If you have a really good product idea, one that clearly fills a demonstrated need and isn't yet available in any app store, should you go for perfection or try to be the first to market? Sometimes, it pays to be first, even if your product isn't yet ready for prime time. Couple and "the [...]
While some were underwhelmed with Apple's product announcements earlier this week, many are still ready to upgrade their current iPad to the new iPad AIR which weighs a whole .4 grams lighter than the original. The new sleek design will require a change in cases. While sometimes it doesn't seem like Android device manufacturers don't [...]
Move over Kuerig, the team at Santa Cruz based Bruer is about to make it easier to get that iced coffee mocha frappacino by putting the ice cold coffee brewer into homes everywhere. This will definitely be on the holiday wish lists of cost conscious consumers this holiday season. What's better is that Bruer's new [...]
Personal computer users, fed up with having to pay hundreds of dollars for single-use license installations of Microsoft Office or Office for Mac, are now simply leaving these extra items off new laptop purchases. Instead, they're working within more efficient, free solutions: specifically, Google Drive and Apache OpenOffice. The cloud service Google Drive is at [...]
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 [...]
(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. [...]
MobileIron, an enterprise mobility management and mobile security company, just announced that it has closed a Series F round, raising $48 million. With this raise as a prompt, we took a look at the largest rounds of 2013 so far.
Fred Wilson, the head of Union Square Ventures and the "godfather" of venture capital in New York, took to his personal blog this weekend to tell everyone he's switching back to T-Mobile. Wilson blogs about anything going on in his life at avc.com. He was one of the earliest venture capitalists to use a blog [...]
Startup Friendly New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker came under fire earlier this year when it was revealed he was a major stake holder in video startup WayWire. The spotlight was turned to WayWire when Booker threw his hat in the ring for a US Senate seat that vacated when five term Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg [...]
