Startups

Israeli Startup Helping Americans Find Jobs

Anav Silverman | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Social Media, Jobs, Startups, Israel, Employment, Unemployment, Job Search, Job Search Tips, Technology News

Utilizing social networking as its base, Jobsminer.com is the only job search engine that aggregates jobs in real time from social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and more.

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IPO Market Feels Chill After Facebook Plunge

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Tech Startups, Video, Morgan Stanley, Facebook IPO, Stock Market, Kayak IPO, Ipo, Startups, IPO Market, Venture Capital, Facebook, Small Business News

One fear racing through the minds of investors in the first two weeks after Facebook's IPO is that the stock's rapid descent will chill the market for...

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You Want Disrupt With That? Why New York is Good for Silicon Valley Tech

Douglas Crets | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Fred Wilson, Microsoft, Innovators, Bizspark, Daryll Mcdade, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Technology News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making easier for people to come to New York City and start up their companies, but it goes beyond useful city policies and cheaper rents, or marketing.

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Your Start-Up Life: World's 100 Most Powerful Women, Zaha Hadid on the Struggle to Succeed

Rana Florida | Posted 05.31.2012

A conversation with world renowned architect and designer Zaha Hadid explores the struggle to succeed as a woman, the importance of collaboration in realizing a complex vision, and the rewards of mentoring and working with the next generation.

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Why the Proposed Startup Act 2.0 Is Embarrassing

Gene Marks | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Startup Act 2.0, Startup Act, Small Business America, Startups, Immigrants, Immigration, Small Business, Immigrant Workers, Small Business News

It will clearly help this country over the long term by keeping those people who our own universities educated here, where many of these students want to be, rather than forcing them to leave. It seems so fundamentally right that it's unbelievable these rules weren't changed decades ago.

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Using Social Media Networking to Get Media Attention for Your Startup

Hulya Aksu | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Bootstrapping, Startups, Getting Media Coverage, Social Media Pr, Press Releases, Pr, Networking, Business News

Founders and CEOs of startups don't need to spend a fortune on a public relations firm or marketing companies when they are perfectly capable of doing a great job on their own.

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5 Tips for Turning a New Signup Into a Power User

Megan Berry | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Power Users, Startups, Social Media, Small Business, Influencers, Community Management, Small Business News

In the first experience, your users decide how much of their time or money they will invest in your company. Will they become a lifelong devoted fan, sharing your company with all their friends or will they drop off after the first signup?

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Your Gateway Drug to Art

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Startups, Art, Wakefield, Jorge Colombo, Apple Products, New Yorker Covers, Apple, Arts News

You're coffee hunting, and you brush past a man on the sidewalk and think he's a tourist based on the way he's standing there looking at his phone. But he's no tourist. He's NYC artist Jorge Colombo and he's painting -- on his iPhone -- what may well be the next New Yorker cover (he's done several).

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Buon Compleanno, Sonar!

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Sonar, Startups, Nyc, Wakefield, Linkedin, Alfred Neustadter, Twitter, Ocean City, Rolodex, Facebook, Small Business News

Five and a half decades later, it's a different world -- one that sees, say, a couple billion mobile app downloads per month, and NYC-based Sonar is looking to make its own mark on how people link up.

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Why Facebook Is Killing Silicon Valley

Steve Blank | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Startups, Venture Capital, Small Business America, Entrepreneurs Startups, Facebook Investment, Venture Capital Tech, Innovation VCs, Entrepreneurship Silicon Valley, Video, Small Business News

What's great for making tons of money may not be the same as what's great for innovation or for our country.

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How Effective is Excelerate for Chicago Startups?

Richard Komaiko | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Chicago Startups, Startups, Findthebest, Attorneyfee, Startup Incubator, Excelerate, Excelerate Startups, Excelerate Chicago, Chicago News

Excelerate has been very successful in finding, funding and supporting young Chicago companies. With the announcement its third class, I'm applying data-driven comparison to the largest startup incubator in the second city.

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Death Watch: Billion-Dollar Startups

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Internet, Social Media, Small Business, Video, Social Networks, Technology Bubble, Pinterest, Startups, Tech Bubble Death Watch, Venture Capital, Technology, Tech Bubble, Business News

So, the Facebook IPO did not exactly take off like a rocket. That's a blow to those, like us, who see a tech bubble forming around every corner. B...

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Crowdfunding Secrets: Five Ways to Build an Amazing Campaign

Scott Steinberg | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Startups, Investing, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Small Business Investing, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Jobs Act, Rockethub, Small Business America, Small Business News

While no equity or ownership stake has previously changed hands in exchange for contributions, the recent passage of the JOBS Act may prove a game changer for entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurship Program Offers Financial Aid To Female, Minority Startups

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Investing, National Association of Investment Companies, Minority Startups, Angel Investors, Startups, Women in Business, Minority Entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School, Naic, Female Entrepreneurs, Bv-Money, Black Voices News

Despite their $1.1 trillion worth of buying power, African Americans are still largely underrepresented in the business sector when it comes to owners...

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New York Tech Booms, Even As City's Jobless Rate Rises

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: New York Business, New York Tech, Etsy, Small Business, Rachel Sterne, Startup, Mayor Bloomberg, Internet Week New York, New York Startups, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, New York, Dumbo, Tumblr, Small Business News

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday the launch of a website mapping Internet startups in New York City that are hiring. Speaking ...

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Designer Co-Founder Series: Fab.com

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Startup, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business America, Fab, Small Business, Small Business News

A design shopping site emerges, investors line up, and soon Demi Moore is tweeting about sales and signups go moonward. It all happened. Fab now has 160 design-obsessed staffers. We stammer when we say it too -- one-sixty. They had 10 when Fab launched 11 months ago.

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Young Entrepreneur Council: 10 Tricks for Startups Trying Out Marketing Stunts

Scott Gerber | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Marketing Stunt, Business Profits, Small Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Profits, Startups, Yec, Marketing, theyec.org, Business, Young Entrepreneur Council, Small Business News

What's a fun paid marketing stunt that's worth the cash for small-but-savvy startups that might not have huge budgets?

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Two Heads Are Better Than One

Dr. Douglas C. Merrill | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Sergey Brin, Google, Business Relationships, Small Business, Start-Ups, Rules of Business, Startups, Larry Page, Small Business America, Small Business News

People come pre-wired with expectations of how businesses should be run. Do people show up for work at 9:00 a.m.? Is it OK to show up for work in a hoodie and unshaved? How about remote employees -- is that OK or too much trouble?

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Facebook's First Backers Feel The Love As IPO Approaches

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Google, Small Business, Venture Capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Facebook Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Facebook Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley, Amazon, Video, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook (FB.O) in its early days, a huge financial payoff is not the...

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Kickstarter Bug Exposes Info From Thousands Of Projects

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Kickstarter, Kickstarter Security, Kickstarter Projects, Online Privacy, Startups, Cybersecurity, Kickstarter Startup Projects, KickStarter.Com, Kickstarter Bug, Startup Projects, Technology News

Just a few weeks after its third birthday, Kickstarter, the crowd-funding platform behind such successful projects as inPulse's Pebble iPhone watch, i...

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Hear the One About the Lawyer Who Started a Company?

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Small Business News and Trends, Startup, Lawyers, Startups, Small Business America, Small Business, Small Business News

He realized he wanted to build things more than be a lawyer. So he left Cahill Gordon & Reindel and taught himself to code, learning Ruby on Rails in a six week self-imposed lock-up.

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Startup City Report: Las Vegas

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business, Las Vegas, Small Business News

With 300 sunny days a year, the Neon Museum, and a brand new airline shuttling desert dwellers straight to the beach, Vegas isn't looking like a bad bet.

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What Happens When You Don't Mail the Invites

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: News and Trends, Startup, Startup Offices, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Small Business America, Paperless Post, Small Business, Wedding Invitations, Small Business News

You're up to your neck in cake, music, and photography and now it's the invitations. The lingo comes in like, caliper, grammage, and calligraphy, and that's before you even get to RSVP cards and return addresses. A lot to consider.

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Technovation Challenge's Emilie Robert Wong Encourages Girls To "Hammer Up!"

Women 2.0 | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Stem, Emilie Robert Wong, Technovation, Ncwit, Startups, High School Girls, San Francisco, Technovation Challenge, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, Iridescent Learning, Women in Tech, Video, Technology News

Since winning the first Technovation Challenge, Emilie Robert Wong has developed three more apps (two for Michelle Obama's Healthy Kids initiative and...

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Fab Pivots From Gay Social Network To Online Retail Phenom

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Fab, Small Business, Internet Retail, Online Retail, Gilt Groupe, Retail, One Kings Lane, Slideexpand, Fab.com, New York, Amazon, Etsy, Video, Startup, Startups, Technology, Small Business News

NEW YORK -- In December 2010, Jason Goldberg gave his investors the bad news first. Fabulis, the gay men's social network he started one year earlier ...

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