Tag: Startup
launched on July 18, 2007 - spigit’s goal is to open innovation to everyone, not just a handful of entrepreneurs and investors. The result will be the evolution of new ideas through use of our proprietary simulation engine, which tracks hundreds of market-driven factors through crowd participation and decision analyses.
spigit.com is also a professional networking community, a marketplace and a place for entrepreneurs to gain feedback on their ideas and eventually build a team. That being the case, the community need not be solely...
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The yet-to-be-announced Brickhouse is designed to help the Internet giant keep up with cutting-edge startups and archrival Google.
Yahoo is trying to get back in touch with its “inner start-up,” BusinessWeek says, by targeting business development from within. The name for this effort is Brickhouse, a new unit within Yahoo that is scheduled to be officially unveiled in March and is intended to serve as a kind of in-house VC firm/incubator. Brickhouse is being led by Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr, which Yahoo acquired in March,...
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The New York Times writes about companies running on angel investors, loans, or even credit cards.
When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn’t go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,000 apiece. It was enough to cover their biggest expense — leasing a few computer servers at $120 a month each.
Within a month of its introduction in September 2005, Meebo was getting as many as 50,000 log-ins a...
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"The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups," documents the mistakes that startups make that doom them from the time of entering the corporate world. As usual, I like Paul Graham's startup advice, mainly because he takes pretty obvious things and puts them right in your face.
1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching Too Early
10. Having No Specific User in Mind
11. Raising Too Little Money
12. Spending...
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Since 2002, when dozens of employees left PayPal after it was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion, those workers have gone on to start or join a new generation of Internet companies and other ventures. They have remained a tight-knit group, attending each other’s parties, helping to shape each other’s business plans, backing each other’s companies and recruiting each other for new projects.
Silicon Valley was largely built by networks of people and companies whose interlocking relationships help to spawn new start-ups. But the PayPal...
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Tucked away on a leafy Palo Alto street lined with manicured, multimillion-dollar homes is a low-slung apartment building that houses the Meetro commune.
Not a commune in the Haight-Ashbury sense. Meetro is six guys and an Internet startup crammed into a three-bedroom walk-up.
Live-work startups first took root in the world's most famous garage -- the one that, in 1939, launched Hewlett-Packard and reshaped Silicon Valley, replacing fruit orchards with business parks. David Packard and William Hewlett tinkered in the 12-foot-by-18-foot...
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