Synergist Founder Hopes To Raise $25K Using The Company’s Own Crowdfunding...
Jason Ha (courtesy TechCrunch) Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don’t think they’ve ever done what Synergist is attempting today — they’ve never...
View ArticleOuya Scores $15M for Android-based Games Console
by Red Herring Editorial (courtesy Red Herring) Ouya, a Los Angeles-based startup whose Android-based games console attracted a lot of attention, not to mention money, from a better than anticipated...
View ArticleMeet the 6 startups from the inaugural accelerator of French telco Orange
by Katie Fehrenbacher (courtesy gigaom) Summary: Orange, the French telco giant, unveiled the first 6 startups in its inaugural accelerator program, including startups building hardware and software...
View ArticleLyft, A Year-Old Startup That Helps Strangers Share Car Rides, Just Raised...
by Nicholas Carlson (courtesy BusinessInsider) Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it lead $60 million investment round in a startup called Lyft. Lyft...
View ArticleWhy Y Combinator Is The Hottest Startup School In Silicon Valley
by Megan Rose Dickey (courtesy BusinessInsider) Y Combinator is one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in Silicon Valley. It has an acceptance rate similar to that of an Ivy League school,...
View Article5 Customer Service Tips for Startups
by Michael Folmer Hansen (courtesy techinasi) Michael is the vice president and Asia Pacific managing director at cloud-based customer service software provider, Zendesk. We all know that customer...
View Article3 Things Startups Can Learn From Reading ‘One Piece’ Manga
by Anh-Minh Do These days there are so many theories of how to do a startup. There’s the Rocket Internet MBA-style, and then there’s the Lean Startup movement, and then there are those that think Lean...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s New Jersey Problem
Like New Jersey in the 1960s, Silicon Valley is now just as dependent, if not more so, on talent produced outside of the region. Silicon Valley from above. (PHOTO: REVOLWEB/FLICKR) by Jim Russell,...
View ArticleTech startups don’t sell bars of soap
courtesy Techinasia Retail and tech are completely different beasts with different business models, operating costs, logistics, human resources, etc. When we’re talking about tech startups scaling...
View ArticleAntoher Opportunity To Get Your HARDWARE to Market
by Chritty Watts – By popular demand, Hardware is becoming popular again, and Mattermark has compiled a list of companies worth noticing. – According to Mattermark’s website, it offers a “range of...
View ArticleJoe Montana, astronaut Mark Kelly among those at star-studded Y Combinator event
I’m at the Y Combinator Demo Day, where nearly 50 fledgling startups are strutting their stuff for potential investors. A third of the companies have pitched so far; here are a few impressions. • YC’s...
View ArticleTech Deals Apple Facebook Google IPO Mobile Startup
by Pui-Wei Tam , courtesy Bloomberg Atlassian is the rare technology company that was home-grown in Australia. Now it’s getting further away from some of those Aussie roots. The company, which makes...
View ArticleGreylock Commits $100 Million to Investing in the Future of Marketplaces
by Mike Isaac, courtesy AllThingsD, VC firm Greylock Partners announced on Thursday that it will commit to investing at least $100 million in entrepreneurs and companies working on marketplaces, or, as...
View ArticleWHAT EVERY START-UP IS LOOKING FOR IN A CANDIDATE
Do you have what it takes to be successful in a start-up? A study published by INSEAD’s Emerging Markets Institute, Universum, and the HEAD Foundation has recently showed that 40 percent of millennials...
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