Intel Capital announced at their annual summit, the latest 16 companies to receive funding from the silicon company's venture arm. The summit kicked off Monday at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach attracting over 1,000 Intel Capital portfolio CEO's and high level employees, venture capitalists and top executives from Global 2000 companies, according to Intel. On [...]
Startup Opelika Round House Just a stone's throw away from Auburn Alabama sits the city of Opelika. Opelika is rich in heritage in history dating back to the mid 1800's. The city grew to prominence during the time of the civil war where Opelika served as a major depot for confederate supplies. Opelika also served [...]
So you've embraced the sharing economy when it comes to places to stay and transportation. You're using airbnb instead of hotels.com and you're using Uber and Lyft instead of the local taxicab company. Now it's time to navigate the kinks. One of the biggest pains for Uber and Lyft users is getting a straight idea [...]
Will the Real ‘Disruptor’ Please Stand Up? May I have your attention, please? Countless entrepreneurs use the words “innovative,” “game-changing,” and “disruptive” to describe their services, solutions, or platforms. The only problem is that oftentimes when founders use buzzwords like these, they don’t actually know what they mean. It’s become hip to associate innovation with [...]
We just came across a really interesting new startup. ScholarsAd is a college-based student to student marketplace. Sure, there is Craigslist, but that is inherently sketchy. ScholarsAd takes all of this sketchiness out of buying and selling unused goods. We had a chance to ask the ScholarsAd Team a few questions about their marketplace: ScholarsAd [...]
The easiest way to conference call just got easier for enterprise. Our good friends at Speek, a DC startup re-inventing and simplifying the conference call, have been heads down since announcing a massive Series A round back in March. We've been waiting to see what the Speek team has come up with, because really conference [...]
Anyone who has ever worked in a dead-end job can attest to the fact that it can be soul-crushing. You get in a funk, where the only thing keeping you going is the fear of being unemployed. In a way, this is worse than being unemployed. At least when you are unemployed, there is [...]
6 Tools Entrepreneurs Should Use to Increase Customer Retention It’s easy to rest on your laurels when your company is growing, but many entrepreneurs don’t know exactly what’s driving or hindering their growth in the first place. There are often dozens of factors at play, but no matter what industry you’re in, understanding your existing [...]
Moejoe Brewing What Joseph Hyman, Alex Wing and Ezekiel Kolajo have come up with is nothing short of amazing. They've literally reinvented the cup of coffee and it all started during the miserably cold and snowy winter in Baltimore Maryland. Hyman, was studying at UMBC. He was fading fast as he was studying and needed [...]
Denton Startups CoWork Denton The big ole state of Texas is actually one of the most rapidly developing start up states in the nation. Trust me, after founding Nibletz.com and the everywhere else conference I know a little bit about startup communities. Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston have rapidly growing startup communities and all [...]
