of time wh read more
Naukri.com Introduces Premium Jobs Section – Will It Increase R…
Online Shopping in India | December 23rd 2009 by Joshan
Online recruitment space has become more of a red ocean due to stagnant growth witnessed in recent times. Naukri feels it can buck the trend with something disruptive to improve its growth figures. A few days ago Naukri.com, job portal owned by Info read more
FIFA Launch Online Merchandising Store – E-Commerce Makes Best…
Online Shopping in India | December 23rd 2009 by Joshan
The football fever is out like a pandemic and the infected do not regret being exposed to its vicious rage. With Lionel Messi winning the Best Footballer’s award at the FIFA World Player Gala 2009 recently, the wait for World Cup 2010 makes fan read more
How many hats do you wear? Team Leadership: Roles and Responsibil…
My Venture Pad | December 22nd 2009 by Mark Lazen
In my first post on cross-functional teams, 5 Keys to Successful Cross-Functional Team Management, I outlined the 5 keys needed for successful cross-functional team management: Goals, Roles, Respons... read more
Bill Burnham, Angels + Early-Stage VC in Seattle
Crash Dev | December 22nd 2009 by Chris DeVore
This blog post by Bill Burnham has generated a ton of buzz today, but it's worth (briefly) chipping in about how the trend is playing out in the Seattle market. The quick summary of Bill's point is this:"there is plenty of investment capital availabl read more
Rob Delman of Golden Seeds: Pitch Preparation Tips for Angels
My Venture Pad | December 22nd 2009 by Mark Lazen
[Guest post by Rob Delman, a professional angel investor and an active member of Golden Seeds in New York. He is proud to be nicknamed the “Golden Dude” by his female forum mates.] As an angel inv... read more
Etsy Founder Resumes His Former CEO Role
NY Convergence | December 22nd 2009
Rob Kalin, the founder of Brooklyn-based crafts Web site Etsy, is returning to take over the CEO position, which he left over a year ago. Maria Thomas, who has held the position since then, will be leaving the company. Recently, Etsy also bought ad read more
5 Ways to Guarantee Your Marketing Works
My Venture Pad | December 22nd 2009 by Mark Lazen
Marketing can, at times, be part art, part science, part intuition. Toss into that the fact that traditional market research produces results that are often misleading and sometimes flat out wrong bec... read more
Best of 2009 (So Far): Blogging for Business, Part 2
My Venture Pad | December 22nd 2009 by Mark Lazen
How can you keep generating fresh ideas for blog posts? Use email to extend the reach of your blog? Build links and traffic? And most importantly, use a company blog to drive real business results? Fi... read more
Exclusive Interview With Raghavendra Aggarwala, CEO, mBit Infotec…
Online Shopping in India | December 22nd 2009 by Joshan
After the launch of mBit Infotech that is the joint venture between VASSoft.net (the IT division of Himenviro group India) and mBit Pte. Ltd. (Managed and controlled by mTouche Technology Bhd), they introduced Peer 2 Peer and Interactive Social Netwo read more
What is in a Design?
Usman Sheikh's Entrepreneurial Journey | December 22nd 2009 by Usman Sheikh
These days I have been thinking about how to be revamp my blog for next year. I have also been taking an increasing and active interest in design in the companies that I am involved with. From a business perspective, a well designed product is al read more
Startup CEOs Make Millions of Decisions
Instigator Blog | December 21st 2009 by Ben Yoskovitz
The job of startup CEO is all about making decisions. Lots and lots of decisions. We tend to focus on and remember big decisions — over-emphasizing their importance in the grand scheme of things. But the trick to being a successful startup CEO read more
New Startup Incubator, The Start Project Takes Flight
techcocktail1 | December 21st 2009 by Tech Cocktail
I like the startup incubator concept and as we have seen in the last couple of years many have popped up hoping to mimic the success of Y Combinator who has amassed a tremendous track record over the last several years. The concept is simple en read more
Notes: Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dolla…
MarkJournal | December 21st 2009 by Mark Bao
TechCrunch reports that Yelp has walked away from the $550 million deal with Google. Wow—it was almost finished. Confidence much in Yelp, or something wrong in the agreement? read more
Trading Deals, A Lost Art?
My Venture Pad | December 20th 2009 by Mark Lazen
Bijan wrote a good post yesterday called We Gotta Do A Deal Together in which he outlined the common practice of VC's showing each other investment opportunities. That's how I got to know Bijan. He sh... read more
Six Key Enemies of Post-Recession Performance
My Venture Pad | December 20th 2009 by Mark Lazen
This is actually a hopeful title. We are going to recover. The Corporate Executive Board, a company with years of experience doing research, analysis, insights and more on business strategy, operati... read more
A little advice… on getting advice
My Venture Pad | December 20th 2009 by Mark Lazen
I’m all for getting advice about your startup idea and approach – before, during, and after you launch. But not all advice is created equal. Before you seek advice from a person, be sure to think abo... read more
When to Shut Down Your Company
My Venture Pad | December 19th 2009 by Mark Lazen
Last week we started the blog series (written by Roger Glovsky), How to Wind Down Your Company. The response and comments were great! Keep them coming. This week we tackle the hardest problem of all:... read more
Stop, Look and Listen to Social Media
My Venture Pad | December 19th 2009 by Mark Lazen
We are all in a rush. There is the holiday rush. There is the morning rush. There is the lunch rush. Now add to it the social media rush. The social media rush is the act of throwing your company head... read more
Quigley: Gawker Media Defined The 2000s
NY Convergence | December 19th 2009
Mediaite's Robert Quigley examines how Nick Denton's SoHo, NY-based blog network has changed the media industry since its flagship title, Gawker, was founded in 2002, including: Bringing sharp opinion back into the news "Obsessing" over pageviews a read more
Questia Lightens Researchers’ Loads with iPhone App
Epicenter |wired.com | December 18th 2009 by John C Abell
Questia, an online library catering to students and researchers, has launched an iPhone app offering access to 76,000 books and 2.7 million periodical articles for a monthly subscription fee. According to the company, research librarians selected ea read more
NY Video 2009 Holds Startup Competition
NY Convergence | December 18th 2009
NYConvergence ORIGINALby: Amy BerryhillThe NY Video group hosted a competition for video startups last night at Columbia University. The criteria for entry were twofold: the company must have an office in New York and must be less than four-years-old read more
More time for side-startups?
nPost Startup Blog | December 18th 2009 by Nathan Kaiser
More Time Than Ever read more
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