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What is crowdfunding?

Original post by Georgina-Kate Adams via Startups How does crowdfunding work and is it right for your business? With the economic downturn causing banks to tighten their purse strings, you may need to find alternative sources of funding to get your start-up off the ground. Indeed, 65% of entrepreneurs planned to seek alternative finance in 2012, according to […]

TechSentiment lets you follow Social Sentiment for your favorite Tech stocks

In the past decade behavioural finance has debased the existing economic theories that financial markets are efficient. Various emotional factors have been proven to also impact share prices. Social media has provided us with the means to capture and analyze these emotions in real-time. TechSentiment makes these sentiment analyses available for the most popular tech […]

Using Angel Investors To Raise Startup Capital

Using Angel Investors To Raise Startup Capital

Original post by go4funding  Many people who are looking for startup capital for their new business do not want to utilize outside angel investors to raise the money. For the most part this is because they do not want to be tied to another individual when it comes to the profits and business decisions. But for some people […]

Axel Springer Plug and Play gets underway with eight start-ups

The start-up companies that will participate in the first accelerator program of Axel Springer Plug and Play have been selected: Asuum, eflear, mpax, nextsocial, papayer, Solid Sound Labs, TickTickTickets, and ZenGuard. They have already moved into Markgrafenstraße 12-14 in Berlin, where they will spend the next three months working intensively on the further development of […]

Win $5,000 to spend on Elance

Elance is the largest and most popular freelance platform for businesses looking to hire and work with top freelancers. Over 500,000 businesses and 2 million freelance professionals in more than 150 countries use Elance. Each year more than 1 million freelance jobs are completed through Elance, and to date our professional community has earned nearly […]