Global Entrepreneurship Week, the national week long celebration of entrepreneurs and startups is now less than a month away and with that the Kauffman Foundation announced on Wednesday the finalists for their big event called "Get In The Ring The American Startup Clash". While they are backing a number of events, both in their hometown [...]
The acquisition makes a lot of sense for LiveQoS on many different levels. In the press release, Martin Horne, CEO of LiveQoS, notes that, "Much like Onavo – on the consumer side – offers compression for Facebook, Openera enables LiveQoS to offer compression to the mobile business user in addition to the speed and security we already offer."
For the whole of 2013 the Greater Boston, MA area - and really Massachusetts as a whole - has been one of the top destinations for VC money. California and New York are oft considered the technology hubs of the US - rightly so - Boston has emerged as a major player, and is in-fact outpacing New York in many ways. Though it is clear that Boston relies heavily on the Ed-Tech and healthcare niches, the Superpedestrian and Sqrrl rounds display the cities growing technology diversity. It is a given that Massachusetts will not catch up to California anytime soon, but it is quite clear that Boston is thriving.
First off if you're not listening to the 500 startups weekly podcast you're doing it wrong. Each week 500 Startups Resident Marketing Manager and Baker, Mark Saldana sits down with 500 startups founders, mentors, investors and others in their network for a 1:1 look at the important things about starting up. In episode 22 Saldana [...]
I've never personally been a fan of "Lean" or the Minimum Viable Product concept. I believe the best startups come out of the gate with features in-tact, great user experience and with a good bit of polish on them. I don't believe that startups should take over a year to get there though, so the [...]
Today, TaggTo officially launched their iOS social commerce application, which takes a unique approach to social commerce by combining customer reviews, customer service, and product discovery. This is all done through the use of a streaming news feed that has a user interface very much like that of Instagram.
(Susan Jones 68 (l) and Elizabeth Van Sant 54 (r) founded Quad2Quad a dc based tech startup) There is a rising trend in entrepreneurship that many might not expect. According to both the Ewing Marion Kauffman foundation and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, entrepreneurship amongst baby boomers has shown a significant increase. [...]
Within the past few months, there has been a revitalization, of sorts, within the media industry. Once again, there is tons of money being dumped into traditional media. There are new and inventive approaches to the media industries business model. There is even now a media accelerator, Matter - whom just announce the second cohort. The state of the media is strong.
Square Cash allows users to send payments without any transaction fees to individuals through email. Although this is an awesome feature, Square was far from the first with such an offering. The media, however, would have you believe that this is the most groundbreaking mobile payment feature ever conceived. We cut through the hype and examine some of the alternatives.
The density of colleges and universities, coupled with the health of the education and technology sectors creates a sort-of perfect storm for LearnLaunchX. There is an incredibly rich talent pipeline, and people are flocking to join in the knowledge-based Boston economy.
