Design Is Now Crucial To Startup Success
Remember the good old days? When a startup founder could draw up his own clunky logo, slap it on a Web page and call it a day? Now every startup needs to spend time, attention and money on slick...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Someone Copies Your Startup
It was inevitable. We always joked it would happen: Someone finally submitted a project that is a direct competitor to GroupTalent. Yes, another marketplace for software projects. After the bets were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Startup Could Literally Change The Way The Entire App Industry Works (AAPL)
Parse is used by 20,000 mobile developers—and that number grows 40 percent monthly. This phenomenal startup gives app developers a way to build an app that looks and feels great. Instead of wasting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Startup Incubator Helped This Guy Get 1.2 Million For His Facebook App
This article originally appeared on American Express Open Forum. About 543,000 new businesses were created each month in 2011, according to the Kauffman Foundation. And some of those got their start...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bitly, One Of New York's Hottest Startups, Raises $15 Million
Bitly, a link-shortening and analytics service, has raised an additional $15 million led by Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures, AllThingsD reports. It's raising a bunch of money to hire and grow more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEWSFLASH: You Will Never Get Really Rich Working For Someone Else
Inc.'s Jeff Haden recently published an article, How the Rich Got Rich, and examined an annual IRS report, 400 Individual Tax Returns Reporting The Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes. According to the IRS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Here's A Photo Of The Crew Of That Silicon Valley Reality Show Filming A Party
Bravo is shooting a reality TV show chronicling the life of tech entrepreneurs and moguls in Silicon Valley. This has a lot of people in Silicon Valley very, very upset. Not because they don't want...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HOLY COW: This $99 Xbox Killer Raised $2.5 Million On Kickstarter In 24 Hours
OUYA, a Kickstarter project for a $99 Android-powered game console that plugs into your television, went live at 9:00 a.m. eastern time yesterday — and it's already racked up more than $2.5 million in...
View ArticleWhy European Startups Are Choosing New York Over Silicon Valley
Historically, when deciding where to base their first US office, a European startup’s decision basically came down to the Bay Area or Boston – depending upon which customer segment they were serving....
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To Legally Own And Mine An Asteroid
Private groups are shaping business plans to tap into the resource-rich environs of outer space. Early celestial targets with commercial cross hairs on them are the moon, as well as asteroids. While...
View ArticleGet Your Startup Bought: How To Plan For An Acquisition
Some entrepreneurs start out to create a company that they intend to spend their lives growing and maintaining. Others form startups with the expressed hope of being acquired by larger companies. If...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RIP Stephen Covey: Here Are His Famous '7 Habits Of Highly Effective People'
In honor of renowned author Stephen Covey, who died this morning at age 79, we've decided to succinctly break down the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" from his all-time best-selling book, which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RISKY BUSINESS: 10 Controversial Tech Decisions That Really Paid Off
The technology business is a high risk, high reward situation. All CEOs and entrepreneurs are trying to figure out what people will want in the future while fighting off rivals who are just as smart,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You Can Hire Someone To Do Charity Work For You Through This Startup
Ever wanted to volunteer for a charity, but never had enough time? Now you can hire someone to do charity work for you with Exec, a Y Combinator backed startup. Exec is a startup that lets you hire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How This 27-Year-Old Started Cooking For Gwyneth Paltrow And The Kardashians
Jill Donenfeld began writing the business plan for her private chef service The Culinistas — formerly The Dish's Dish — just three days after graduating from Columbia University. Six years later, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Silicon Valley's Newest Star, Meteor, Just Raised $11.2 Million To Completely...
Building a startup is hard. But there's a new trend in startups coming out that make it much easier to make an application. The latest example is Y Combinator graduate Meteor — which just raised $11.2...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This New Panoramic Camera App Is Picking Up Steam In Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley can never have too many photo-sharing apps. Now one of the latest trending apps is Dermandar's DMD Panorama, a photo-sharing application that rapidly takes panoramic shots of your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Enterprise Startup Is Now Worth More Than $1 Billion
Box, an enterprise cloud storage provider, is raising another financing round after already raising $162 million that would value it at a whopping $1.2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. That...
View ArticleClik here to view.
You Can Use This Startup To Build A Copy Of Billion-Dollar App Instagram In A...
Remember Instagram? It's a photo-sharing application that sold to Facebook for $1 billion after rocketing to tens of millions of users in the span of a few months. As simple as it sounds, it can be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michigan Town Has Basically Outlawed Self-Reliance
I don’t get angry very often, but here’s something that managed to really push my buttons. Around America the same phenomena are occurring: In some of the nation’s poorest towns, it’s becoming...
View Article