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Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application

Student Engineers: Apply to work at 170+ startups with one Common Application

Original post by Red Eye VC  We’ve talked a lot recently about the amazing amount of talent that exists in universities across the country – and one of the main reasons we launched the Dorm Room Fund was to create a new and more efficient way for capital to flow onto campuses and into the best and brightest entrepreneurs.  But […]

Hiring for a Startup Is Like Dating

Original post by DAVID COHEN via WSJ We all know that startups are about people. That’s got to be your real competitive advantage. Great people will figure out the market and crush it. So how do you attract great people to your team early on when the risks are high and the pay is low? How do you […]

Tech City: An Insider’s Introduction to the People of the Roundabout

Original post by Reuben Sagar via SAP The past couple of weeks have been big ones in this small, traffic junction heavy part of London. Silicon Roundabout has cemented its position as the centre of the UK’s tech industry. And, under the joint auspices of David Cameron and Boris Johnson, the area will soon get a £50 […]

Adspert Secures Seven-Figure Investment from IBB’s ProFIT

Original post by David Knight via SiliconAllee Adspert, a bid management tool that helps companies make more money out of Google AdWords, has secured an undisclosed seven-figure investment from the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) through its ProFIT program. The platform allows users to optimise and automate their AdWords accounts, with the startup claiming on its website that it can lead to […]

This App Wants to Hear Your Best ‘Sleep Talk’

Original post by Eric Larson via Mashable  The average person will spend roughly a third of their life asleep. And while researchers continue to look for answers as to just why it is we sleep, a lot of questions still remain unanswered. Why do we dream? What do dreams actually mean? And what really goes on during the night? As with most […]