Original post by Leo Widrich via OnStartups The Complete Guide to Getting Press Coverage For Your Startup Whoa, this guide was long, long, long overdue. Over the past few months, a lot of people reached out for help on how to best get press for their startup. I could help them with a quick email response, but […]
Original post by John Koetsier via VB VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Indiegogo’s Adam Chapnick shared six secrets of success for raising money at GROW 2012. And they work, he says, whether you’re crowdsourcing or pitching venture capitalists. Indiegogo, along with Kickstarter, leads the crowdfunding revolution. Chapnick bills it as the place to “raise money from anyone for anything from anywhere.” […]
Original post by Peter Kafka via All things D Three years ago, Igor Pusenjak and his brother Marko unveiled Doodle Jump, an addictive game that quickly became one of the biggest hits at Apple’s App Store. It turned them into millionaires. So, what are they doing for an encore? Nothing. While most other developers might try to follow the success of […]
Original post by Darrell Etherington via betakit Why Apigee? You need apps and apps need APIs.Apigee is the leading API plat form for enterprises and developers Apigee, the application programming interface (API) management company with clients including Netflix, Getty Images and Walgreens, today announced that it would be making use of its platform available for free to […]
Original post by JOHN BIGGS via TC For the past few weeks Apple parts have been leaking left and right. Today, about three weeks before we expect the new iPhone to launch, iResq has rebuilt the new iPhone from spare parts, showing the new connector (a micro USB-sized port that I predicted a month ago) and a slightly longer screen. The glut of photos […]
Original post by Mark Tepper via UPStart Thinking about starting a business? You might as well ponder your potential exit strategies at the same time—even if you plan on running your company for a lifetime. The reality is that most entrepreneurs don’t begin to plan their exit until an economic or life event forces their hand, neglect […]
Original post by crowdedocean Never before has startup marketing been more specialized, data-driven and, therefore, difficult to staff and challenging to manage. What was once known as “outbound marketing” was dominated by push or broadcast-oriented tactics (TV, radio, print, direct mail) to a diverse market of customers. That’s evolved into the pull or “inbound marketing” principles advocated by […]
Original post by Kristen Mozian via StatesmanJournal “The Lean Startup” has become a book that every tech entrepreneur has read and quotes regularly. Eric Reis, the author of the book, coined the term “lean startup” to reframe what it means to be a startup and the process that a startup should follow to ensure success… or at […]
Original post by Max Nisen via BI A new report in the Deloitte Review shows how companies are already using gamification to motivate employees and attract consumers. One company, Opower, seeks to make using less energy something that’s social and easy to do. They do it by producing home energy reports that show how much more or less power you […]
Original post by Lolita A. Alford via FashInvest Site Strives to Make Bigger Vision a Reality Wantworthy, a New York-based startup has just raised a $1 million in seed funding. Unlike many other sites, Wantworthy lets you keep track of everything you want. You can save products from any site as you’re shopping online and come back to […]
Original post by DANNY SCHREIBER via Silicon Prairie news Our four B2B Startup of the Year finalists have clients that range from city halls to NFL teams. But whether their users were analyzing a new city project or the most recent game film, these startups all took pages out of the right playbook, as each […]
Original post by INGRID LUNDEN via TC Facebook’s push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated figures on both games and app usage released by the company today. Facebook now has 235 million people playing games on Facebook.com, up from […]
